I have played the game from first level with my players. I did the following additions to their background:
- The paladin PC took the noble feat and i placed him into the Vanderboren family as the younger (not adopted) brother of Todd, who always harasses him and makes fun of him since the start of the campaign.
- The paladin is a paladin of Kelemvor (who i used instead of Wee Jas due to the Forgotten Realms setting). He is also confornted with Ike and Calmus all the time, though I had Calmus change slowly and turn to evil (and change to the old death faith of Myrkul as the others in the temple). He is in a doubt and is worried about this fellow clergymen, but he is also loyal to Embril (who hides her true evil alignment) who he has almost never seen so far due to her reculsiveness.
- The paladin also admires and looks up on Alek Tercival who he sees as role model. This will make him get more involved later in the Demonscar story.
- There is a fighter/psion in our team, who is the son of Mikimax the innkeeper from Redgore. He knows that his father is in friendship with Maavu and the other craftsman. This was he is personally draw into the story with the Demonscar.
- There is an aasimar sorcerer who we made to be an orphan, living in the Lantern street orphanage. This drew tham all into investigating the dissapearances in the city in Life's Bazaar.
- The other sorcerer is a jungle delver, hill billy who lived in an evil voodoo style tribe around the haunted village, has the necropolis born feat and is a creepy witchmaster kind of sorcerer. He just realised during the last session that he served Myrkul in his tribe, protecting the haunted vilage from visitors. He turned to Kelemvor (via the paladin) and even took the Arcane Devotee prestige class.
I also introduced them to Valanthru who met them at the Flood fest drinking contest,which he wins each year. (This made my PCs really suspicous about his true nature...)
I also had an easy way of confronting them with the Stormblades thru Todd and his relation with his brother.
Beased on an idea in some of the posts I introduced Kaurophon earlier, helping the temple of Tyr (St Cuthbert) revocering the wands, by telling about the hideout of Triel. He is acting as a demon who wants to purify and make Occipitus a holy realm again, removed from the Abyss.