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lying

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 PCs’ stuff (which is easy to overdo), killing their allies (great, but not to be…