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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 1755680" data-attributes="member: 5278">Lot's of good stuff to steal in this thread; love it!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> So, here's my contribution:The PCs are in a town that's isolated and starving because of an unnaturally long and hard winter (the BBEG's doing of course; long story). It's gotten to the point where people use their furniture for firewood and when dear old granma dies the family might very well have stew for dinner the next day...Two NPC clerics have recently arrived in town. They serve an evil god of death/undeath, but set up a small shrine where they serve out food (using the Create Food and Drink spell) to the people. You just have to pledge allegiance to the god of death andd accept his "blessing" and you'll not only get food, but the promise of eternal life as well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The PCs investigate and discover that the "blessing" consists of a spell that makes the target raise as an undead if he/she dies (from Magic of Faerun). A lot of people know this, but still come to these clerics to get food for themselves and their families. The PCs (who all have characters based on the BoED, the campaign being a counterpoint to our other ongoing campaign where they're all evil) obviously want to stop these evil clerics, but if they do so a great number of innocent people -including children- will starve to death....  They sweated long and hard over this one, let me assure you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> In the end they sold all of their most valuable items and used the money to finance the creation of a magic item that let them utilize Create Food and Drink at will! So now they're just sitting around waiting for the item to be finished, leaving the evil clerics alone - for the time being!</blockquote>

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