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<blockquote data-quote="DumbPaladin" data-source="post: 5385340" data-attributes="member: 90770">I'm not familiar with Sand Point, but it sounds like you want to make the city that is their current base of operations a character within the overall narrative.&nbsp; This is usually a great idea.&nbsp; I'd recommend a couple different tacks:1) Get involved with the leadership or the power base in the city.&nbsp; Who's the mayor? Is there a ruling council instead? Have one or two of the adventurers be singled out by the leadership as being &quot;the leader&quot; of the group -- whether they are or not -- and have this somehow set this adventurer apart from the others, in the eyes of the leadership.&nbsp; Will the newly elevated adventurer resist this? Welcome the attention? How will the other adventurers respond? This can be played for comedy, or not ...2) A couple of the characters already have ties in town.&nbsp; How about putting two of them in conflict in a way that the adventurers can help smooth over with a Skill Challenge or two?&nbsp; The families of the shaman and the fighter are in contention for a particular animal / feed / item that will benefit their farms, but can't simply be shared or split in two.&nbsp; Or the ranger get approached by the wizard's father and asked to speak to his aunt and tell her that he's no longer interested in abiding by the ban she imposed upon him of selling X in the village.&nbsp; Something like that...3) Since the eladrin rogue has no particular ties, have a bunch of people suddenly try to make them one of theirs.&nbsp; Numerous villagers can come forward seeking different things: one asks him for a magical cure to a grandmother's ailment (which the rogue will have no way of curing); one wants to know his secret for the success of his family's farm (and since he doesn't have one, he can't help); one wants to learn how to break into peoples' houses and asks for lessons picking locks (up to him how to handle that); one wants to bed an eladrin because &quot;it sounds interesting and no one else in this backwater town has ever done it, and I want to be the first&quot; (again up to him) ... The people you send him that he CAN'T help, can eventually be taken to the people in the party that CAN help, giving him a way to work with another party member in solving this villager's particular problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DumbPaladin, post: 5385340, member: 90770"] I'm not familiar with Sand Point, but it sounds like you want to make the city that is their current base of operations a character within the overall narrative. This is usually a great idea. I'd recommend a couple different tacks: 1) Get involved with the leadership or the power base in the city. Who's the mayor? Is there a ruling council instead? Have one or two of the adventurers be singled out by the leadership as being "the leader" of the group -- whether they are or not -- and have this somehow set this adventurer apart from the others, in the eyes of the leadership. Will the newly elevated adventurer resist this? Welcome the attention? How will the other adventurers respond? This can be played for comedy, or not ... 2) A couple of the characters already have ties in town. How about putting two of them in conflict in a way that the adventurers can help smooth over with a Skill Challenge or two? The families of the shaman and the fighter are in contention for a particular animal / feed / item that will benefit their farms, but can't simply be shared or split in two. Or the ranger get approached by the wizard's father and asked to speak to his aunt and tell her that he's no longer interested in abiding by the ban she imposed upon him of selling X in the village. Something like that... 3) Since the eladrin rogue has no particular ties, have a bunch of people suddenly try to make them one of theirs. Numerous villagers can come forward seeking different things: one asks him for a magical cure to a grandmother's ailment (which the rogue will have no way of curing); one wants to know his secret for the success of his family's farm (and since he doesn't have one, he can't help); one wants to learn how to break into peoples' houses and asks for lessons picking locks (up to him how to handle that); one wants to bed an eladrin because "it sounds interesting and no one else in this backwater town has ever done it, and I want to be the first" (again up to him) ... The people you send him that he CAN'T help, can eventually be taken to the people in the party that CAN help, giving him a way to work with another party member in solving this villager's particular problem. [/QUOTE]

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