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My favorite one-shot that I’ve ever ran involved the PCs being hired by a city to go kill some kobolds. The kobolds had taken over their mine, had fortified the place, and were violently rejecting any attempts to make them leave.
When the PCs arrive, it’s basically as described: The mine is overrun with kobolds, who have erected makeshift barricades and are armed with crossbows.
In actuality, the city had hired the kobolds to mine the ore for them, but then refused to pay them after taking delivery. It’s a labor dispute, and the PCs had been hired to kill them because nobody would question some adventurers killing some kobolds. The players discovered this and were upset enough about being lied to that they joined the kobolds’ side and basically acted as the (very well-armed and aggressive) union reps, negotiating better pay and more favorable terms for them. Was a great time.
You can do a harry potter thing where the workers want to be slaves
You know what that’s called, right? It’s class consciousness. When people’s power fantasies are union organizing, that implies there is a degree of cultural hegemony going on and that’s pretty neat.
Remeber, kids: Laws are threats made by the dominate socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence and police are basically an occupying army.
Had to go find a clip of this because the delivery makes it even better, like a militant socialist afterschool special:
The delivery sells it entirely. He’s like the guy coming in to talk about drugs with a baseball cap and sitting backwards in the chair, but it’s about cops and molotovs instead.
Hey, you’re the one underpaying your fictional workers in the first place
You know to make interesting rpg stories, you need bad people, and being bad means you underpay worker and take all the money from their work.
If dwarves get a 15beer a hour minimal wage, they won’t have a reason to fight the Dragon they work for
Player: I want to ask this road worker about their job.
GM: They tell you that they are perfectly happy with their job. They say they work short hours, get paid well and have a contract with very favourable terms that prevent them from being fired arbitrarily. All of their colleagues seem to feel the same way.
Player: Hm, what if they’re lying?
Oh yeah the way they answered definitely has cult behavior.
Time to free them from their chains.
Our party tries to extort money from every single NPC we encounter. Our
rougerogue would probably asks for the jewels of the deceased person at a funeral or otherwise we would not help the town to fend of the goblin invaders (which then costs something as well of course).Why would makeup need jewels…?
Sparkly rouge
lol I’ve been working on a holy grail game where the anarchos are the central characters and the conflict is them vs the monarchy so she isn’t wrong
