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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5283658" data-attributes="member: 463">There's also the old "floating hook" trick.  <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=":)" />Example from my City State game - a PC, Deod the Skandik, hit on an attractive female aristocrat, Thaya, at the Bywater Baths, she invited him to call round to her place.  I had an adventure hook ready, she'd ask him to rescue her sister's son from the goblin ruins.  Perhaps because Deod suspected (correctly) that Thaya was married, he didn't take up the offer to call on her.Meanwhile another PC, Taliesin, was wandering randomly around town, checking things out.  After awhile he gets talking to a halfling baker, Tinker, who's closing up shop.  And... It just so turns out Tinker's sister's boys are missing in the goblin ruins.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Note that this wasn't railroaded - having dropped the hook, the PCs remain free to accept or reject it.  Once they reject it, fine, it's used, it turns out Thaya doesn't have a sister, Tinker's nephews get eaten by the goblins - the hook won't keep following the PCs around demanding attention like in a bad CRPG.   I might offer a different hook to the goblin ruins later on (in fact I did later on have a different hook for a different PC, the goblins had kidnapped a teacher from the School of Ancient Knowledge), but probably not at least for several sessions with these PCs.</blockquote>

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