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#1 NorskDrake Aug 17, 2008 8:38:29	Hey there, I need a little help with one small little thing to do with my adventure. OK here's the deal, how do the characters find the dungeon? The basic set-up is that the party will go to the Kobold Caves and kick some mini biped dragon butt. The Kobolds have kidnapped some locals and a note alluding to their involvement has been found so the PC's know who they want to kill, but how do they find them? Ideas please!!!
#2 leowulf Aug 17, 2008 11:45:24	In addition to the always-present option of "whatever the players think of" it would be good to have multiple options open for them. Here are 3 examples: 1. The kobolds were good at covering their tracks, but someone trained in Nature could follow them with a skill challenge however hard you want it to be. If successful, the party could get there before Something Bad happens, otherwise, they might be Just Too Late and have to deal with the results. Maybe one of the hostages is killed or maybe the kobolds get their grand trap set. 2. The infirm old priest of the village knows 3 rituals - Commune with Nature, Cure Disease, and Raise Dead. She is a very devout follower of Some God and will only help if the party completes a religion or diplomacy based skill challenge. If they do, she'll be on hand to cure or raise a party member who suffers an unfortunate fate, otherwise, she'll only do the Commune with Nature, and will charge the party something for that. 3. The kobolds have multiple teams out, and the PC's get to fight one. During the fight, a vicious and sneaky kobold gets knocked unconscious. Will he lead the party to the dungeon, or into a trap? That's up to the DM to decide, perhaps depending on the result of - you guessed it - a skill challenge!
#3 methanegranola Aug 17, 2008 14:00:15	if anyone has ever found the kobold caves before, then there could be a map to the place available in town, thats the way its done in keep on the shadow fell, a guy sends the pcs to get some kobolds and just gives them a map and sends them on their way maybe, if they go into the forest to find it, then they can be attacked by a kobold group which runs away and accidentally leads them there
#4 Ore Aug 17, 2008 16:04:11	"I used the let the flock roam in the hills south of here but then kobolds started to poach so I moved my sheep farther north. If it's kobolds you are looking for, I would check those hills." - Sheep Herder encountered on the road
#5 foxen Aug 17, 2008 21:13:01	Kobold warning sign! Love the "whatever the players think of idea..." "So err, what are ya'll looking for to find the kobold cave?" Player responds... "Wow, how did you know that's exactly what I wrote on my notepad...damn!" Player smiles... Heh. We DMs are SO evil... Fox
#6 NorskDrake Aug 18, 2008 13:44:57	These are some grand ideas, thanks to the lot of you. No I just need to find a way of letting my players come up with a plan that leads to a sheep herder who made a map of where his sheep can't go because of injured kobolds crawling by; he will give the players the map after they complete a skill challenge! But really, thanks.