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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5812522" data-attributes="member: 8461">Last week (eight days ago, in fact), one of my players sacrificed his PC heroically.In my Kingmaker campaign, the PCs were very reluctant to engage in any sort of hostile action with their western neighbor, Drelev, even after a raiding party from Drelev attacked one of their towns (the captured captain of the raiders said that they were actually assigned to chase a particular NPC, who just happened to flee into the PCs' country; so the PCs didn't presume that this was an actual attack from the leaders of Drelev).After ignoring the affairs of their western neighbor for months, even after hearing tales about how law and order were breaking down there (thanks to a spy they'd send to the country), one of my PCs - a cleric of Iomedae - received a vision telling her to go bring justice to the people of Drelev, whose leaders had abandoned them in every meaningful way.The PCs were relatively evenly split on taking action, since half thought they'd just destabilize things more, and half favored going in and eliminating the problem to make room for something better. The cleric's vision clinched her going, and three more PCs (out of seven total) went with her.After sneaking into the capital city, the PCs were watching the main keep of Drelev's leaders at night, knowing that the mercenary stone giants in the nation's employ left the keep at night to patrol. What they weren't expecting was to see a half-dozen giants chasing a fleeing rider from the keep, who was then downed in front of them!Deciding to intervene, the four PCs distracted five of the giants, and managed to make short work of the remaining one...but not before the other five heard the sounds of battle and came back to investigate.At first, it seemed like the four PCs (the cleric, a barbarian, a rogue, and a ranger) would hold their own, as they were dishing out more damage than they were taking. But a critical hit from one of the stone giants - while using Power Attack with its two-handed great club - rolled near-maximum damage, and killed the barbarian. Things went badly from there.Eventually, the cleric ordered the rogue and ranger to run for it, and decided that she'd hold off the remaining three stone giants by herself. She fought hard, and even managed to kill one of the remaining giants before they brought her down.Her sacrifice was not in vain, however, as it allowed the other two to rescue the downed rider...who turned out to be the spy they'd sent to Drelev months before. He told them that a barbarian army had been raised, and even now was marching on their (the PCs') capital city. This let them hastily raise their own armies, which just yesterday managed to route the barbarians, though with heavy casualties....all because of one cleric's sacrifice for her comrades.</blockquote>

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