Feuding Families

Basic Information

Feuding Families is a trope that represents two or more large families, well, feuding. There might have been a recent initial cause for the feud, or the origin of the feud might be lost in the mist of time. Regardless, each time a member of one family attacks the other, the other side cries for revenge, and when the revenge is carried out the cycle is repeated and intensified.

Related Tropes

• Big Screwed-Up Family - when there's just one family a'feudin' with itself.
• Capulet Counterpart
• Cycle of Revenge
• Gray And Gray Morality
• Moral Myopia
• Revenge By Proxy
• Sins Of Our Fathers
• Star Crossed Lovers - they often occur between the two families
• The Clan
• The Mafia and The Syndicate - they often have family-based structures and live for violence, so this trope occurs often with them.

See Also

• Family Tropes
• Drama Tropes
• Military and Warfare Tropes
• Private War
• Revenge Tropes

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• These are always fun for the PCs to get into - there usually is no clear villain (or maybe both sides have them), and whenever they move against one side the entire family is likely to retaliate against them.
  • And the PCs might not find out about that detail until it is too late.
    • Perhaps that's why one side hired them in the first place - because no one in the area who knows the situation would be daft enough to get involved. But if the PCs are strangers, things might be different…
• Perhaps one or more of the PCs come from one family in such a feud. In that case, their own family will expect them to get involved while the other side will attack them whether they want to get involved or not.
  • Perhaps the party has representatives from both families. Do they attempt to make peace between the clans - or do they just want to get out of there and away from all this madness?