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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sabby" data-source="post: 911681" data-attributes="member: 5522">Rat bastard?Heh.  I try not to be too much of a rat bastard.  When I do that, I tend to make people quit my games.I had one game where one of the party members was either a mom (or soon to be a mom, but definitely wanting to be a mom) in real life and was playing a Cavalier of Heironyous.  (God of chivalry in Greyhawk).  This was second edition, so things were a little different.Anyhow, this was ravenloft that they had stumbled into.  A particularly benign part of Ravenloft, but still.  They stayed the night in what they had thought to be an abandoned house and were woken by the sounds of a baby crying.  The house had belonged to the wolfwere that they had just killed and the baby was "food for later" ... the child was a bit emaciated and needed help.  Also, the party did not have the resources to really care for the infant, so they decided to go to the bar and see if they could find someone to care for the child.Everyone in the bar avoided the PCs.  This is Ravenloft... they're suspicious of the PCs.  When the PCs reveal where the baby is from, the peasants are even more superstitious.  The house that they had stayed in, the wolfwere they had killed, etc.  The PCs demanded that someone care for the infant, so one burly man steps forward, and agrees to "care" for the child.  As they step out, I tell the cavalier that she feels a chill go up her spine and hears the infant cry out.She runs to the back of the inn to see the infant with his brain bashed in.  She killed everyone in the alleyway.  I gave her the benefit of "Common Sense" telling her that she'll lose her cavalier status because of this, she says she doesn't care, she wants vengeance.She gets contacted by dark powers.  She starts to hunt down peasants.  The paladin in the party decides that he no longer likes his companions.  (This is Kartakass, Harkon Lukas had already introduced himself as a rat bastard, but they respect his authority as lord of the realm.)  He decides he's going to leave, and since his ship has been damaged, he needs to travel by foot...  Into the land of the mind flayers.  No need to even roll dice for that one.Heh.  Quick end to a gaming group.  We played shadowrun afterwards.  My first player kill as a GM, too.  (I was always too nice before that.)</blockquote>

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