Jan/Feb '23 Lite Challenge: Mistruun's Gondola > (Non- Entry)

[XCali]

You have a few options here....

1) If the characters were already planning on a life of adventure, they would likely have their own equipment though some of the more fragile equipment (glass vials, clay jars and the like) might not have survived the fall.

2) It's probably unlikely that the gondola would have its own equipment. The reasoning would be what prevents people from stealing it.

3) You could go with the approach that the characters will have to manufacture crude equipment from the wreckage of the gondola. This, however, might not be the best option for beginning characters. In this case, what the characters could manufacture would be dependent on their skills (i.e. weaponsmith, bowyer/Fletcher, and so on), and what materials are available from the wreckage.

By the same token, highly venomous critters might not be the best opponents for beginning characters. A few goblins or skeletons would probably be okay alo g with a few natural critters (the wolves for instance) but the key is not making the encounters to deadly to handle.

Hope that helps some.

It does. (Just on your 2nd point. The gondola has a strong room. But after the crash, well, desperate situation calls for desperate measures.)

But I have a more complex question to ask. Let's say you want to go with less common starter monsters, that might be a bit more dangerous. How would you then set up the area? There would be other Npcs that are on the gondola before the fall. Would you then set up a scene where someone takes charge and let the group alongside the players know they are in real danger now. I imagine that with a group, they can receive quests: Like to put up a barricade to get things ready for the fight that is coming. Or other things. They do have most of the day to get ready until night fall, when the monsters would come.

I'm imagining this as quite a bit removed from your average start to a campaign, yet still a start.

So, my question is, still taking into account at least some of the monsters I mentioned; is there then a way to set this up as a more difficult starting area, but with the added NPCs and stuff looted from the gondola, to make it not as insurmountable?