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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1355703" data-attributes="member: 10784">I think combat offers some great opportunity for role-playing.  I will use a few scenarios from my past experience, and also modify a few.Scenario 1) Paladin PC is a devoted slayer of the undead for his patron and mentor, Lord BigWig, who found Paladin PC as an orphan and brought him in to the Church of Holiness, who then raised him and trained him to be a paladin.  When he grows up, Paladin PC returns and pledges to serve Lord BigWig and helps him hold back the growing undead problem in the region.  Paladin has much success, and hears about a new, bigger horde of undead threatening to overrun a small town.  Paladin rushes to the town one evening and sees Lord BigWig leading the horde of undead.  BigWig announces, “These are lost souls who cannot rest until we cleanse this town of evil – every one in this town has been possessed by the evil necromancer!  Hurry, there is little time.”  What does paladin do?  Does he give up his allegiance to Lord BigWig thinking this is an atrocity?  Does he think BigWig may have a good reason for doing what he is doing and join him in cleansing the town of ‘evil’?  Has Lord BigWig, just out of “detect evil” been corrupted by the dark side?Scenario 2) PCs sneak in to hobgoblin camp to free prisoners, including a few important people (noble’s children, rich merchant, whatever?) – PCs are discovered but do a good job of holding back the hobgoblins.  In desperation, one hobgoblin dives into the prisoner’s cage and manages to get a knife to the throat of one of the important people and cackles in halted common, “Throw down your weapons or she dies.”Scenario 2A)Same situation, but instead of a desperation dive by a hobby, noble’s child or rich merchant yells to the PCs to throw down their weapons.Scenario 3)Powerful PCs, with “shades of grey” alignments, are in the Underdark trying to hunt down some drow, get caught in a tough situation – a beholder gets them in an area where it can get them in its anti-magic ray, robbing them of being able to use some very potent magic and magic items/weapons.  However, PCs – led by one fighter who rolls extremely well - still manage to cut through many of the beholder’s minions.  Beholder then says, “Most impressive, join me and we can rule the Underdark and stamp out the drow plague…”</blockquote>

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