Hello all,
(If you are Kevin, William, Duy or Junghoo, please do not read further below)
Quite new to the forums, so I'll introduce myself as an inexperienced GM playing Pathfinder for the first time. Previous experience was D&D 3.5 about 10 years ago I believe, so the rules are fuzzy and it is basically a new game.
Anyways, we are doing some downtime (for approximately 2 weeks in game time) at the start of book 2's Skinsaw Murderers, and I'm planning on giving my PCs some individual adventures within Sandpoint to introduce them to it better than I did in the first book (Read: None).
The PCs are as follows:
Barbarian Lvl 5 (Not very role-play orientated)
Paladin Lvl 5 (Slightly more role-play orientated)
Ninja Lvl 5 (Can be role play orientated)
Wizard Lvl 5 (Likes role playing)
At the moment, for the Ninja (Zabuza), he was taken aside by Sheriff Hemlock to get some info on Jubrayl to hopefully send him into jail for good. What follows is the Ninja failing a disguise check (Walking in the streets, and Shayliss recognizes him and draws a crowd as a hero of Sandpoint), and later retreats to going up the front door and ordering an ale at his own table in the Fatman's Feedbag. Two scarnetti thugs walk up to him, and what ensues is a 6v1 brawl (5 thugs using the Sandpoint warrior stats and Jubrayl), ending in the capture of the Ninja. He wakes up, has a modified Explosive rune planted on a collar around his neck, and is being used as a tool to gain information on the noble families, Hemlock and his own party. Jubrayl can also hear from the collar and can explode it remotely from wherever he wants (barring being sent to another plane). Jubrayl has told the ninja to also redirect suspicion away from him towards Titus Scarnetti (who probably hired the Sczarni to burn down the mills).
I was hoping for some help to expand on this!
As for the other characters, the Barbarian player is not very role-play orientated. So I was thinking of him being brought in by Hemlock to train and show off to the militia, and even enter a local martial tournament so he can keep the action orientated. This could allow him to meet some combatitive NPCs like Gaven, Daviren, and Sabyl or even some unlikely NPCs like Larz or Gorvi. They of course could be statted up or down, and can give the PCs a feel for how strong they are for the upcoming Giant Raid (which will probably be months down the line).
The Wizard player is probably the most enthusiastic for role play. He plans on switching his familiar for a bonded item, scribing scrolls and possibly crafting magic items, so he could probably get around to introducing himself to some PCs as he shops for materials. I'm just wondering how I might be able to go further to develop some sort of memorable relationships with those characters like Brodert, Savah, and etc. Oh, and probably getting Shalelu and him together, since he was the only one who kept complimenting her for saving the party's ass in Thistletop.
Finally, the Paladin player is a bit odd. He acts according to the Paladin law, but role plays some inappropriate stuff which we have deemed as his "rogue-ish childhood" jumping out at times. Perhaps some fun morale dilemma with The Pixie's Kittens? He could maybe get in good with some of the previous Paladins as well.
Do you all have some ideas? MAybe someways to work it in later in the story. It would probably make it great when the murders start hitting the town... (MUA HAHAHAHAHA).
