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<blockquote data-quote="ha-gieden" data-source="post: 3444243" data-attributes="member: 50207"><p>We once took over a city in a campaign where that wasn't supposed to happen! It's one of our "wasn't funny when..." stories.</p><p></p><p>Basically, we used our talents (I played a cleric) and our wealth to impress the citizens of a very small town. We soon became well-loved and our reputations eventually got pretty inflated. We played this up as much as possible. </p><p></p><p>We went on several quests to gain magical/valuable items...then we sold them. We actually started a sort of "Ye Olde Magic Shoppe" right in the middle of the little town.</p><p></p><p>When the DM sent things after us, we would dispatch the strongest and recruit the weakest. Eventually, we had a small army of not-terribly-tough-on-their-own henchmen who didn't attack us because we actually gave them a pretty sweet deal. We even allowed a little petty theft from our coffers (we just worked them extra hard for it).</p><p></p><p>Our power snowballed. We began buying up failing businesses and making them prosper, then setting up defeated enemies as shopowners so that we could just manage the overall picture and not deal with the day-to-day stuff. The small town grew, and we were the most important and beloved of the citizens. We also had a small army of former-enemies-turned-guards.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, the king noticed us. He decided to get rid of us in a politically correct way, so he sent us on a Noble Quest to kill a demon.</p><p></p><p>The plan backfired when we actually did so.</p><p></p><p>By that time, we were getting to be high level, our army was pretty large, and we owned quite a few businesses. Our town was prosperous, and we were considered on par with Barons/Baronesses even though the king hadn't given us that honor. </p><p></p><p>This is all over-simplified, of course, because it was a LONG campaign with a lot of complexities, but in the end, the king decided to "go adventuring" for a while and "let us serve in his absence".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ha-gieden, post: 3444243, member: 50207"] We once took over a city in a campaign where that wasn't supposed to happen! It's one of our "wasn't funny when..." stories. Basically, we used our talents (I played a cleric) and our wealth to impress the citizens of a very small town. We soon became well-loved and our reputations eventually got pretty inflated. We played this up as much as possible. We went on several quests to gain magical/valuable items...then we sold them. We actually started a sort of "Ye Olde Magic Shoppe" right in the middle of the little town. When the DM sent things after us, we would dispatch the strongest and recruit the weakest. Eventually, we had a small army of not-terribly-tough-on-their-own henchmen who didn't attack us because we actually gave them a pretty sweet deal. We even allowed a little petty theft from our coffers (we just worked them extra hard for it). Our power snowballed. We began buying up failing businesses and making them prosper, then setting up defeated enemies as shopowners so that we could just manage the overall picture and not deal with the day-to-day stuff. The small town grew, and we were the most important and beloved of the citizens. We also had a small army of former-enemies-turned-guards. Eventually, the king noticed us. He decided to get rid of us in a politically correct way, so he sent us on a Noble Quest to kill a demon. The plan backfired when we actually did so. By that time, we were getting to be high level, our army was pretty large, and we owned quite a few businesses. Our town was prosperous, and we were considered on par with Barons/Baronesses even though the king hadn't given us that honor. This is all over-simplified, of course, because it was a LONG campaign with a lot of complexities, but in the end, the king decided to "go adventuring" for a while and "let us serve in his absence". [/QUOTE]
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