Do what Admund would do, let somebody else worry about the plot.
The problem with this is the party is artificially constructed for the purpose of plot.
Admund in "real" life would almost certainly not join the party, and the party would almost certainly have not been formed in the first place.
He might have, to try and stop himself being hung for kidnapping Max. The orignal party, maybe not. In RPGs I am firmly of the belief that it is the GMs job to look after the plot. The players should just do what their person would do.
"we're fighting an evil chaos cult [which no one would believe in], we've killed ratmen[which no one believes in], lets go and kill this super strong demon"
errr, you lot are criminally insane, but also obviously dangerous. cya later!
There is no reason for Admund to stick around as soon as he returned Max to the group. At the most, as soon as Bardin is dealt with (which would have likely been a knife in the back). Then he'd leave.
But that's ok, because we are trying to play a game!
Do what Admund would do, let somebody else worry about the plot.
The problem with this is the party is artificially constructed for the purpose of plot.
Admund in "real" life would almost certainly not join the party, and the party would almost certainly have not been formed in the first place.
Exactly. Admund would have ditched everyone instantly and left for Marienburg or Carroburg, and doesn't give two shits about Middenheim's tax issues. But then everyone non-dwaf or wizard would simply not care. I'm making him stay because I want to play with everyone around (the characters are so fun and rich!) and the plot is super interesting to me. Plus I want to make it simpler on Rufus to tell a story rather than have to coerce me into it.
I'm just having trouble walking the line between the two sides with each of my actions.
You jkust have to accept the artifical nature of it all! The only logical way for a party to be formed is if the group all knew each other from their younger days- or at least some of them do.
At the end of the day, the group is too strong in combat which allows us to be uncreative. So I was trying to avoid that. Sorry it ended badly! Julian will apologise, while still taking the moral highground of not murdering bardin.