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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madriel" data-source="post: 322705" data-attributes="member: 439">Start things off with a bang.  Literally.Play in real time.  If they have one hour before the bomb goes off/basement floods/candles burn out, set a timer.  When it goes off, they'd better be done.  It makes for a really intense experience. Seeing the minutes tick away can get the adrenaline going.Make the pre-gens first level.  Make them use their wits and skills rather than fancy spellslinging.Don't use random traps, you want to keep people moving.  If you use any traps, just put it on the drawer the key's kept in, for example.  Give them a chance to spoil ambushes (a creaking floorboard or a window is open that used to be closed).  Keep the combat light, so they don't get too beat up.  Throw patsies at them that used delaying tactics.To segue into a campaign, keep something back at the end.  Have the big bad villain behind it all turn out to be somebody's patsy.  Have the strange grimoire disappear.  Give them a final mystery and a clue to be followed up.  Tie it into the campaign characters backstories.  They inherit the mansion or their mom begs them to find out why their uncle disappeared after babbling about a book.That's the best my sleepy brain can come up with at the moment.  Good luck.</blockquote>