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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 6786860" data-attributes="member: 6803337">- Guild members must wear lederhosen while on the job.  Only Guild members may wear lederhosen.  If the PCs are in lederhosen (the Bard's good clothes may qualify), a group of toughs shows up to enforce Guild rules.  If the Guild has had the rules written into law, then the toughs have police backup.- River is running slightly over its banks.  And it's raining.  The PCs are dragooned into a sandbagging squad - even if they DO have pressing business elsewhere.- Wearing the color _____ is the prerogative of the nobility / influential family.  The PCs show up wearing that color.  Snob aristocrat or merchant is not amused.- One of the PCs is the spitting image of a man who was recently hanged for High Crimes.  The locals commit mistaken identity and...- (Background: the King's writ runs about as far as his bodyguard's bowshot)  There's a war on, man, and you walked right into the middle of it.  The Duke against the Baron, both are trying to gain alliance with the Mayor.- The Burgermeister Meisterburger seeks to arrest the mysterious figure who keeps delivering TOYS to the children in their homes at night.  (Because breaking and entering, violating Guild privileges, &c)  He decides the PCs will make an acceptable substitute, and send a message to the real culprit.- The PCs are at the wrong table when a bar fight breaks out and the local police "round up the usual suspects".- A religious schism has rent the city.  Members of the minority faith have a temporary and shaky upper hand.  The PCs then show up, and any Cleric / Paladin gets suspicious interrogations.- Previous tyrant has been overthrown, and local anarchists are trying to take long-term advantage of instability.- "That d--nfool mage built his tower right in the middle of town", and is quietly trying to follow in Saruman's footsteps: invent gunpowder.  He may come up with something that really ought to be kept in some farmer's Back 40.  Maybe the test batch is more potent than he really thought...- Urban renewal project has just been enacted, so now ALL the major roads have construction projects blocking them every few blocks.  Just try to run away from somebody!- Thieves Guild has bought out craftsman guilds and is now eliminating all competition, including travelling crofters.  (Think: Zhents)- Cholera or similar plague is brought to town by unassociated others at the same time as the PCs arrive.  They might catch it or might get blamed for it.- Fire in one building causes the building next door (tavern / orphanage) to become unstable.  Could you go in anyways and get everybody out?- River floods overnight, so the PCs wake up to discover they can only leave the inn by boat.  Hopefully they did not take a room on the ground floor !- Flashy rebel (Scarlet Pimpernel / Zorro / Robin Hood) plagues the leader of this city.  The Mayor is unable to put a stop to the rebel's antics.</blockquote>

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