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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6073770" data-attributes="member: 42582">Up to the second-last paragraph I would have said: whatever approach the players decide to have their PCs take, let it work!, because otherwise your scenario is going to stall.But it's too late for that now. So it seems to me that you need to give the PCs another reason to check out the house, which the players will pick up and act on.One pretty blatant way to proceed would be this: when the PCs leave the tavern and are walking down the street next to the house, the street surface gives way and one of the PCs falls through into a dusty underground chamber (give them a Reflex save, or Acro check, or whatever is appropriate, to avoid damage). It is obviously a secret room attached to the cellar of the house (you describe it in such a way that this is obvious from the PC's side of the room - maybe they can see where there is only a single course of bricks, backed by a timber frame, in an otherwise double-brick cellar wall - the secret door on the cellar side which is not secret at all on this side). And in the dusty secret room are X, Y and Z  - whatever items will stimulate the PCs' (and your players') interests in the mystery of the house.If that doesn't instigate a more extensive search for secret doors in the house - with or without cooperation from its residents - then I'm not sure what would! And you'll certainly know for sure that they players really don't care about your house and its secret doors!More subtle approaches involve someone offering to pay them to sneak in, them overhearing two thugs in the tavern talking about the house and its treasures, etc. But I actually prefer the blatant approach because (i) it makes the potential significance of the house's secret so obvious, and (ii) gives the players a really simple opportunity to signal that they're not interested in the house - they have their PCs climb out of the dusty room and proceed on their way - so you are in no danger of inadvertantly railroading them.</blockquote>

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