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Spoiler space Have a repeat of the fate of the Dalton Gang. They picked
the wrong bank to rob and took too long about it.? Word got around and they started handing out long
arms (rifles and shotguns) and ammunition to anybody wandering by. ?It got to the point where some people had to
use birdshot in their shotguns. Remember, a couple of townsfolk with
guns is target practice for players.? Twenty is a force to be reckoned with.? A hundred townsfolk is time to surrender.? "Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain,
like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills
into shadow. How did it come to this?" Théoden from Peter Jackson's The Two Towers -----Original Message----- If you're looking for some story ideas to
teach your posse that their actions can have consequences here are a
few story threads that come to mind... The shot man is the son of a wealthy
family back east (Northern or Southern depending on the flavor of your
campaign) His father gets word that his son has been shot (or heaven forbid
killed) and he's demanding answers. Money talks, from the east could come
Pinkertons, US Marshals or Texas Rangers to find out who the woman was that
shot his son and why. They could approach it solely in an investigative role,
not hunting for their heads, but if they got belligerent with any of those three
groups, they wouldn't be long for this world. Even if they did play nice with
the law, the father would learn their identities, then hire other, less savory
types, to do the dirty work. If the shot man was a criminal, perhaps
he's the younger brother of a vicious outlaw. He takes the
killing/wounding/humiliating of his brother as a personal insult, bringing the
wrath of his gang down upon the posse's head. "I'm the only one wit
gets to shoot my kin..." The shot man has a friend with the local
paper, he tells his story, how some crazy woman shot him for asking what he did
to deserve to have a gun in his back. The reporter has dreams of a budding dime
novel career and really embellishes the story, painting the shooter as a crazed
madwoman who hunts the west looking for the slightest reason to shot a man in
the back. Try and come up with a catchy name for her in the article, even
if its nothing like her real name. Have the article catch the imagination of
the public, when the posse rolls into a new town, have most of the town already
heard about their exploits. Word spreads about how violent these
people are... have the normal town folk cross the street to avoid them, have
kids watch terrified from behind the skirts of their mothers, have outlaws and
lowlifes welcome them as one of their own. Jack up the prices in some
stores, in others have a terrified merchant offer the posse the contents of his
till in return for not shooting him. If they continue to be mean, if they
continue to generate fear, raise the local fear level temporarily. None of these are all that original, but I
hope it gives you a few ideas. If the posse is overly violent you don't want to
scale up the violence to meet them. Play it subtle at first, if that doesn't
work, don't be afraid to have the local law take them in, or drive them out of
town. The local sheriff could just ask them to leave because violence seems to
follow in their wake. In the old west you didn't necessarily have to brake the
law to get driven out of town. -Nic From: carl smith
[mailto:fishhook79@yahoo.com] Got something else for ya now thanks to my group. Spoilers
for all you non Marshal types Running my party through independence day. Got hired to do
the security gig for the party and it has gone to their heads. First
drunk they met they did not even exchange words, they just dragged him to a
rain barrel and in he went. They then procceeded to drag him to jail, but
NPC's had to interfer. They have pissed off EVERY NPC they have come
accross and then someone. One person with both mean as a rattler and grim
servent of death shot a man. She thought he was a pick pocket and so she
put her gun into his back and told him to come with her now. He said what
the, and so she shot him. I have a good group, but this cannot
continue. IDEAS PLEASE |