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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
So (A) you're a town councilman and you see guys in heavy armor with expensive weapons and one of them is handy with magic.
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Looks like a reason to pay them extra...
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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
If you've ever heard how adventurers introduce themselves in bars you know every one of them had their parents die tragically and have no dependents that could come back to haunt them.
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Still sounding like reason to give them extra pay.
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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
And if they march out covered in ratmen blood you've saved the town thousands of copper you'd have spent on mercenaries.
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Or they can do the rational option of doing recon before committing to clearing things out. If they can do thousands of coppers worth of work, they'll want thousands of coppers worth of pay.
You do of course run into the situation of the PCs not having sufficient reputation to warrant the pay the job is worth, but that either means a try-out or it means they don't get the job at all.