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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7237441" data-attributes="member: 996">That could be a strike against your campaign, right there. 5e is DM-Empowering and a lot of fun to run, but it does require some effort, prep time or being really on-the-ball as you improv at the table.  The times I've tried to run even a simple 5e module 'cold' & off my game have been minor disasters.  That could be your second strike. Intuitive as that sounds, IMHO/X, 5e's first level or few are really more there nods to old-school - counting arrows and creeping about dungeons and coping with 'real danger' and "don't even name your character until 5th" - than as a training ground for new players.  Starting at 3rd works better for that, IMHO.  That or the AL policy of coming back from the dead and re-working your character every session until 4th level. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Maybe, but I think the above factors may have set you up for a hard time, as it was.  Don't be too hard on yourself... Sounds like they have animosity with giants, some past attacks, and this Harshang fellow - and an appointment for some exposition. I suppose you could use the Oracle to give them more information and reveal connections or destinies or something of the sort - depending on how far you want to go in 'forcing' things.How are your players handling it?  Generally fun? ho-hum? looking frustrated?</blockquote>

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