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Since I'm so stingy as a DM that I give my players zero experience points, I also need to know at what points in the adventure to level the characters.

In this first adventure, I leveled them after the second part.
I plan on leveling them to 3rd after the fourth part and then after the seventh part to 4th.

Does that sound about right for six characters? Or do I need to figure it out by the ELs?
I was hoping to avoid that.

More SRD info to use:

City Buildings
Cave-Ins And Collapses

Something else to have is a crowd watching. A persuasive PC can direct the crowd to help by forming a bucket brigade, for example.

The Dungeon Master's Guide II details Burning Building as an Archetypal Location on pg. 48.

There has been a couple of firefighting scenarios in the Shackled City adventure path.

Chapter 5: The Demonskar Legacy has a burning inn in Event 18: A Fire In The Night.
Chapter 9: Foundation of Flame has a burning building in Event 37: A City Aflame.

I also remember in the movie Donnie Darko where Donnie burns down the house of a motivational speaker he ridiculed at a school assembly, thereby exposing the speaker's secret "kiddie porn dungeon". What kind of secrets can be revealed by the burning of a building in your game?

Also, how is the halfling cohort viewed by other halflings?

Do they see him as 'hope for the future', 'our man on the inside', or as a traitor to his roots?

There could be a few choice names bandied about by his own folk, reminiscent of 'brown-noser', 'boot-licker', 'bvtt-boy', '<PC name>'s b1tch', or not-so-obvious ones, which would require cultural familiarity to detect, like Benedict Arnold, Quisling or Uncle Tom, etc (apologies if that term is out of bounds in modern USA - Oblivious Limey).

I was thinking that the halfling would be considered a "lucky dog". Which would include the good and bad connotations.

I love that bit about calling halflings slips. Can I steal it for the Gazetteer?

--Erik

Oh god yes!

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