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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5475599" data-attributes="member: 67606">I have one player who is consistently matching wits with me in character.  I don't mind this in the least, since most of my other players are happy to ride the plot along, and this player keeps me on my toes.In our previous campaign, I had a coup take place in the PCs homeland.  The rightful king was deposed, exiled, and assumed dead.  The PCs knew this to be a lie, and were all staunch king's men (and women).  They had recently moved the king further into hiding for safety, and were travelling to the capital to confront the traitor (the former queen, her new lover - an old NPC villain, and her brother who now captained the Queen's Guard).  The queen's brother was speaking in a city they were passing through, announcing the new holiday of Reunification Day, trying to effectively quash any further rebellion through political maneuvering.The player in question (playing a Sorcerer/Warlock/Arcane Theurge) proceeded to tell his allies to flee the city at nightfall.  He remained behind to confront the queen's brother at his speech the next day.As crowds gathered in the square, he magically altered his appearance to look like the deposed king-in-hiding.  As Hugh the Betrayer began his speech, Malcolm (the PC) cast off his robes, and declared to all who gathered that "though the vile betrayers may say his claim to the throne was no more and that he had died, all these things were lies.  King Pietr Hallorand lives now, and will return to reclaim the throne in time!"  Then he launched his most powerful quickened spells at Hugh and his retinue.Hugh barely survived the initial blasts, as did his gnome wizard advisor.  Hugh leapt into the crowd, drew his blade, and charged at the imposter-king.  Before he could strike, the gnome wizard hit Malcolm with a Baleful Polymorph.  The "king" disappeared.  And a tiny, harmless rabbit scampered off to hide....I was so blown away by the preparation, delivery, and outright awesomeness of the player's plan that even though Malcolm failed his saves and remained a rabbit, he's now a national hero.  The king did reclaim his throne, with the help of the PCs, and in recognition of Malcolm's sacrifice, and assumed death, King Pietr Hallorand erected a statue in Malcolm's honor in the very square where he sacrificed himself and raised the spirits of the King's subjects.Today, Malcolm serves as my wife's Sorcerer's familiar.  He insists he's a great war hero, but the 16 year old sorceress just assumes that her rabbit is precocious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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