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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5396751" data-attributes="member: 54877">I think that is the basis for something that is very workable, and more flexible than is perhaps being considered.  As long as the locals are willing to keep feeding a maiden to the dragon every season (or send youths to the Minotaur's lair or whatever appeasement is required), then the status quo can go on for some time.  The heroes might even start from such a region.  And this is also traditionally one of the reasons that the population is not totally enamored of such heroes--simply by existing they threaten to piss off some threat. But eventually, the dragon asks for a maiden a month or a week, or a new ruler doesn't want to appease anymore.  Then someone tries to sneak off to find a hero to fight back, even though not everyone agrees with this course. You can easily play out some of this from a horror/unknown angle, too.  I've gotten good milage out of fairly large communities that avoided dealing with predators from some dungeon complex, because deep down everyone knows that it is something awful.  People stay away best they can, and try not to get caught out at night.  Lots of people really do act that way when confronted with terrible threats--especially if some local sherriff has come to a gruesome end in the recent past. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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