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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9647468" data-attributes="member: 19675">Take advantage of the nature of cities.  The bigger they are, the more chances favor some weird stuff going down.Years ago I decided to buck stereotypical kickoffs by starting a campaign with an escalating action sequence which served as an intro to the setting and for the PCs to meet.The sequence started with the (not quite yet the) party’s rogue trying to steal something from the home of a wealthy merchant.  Unfortunately, he was discovered, and was dropped into the city sewers via a trapdoor in front of the safe he was trying to find.After recovering his wits in the sewer, the rogue stumbled upon a pair of kidnappers transitioning a person sewed into a canvas bag from a side tunnel into a small boat for transport.  Spotted and targeted as a potential bonus victim, the rogue started to fight off the kidnappers, and managed to slice open the bag, freeing the kidnapping victim and evening the odds.The two weary protagonists still had to find their way out of the sewers.Skipping a bit for brevity- every few minutes, there was some kind of encounter in which “the party” began to take form, 1-2 PCs at a time.The final set piece had them all in a tavern getting a late night meal to recover from the evening’s insanity.  But the Watch had been called to arrest a criminal known to be a tavern regular, so a brawl broke out.  In the scuffle, the criminal knocked over a lantern and the tavern went up in flames.“The party” got out alive and happened to catch the firestarter, whom they turned in for the (now bigger) reward.As the Sun started to rise, someone said, “we make a pretty good team.”*****For inspiration, I’ll also point out movies like The Warriors and Judgement Night*, and stories told in songs like:[MEDIA=youtube]HKtsdZs9LJo[/MEDIA]and[MEDIA=youtube]nOrYTBaT1z0[/MEDIA]* I actually went through something like that movie’s plot my freshman year in college.</blockquote>

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