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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verdigris" data-source="post: 1106655" data-attributes="member: 13151">I know that people overuse Holocaust analogies all the time, but there is one that may apply here.There were Jews in Eastern European ghettos who were enlisted by the Nazis to help police and manage the Jewish populations of such places. In some cases, these individuals were criminals or had bad motives. In many cases, however, the members of these organizations (called Judenrat) felt that by assisting the Nazis they could save Jews rougher treatment at the hands of the Germans or their auxilliaries. There invariably appeared a grey area between assisting the Nazis to commit their crimes, and helping Jews get along in the horrible conditions in which they found themselves. I bring this up not to argue about what is invariably a controversial topic (i.e. it is full of heroes and villains on all sides), but because the morality of such involvement is extremely complicated.It seems like your Dwarf is in a similarly murky quandry. If he participates in robbing the tombs, he is complicit in the crime. If he refuses, he will at best be ostricized by his lord. At worst he will be killed himself. If he renounces his lord and fights against subsequent robbers, ditto. If he does nothing, he may be responsible for the future looting of the tomb.I suggest your Dwarf propose the following. What if he offers to bring back riches for his lord under the stipulation that the Lord protect the graves from looting forevermore? Such protection would invariably require an expedition or two for cataloging purposes and maybe there are riches in there which do not specifically belong to the Dwarven dead (maybe they were looted themselves from even older temples...)Metagaming for a moment...this solution hopefully doesn't ruin a very well designed "hook" (one that has wrenching options for the PC and requires actual role-playing to resolve)  Alternately, the Dwarf may be able to separate objects that are of personal value to the dead Dwarves from the cultural or decorative objects that might exist in the tomb. If such a distinction can be made, then maybe society will benefit from having these objects above ground, for study and celebration of the grandeur of ancient dwarven society.</blockquote>

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