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The original was posted on /r/osr by /u/scottp53 on 2025-06-17 03:27:56+00:00.

My player’s characters are scumbags.

We’re playing Dolmenwood OSE… the current planning consists of finding a work around to stop their retainers getting a share of the treasure… current options that have been floated:

• scope out the dungeon, kill the monsters where they can, take the retainers back to town and fire them, come back later for the loot.
• accidental death in the dungeon…
• send them away to another part of the dungeon, hide treasure so they can’t take a share of it.
• outright kill the retainers…

Now, I know that this means they’ll get a bad reputation and is generally scumbag behaviour but they’re planning on burning their bridges and moving to another town once people start to catch on.

I should also mention, they’ve been running an ongoing scam business where they come to town and offer to do petty jobs for taverns, businesses etc. charge them a small fee and then rob them while doing the job.

My players aren’t murder hobos but they’re definitely murder hobo adjacent… and somehow I’m expected to award xp for the money they “earn” doing these “jobs”.

Apparently xp for gold inspires terrible behaviour in some players.

EDIT: apologies I wasn’t clear with my tone - Im really enjoying their play, just thinking about how to give consequences without killing the fun!