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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8872704" data-attributes="member: 19270">Stumpy the 3-legged dog[ATTACH=full]270805[/ATTACH]What began as simple background dressing in a Kingmaker campaign (a foreign agent with bardic skills was doing his daily bad-mouthing of the PC rulership of a barony and used animal friendship on the town's 3-legged dog to generate sympathy while having the dog growl at the PC baron), became a local legend.Stumpy's legend was built out of absolutely nothing, but since the players seemed to like hearing about him, Stumpy kept showing up during major events. During an invasion when the enemy breached the walls of the town, the guards fled, but Stumpy charged in barking and rallied the guards who felt shamed a dog was braver than them.Eventually I ran a scenario where the PCs controlled their NPC friends in battle while they were away from town, and Stumpy became an NPC hero with his own stat block. He never had a home and always refused one, roaming from house to house and inn to inn. The party considered casting Awaken on him but reconsidered, figuring he looked like he enjoyed his life as a dog by the inn fire, and despite one day casting a spell to talk to him, Stumpy never revealed how he lost his leg. In the end, the townfolk ponied up the gold for a statue of Stumpy in the town square, making him more a celebrity than the PCs who actually governed the barony.</blockquote>