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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 312135" data-attributes="member: 3146">I noticed you mentioned Ket in your post. If that's Greyhawk Ket, perhaps you could get the halflings to pack up and move. In Furyondy or Veluna, the law would most likely take a dim view of people murdering halflings for a bounty paid by some northern city. If the worst came to the worst, all the halflings could start worshipping Pholtus and move to the Theocracy of the Pale. They tend to protect Pholtans there, don't take kindly to lawbreaking (like murder), are suspicious of foreigners (like the people offering the bounty) and are pretty isolated from the North and East by the Rakers mountains.If it's not Greyhawk but you just have a Ket in your world, I guess that doesn't apply although immigration is a good idea.Alternately, the halflings could bond together all living in a small community and looking out for each other. From my understanding, the bounty sounds like it would be paid to individuals rather than groups and individuals might well be put off by the prospect of invading the halfling town. Alternately, the mafia could do what real mafias do: make a very public example of anyone who came into town advertising or collecting the bounty. After a few would be bounty hunters or rumor mongers were drawn, quartered and left in the market square for public viewing, people might be hesitant to come after the halflings.As an interim solution, you might start spreading rumors that the bounty isn't actually collectable--it's all a ploy by the northern city to weaken Ket through infighting so that they can invade and conquer a weaker land. In fact, the local nobility might be convinced of this. If so, they might very well order the public vivisection of anyone spreading news of the bounty or attempting to collect it.Ultimately, however, you would eventually have to take on the city that is offering the bounty and eliminate the leadership, eliminate the entire city, or convince them to cease  and desist.</blockquote>

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