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Message: <blockquote data-quote="khantroll" data-source="post: 5890736" data-attributes="member: 95652">Sorry that it has taken me so long to respond, but I've been busy IRL. Derren: I don't expect or want the peasants to want to help them in the beginning. The PCs are all members of persecuted races; elves, dwarves (whose status is complicated),  or people who would be opposed to the State (the survivor of a State sponsored experiment and a traitor). The way I'm picturing it, they are backed by a foreign power, and will eventually convince people (in the cities, at least) that change is necessary. I'm not using Nazi Germany because of some moral or political judgement. If I were looking for evil templates, I could reach back Egypt, and nearly every culture in between. I'm using it because it fits the LE alignment, and is something I'm sure everyone is familiar with. I want my players to hate the villains. By making them similar in both tone and action to the popular portrayals of these people, I think it'll stop being a case of a  cliched evil overlord. All that being said, you're right. I will have to make sure that they don't receive any support from the general citizenry. I also intend t have the backing nation double cross them at some point, proving that it's not that they care one whit about the State, only bettering their nation. BriarMonkey: Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but it is an occupied nation; it's just been occupied for a long time. It's 5 countries that have been bolted together for about 75 years. A long time by human standards, but not so much for elves, dwarves, and everyone else. That's a good idea about including another resistance effort. I've been toying with that idea myself. It'll make the PCs work harder. Corathon: Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday AM. The gritty, dark one from he early 90s.</blockquote>

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