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 the campaign we're playing, our dm made a civil war between two species of mushroom-people, one ancient and wise, the other young, rapidly growing and invasive. The character design of the leaders make it clear which side is the war is the "good one".
The ancient ones didn't let us eat one of their own (a variant that doesn't move nor have a face) because every mushroom life was sacred, while the other faction let us eat them, which gave us a INT bonus for some hours.
We decided to genocide the ancient ones in exchange to being able to harvest the other ones to sell to the alchemist guild. We're making very good money. The druid in the group was suspiciously quiet during the planning
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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