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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7374089" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>Alas I possess this <strong>DM Flaw:</strong> <em>I have the bad habit of giving speeches to deliver 'local color' when my players want to get on with the action.</em> But since I'm currently not DM'ing, I can indulge myself:</p><p></p><p>The <strong>Save an Innocent Man</strong> side quest, as written, seemed shallow and not connected to anything else in the adventure when I read it. Since I imagine not beginning the campaign with its 'ticking clock' aspect running, we could tie a few in-town things together.</p><p>The distressed husband is not being entirely truthful. His other husband IS guilty of something, but not what he was charged with: he found one of the iron triceratops tokens (in a random jungle encounter?) and kept it. He later got into a personal quarrel. After drinking too much tej, he ran his mouth about how he was going to <em>sanction</em> the other fellow, and showed the token as "proof" of his power and influence. The real members of the Ytepka Society heard about it and took offense. They railroaded the motormouth and sentenced him to 'run the gauntlet' in Executioner's Run.</p><p></p><p>If the merchant lords were all presented as "local Zhent equivalents" - greedy and selfish - I would leave it there. But they are supposed to be more enlightened than that. </p><p>So: the original plan was that the motormouth husband would be dumped on the track on a particular day, when something proportionate to his wrongdoing would ensue; gotta distinguish between felonies and misdemeanors. (Also gives the bookies a slow day, to track down any unpaid debts.) The velociraptors down there today will be replaced with hadrosaurs tomorrow - and instead of a death trap, the husband would have been in The Running of the Bulls. The expectation was that he would be roughed up (down to about 1 HP), scared, exhausted, and probably the subject of much gossip and public jeering, but he would recover naturally - and realize that messing with those iron tokens is A Bad Idea.</p><p></p><p>Somehow the date for his release was changed / misunderstood. <em>The PCs have to persuade the guards to put off until tomorrow what they otherwise would be doing today.</em> A merchant prince might be able to write a note to that effect, or the PCs could forge one. I imagine trying to bribe somebody with SPs would mark the PCs as 'cheapskates' or 'outlanders'.</p><p></p><p>This can introduce the PCs to the iron tokens (and the Ytepka Society), some dinosaurs, the gladiatorial aspect of public entertainment, betting, and Executioner's Run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7374089, member: 6803337"] Alas I possess this [B]DM Flaw:[/B] [I]I have the bad habit of giving speeches to deliver 'local color' when my players want to get on with the action.[/I] But since I'm currently not DM'ing, I can indulge myself: The [B]Save an Innocent Man[/B] side quest, as written, seemed shallow and not connected to anything else in the adventure when I read it. Since I imagine not beginning the campaign with its 'ticking clock' aspect running, we could tie a few in-town things together. The distressed husband is not being entirely truthful. His other husband IS guilty of something, but not what he was charged with: he found one of the iron triceratops tokens (in a random jungle encounter?) and kept it. He later got into a personal quarrel. After drinking too much tej, he ran his mouth about how he was going to [I]sanction[/I] the other fellow, and showed the token as "proof" of his power and influence. The real members of the Ytepka Society heard about it and took offense. They railroaded the motormouth and sentenced him to 'run the gauntlet' in Executioner's Run. If the merchant lords were all presented as "local Zhent equivalents" - greedy and selfish - I would leave it there. But they are supposed to be more enlightened than that. So: the original plan was that the motormouth husband would be dumped on the track on a particular day, when something proportionate to his wrongdoing would ensue; gotta distinguish between felonies and misdemeanors. (Also gives the bookies a slow day, to track down any unpaid debts.) The velociraptors down there today will be replaced with hadrosaurs tomorrow - and instead of a death trap, the husband would have been in The Running of the Bulls. The expectation was that he would be roughed up (down to about 1 HP), scared, exhausted, and probably the subject of much gossip and public jeering, but he would recover naturally - and realize that messing with those iron tokens is A Bad Idea. Somehow the date for his release was changed / misunderstood. [I]The PCs have to persuade the guards to put off until tomorrow what they otherwise would be doing today.[/I] A merchant prince might be able to write a note to that effect, or the PCs could forge one. I imagine trying to bribe somebody with SPs would mark the PCs as 'cheapskates' or 'outlanders'. This can introduce the PCs to the iron tokens (and the Ytepka Society), some dinosaurs, the gladiatorial aspect of public entertainment, betting, and Executioner's Run. [/QUOTE]
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