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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5017122" data-attributes="member: 31216">This just came to me out of the blue: The "bad guys" in the module The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh may not be bad guys.My old modules are packed away, so I can't check this out, but maybe someone here remembers or can look it up. The plot for SSS is that the PCs hear about a haunted house and decide to go investigate. In the house they discover some smugglers. The PCs defeat the smugglers and discover an incoming ship of smugglers. The PCs board the ship and defeat the smugglers there.Now, since in D&D, "defeating" the enemies usually means killing them in battle, the PCs in this adventure kill a bunch of folks whose only apparent crime is smuggling weapons to a lizardman tribe (whom it turns out, in the next adventure, are not bad guys). There's no evidence, that I can remember, of the smugglers having done anything evil.Am I forgetting some of the plot? I think one or two of the smuggler leaders might be evil (I'm pretty sure the illusionist is), but are the regular smugglers? And other than two gnolls, are there any evil humanoids in the operation?Bullgrit</blockquote>