Hey, thanks for the comments so far! To address a few points raised:
- I don't think any of the players would mind if 1) it took a bit longer (some of us have played 8-hour dnd sessions before, and all of us have played 8-hour boardgame sessions before), and/or 2) it required more than one...
Hey thanks for the input. I generally also dislike giving PCs a "must-do", but how else can you incentivise them to do stuff in a one-off? It just seems like it lets you jump into the fun bits a bit faster if they know they are person X, here to do mission Y.
The reason for them working...
I'm looking to host a one-shot for a group of friends soon. We're all very good friends, some of us used to play dnd a few years ago but we're all a bit rusty now so we wanted to try a one-shot to get us back into it and introduce a few new players. In total there will be myself (as GM) and 5...