I plan to use this adventure in a few weeks, although I will relocate it to Aghrapur, where the characters will waste the money they have earned by kidnapping a Brythunian noble girl for a Hyrkanian prince.
Yesterday I scanned through the book and found some inconsistencies / problems. I'd like to hear how you have solved them.
1. In the brothel the PCs were betrayed by a whore who is in league with Nehira and were ambushed by a gang who has also an alliance with Nehira. Then they flee blindly into the night.
In the tavern they enter by random in the craftsmen district there are two parties who have also dealings with Nehira: Kindrat and the Hyperboreans - and both parties are independent from each other.
Is this pure coincidence that there meet three parties (PCs, Kindrat, Hyperboreans) which are unrelated to each other, but individually connected to Nehira? Since Shadizar is a big city, I know that my players won't believe this and will look for a big conspiracy.
2. When the PCs escape the tunnels into the Guild Hall there are coincidentally (?) again two guys connected with Nehira (Jakiv and Mykhailo). Why should they talk to the PCs about the ceremony that is to begin at Bel's temple? On the other hand: why should the PCs interrogate them (they are fleeing the whole Shadizar city watch at the moment and surely have not the time to talk with some clerks)? I'm not very happy with the solution on p.23: a guy rushing in and begging for immediate help ("Ah, heroes, you come in handy: there is a girl to be sacrified. Coincidentally this girl is also connected with this Nehira, all people you meet are connected with.").
My players will wonder why everone they meet in Shadizar this night is connected with the big evil girl of the story and why they are all so free to tell them about their connections.
I know I don't have to tell my players the details of the plot (with the exception of the parts their PCs discover), but even as GM I'm somewhat at a loss because I do not see the necessity why point B follows out of point A in this adventure - it all looks so totally randomly.
Have I overseen some crucial point? How do you explain these coincidencies?
Yesterday I scanned through the book and found some inconsistencies / problems. I'd like to hear how you have solved them.
1. In the brothel the PCs were betrayed by a whore who is in league with Nehira and were ambushed by a gang who has also an alliance with Nehira. Then they flee blindly into the night.
In the tavern they enter by random in the craftsmen district there are two parties who have also dealings with Nehira: Kindrat and the Hyperboreans - and both parties are independent from each other.
Is this pure coincidence that there meet three parties (PCs, Kindrat, Hyperboreans) which are unrelated to each other, but individually connected to Nehira? Since Shadizar is a big city, I know that my players won't believe this and will look for a big conspiracy.
2. When the PCs escape the tunnels into the Guild Hall there are coincidentally (?) again two guys connected with Nehira (Jakiv and Mykhailo). Why should they talk to the PCs about the ceremony that is to begin at Bel's temple? On the other hand: why should the PCs interrogate them (they are fleeing the whole Shadizar city watch at the moment and surely have not the time to talk with some clerks)? I'm not very happy with the solution on p.23: a guy rushing in and begging for immediate help ("Ah, heroes, you come in handy: there is a girl to be sacrified. Coincidentally this girl is also connected with this Nehira, all people you meet are connected with.").
My players will wonder why everone they meet in Shadizar this night is connected with the big evil girl of the story and why they are all so free to tell them about their connections.
I know I don't have to tell my players the details of the plot (with the exception of the parts their PCs discover), but even as GM I'm somewhat at a loss because I do not see the necessity why point B follows out of point A in this adventure - it all looks so totally randomly.
Have I overseen some crucial point? How do you explain these coincidencies?