Things My Players' Characters Have Done That Made Me Respect Them More (& inadvertently increased the suffering of many).

  

   The title says it all. In no particular order, here's the respectable things my players have done in our D&D 5E Campaign set in the tortured lands of Morrow. 

• After getting into a deathmatch with city guards in the international market of Midas Plaza, my party accidentally did a B&E on the luxury apartment of a political and industry leader's son. They relieved the young, affluent man of many things, donning extravagant costumes and a +1 AC magic ring under the pretext of them acting as disguises as they marched into the living room with confidence (horrible perception checks). They caught wing of a threat (holy shit holy shit it's animated armor we are level 2) and soon learned that wearing luxury clothing during an exhausting brawl with a suit of magical armor pushing one of them them down a street-facing fire escape three turns back to back ≠ good disguise. They were forced into the sewers as the Guards were alerted, where they "linked up" and "built" with a degenerate mud elemental convinced he could achieve Godhood. These antics led to a mass campaign of police terror spurred by the young man's father, the great Baron Roy Heath, aka the Golden Bull. They later tried to free someone in a giblet accused of their crime, but gave up because it was too hard (They could've managed it but hey it's their story, lol).
• They killed a vampiric noble of a major kingdom in the woods at the eve of war between crowns, sparking said war and leading to a wave of xenophobia crashing across the masses. He was mean to the Dhampir of the party who went to school with him, so she shot him in the face with an Eldritch Blast. Now, half the map has descended into tight borders and bloodied fields due to their refusal to take disrespect from the properties classes. Cool, in my opinion. 
• They learned of this war starting from a monumental slab of flesh that Wisterian transmuters from Mimr's Arcane Academy turn into the face of one of the Barons so that they can talk shit to the people without facing the consequences. Riots ensued very quickly (the people of Wisteria hate the flesh wall that declares awful things to them, which is reasonable I think) and the party proceeded to flee the city. But, not before slaughtering the proprietor of a shipwright business for using a bunch of city guards to try to force his builders back to work. The workers won the day, offering a brand new galleon called the Misfit's Gamble to my party to flee in that they promptly crashed into a floating village during a storm. 
• In a Boss fight with the aforementioned Mondo, they revived dead NPCs they met like six times just cuz. It was so sweet, and the session went two hours over because they kept running back in with 2 hp to grab an NPCs body so the mud man couldn't defile them with his dirt and esoteric ideas. This determination was rewarded handsomely by offering the party a major lead on attaining their goals, stitched into the chest of their enemy (dude's a freak); a page of the Apocryphon, an old occult tome from the OGs of the hermetic practice of alchemy that was written to apply the science of alchemy to the divine essence. 
• Using the power of CATHOLIC GUILT, they psychologically tortured an absentee, abusive father on the floating village of Mish because a school teacher they primed to become the new village leader asked them to. After being convinced he was drowning in his bedroom because the angel of justice was mad at him, he completely turned the man's life around. He's now a caring parent and a rabid communist. Cool as hell.