Have you ever completed a successful campaign with tough moral choices for the PCs?

Have you ever completed a successful campaign with tough moral choices for the PCs?

I've completed about three campaigns and none of them had much in terms of these. Our group doesn't really play for their sake.

I find it hard to intentionally insert moral dilemmas into games without it coming across as forced and video-game-y, but the last arc of one campaign I'm running accidentally had the most difficult moral choice my players have ever faced: It nearly ended in pvp.

Long story short, the players were hunting down the leader of a cult who was attempting to wrest control of the underworld from the mob-boss that the PCs worked for. When they find the dude, it turns out he's one of the player's long-lost father (I guess it's more accurate the say she is the long-lost daughter). So the villain and the girl talk, and he tell her he regrets losing her, and offer her a place at his side if she helps him take down the mob. One of the other players took beef with this because he was loyal to the mob-boss. There was a couple rounds of tension where no one was really fighting that culminated in the monk being in position to attack the villain, the girl asking him to wait and talk, and the loyal one telling him to hurry up and choose.

In the end, he attacked, they killed the villain, and the girl had to run away. The monk followed her to ask what the hell just happened while the loyalist finished off the villain. The monk let the girl go, and even brought her belongings to her so she could escape the city. Suffice to say, that player is rolling up a new character for the next time we play, but the loyalist is paranoid that she's going to come back and attack him.

Certainly wasn't good-end, but I think it was likely the best way that situation could have gone. I'm just thankful all my players are okay with this type of game.

One time we faced a demigod BBEG witch whose power could only be broken if she were raped.

All the time, but you have to use the Trope sparingly, so it actually FEELS like it has an effect.

Too many DMs fuck around with it so much that it becomes "Choose a Door."

That gets old fast.

depends on how you view morality. My PC's burned and entire city because it was infested with a dark plague that could kill and corrupt the entire plane. They didnt work fast enough to find a cure and a couple of the PC's feel incredible guilty about burning about 20k people with dragonfire

>that player is rolling up a new character for the next time we play, but the loyalist is paranoid that she's going to come back and attack him.

you gotta

>depends on how you view morality
Sounds a bit le tip fedora and edgy to me

>Have you ever completed a successful campaign with tough moral choices for the PCs?
As a player there have been tough moral choices in all the campaigns I've seen through to the end.
As a GM I love throwing the PCs into situations where I know they will be split on what to do, and then force them to hurry with making up their mind with threat of impending doom if they spend too long making up their minds.

I like to throw scenarios that have two very obvious choices at the players and let them come up with a third option by themselves. Players love to determine their own fate and come up with their own ideas. The one that stuck with me the most was years ago where I really didn't expect what they did.

The players have done a series of bounty missions for a rather cold and uncaring government. They are entrusted with a more dangerous and confidential mission with three steps. Some miners from a civilian owned company have discovered a secret facility and are now trapped inside. The facility is on land owned by the nation, but it was not constructed by the government. The players are told that they must rescue the first investigation team, scout out the facility, and "handle" the witnesses. Upon busting in, the players find that one of the government agents they were sent to bail out is dead and the remaining one is injured. Several miners are dead, but nine have survived. The facility has tons of traps and is trying to kill them, but they disarm most of it and shut the rest down once they find the computer.

Option A was, of course, to terminate the witnesses (aside from the government agent) and collect the bounty.
Option B was to let the civilians go and internationally denounce the government.
Option C was to let the civilians go, tell them that they are in danger, and say that the job is done and get paid.

The players went with option D and blackmail the civilians into joining their crew along with their families (both for labor and hostages), tell the government that they had done the job, get paid, hold records just in case they want to blackmail the government, and convince the government agent to back them in the whole thing.
Fun times.