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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4130105" data-attributes="member: 3087">[I'm an American, this story is told from an American point of view.]I had a friend in college. We had a liberal congressman visiting for a small group chat. The friend was *quite* liberal at the time.They were talking about raising the standard of living an my friend asserted it was a moral priority. The congressman agreed but suggested that there had to be some limits. He was trying to get away from absolutes.  He suggested that "mexico has a lower standard of living, but we shouldn't use trade sanctions to try to force them to raise it".(I think, I'm a bit vague on exactly what the representative was saying)."No", agreed my friend. "We should invade."He felt it was a perfectly logical argument; once inside the US economic system Mexico's standard of living would rise to match the US'.If you're radical enough no action is off the table.*******************The children know they'll be rewarded if they foil the kidnappers, so fighting back against the PCs is very very likely.One question is: who do they kidnap?Drow society is very stratified, are they kidnapping the children of powerful matriarchs? Or 1st level warriors (who are effectively slaves).Since Drow have a very low birthrate you might see -other- drow trying to kidnap the children so -they- can brainwash them.What if a powerful drow wizard approaches the PCs offering aid; in exchange for one child of his choice (he says he just wants an apprentice, maybe his alignment appears neutral and his help would be invaluable... which child does he want? why?[sblock=Some possibilities]The child he wants is actually his own child, conceived secretlyThe child he wants is just going to be an awesome wizard and he really does want an apprenticeThe child is -important- in some way that isn't immediately obvious (if they are trained as an assassin and used to kill X matriarch they will fulfill some sort of prophesy)He's not really neutral, he just knows the right spellsHe is neutral, but he's crazyIts the child of someone he really really doesn't like and he plans on using the child to make them very unhappy there are also some yucky possibilities that wouldn't be appropriate for most groups[/sblock])The kids will be absolutely miserable during the daytime.</blockquote>

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