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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dracollich" data-source="post: 4252008" data-attributes="member: 61221">Alternative Story line for first KotS EncountersThe stumbling upon a helpless victim is a classic.  Used it for my first pre-4E demo game I ran.  I started to DM a campaign of KotS after playing in a 1-shot FLGS demo of the adventure.  2 players of the that day joined my group so I decided to change things up a bit.  [Spoiler Alert] - I used the same hook that was used during the demo, ie. The meeting the mentor.  The only change to the first encounter was the addition of a ruined wagon (provided cover) that was in my Dungeon Tile collection.  When the pcs get to town, they learned that the mentor never made it.  It was left up in the air if a) he was captured by the Kobolds or b) he went to the dragon grave with out stopping at the town. They acquired directions to both locations.  I sprang the kobold ambush on them (they rested the night so it I felt it worked well) on their way out of town while the group was still deciding where to go.  After the encounter, they found on the dead kobold magic user the mentor's locket.  They decided to head to the kobold lair first after this.  Were we left off was half way through the inner part of the kobold lair.  They'll find a note indicating that the mentor was captured by the kobolds and handed over to the gnome to help at the dig site.  In a classic cinematic moment, when they arrive at the dig site, the gnome will have just found the mirror, and the mentor will be disposed of at the begining of (or just prior to) the encounter.</blockquote>

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