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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7112636" data-attributes="member: 29398">My current campaign started with two characters who already knew each other: a Cavalier and his Bard sidekick (together known as the Bardalier).  They rode upcountry through a series of small towns and villages, and in each one the Bard made great noise about how many things they were gonna kill in the mountains and how rich they were gonna get; then asked if anyone was interested in joining in.  By the time they got to the mountains they'd scooped up a whole party this way, and straight into Keep on the Borderlands they went. <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=":)" />My previous campaign started out with a famous adventuring company, not heard from in some time, suddenly resurfacing and putting out a very public call for recruits.  A mass recruitment meeting takes place (with all the new PCs finding their own reasons to be there), the recruits are divided up into proto-parties (naturally, all the PCs are put in the same one), each party is given what sounds like a practice mission (the PCs were sent to an old dungeon site, supposedly cleared out, with instructions to return with a complete map of it in order to prove their competence), and sent out into the field.  In reality the whole thing's a hoax and the proto-parties have essentially been sent on suicide missions (the PC party actually did quite well, all things considered) and the storyline then develops into learning about the fates of some of the other groups and eventually cottoning on to the hoax etc. etc.  I got about 4 years of gaming out of that storyline alone; and the campaign overall went for 12.The one before that?  Yeah, they met in a tavern... <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=":)" />Lan-"the Bard of the Bardalier, who in fact secretly wanted to kill the Cavalier, was the only original party member to survive the Caves of Chaos"-efan</blockquote>

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