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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 1843281" data-attributes="member: 20323">infiltration 101Here is how to infiltrate:Set up situation in which PC's family/friend is in trouble. Burst in on the &quot;bad guys&quot; and rescue the family member, and invite them over for lunch, telling them all sorts of whopping stories. Feign disinterest in the PCs mission, or claim you have very pressing interest elsewhere; in other words, hold out for more or make it really hard to be recruited. And, if you're secretly rooting for the good guys, be willing to have fundamental character flaws which lead to mistakes &amp; resulting awkwardness.Here is my take on what the DM needs to do...Spend a couple minutes before game having one-on-one secret conversations with each player. Work with each player to create just enough suspicious backstory for their character. Then, once you're finished, begin the adventure with the players finding out there's a double agent among their allies; it could be one of their closest NPC contacts or even one of them!Their superiors are cautious about what they let the PCs know from then on.As the PCs each deny being the traitor, they find themselves compelled to conceal damning information about themselves (i.e. backstory) so as to avoid being pegged for something they didn't do. Of course, when it's found out the lengths they went to hide information, they'll be suspected as the traitor!&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />&nbsp; For some PCs make it simply a case of wrong place-wrong time, but for others make it a little more nefarious. This is something your PC can use to her advantage, playing the different interests/secrets off each other.When the moment of betrayal (if it occurs) is upon them, at least they had fair warning! And heck, it was fun trying to figure out who the traitor was too!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 1843281, member: 20323"] [b]infiltration 101[/b] Here is how to infiltrate: Set up situation in which PC's family/friend is in trouble. Burst in on the "bad guys" and rescue the family member, and invite them over for lunch, telling them all sorts of whopping stories. Feign disinterest in the PCs mission, or claim you have very pressing interest elsewhere; in other words, hold out for more or make it really hard to be recruited. And, if you're secretly rooting for the good guys, be willing to have fundamental character flaws which lead to mistakes & resulting awkwardness. Here is my take on what the DM needs to do... Spend a couple minutes before game having one-on-one secret conversations with each player. Work with each player to create just enough suspicious backstory for their character. Then, once you're finished, begin the adventure with the players finding out there's a double agent among their allies; it could be one of their closest NPC contacts or even one of them! Their superiors are cautious about what they let the PCs know from then on. As the PCs each deny being the traitor, they find themselves compelled to conceal damning information about themselves (i.e. backstory) so as to avoid being pegged for something they didn't do. Of course, when it's found out the lengths they went to hide information, they'll be suspected as the traitor! :mad: For some PCs make it simply a case of wrong place-wrong time, but for others make it a little more nefarious. This is something your PC can use to her advantage, playing the different interests/secrets off each other. When the moment of betrayal (if it occurs) is upon them, at least they had fair warning! And heck, it was fun trying to figure out who the traitor was too! [/QUOTE]

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