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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5300360" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yet the truly remarkable thing is the design was robust enough that you *could* change this rule or that rule to suit the setting and still have a very playable game.It all comes down to how willing you are as DM to hit the curveball.  Quite frankly, some simply can't do it, or are afraid to try; and I rather suspect those are the type you're referring to here.As for selling people into slavery:One of the key PCs in my game has the past profession of "slaver" and the personality to go with it.  Early in the campaign, the party captures a gang of guys raiding a village.  They don't want to just kill them, but taking them back to town is going to lead to far too much time wasted in court; but Cassandra has a solution: instead of calling these guys 'prisoners', think of them as 'inventory'.  So the captives are taken to the coast and sold into slavery.A couple of PCs rather objected to this, and tipped off the local authorities.  Several rounds of bribes and counter-bribes later (the local constabulary did very well out of all this) the objecting PCs ended up being *given* - not sold, but given - to the slavers by the rest of the party, as a gift!(and the nice side-effect here was that one of the PCs they gave away turned out to be rather significant; the party had to later go and rescue him, allowing me to run a variant of the A-Series modules...)Lan-"if they give me hooks, I'll bait 'em"-efan</blockquote>

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