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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5401580" data-attributes="member: 40166">If you're a pickpocket, why would you want to be exiled from civilization? You're seeing this as the King is giving them a huge gift, but whether deliberately or in practice, he's exiling them to a far part of the world where they may die, or may clean up a problem area for the king and afterwards they will be tied up where the King doesn't have to worry about the threat to his power. Heck, the King doesn't even "own" the land he's giving them; possession on the ground, from your description, is with uncivilized folks, and if the King can't suppress them, the PCs probably could have gone up there, taken the land, and proclaimed themselves King, with the old King not being able to do anything about it.If we created characters to run this module, I would be deeply frustrated if a player chose to make  a pickpocket. But if we're talking preexisting characters, asking them to be exiled from civilization to do the king's work and take on the responsibility for a bunch of commoners is a big request that many characters just may not be interested in.</blockquote>