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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1836411" data-attributes="member: 7177">In my short <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a> playtest campaign I had a tabloid journalist sneak after the PCs whenever they were up to something dodgy - which was most of the time. And then she wrote up grossly distorted articles about the PCs articles.They absolutely hated her guts.They first encountered her when someone had stolen some relics from a local temple. She tried to interview them, and the gnome PC was only too willing to talk to such a pretty young lady. He made some wild speculation that this might have been the work of the "halfling mafia", despite the fact that no such organisation existed.And then she paid people to keep an eye on them in case further interesting stories developed. And whenever the PCs committed something that might be seen as a crime (like, say, kidnapping and interrogating a brothel owner about a crime ring), she grossly distorted the events and portrayed them as the work of the "halfling mafia". In this case, someone had seen "small figures obscured by the mist" (the gnome and the dwarf in the party) kidnapping an "upstanding citizen" (the brothel owner). And the PCs couldn't protest this view of things because otherwise their complicity would have come to light.And yet the gnome kept on talking to her until the other PCs threatened him with violence. What started off as a silly joke at the expense of halflings nearly ended with a pogrom against the local halfling community, and eventually the PCs gave her some "hot leads" which had a high chance of getting her killed or otherwise permanently out of the picture...In summary: It was great! Every campaign should have a few nosy and sleazy journalists! If there is a way for the DM to have more fun at the expense of the players it should be outlawed...</blockquote>

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