Allow me to explain a bit about the advert for the pig farmer in frame two.
This happened when I was just getting into gaming and would occasionally pop up every now and again when our regular DM Mr B would be out of ideas. It all started in a tavern, like 90% of adventures do, ours was called Ben’s. In Ben’s Tavern was a magical bulletin board that would list local people in the are requiring assistance. Being low level our group thought that the pig farmer needing help would be easy, and it was… The first time…
So we go help the pig farmer who is having trouble with kobolds raiding his farm and taking off with his pigs. We chase the kobolds down, defeat them, rescue pigs, and get rewarded. Job done we don’t think anything of it. Time passes we gain a level or so, dm runs out of ideas that week, bam, the pig farmer needs help again. We go to help to find out that he is having issues with giant kobolds this time. We help out, get his pigs back, get rewarded. Now this happens a few more times and we start to get tired of it but what we don’t realize or what we failed to notice is that each time we came the pig farmer became more and more angry with us. It turns out he began to blame us for all of his woes and eventually he hires another group of adventurers to deal with us. We defeat them and that was the last time we ever went to help the pig farmer, though his ad still shows up on the message boards as you can clearly see.
You should check back on that farmer. Maybe now that it took you so long to help him and he’s lost so many pigs to whatever he needed help with this time, he will see the error of his ingratitude.
Allow me to explain a bit about the advert for the pig farmer in frame two.
This happened when I was just getting into gaming and would occasionally pop up every now and again when our regular DM Mr B would be out of ideas. It all started in a tavern, like 90% of adventures do, ours was called Ben’s. In Ben’s Tavern was a magical bulletin board that would list local people in the are requiring assistance. Being low level our group thought that the pig farmer needing help would be easy, and it was… The first time…
So we go help the pig farmer who is having trouble with kobolds raiding his farm and taking off with his pigs. We chase the kobolds down, defeat them, rescue pigs, and get rewarded. Job done we don’t think anything of it. Time passes we gain a level or so, dm runs out of ideas that week, bam, the pig farmer needs help again. We go to help to find out that he is having issues with giant kobolds this time. We help out, get his pigs back, get rewarded. Now this happens a few more times and we start to get tired of it but what we don’t realize or what we failed to notice is that each time we came the pig farmer became more and more angry with us. It turns out he began to blame us for all of his woes and eventually he hires another group of adventurers to deal with us. We defeat them and that was the last time we ever went to help the pig farmer, though his ad still shows up on the message boards as you can clearly see.
You should check back on that farmer. Maybe now that it took you so long to help him and he’s lost so many pigs to whatever he needed help with this time, he will see the error of his ingratitude.