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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 7505191" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Incorporate some spatial thinking, TV-detective-style. Draw up a chart with all of the nouns - the characters, factions, locations.&nbsp; Each gets a box or a circle.&nbsp; Adjectives and inventories go in the boxes.&nbsp; Relationships and verbs are the lines you'll use to link the boxes.&nbsp; The way you turn it into a &quot;mystery&quot; is by hiding the different elements from the PCs.&nbsp; Just be sure that there's a good reason for it if an element is hidden for reasons other than &quot;PCs haven't asked yet.&quot;Two things I'd like to pick on, though: I'm not sure that the young, beautiful ones are the ones typically ostracized for witchcraft/misfortune.&nbsp; Unless 1) they have an...invisible...disease, 2) they've turned down the advances of a leader, or 3) they are actually practicing witchcraft.&nbsp; Also a war vet, with &quot;years on the front lines,&quot; is also unlikely to be a &quot;young&quot; person.&nbsp; And in a D&amp;D setting, if you survive years on the front lines, I would think you'd get promoted to a position that would made it a viable career choice . . . or have a debilitating injury that motivates one to get as far from military service as possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 7505191, member: 6685730"] Incorporate some spatial thinking, TV-detective-style. Draw up a chart with all of the nouns - the characters, factions, locations. Each gets a box or a circle. Adjectives and inventories go in the boxes. Relationships and verbs are the lines you'll use to link the boxes. The way you turn it into a "mystery" is by hiding the different elements from the PCs. Just be sure that there's a good reason for it if an element is hidden for reasons other than "PCs haven't asked yet." Two things I'd like to pick on, though: I'm not sure that the young, beautiful ones are the ones typically ostracized for witchcraft/misfortune. Unless 1) they have an...invisible...disease, 2) they've turned down the advances of a leader, or 3) they are [I]actually practicing witchcraft[/I]. Also a war vet, with "years on the front lines," is also unlikely to be a "young" person. And in a D&D setting, if you survive years on the front lines, I would think you'd get promoted to a position that would made it a viable career choice . . . or have a debilitating injury that motivates one to get as far from military service as possible. [/QUOTE]

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