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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anest1s" data-source="post: 5298771" data-attributes="member: 94230">OOk some observations...Just tell them, they either heard it or not...its not like they have many chatting chances...You can have the other group attack them first, even if a PC is a hero, NPCs aren't.Why would they need them, if they are stuck with the caravan? The players will try to loot weapons, not food.No one is gonna collect food while they are in danger of becoming food for wasps... No one is going to stop running to help someone who is getting caught-the players wouldn't do that for a NPC and shouldn't do that for a PC either. I would let him behind, to slow the wasps from reaching.I bet they cook it and eat it before they think how it died <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />So other survivors reached the same oasis before the PCs? Thats a bit unrealistic... You assume too much <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Expect them to sell the map later to slavers- especially if they do the PCs those challenge things <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Or the players will try to steal food and run <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />I would advice you, using that adventure before the players roll for characters. That way you don't care much if they die, or bother making other chars. You can have these "commoners" the players will use in the intro, to meet the actual heroes as they leave the dessert. The players then will be asked to make their character sheets, and the commoners will become NPCs. And here you go, you can run the adventure backwards, as the heroes hunt down the slavers, or the elfs or the wasps.! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />Also you can tell the players something "You can roll your character later, lets just play" and let them assume they are playing with their actual character if you want to make it have some suspense...</blockquote>

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