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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 2185356" data-attributes="member: 10784">Good idea - kind of ties in to my idea above about government propaganda.  The "investigative" bards could be wanted by the government and have to tell their tells in out of the way taverns in order to avoid the government's secret police force.I was going to run a campaign where all the PCs would be human from the same kingdom... for their whole lives, the kingdom has been at war with what was once a powerful dwarf kingdom and, separately, a nation ruled by women.Going into the campaign, I was going to tell the PCs a bit about their surroundings, only using what they would likely know growing up in their kingdom - the dwarves are an evil lot and now that their kingdom has been smashed, they have become almost savage animals in running an insurgency against the crown, they love to slaughter humans on their small farms, right down to the babies..  Meanwhile, the nation run by women has an army headed by a powerful lich and their queen has made pacts with demons, and since their nation lacks males (due to a heroic last stand of the then all-male army a generation ago), they like to kidnap males from the PCs kingdom for breeding purposes, keeping them locked in cages.Of course, the PCs would later find out that the dwarves aren't evil & are just trying to get by; while the nation run by women fights only defensively against invasions from the PCs kingdom, whose king is really a powerful & evil necromancer posing as a mere aristocrat.</blockquote>

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