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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sans Serif" data-source="post: 6988960" data-attributes="member: 68777">Hi all,I've had a setting brewing in my head for quite some time, and now that its time to run it - I'm noticing gaps.  I haven't run a table in roughly a year, and I haven't done anything homemade in decades.I have ideas for all of the below points, but I realize many of y'all are better at this sort of thing.  Additionally, if there's already a published adventure I can steal similar ideas from (good writers borrow, great writers steal) - that's even better.  Maybe some of you would enjoy a puzzle to chew on.I have three things I'd like to accomplish for our first play session:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Introduce my players to the home city.  Have them get emotionally invested in the place.  I fear this will be the hardest part.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Have this place they're invested in be threatened by outward attack - the standard "repel the invaders thing"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Eventually, have the invasion be overwhelming - a new element is introduced that forces (hopefully) the players or some type of NPC city leader call for an evacuation of women / children / elderly.  Basically, an evacuation of Hoth.</li> </ol>Then we'll plant the seeds of things to come.  If I needed to run this tomorrow, I could.  I just feel its missing an element of oomph that I wanted to bring to a larger audience for discussion.My thanks for any input the community would like to provide.</blockquote>

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