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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3858994" data-attributes="member: 15651">A different twist if the players are open to it:PCs are all about the same age and are all recruits in an organization designed to train the next generation of leaders.  One of their instructors used to be a Paladin of one of the old gods.  He recognizes that the Law of the People has overshadowed the Good of the People.  He has become a mentor to the PCs, whom he thinks might be able to one day make a difference if he can make them understand that Good is equally as important as Law.  The PCs have completed their training and have received their first posting.  While most of the others in the program have been assigned to prominent postings, the PCs have been sent to a remote town where problems with Lawlessness have been common.  Their superior in this town sends them on various assignments to restore the rule of Law.  At first it will be simple things that many 1st level PCs do - go hunt down the orc raiders in the hills north of the town, root out a small cabal of acolytes worshipping the dark gods, etc.  Eventually the assignments can start to turn a little darker - find out who has been illegally teaching magic, and bring them in for questioning, locate the group of farmers who have been secretly growing and distributing herbs used as magical components and destroy their crops.  Discover and destroy a group that has been calling for an end to the current governership of the area.At some point the PCs former instructor can make contact with them, covertly giving them different assignments that might uphold the law using Good methods that are counter to the instructions by their official superior.  The instructor wants the PCs to work within the system, rather than being outright rebels.  Depending on how things go, the instructor might be found and the PCs become suspects of the government, leading them to more direct rebellion, or they could still try and work within the system, leading to political intrigue.</blockquote>

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