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<blockquote data-quote="gunter uxbridge" data-source="post: 749209" data-attributes="member: 7526">Best campaign start I ever did was quite fun.&nbsp; The PCs got caught up in the seige of a small fortress/village in the middle of nowhere.&nbsp; Some were just passing through when the BBEGs army swooped in, some were from the village, etc.&nbsp; They all took refuge along with the rest of the civilian population before the army surrounded the keep and were conscriped into its defence.&nbsp; Flash forward to four months later, and the PCs have been serving in the same unit that has been whittled down from 12 men to four or five.&nbsp; The food has run out, disease is rampant and the fall of the keep is inevitable.&nbsp; What the PCs do here is up to them.&nbsp; Stay and fight, run for the hills, try to bring back reinforcements, its all good.&nbsp; One of the best plot hooks I ever did.The PCs in my case chose to go back to the nearest large city (Daggerdale, a FR game) and get reinforcements.&nbsp; The city refused, but gave them some goods to try to run the blockade.&nbsp; By the time they got back the keep was in ruines, the BBEG army gone and everyone was dead.&nbsp; Perfect time to introduce plot line number 2, the Mysterious Figure Searching Through the Rubble for Clues to a Powerful Artifact.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gunter uxbridge, post: 749209, member: 7526"] Best campaign start I ever did was quite fun. The PCs got caught up in the seige of a small fortress/village in the middle of nowhere. Some were just passing through when the BBEGs army swooped in, some were from the village, etc. They all took refuge along with the rest of the civilian population before the army surrounded the keep and were conscriped into its defence. Flash forward to four months later, and the PCs have been serving in the same unit that has been whittled down from 12 men to four or five. The food has run out, disease is rampant and the fall of the keep is inevitable. What the PCs do here is up to them. Stay and fight, run for the hills, try to bring back reinforcements, its all good. One of the best plot hooks I ever did. The PCs in my case chose to go back to the nearest large city (Daggerdale, a FR game) and get reinforcements. The city refused, but gave them some goods to try to run the blockade. By the time they got back the keep was in ruines, the BBEG army gone and everyone was dead. Perfect time to introduce plot line number 2, the Mysterious Figure Searching Through the Rubble for Clues to a Powerful Artifact. :) [/QUOTE]

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