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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charwoman Gene" data-source="post: 4808714" data-attributes="member: 5044">Sorry I haven't been paying attention, stuff in RL Possibly up until Monday miorning26 point buy, standard starting gold (100gp?), no backgroundsFeel free to pick out a hook though?[sblock=hooks]As the adventure begins, the player characters find themselvestraveling down a road that hasn’t been maintainedin nearly a hundred years ago. Explain to the playersthat their characters know each other and are travelingthrough a dangerous wilderness toward the small town ofWinterhaven.Use one of the hooks below to set up the backstory forthe adventurers, or create your own. You don’t need a lotof details; you just need enough to explain why the PCsare together and why they are traveling on this once-proudroad that fell long ago into disrepair.If you use one or more of these hooks, the PCs mightalso gain experience points for completing a quest. Whenthe party finishes a quest, divide the XP award among allthe characters who participated in the quest.Hook: Missing MentorThe player characters seek news of their old friend andmentor, Douven Staul. The man who trained them for alife of adventure bade his friends farewell three monthsago and headed for Winterhaven. Douven, a rabid explorerof old ruins, had found a map that revealed the locationof a dragon’s tomb not far from the village. He figured if adragon was buried there, why not also its hoard?The explorer should have returned some time ago, andhis continuing absence bodes ill. The adventurers fear theworst and are determined to find out what happened totheir mentor.Alternative: Douven’s wife asks the PCs to locate hermissing husband.Quest XP: 1,250 XP for discovering Douven’s fate.Hook: Ruins of EmpireWinterhaven grew up in the shadow of an old keep. Likeother similar structures across the land, the keep fell intodisrepair when the empire of Nerath crumbled a hundredyears earlier. Winterhaven survives to this day, a modestpoint of light in a world that has grown darker and moredangerous.A scholar named Parle Cranewing hires the charactersto locate the old keep and map what remains ofit, promising to pay 250 gp for a complete rendering.The adventurers readily agree to explore the ruined fortressnear Winterhaven. These ruins might contain thetreasures and secrets of the vanished human empire.Determined to earn a reputation, as well as the scholar’sgold, the PCs head out in search of adventure.Quest XP: 1,750 XP and 250 gp for delivering a completemap to the scholar Parle Cranewing.Hook: Ominous SignsMarla of the Great Church, an earnest young priest of thegood deity Pelor, contacts the PCs before the start of theadventure. She has been studying the history and activityof various demon and death cults. According to Marla’sresearch, witnesses saw a small group of death cultiststraveling toward Winterhaven about a year ago. She hassince learned that the head of this group is a dangerousand twisted priest named Kalarel. Marla fears that Kalarelhas set up a secret cult in the area and is conductingunholy ceremonies. She asks the PCs to travel to Winterhaven,determine if there is any death cult activity in thearea, and, if so, to stamp it out.Alternative: The PC cleric has gotten wind of thisunsettling possibility.Quest XP: 2,000 XP for destroying the cult, as wellas 250 gp for bringing back proof that the cult has beendestroyed and its plan disrupted.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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