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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 5673279" data-attributes="member: 529">I ran a 3.5 Spelljammer campaign once and over the course of many, many adventures dropped hints about fearful gnome pirates.  Every other time we played they would run into some NPC talking about the latest gnomish attack, etc, and hear about how the local king was marshalling forces against the evil gnomes, and hear about another gnome pirate atrocity.It was sort of a running joke, but I did actually intend to spring some very high level and nasty gnomes on them, and they even knew some names of some of the most notorious gnomes.  And really they did start worrying about these wicked, powerful gnomes.  So at one point, a few levels before I planned to have them encounter the gnomes, they decided to take over a dwarven stone ship docked at port.  Out of nowhere one of them had the idea to disguise the entire party as gnomish pirates, and assumed the identities of some famous gnomes (Greenbeard, etc) to intimidate the ogre magi crew and give them a surprise attack.  The descriptions of each player character in their gnomish pirate disguises and the dialog at the beginning of that battle had us rolling in laughter for the rest of the campaign, as the ogre magi cowered at the sight of the 'gnome pirates'.So anyway, sorry if that was more anecdotal than helpful, but I will say that building up something like that over the course of many evenings worked very well.  The player characters ended up using that background lore in a way I certainly didn't expect, and that made it very fun for all. My only regret is that they never got to meet the pirates they were impersonating.</blockquote>

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