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Apr 29, 2009 by Walt Ciechanowski14

The Evil Campaign

Time to dip into the Suggestion Pot to see what's cooking.... BladeMaster0182 writes "I was wondering if you guys had any advice on running an evil campaign. They’re a different monster than good ones (since evil characters are likely to kill each other.) What is a good way to keep it going? Some ideas I had were have them be apart of the same race or order." Good suggestion, and ...
Jul 15, 2008 by Martin Ralya9

NPCs: Filthy Liars

There are lots of ways to use NPCs to motivate your players to take a particular course of action (by motivating their PCs, of course), but I've recently discovered one that surprised me: lying. Specifically, having an NPC that they would like to trust -- or perhaps have trusted in the past -- turn out to be a filthy, lowdown liar. This is along the same lines as stealing the ...

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