WoT - New DM

[The Pope]

So I'm going to be starting a d20 Wheel of Time campaign in 2 weeks. I'm thinking about starting them at around 3rd level.

I know the books, I've read them multiple times, so setting knowledge isn't the problem. I just need some adventure hooks. I'm pre-generating the characters, so I know what I'll have for them to choose from.

1-2 Male Wilders going for Asha'man
Maybe a Female Wilder
A Woodsman
An Armsman
A Wanderer(if there's only 1 wilder)

I figure that the male channelers will be Soldiers in the Black Tower, the woodsman, wanderer and armsman are probably members of the Legion of the Dragon who are stationed at the BT, and the female wilder will be a tag along.

Any advice? What I need is a good plothook to get them away from the BT without being hunted down immediately and killed.

 

[Caliber]

Personally I think you just hit the exact reason WoT doesn't make a good game setting directly on its head.

There are too many restrictions on most PCs (particularly any who want to be Channelers) to make a diverse adventuring group feasable. In the WoT novels, the only parties you ever really see are themed parties: a few Aes Sedai and their Warders, a troop of Soldiers, a band of Dragonsworn, etc, etc ...

The only real mix-and-match groups going about are the main characters, who are all, of course, Ta'Veren.

Now, all that aside, I can only suggest that the Soldiers be sent on some kind of mission, with the others somehow tagging along (friends, wives, and/or spies (female Channeler, I'm lookin at you))

The Black Tower in general seems to keep a really tight leash on its Soldiers though, so I dunno how long you can keep those Soldiers out. Maybe they could go AWOL ... but they'd be hunted men and any Asha Man who sees them should be gunning for him.

Good luck with the game and give us an update on how it goes.

 

[Desdichado]

I agree; it's very difficult to take a novel setting and play in it; especially a setting like this where the main characters in the novels are effecting most of the change in the setting.

If it were me, personally, I'd use the WoT rules in a homebrew setting, or set it in the far future or far past of the "Randland" setting, or whatever it's called. After all, isn't history supposed to repeat itself in that setting?