>New game with a new DM
>5e
>We start at level 1
>Basically just go straight into a dungeon crawl, next to no RP - though it's D&D, so that's fine
>Head back to town
>At the gates, the guards stop us
>Tell us to empty our bags
>Ask why
>The country taxes 50% of all recovered treasure
>Argument over what to give them or whether to give them anything lasts until the session ends, everyone goes home angry
Wtf is this rent seeking bullshit.
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Stealing this for my megadungeon campaign. Coming back into town to get a full restore is a great idea, I might also have the city develop as more and more taxes are colelcted and offer better services.
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Sounds like an excellent gm.
He trolled you in a logical and story consistent way. It's up to you to find a way around it or accept the troll-toll.
What's the problem, it makes sense
If you don't want to get taxed, you gotta rub some nobles shoulders buddy
They say "Prince" is a word that means "take," OP. The real question is, what are you guys gonna do about it?
Obviously the treasure's inaccessible to the kingdom's agents, or they'd just go out and take 100% of it for themselves. It requires expendable specialists to go out there ready to get rich or (very likely) die trying.
That means if you set up way out there in the wilds, they probably can't touch you, since sending an army to collect their taxes would mean losing a lot of soldiers to the monstrous bullshit that lives out there.
So maybe do that.
>not just attacking the guards
I bet you play Drizzt clone
>not having a ranger bro to help you live in the woods
just go to a different country without the tax, dumbass
>Not immediatly formulating a plan to take over the town, and establish it as a base to eventually start a revolution to overthrow the local feudal lords, and eventually the king
Weak
this is the kind of thing I wish I could do in my session unfortunately every NPC is a level 20 in disguise because my DM is a railroad conductor beyond reproach
>every NPC is a level 20 in disguise
Shouldn't discourage you (unless they're a spellcaster), you just need to find a way to outwit them (unless they're a spellcaster)
With such an outrageous tax that city better give some really fucking amazing services or every adventurer is just going to fuck off
>complains about no rp
>gets presented with an intriguing rp opportunity to find a way to get out of the tax, by subterfuge or diplomacy
Come on man wtf
you'd think so but no, if we managed to beat them he woulda just pulled a "they're beaten but out of nowhere..." and storytold them beating the shit out of us instead.
Cripes. Like, I usually have a higher level NPC in most major towns (If not how the hell have they survived this long in a world of constant wars and battles), but if the players outwit me, they outwit me.
my honest condolences for your pain user
Yeah, an occasional high level NPC helps the world make sense, but not every guard in town.
Railroading is a crutch for bad DMs.
thank you. i tell myself the storytelling makes up for the railroading but i come here and hear tales of players with agency whose actions make a difference to the game and it makes me feel like a beaten dog that still wags for its owner
No, absolutely not. The high level PC would be something like a court wizard, the owner of the largest store in town, a wizened wise man that acts as an elder or a local High priest, not some random fuck guard or some thug on the street
>but i come here and hear tales of players with agency whose actions make a difference to the game and it makes me feel like a beaten dog that still wags for its owner
I think that's the case. Obviously I'm assuming a lot of things here but it sounds like you're on the DM's personal paintrain, and Monad help you if it takes a hard left into his Magical Realms.
new campaign goals activated, murder prince, burn town to the ground, crush the merchants and traders who backed this policy, salt the earth, end their family lines with poison and blood and terror.
Just give them your shit, then when the DM tries to get you to go back grinding, tell him you want to start a crime syndicate instead
