| Cassy |
My group is playing RotRL and the starting town is Sandpoint, home to some corrupt nobles, a local crime family, a pious priest, and troubles that have the potential to erode the commoners' faith in their elected officials.
I want to foster that erosion of faith in their leaders so that I can become the power behind the throne. I want to start making children sick (I'm a witch with bestow curse) so their parents have to come to me for help when no one else can. I want this healing to appear mostly charitable to members of the town and at least the cleric in my party. I want this healing to put important members of the town In my debt. Think Rasputin with slightly less debauchery and a better public image.
My group is already the de facto security force for the time being as the sheriff is in away in the regional big city. I want to use the support from my clients to takeover a department of the town. The department I want to takeover first would be, wait for it, sanitation. Why sanitation? No one looks too close into the business of handling garbage and Sandpoint is having a problem with goblins raiding the local dump to gather resources so they can build armor and weapons. I want to use this threat to gain control of Sandpoint's sanitation department and to levy a new tax to secretly provide me with the means to start buying power from less savory npc's, specifically the Scarnetti crime family.
I've talked to my GM and he is totally for it but said I would have to find out how the mechanics would work, if there are any, before he would allow our party to embark on this undertaking.
Any thoughts or advice is appreciated.