A Traitor In Our Mists (Side quest idea)
Here's one for you DM's that want a detective esc side quest. The players are in a castle of a local lord when they hear a very interesting discussion. Apparently within the maid staff, one of them is purposefully making their job harder so that the butler staff can seem to be more competent & thus the butler staff would get a pay increases while the maids got a pay decrees. If the players make themselves know to the people who said that, the people will ask the players if they can help with these circumstances. If they agree they will get one of two verities in order to solve this side quest - The first way they can attempt is to stalk/spy on the staff till they find out who it is. They will then have to be able to build up enough of a case for the maid leader to agree to fire her. -The second way they can attempt is to call all the maids together & proceed to try & use group reasoning to try & find out who the traitor is. If the players are correct the...