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<blockquote data-quote="WHW4" data-source="post: 5712765" data-attributes="member: 63382">On bandits: I think they are one of the more versatile opponents a party can face. They could be made up of anything; in a high fantasy world, it could even be a gang of ex-wizard's apprentices who have banded together to earn coin to feed themselves after their master is killed; in a grimdark world, it might be turn out all the missing people from the area are -actually- being possessed by demons and forced to attack and kill other travellers. My point is I don't think I'd ever really let bandits just be &quot;bandits.&quot; They are presumably other inhabitants of this world, and have motivations and fears of their own. Even something as simple as styling the bandits after an adventuring party (complete with hireling mooks) to show the group the flip side of the coin could be fun. After all, they aren't many steps from being labelled &quot;bandits&quot; themselves by most definitions of the word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WHW4, post: 5712765, member: 63382"] On bandits: I think they are one of the more versatile opponents a party can face. They could be made up of anything; in a high fantasy world, it could even be a gang of ex-wizard's apprentices who have banded together to earn coin to feed themselves after their master is killed; in a grimdark world, it might be turn out all the missing people from the area are -actually- being possessed by demons and forced to attack and kill other travellers. My point is I don't think I'd ever really let bandits just be "bandits." They are presumably other inhabitants of this world, and have motivations and fears of their own. Even something as simple as styling the bandits after an adventuring party (complete with hireling mooks) to show the group the flip side of the coin could be fun. After all, they aren't many steps from being labelled "bandits" themselves by most definitions of the word. [/QUOTE]

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