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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8345244" data-attributes="member: 42582">I feel I've addressed this pretty extensively. Have the players author goals or beliefs for their PCs. (Using the language of 4e D&D, these would be player-authored quests.) Then start with some situation or call to action that engages some or all of that.Or use Kickers. That gives you player-authored in media res. If you want to help inspire your players, give them the opening page or so of Queen of the Black Coast (Conan jumping onto the deck of the ship) or the bit near the start of People of the Black Circle where Conan breaks into the Devi's room, to show what S&S Kickers might look like.Or, if you're absolutely committed to GM-driven play, then take a leaf out of Tower of the Elephant and have the opening situation be in a tavern where the PCs hear rumours of a jewel-encrusted tower. Or start the action in a bazaar where the PCs witness a scuffle and a kidnapping and the innocent-looking NPC gets taken one way while the valuable idol s/he seemed to be about to hock gets taken the other way.</blockquote>