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Wenin
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 16:33:52
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Anyone run a game where their PCs ended up cleaning up after a successful raid into enemy or foreign territory?
After breaking into an hobgoblin stronghold and slaying the war party, they turn around and bury the bodies?
After entering an old ruins to find kobolds inhabiting the place, they clear out the vermin, and then haul out the bodies to be burned or buried?
If you do I'd like to hear your stories.
Thanks,
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 17:05:23
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| My minotaur would occasionally haul an enemy corpse around, but only until the next encounter -- which he would start by throwing the corpse at the new group of monsters. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 15 Jul 2006 : 20:02:42
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| My players would normally only do this if sanctioned to clear out an area for re-settling, or a handy tower the party would like to take over, as a base of operations. |
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Shadovar
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 02:52:04
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| Normally, just animating the corpses and using them as fodder would be what i and the others do. Occasionally, we would just burn the corpses on the spot. But animating them into fodder for the next obstacle is the common thing to do. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 02:54:25
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
My minotaur would occasionally haul an enemy corpse around, but only until the next encounter -- which he would start by throwing the corpse at the new group of monsters.
Last year when before our friend that played the dwarven fighter left, when the party was exploring a trapped gnomish dwelling taken over by kobolds, the dwarf would carry a kobold body with him. When they came to a door or stairs, he would thow the corpse as hard as he could. When asked what he was doing, he would reply, "checking for traps."
The party did not, at the time, have a rogue.
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Crust
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 05:06:33
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My PCs typically leave bodies where they lay, unless they want to move in.  |
"That's right, hurl back views that force ye to think by name-calling - 'tis the grand old tradition, let it not down! Anything to keep from having to think, or - Mystra forfend - change thy own views!"
Narnra glowered at her father. "Just how am I to learn how to think? By being taught by you?"
"Some folk in the Realms would give their lives for the chance to learn at my feet," Elminster said mildly. "Several already have."
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Wenin
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 05:34:39
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This is what I'm thinking, most PCs wouldn't bother, but would this be the truth in a real world setting?
All those dead bodies left laying about, imagine the diseases this would cause to build up in these places. |
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Dark Curtains - Takes place in the Savage North, starting in Nesmé. I wrapped my campaign into the Hoard of the Dragon Queen, but it takes place in 1372 DR. |
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Crust
Learned Scribe
USA
273 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 17:31:53
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Ah...
Carrion crawlers. Otyughs. Perhaps a pack of wolves scavanging for carrion. The putresence might attract these creatures.
It might also call the attention of other rangers and/or druids in the area, forcing them to clean up the mess. They might have harsh words for the PCs after that, considering them careless (and therefore somewhat dangerous). That might be interesting if both parties are good-aligned.
Or, perhaps a necromancer, observing the PCs' actions, pays that area a visit and raises an army of zombies to terrorize the local watering hole, etc. etc. Could be interesting. |
"That's right, hurl back views that force ye to think by name-calling - 'tis the grand old tradition, let it not down! Anything to keep from having to think, or - Mystra forfend - change thy own views!"
Narnra glowered at her father. "Just how am I to learn how to think? By being taught by you?"
"Some folk in the Realms would give their lives for the chance to learn at my feet," Elminster said mildly. "Several already have."
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 16 Jul 2006 : 18:53:29
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This is almost embarrassing, but I cant think of a single incident of the characters worrying about how to get rid of the body's. This could of course have to do with my bad memory and the fact that in most cases there has not been a total victory on the PC's side. they were usually in a hurry to get away in case there were more adversaries or something worse would be attracted by the smell of blood.
I must make a note to remember this in my nest campaign. |
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