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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1167647" data-attributes="member: 7177">I've recently started my <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a> playtest campaign, and I must say I am glad that I made the tech level advanced enough for newspapers.You know that your average party of adventurers is always involved in some odd incidents, right? Now imagine what happens when a newspaper with all the morals of a tabloid gets on their trail...In my campaign, the party had angered the city's local halfling community, and one young, hotheaded halfling decided to steal an important religious item from the temple the PCs were staying in. The next morning, the head priest called the city watch - and along comes a pretty young reporter for the Dartmouth Enquirer.The gnome bard in the party seems to have become smitten with her, and told her all sorts of things. The next day, he encouraged her to follow them (without the rest of the party knowing) when they were observing a brothel where they suspected a leader of the gang. They later raided the place, and kidnapped the gang leader (and dragged two prostitutes along, in the hope of "liberating" them).Now the Enquirer has run several stories that convinced the public that:- there is a halfling mafia in the city.- they are in a fight with another crime syndicate ("Gang War in Dartmouth!")- the halflings raided the brothel (or "bar", as the paper put it)- and they've started to kidnap innocent human women as well! ("Several shadowy figures were seen fleeing the scene. A small figure seemed to drag two human women along." - the small figure being the gnome, naturally...)Expect racial violence to rise soon in the city - which actually serves the main villains' interest.And all just because a bard couldn't resist talking to a pretty lady...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Have any of you used a newspaper effectively in your own campaign?</blockquote>

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