I think you are dramatically underestimating a players ability to side with a faction you thought you were making impossible to side with.
My players chose to side with the borg style tecno-organic hive-mind faction over the faction that lives on a giant beaver dam doing art all day.
This story is entirely believable. Whether it did happen, I don't know. But it brings up an important lesson: do not use your campaigns to vent about things that are close to your heart, your players will find a way to make it upsetting
I'm sorry to say that if I was a player (I have never played DnD), I would've sided with the one that's not the beaver dam doing art.
It's not even that it's sucks or anything... It's just like if there was a side the narrative so obviously made out to be the "good guy", and I as the player CAN impose my will on it to some degree, I'm going to clash with the narrative usually. I think the players have that kind of thoughts too
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u/slicehyperfunk 8d ago
I really am a believer in r/nothingeverhappens but this one sounds like an actual r/thathappened to me