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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3868135" data-attributes="member: 22424">Funnily enough, one of the end points of my current campaign is likely to pit the PCs against the Tarrasque. And they're about to run afoul of some of the puppetmasters...I think there's a danger to this, in the form of the PCs. On the one hand, they're likely to take a perverse pleasure in doing exactly what they shouldn't do, simply because they shouldn't do it. And, equally, they're liable to accuse you of railroading them. Probably both at the same time!One way to deal with this is to make the campaign deliverately open-ended. Perhaps their goal is to enslave the Tarrasque rather than kill it, or perhaps they want to stand on an even footing with the puppetmasters - and it's all up to them.Similarly, I would be inclined to make the various villains morally ambiguous, or building in lots of politics, so the PCs aren't necessarily going to take them all out, but either ally with some, or play both sides against the middle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3868135, member: 22424"] Funnily enough, one of the end points of my current campaign is likely to pit the PCs against the Tarrasque. And they're about to run afoul of some of the puppetmasters... I think there's a danger to this, in the form of the PCs. On the one hand, they're likely to take a perverse pleasure in doing exactly what they shouldn't do, simply because they shouldn't do it. And, equally, they're liable to accuse you of railroading them. Probably both at the same time! One way to deal with this is to make the campaign deliverately open-ended. Perhaps their goal is to enslave the Tarrasque rather than kill it, or perhaps they want to stand on an even footing with the puppetmasters - and it's all up to them. Similarly, I would be inclined to make the various villains morally ambiguous, or building in lots of politics, so the PCs aren't necessarily going to take them all out, but either ally with some, or play both sides against the middle. [/QUOTE]

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