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...My players have started a war between nations... (self.DnD)

LouryWindurst[🍰] が 投稿

Backstory: The queen has asked the party to be her ambassadors to another nation, in hopes of setting up trade / keeping the peace as tensions have begun to build between the two after a series of events.

Current setting:

The players have arrived, meet with the ambassadors of the city and sit down to a meal. Face of the party does their time, charming and winning them over. Servant comes in, and face rolls a natural 20 spot check to notice that the servant is branded and is in fact a slave of sorts (really it's indentured servitude, but they never found that out)

party then attacks and kills 3 very prominent members of the nation's government...there by starting not only a war between nations, but they're now having to find a way out of the city without getting killed.

Siiiiigh Players y u do dis

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[–]exeresDM 55ポイント56ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sounds like they're about to be in the center of a huge thing that they started and have to take full responsibility for. Play this out, man.

[–]16FootScarf 31ポイント32ポイント  (6子コメント)

Getting out of the city should not be easy. Everyone will be hunting them and with a price on their heads even the thieves.

I wouldn't let this take only one session, make them sweat it.

[–]LouryWindurst[S,🍰] 27ポイント28ポイント  (5子コメント)

Oh, this is gonna basically take over the campaign. Originally they were here to set up trade between nations / research how to purify the tainted water source back in their home base area.

Now i'm planning bounty hunters from that country, npcs to hunt them down, punishments for them back home from the queen (who of course will not kill them, but still make them regret disappointing her)

this is assuming they make it out of the city, their main front line fighter took a quarterstaff crit to the head, i'm not expecting him to wake up anytime soon. they need to decide to ditch him or carry him while escaping.

debating on having them captured instead of tpk, and basically making them to decide between being double agents, or death.

[–]HalfCreature 18ポイント19ポイント  (2子コメント)

You could also introduce a faction that opposed the current (previous?) leadership of the nation that helps them out or something.

Perhaps rebels or insurgents that help smuggle them out in barrels, or try and get the party to help take over the city

[–]Big_Time_Rug_Dealer 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

They can rp as the taliban, that's great

[–]st0ffe93 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This could work really well, especially if they have to leave the fighter for dead. If he'd be up for it he could play one of the people helping them. Would require a fair bit of trust in his ability not to metagame though

[–]NaalMusicDM 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Someone mentioned it earlier, but I think it's worth reiterating: maybe the queen wanted this to happen. She, or some other controlling force, wanted an excuse to exercise martial force against this nation. I think that idea is pretty killer.

[–]gilesrobertsDM 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some of the less content indentured servants might assist them...

[–]doomsday1216DM 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

I bet their escape from the city will be epic, and don't be afraid to kill one of them. The repercussions from murdering heads of state will be huge, and there's probably a veritable army surrounding them.

Blood will certainly be spilled.

[–]KokotoKangFighter 10ポイント11ポイント  (4子コメント)

Lots of Justice to be done here. Do they have a Paladin that is Lawful Good? Have him surrender himself and make a case for his party. If he rolls his words incorrectly, life in prison, or death. Honestly, if the country they were going to negotiate with doesn't go completely batshit, they might send a messenger to the country the heros were representing, telling the queen this tale. Then you'd have TWO powerful lands chasing them. All the better no?

[–]GhostMatter 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

Still, it would take a lot of goodwill for the defending country to accept that the offical ambassadors are that messed up.

[–]mokomi 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is also where tensions are just began to build up. It means either the government or the people want to fight. They just gave them an itching excuse. Who knows, maybe the queen wanted this to happen since She did bring adventures to pose as ambassadors.

[–]KokotoKangFighter 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

All too true.

[–]GhostMatter 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

It could certainly happen though. Maybe the ruler of the "attacker" country is in a tenuous political position and a tenuous political position and a war would make it worse. Or the country is near bankruptcy. Or the country has a significant minority that prefers the defender country. And so on...

So, because of these or other reasons, they could, for example, offer to let go of their claims on contested territories, come to the defense of the defender country for the next 5-10 years and/or offer significant concessions on trade agreements

[–]Clayton_11 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Have a trial held and make them out to be villains. This is how every new party learns to be more careful and think things through.

[–]Johnny_Bob 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

That looks like the beginning a memorable campaign. Are the going back to the queen or are they just running away as fast as they can?

Have them spend their lives running away from punishment. From now on they can never be at ease. Wherever they go there is a chance that they will be recognized.

[–]LouryWindurst[S,🍰] 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

We ended on a serious cliff hanger, as i saw no way to end without it being on high tension. They just got done killing the government officials, and a guard heard the commotion, sounded the alarm. End of game for the week. Let them stew for until we meet to play again in two weeks

[–]Latenius 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

....Good intentions but I'd say the players dun goofed up for not thinking about the consequences.

If I was the face player I'd have noted that for later and conjured up a plan to free the slaves or some such.

[–]Jantesviker 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Let me guess... Chaotic Good?

[–]Hello_Mr_Fancypants 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah I'd say it's time to get hard boiled with this shit.

[–]mokomi 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Now the as the DM can think of other reasons. Maybe they are really good, but slaves are a common thing. Slavery does not mean evil. It just means you treat Humans as you would any other animal. A land is allowed to have laws how it can treat it's property. I don't know what the two events are, but you could have the Queen being resource starved and requires the help of the adventures to stay afloat while she mends relations between both nations. With that could have a nice betrayal scene. Juicy!