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<blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 10991" data-attributes="member: 83">Hand of Evil Hits Home Run!HoE has a great idea...Let your players provide you with some good background stuff.&nbsp; I also agree with several other posters that metion &quot;People&quot; as the key element to a city adventure - interesting characters can make a city truly come alive!Along those lines:(1) Politicians: Who holds the political power in the city?&nbsp; How happy are they going to be that their fair city is overrun with foriegn agents?&nbsp; How unhappy are they going to be with the PCs for bringing the foriegn agents to town?&nbsp; Is their benefactor politically important or motivated by political considerations?&nbsp; Perhaps he wants the city to go to war with the Empire and used the party to retrieve the proof he needed about the Empire's collusion with the elves in the slave trade - OR - perhaps he is will use the proof to blackmain the Empire and extort money from them.(2) Entertainers: Who are the &quot;rock stars&quot; of the city?&nbsp; Which bards or playwrights or jugglers are the hot item right now?&nbsp; Perhaps one is related to a PC and adoring fans try to use the PC to gain access to the object of their worship.&nbsp; Perhaps one of them develops a crush on one of the PCs.(3) Family Involvement: Do the PCs have family in the city?&nbsp; If so, who are they?&nbsp; Perhaps a family member is in trouble with the law or owes back taxes.&nbsp; Maybe granny is behind on her rent and the evil landlord wants to throw her out...he is not very nice but he has the law on his side!&nbsp; Maybe the family home is in a prime location and a local merchants group wants to build a new bazaar on the site...the family refuses to sell, so the merchant's start using strong arm tactics.(4) Ordinary People: Who are the street sweeper, lamplighters and vermin control people?&nbsp; IMC, the streets of a certain town are lit by Continual Flame spells, yet, each night members of the Lamplighters and Street Sweepers Guild Local 179 travel through the city and take leather covers off of the lamps, allowing the illumination to shine forth.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because the guild got a long-term contract (300 years) to provide lamplighting services and enforced the terms of the contract even after the city switched to magic lighting!Look for little details - sounds, smells, specialty cuisine - that makes the city experience come alive!Good luck,Old One</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old One, post: 10991, member: 83"] [b]Hand of Evil Hits Home Run![/b] HoE has a great idea... Let your players provide you with some good background stuff. I also agree with several other posters that metion [b]"People"[/b] as the key element to a city adventure - interesting characters can make a city truly come alive! Along those lines: [b](1) Politicians:[/b] Who holds the political power in the city? How happy are they going to be that their fair city is overrun with foriegn agents? How [i]unhappy[/i] are they going to be with the PCs for bringing the foriegn agents to town? Is their benefactor politically important or motivated by political considerations? Perhaps he wants the city to go to war with the Empire and used the party to retrieve the proof he needed about the Empire's collusion with the elves in the slave trade - OR - perhaps he is will use the proof to blackmain the Empire and extort money from them. [b](2) Entertainers:[/b] Who are the "rock stars" of the city? Which bards or playwrights or jugglers are the hot item right now? Perhaps one is related to a PC and adoring fans try to use the PC to gain access to the object of their worship. Perhaps one of them develops a crush on one of the PCs. [b](3) Family Involvement:[/b] Do the PCs have family in the city? If so, who are they? Perhaps a family member is in trouble with the law or owes back taxes. Maybe granny is behind on her rent and the evil landlord wants to throw her out...he is not very nice but he has the law on his side! Maybe the family home is in a prime location and a local merchants group wants to build a new bazaar on the site...the family refuses to sell, so the merchant's start using strong arm tactics. [b](4) Ordinary People:[/b] Who are the street sweeper, lamplighters and vermin control people? IMC, the streets of a certain town are lit by [i]Continual Flame[/i] spells, yet, each night members of the Lamplighters and Street Sweepers Guild Local 179 travel through the city and take leather covers off of the lamps, allowing the illumination to shine forth. Why? Because the guild got a long-term contract (300 years) to provide lamplighting services and enforced the terms of the contract even after the city switched to magic lighting! Look for little details - sounds, smells, specialty cuisine - that makes the city experience come alive! Good luck, Old One [/QUOTE]

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