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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blargney the second" data-source="post: 1571877" data-attributes="member: 14678">Interesting!  I just googled it - I'll make a trip to the game store to peruse its pages at the very least. <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=":)" />I had three major undeveloped points that I needed to wing:1) In the first encounter, there was a sorceress that took a bag from the thief's body.  I had no idea who she was, why she wanted the bag, or what was in it.  I managed to evade answering the PCs questions by making her have an extremely forceful personality.  (A recurring villain who escaped.. woohoo!)2) The tribesman's reason for wanting to enter the city so badly that he was willing to resort to violence.  I managed to come up with an idea that was simple, motivating, and tied in 2 organizations and a character's name that I had not yet figured out how to introduce.3) In the second encounter, a mounted noble and his retinue galloped past the PCs, telling them to run away.  A naturally invisible wolf with DR 5/magic was chasing him, and he lead it straight into the PCs.  They could only see it because it was covered in the blood of one of the noble's guards, and the blood was steadily washing away because of the heavy rain.  When they got to the city gate a couple hours later, the noble was charging back out with 8 soldiers in tow.  The PCs stopped him to tell him the wolf was gone, then they asked him his name!  (Undeveloped once again...)  To my great happiness, I remembered that I had made a simple relationship diagram of all the NPCs named in my two sourcebooks.  I grabbed a cuckolded noble, and decided that his wife was disdainful of his cowardice.These three situations lead me to believe that I can wing things simply by keeping in mind what campaign material I have that is unused, and introducing it bit by bit.  So far I've introduced, directly or indirectly, 3 organizations from Arcana: Societies of Magic, and a bunch of material from my Thieves' Quarter by Green Ronin.-blarg</blockquote>

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