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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1798611" data-attributes="member: 945">I think your major hole is to assume that the PCs are going to be riding on this ferry holding the tickets in the air just waiting for the bloodhawks to fly by so they can snatch them.  I can see foresee that what will actually happen here is that the players will get their tickets and then will promptly place them into a belt pouch, or a pocket.  Your best bet is to just have the ferry be out of commision if your intent is for them to go around the lake.  Also, you'd need some kind of reason for this other party to want to hate the PCs.  It doesn't sound like to me they even know them.  If this is an introductory game, and the characters are just starting their adventuring career, there's no reason to believe that they would have done anything to make anyone mad at them. So, arbitrarily giving the PCs enemies sounds awful heavy handed to me.Your best bet is to just start them off in Oakhurst, and run the Sunless Citadel.  It sounds to me like you're just trying to overcomplicate everything, and screw the party for apparently no reason other than that you're just mean.   There are a plenty of more clever, subtle ways to screw PCs.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's a good chance that if the PCs go into Oakhurst and go into the Sunless Citadel, they may not even *care* about going to the Capital since they'll already be well on their way to being adventurers in their own right.</blockquote>

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