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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5165987" data-attributes="member: 15470">Good advice, garrowolf.You might also have the city get sacked in session number two of the campaign, rather than as the opening. Let them get their feet wet in the world, get attached to some of the people, etc., even get into some kind of intrigue, adventure, etc., and then overrun the city. On camera.Don't get too graphic: instead, kill off some of the NPC's that your players like. And dislike.The rest of the populace needs to be willing to tolerate the invaders: so, you want more like an occupied nation. Imagine Poland/Holland/France during WWII: there may be "brute squads" roaming the streets, beating up on anybody who stands out (too beautiful, too weak, too strong, too strange) but for the most part, they are simply cowing the populace, not killing them all off. Let the players come up with the idea of running the resistance.You can almost make them criminals (according to the new laws) by outlawing their weapons. Swords, bows, axes, hammers, etc?  All outlawed: you need a permit from the king to carry one.If you want to allow the PC's to play magic classes in a low-magic world, the invaders outlaw magic too - that may give you the classic "the invaders kill the priests and the sorcerers and the witches", opening, forcing your PC classes underground, and providing a sub-set of the population who have been "made an example of". The "the enemy invading the city" scene(s) can really run your players through a lot of Daily powers and Healing Surges, if they wind up trying to rescue, protect, etc, some of their NPC friends. Or each other, for that matter!</blockquote>

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