I need some help coming up with a good series of encounters for my party. I'm going to have them investigating a "haunted" mansion but I'm not sure exactly what kind of encounters I should use. The party is only 2nd level, so actually having a ghost being the source of the haunting is out of the question. Theoretically I could use the ghost, and have the party help it move on to the afterlife, however, my group has the tendency to attack first and ask questions later. I've warned them that this tactic could (and will) lead to a TPK, but I don't think they listened. So instead of teaching them a lesson, I'm hoping to come up with a different source of the haunting. I considered a spellcaster hiding something (i.e. U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh) but I have some oldtimers in the group that are quite familiar with that particular module.
So I turn to y'all for suggestions.
So I turn to y'all for suggestions.