The first, and only correct, response should be immense suspicion. Not necessarily of the child, but the circumstances leading up to the event, and the possible repercussions that might occur because of it. Children belong in places of relative safety, not on the heels of adventuring parties that draw danger to them like magnets do with iron. Evil forces love to take advantage of the morals of heroes.
As to how my characters would react to the situation, that varies greatly based on what their alignments and personalities dictate. At the very least, arrangements would be made for the safety and hopefully permanent placement of the child into a family that would take care of them. If that means I retire a character in order for that to happen, then it will happen. Just get the child out of the inevitable blast radius that is the foot print of the adventuring party.
It depends on the race and age of the orphan girl. Assuming human and a child, then teleport and leave her in a human orphanage. Carry On.
Other free willed races? something similar.
a member of an inherently evil race, probably ignore her, unless she poses a threat.
IMC, the PCs rescued a (now-orphaned) girl. They took her to the local temple of Erastil and left her in the care of the priest with a suitably fat donation to ensure she was looked after. It's not as though it's sensible to go adventuring with an 8-year-old kid.
Are we being hired to deliver her to some relative/guardian or are we expected to do the job for free? Either way, take her to somewhere safe as fast as possible and dump her there, but in the first case it's a specific 'somewhere' and in the second it's the nearest town/temple/friendly hermit.
Unless it was my Delta Green party, in which case she would suffer a horrible death because there were extremely good reasons for that being a better option than the alternative.
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I think this question is too open-ended. There's too many PCs and alignments and character types. Even for one person. I think a better question is, "How would your evil PC handle a sudden orphan girl placed in the party's care?"
I think those answers will be more entertaining.Have you seen the beginning of 'Oliver Twist'?
"Girl for sale! Girl for sale!"
How much and can you buy parts or is it more of a package deal?
Equally interesting is how the rest of the party (even an evil one) would react to say, the CE barbarian just murdering the kid.
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Equally interesting is how the rest of the party (even an evil one) would react to say, the CE barbarian just murdering the kid.
Hopefully the player of the barbarian is cool with losing their character. As say that from a GM perspective, because now I have all the reason to make that character's life interesting as they deal with the consequences of their actions.
Just to be clear, as a player, I wouldn't be at this kind of table. I do not enjoy the kinds of stories that emerge from this kind of gameplay. I respect everyone else's interest in having fun, so I'd remove myself from the game.
I'd also like to point out that would never be me, and I wouldn't play at a table where that happened. (Apologies if I seemed to imply otherwise)
As others have said, it depends on the PC. Most of mine would take the kid to the nearest temple. A couple would go "Cool, I got a little sibling now," and start teaching the kid how to do things.
No one is accusing you of anything. DeathlessOne just forgot the topic was about how their PCs would react to an orphan and they went off on about how, if they were the GM of an evil game with an evil PC in it, they would act indignant about a character being evil and doing an evil thing and how they, as a person, not their character, would react in a situation.
I did not forget anything. I took the comment about "how the rest of the party would react?" as if DAOFS were speaking from a player perspective, not from their character's perspective. I was not acting as if I would be indignant as a GM. My role as a GM is to objective and unbiased, to mold the story in a way to react to and adapt to the presence of the characters within. If the players want an Evil story, they will get one, complete with the good npcs attempting to annihilate them in return. The game world will react to your actions, and the npcs will be appalled by your treatment of innocents.
Do not take it as any attack on you (At least, I sincerely hope not. They're welcome to clarify that they do think you're a horrible person because you maybe had an evil character at one point who would do bad things, but I don't think so.)
It was not an attack and I apologize if it came off that way. People have fun at their table however they want. We are all allowed to have preferences and I don't apologize for mine. I don't expect anyone else to apologize for their preferences, or to step carefully around them. I spoke as my role as a GM in those kinds of games and then went to clarify that as player, I did not enjoy those kinds of games as a player because of the emergent STORY that comes from them. I have played evil characters in evil campaigns. My earlier posts was meant to show that I was not one sided or overly biased/judgmental towards those kinds of games.
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By 'training wheel', you are referring to the Wheel of Pain from Conan the Barbarian, I assume. The immense millstone they are strapped to and push around and around and around to build up their muscles.How my CE Bloodrager would react:
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Cue a suspiciously wholesome and upbeat training wheel montage.
Pffff, the Cimmerian is a worthy adversary, but he suceeded inspite of such an unsophisticated training regimen forced upon him by fools that could not see his greatness, and that wholly disregards things like speed, mobility or flexibility, rather then because of it!
The massive grinning Bloodrager pauses
It is important to build up strength, mobility and coordination at the same time, to be combined with carefully selected good nutrition! So we start with some good Zangief squats, and then do my special thing were instead of kettlebells they get tasty hams, which hey can eat after training!
He strokes his chin
This we follow up by having her run around in the platearmor I joinked from that Halfling Paladin of Ragathiel, at all times! This will build endurance!
My consort Lady Sarena will see to some of her intellectual and charismatic training, and well, having a profane gift that early should enable her to telepathize "natively", which should also increase her willpower! I am fairly certain that my darling Succubus is not into children, and getting her claws on the soon to be great dark conquering super-villainess is exactly the stuff she likes to be doing!
And then the kid becomes a massive disappointment, uninterested in world conquest, demonology or tasteful murder, she disappears one day and fulfills her ambition to become an accountant.
"It's not a phase mum." she screams as refuses to dye her hair and wear black makeup.