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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Three_Haligonians" data-source="post: 4033819" data-attributes="member: 19546">Hey folks,Here is the situation: The PCs enter a large town filled with nobles. One of these nobles, the very centre of the social scene and beloved by all, has passed away - leaving a sizeable estate and no heir. The town, to honour the late philanthropist, has decided to hold a benefit auction of all the deceased possessions, and has included a performance of their favourite opera at the concert hall.Part of the estate is a large selection of fantastic and elaborate clothing. One of the pieces in one of the articles is the McGuffin the PCs need.Ok, that's the backdrop. What I need to do is come up with a number of "encounters" and challenges the PCs can face to gain XP for the scenario over all. The party should be around level 10 and this should take them to level 11 - the DMG tells me this should be about 13 or 14 encounters.What kind of things can I create to fill those "encounter slots"? It's a pretty combat heavy game, so I want this adventure to be the "social heavy" aspect - especially to reward the players whose characters are more designed for that kind of thing. Technically, by RAW, a successful Diplomacy check against a Level 10 Aristocrat to get what they want is overcoming a EL 10 challenge, but I don't want to do nothing but that.. it is boring.So, what kind of social encounters have you created? or even used? What kind of things should I be on the look-out for? I know that I should have some combat (I don't want to ignore the fighter-types) but what other problems might arise?Oh, and they don't all have to be EL 10 obviously, a few smaller ones that "add up" are perfectly acceptable.ThanksJ from Three Haligonians</blockquote>

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