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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9547964" data-attributes="member: 42856">In this adventure, I didn't identify any time when arson was the suggested solution nor an ideal solution.It can happen for fun, though. For example, one of the BBEG isn't just a cackling, mad, evil guy. She has a backstory, which is great and in keeping with modern storytelling.Once she was living happily with her sister, another druid, tending to the  Lonelywood wood. Then, hunters from Lonelywood village killed her sister. Thus, she was devastated, put her beloved sister's body in an old elf mausoleum and Awoke beasts (the plesiosaur, and a big white moose) asking them to harass hunters (and fishermen in the case of the Plesiosaur) to avenge her sis.The problem with having backstory like this is that... she doesn't seem extremely evil. Like, at all. The people from Lonelywood -- population 50, so if she was killed by hunters, plural, there is a chance that a lot of the adult hunters of the village are accomplice -- are the culprit of murder. Sure, she could have turned to the Speaker of Lonelywood for justice, but hey... vigilantism is what the party is doing since the first quest, so why blame her?The expected outcome is to kill her, kill her awakened beast and plunder her sister grave (for a potion of resistance and a potion of vitality). I guess casting fireball at her awakened shrub, though not optimal, could count at arson. But graverobbing is probably expected.There another story about a pacifistic ice giant who lived by catching whales and making whale oil. He had an awakened woolly mammoth and ice wolves as an animal companion. When adventurers killed the ice giant, they vowed revenge. They kindapped two teenagers from Dougan's Hole and asked for a ransom in food and gold. Since it's not like the animals need gold to buy things, they just want a ransom so the villagers expiate their assassination of the ice giant.The Speaker won't pay any ransom, and she stubbornly thinks the kids are dead. The characters are expected to deal with the situation as they see fit. I'd really like to know how many negociated with the creature, learnt about the giant's death, came to understanding their pain, said that the hostage are innocent kids (a fact that might have escaped your average mammoth), that they are not responsible for the ice giant's assassination and offered to take their place as hostages while the rest of the group gather a ransom and/or tracks the assassins. And the number of groups who cast fireball at the wooly mammoth (though actually fighting a mammoth at level 4 is complicated, they might want to wait a level.</blockquote>

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