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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NMatuzic" data-source="post: 5317291" data-attributes="member: 91666">In part 1, the players would be taking an active role in helping the populace- with local militia and knights called away, the people are turning to whoever they can to help them.I have the first adventure pretty much set up- they investigate the kidnapping of a town's children, tracking them to a lair and a simple dungeon crawl.The final battle will be a scene of the Chief of this clan trying to escape with a wagonload of captured children, while his forces try to hold the PCs off. The chief's final words will be a hook, along the (admittedly cliched) lines of "You can't stop him, this is just the beginning..."Upon returning the children they discover that not all the children are from the starting town, and thus have two options from that point- escort the excess children home, or investigate the reason the local knight has not protected his vassals, and why the local fighting forces have been withdrawn.News of their help will spread in a local sense, and so they will be taking the role of an unofficial militia or protectors, if you will.I'm mostly confident of this starting point for a few reasons-1) I've run a very similar adventure as a one off and the players really enoyed it (though it was around 10 years ago!)2) As the players are playing "good" characters, they can't really say no to helping poor, defenseless children, can they? =PI've left things somewhat open after that, and will form more concrete ideas where to go with the inclusion of character driven plotlines and also based on their decisions in the first few sessions.I'm planning on sessions playing out much like a tv serial- some weeks the adventure will be related to the main plot, and other weeks will be stand alone episodes that occur as part of their travels. Add in character specific things from time to time, and I think it should work out.I just want to make sure that my rough, overall plot should be able to work. That, and I love it when things from the very beginning of a long story arc, that seem inconspicuous, turn out to be related in ways you could never imagine...</blockquote>

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