Weirdlet
2009-07-08, 02:27 PM
Hey, all- looking for a bit of advice again. I've been commandeered into DMing again, and this time it looks like a short campaign instead of a oneshot. I'm going to have a party of three, with two definite magic-users (a binder and a modified spellthief, and the other yet undetermined), at 8th level.
I've got them in a New Orleans/Venice-like city in the middle of a swamp- copious use of mud-to-rock makes islands for buildings to settle on, lots of little bridges and canals. My basic premise is that the Deputy Mayor has sent out a call on the more discreet channels for hardy souls looking to retrieve something that was misplaced. That something was the beloved Mayor for 300 years running, a (friendly) mummy who had been shipped off for repairs and whose coffin was stolen on the way back with him inside.
Rather, the entire boat it was on was stolen away by vampire river-pirates, leaving the rest of the caravan to make its way to port. Possibly they're looking for a ransom, or their vampire-bardess-trapped-deep-in-the-swamp-by-running-water wants vengeance on him for something- either way, the Deputy Mayor wants the Mayor back before festival time, which is one of his rare public appearances.
The thing is, I'm trying to figure out how to fill this in and get some kind of pacing (which I am notoriously bad at). What do I throw at my players either on the way to the pirates, or after them?
I've got them in a New Orleans/Venice-like city in the middle of a swamp- copious use of mud-to-rock makes islands for buildings to settle on, lots of little bridges and canals. My basic premise is that the Deputy Mayor has sent out a call on the more discreet channels for hardy souls looking to retrieve something that was misplaced. That something was the beloved Mayor for 300 years running, a (friendly) mummy who had been shipped off for repairs and whose coffin was stolen on the way back with him inside.
Rather, the entire boat it was on was stolen away by vampire river-pirates, leaving the rest of the caravan to make its way to port. Possibly they're looking for a ransom, or their vampire-bardess-trapped-deep-in-the-swamp-by-running-water wants vengeance on him for something- either way, the Deputy Mayor wants the Mayor back before festival time, which is one of his rare public appearances.
The thing is, I'm trying to figure out how to fill this in and get some kind of pacing (which I am notoriously bad at). What do I throw at my players either on the way to the pirates, or after them?