Player Characters are the rock stars of their world!

[Kilmore]

They tend to spend a lot of gold, make hanky panky with the locals, live larger than life, and if they are successful, the stories that are told about them will linger long after they are gone.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Next on VH1...

The Iconics: Behind the Module

 

[Maudlin]

In Bed With Devis?

 

[Tom Cashel]

D20 Cribs

 

[JacktheRabbit]

There is one big difference.

When a 20th level druid is a guest on Jay Leno talking about saving the rainforest you know he actually knows what the hell he is talking about.

 

[grimwell]

Just remember, Marylin Manson and Ozzy are rock stars too.

This spawns an idea for me, set up a foil for the "PC's as Hero's" tradition. Put a fundamental conservative NPC in the players nation who always speaks out against the "dangerous and life threatening example" the PC's are setting as adventures.

"Before you know it, our kids will be leaving home and trying to slay dragons! They are a threat to the stability of society I tell you! Pelor needs your silver to fund our movement against these adventurers! Visit your local temple or shrine and give until it hurts, for Pelor, and for the kids sake. Those adventurer's must be stopped!"

That just oozes fun. Nothing like an NPC that you don't like who is bad to just kill.

 

[Maudlin]

Ooh! That's actually an excellent challenge for my high-level party, Grimwell. Thanks!

And as it turns out, he will NOT have a nefarious hidden agenda, and he will NOT have to come crawling to them when the kingdom gets into trouble

 

[Airwolf]

Hmmm, I wonder if I can be the Britney Spears of our world?

 

[drnuncheon]

Next on VH1...

The Iconics: Behind the Module

"...but then, seemingly at the height of their success, tragedy struck. Regdar's drinking grew worse as he felt increasingly hedged out by Tordek, and he and Kerwyn spiraled into the seamy underworld of drug abuse."

LIDDA: They showed up at my door in the middle of the night...they were drunk, and high, and they threw rocks at my windows, but they were so high they kept missing...I think it really was a cry for help, you know?

"Meanwhile, Krusk's controversial relationship with a half-dragon medusa alienist pulled him farther from the group. His friends became the target of his berserker rages on more than one occasion. It was after one of these occasions that the world was stunned when an unidentified man produced a repeating crossbow and fired five bolts into the half-orc's back, killing him."

MIALEE: I can still remember, I was in my tower when I got the sending from Jozan, and all he could say was "My God, they shot him. They shot him. Krusk is dead. Krusk is dead." (she begins to tear up} And I didn't know what to say, I just kept saying, "He can't be dead, he can't be dead, he's got too many hit points..."

"Krusk was resurrected in short order, but the Iconics would never be the same again."

 

[Wicht]

This spawns an idea for me, set up a foil for the "PC's as Hero's" tradition. Put a fundamental conservative NPC in the players nation who always speaks out against the "dangerous and life threatening example" the PC's are setting as adventures.

"Before you know it, our kids will be leaving home and trying to slay dragons! They are a threat to the stability of society I tell you! Pelor needs your silver to fund our movement against these adventurers! Visit your local temple or shrine and give until it hurts, for Pelor, and for the kids sake. Those adventurer's must be stopped!"

Try City State of Geanuvue: The stones of peace if you want to run a whole city where adventurers are considered second class citizens and the leading religion is total pacifism.