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Fun Morality in D&D; Last Night's Adventure
Topic Started: Apr 1 2011, 04:52 PM (442 Views)
Toegoff
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Hey folks,

So I've been playing DnD with a couple friends online (and it seems to be working great so far), and just wanted to share a couple things, and wonder if people are interested in me keeping a 'journal' of what happened that I would update and post:

Anyway, just a great thing that 'happens in D&D' that makes an easy moral decision very difficult.

The party discovered stolen crops in a goblin cave. Easy enough. They wanted to return those crops to the rightful owners, sounds like a good moral choice. The man who offered them the contract for the goblin ears (an inn keeper) was offering to pay them for the crops so he could sell them. Sounds like the morally bad choice yes?

Well, crops don't exactly have names written on them. The party refused the inn keepers offer to buy the crops and chose to give them out to everyone in a free for all. Well, a near riot broke out. Some crops were trampled. And even fights started to break out over the ownership. Unfortunately, our timing was such that I didn't want to spend forever on this one point, but I did want to make a neat moral choice here. The party was utterly confused as to try and over see everything, or just throw their hands up and say 'to hell with you all.'

Their solution I thought was pretty clever. The wizard cast an enlarge person on our half orc cleric for intimidation factor, and webbed all the people stopping the riot. They split what was remaining of the food equally among the heads of the house. Was it fair? Nope. Was food wasted by being trampled? Yep. Honestly as a DM, I didn't have a real decision for the party, but I liked that they basically had to resort to 'might makes right.' We're the stronger, and we're going to say how it would be split up without considering which farms are the largest, which produce the best crops, who is the hardest working, etc. They're on a time table and didn't want to take forever sorting this.

I just love that the morally good decision to 'not sell the stolen goods to the inn keeper' ended up being a lot more complicated. In the end, the part got annoyed and became tyrannical equally sorting out the goods when it is likely obvious that not every farmer SHOULD get equal shares :P

Anyway, if there is a real interest in me posting a journal of events that happen, I'd be happy to do so (of course assuming my D&D group wouldn't mind).

 
Deluded626
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I would love for you to keep a journal of sorts. Ive been thinking for a long time about getting involved with an online DnD group and it would be interesting to see what a good DM can do in regards to a story.
 
TheMegaKid5
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That would be awesome. I recently formed a group that I DM for. I am always looking for inspiration for my story making. We are currently freeing demons from a concentration camp. These demons do not have the kill, kill mind set. They are demons and the humanoids are almost extint because of other demons, but these had saved the sister of our rouge. I find moral conflicts really intriguing.
 
Wier
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Being a DM myself I enjoy a good D&D story to read. If you post more of your adventure I will most likely read it.

I like the moral gray areas that come with making a "good" or "evil" decision. The campaign I run is done with evil characters but they often find themselves aiding characters or factions that would be considered "good" for purposes of either a) revenge or b ) power. These motivations in their characters allow the seemingly good characters to manipulate them into action against their enemies.

D&D is just buckets of fun isn't it?
 
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