First of all want to thank this board for a whole bunch of great ideas. I'm running HoH (just had our first session) after a long time away from GM-ing and this has been an awesome resource. I did want to see if anyone had ideas/recommendations for a few thoughts I had that aren't exactly covered here:
As background, things I've adopted (stolen) or plan to:
- Adivion present at the funeral (my PCs were immediately wildly suspicious of him)
- Local ordinance prohibiting anyone from going to Harrowstone to encourage exploring the town (if they break it they'll get tossed in jail for a night, create some tension with the Sheriff)
- Letters from "A" (ideally I want them to suspect Adivion for the first two books, but slowly learn about Vrood; then end of TotB Adivion fakes his own death and they spend book 3 chasing Auren Vrood before a big Adivion reveal once Vrood is killed)
Two things I'm working on related to the above:
1. I want them to slowly learn about Vrood and ideally learn his first name starts with "A" at or near the end of TotB. I was trying to think of a way to have Vrood be involved in the story (similar to how I plan to have Adivion be hosting them/around in Lepistadt) but he doesn't seem an easy/plausible character to have playing say, some guy trying to date Kendra. Just drop clues about his name probably?
2. I like the idea that Professor Lorrimor's ghost has become a rapping spirit in his old study in the house. Can't leave until Kendra is safe. I might have him continue to follow the party in various forms to other books (makes sense for Lepistadt at least), and ideally the PCs could use the Planchette to learn about Vrood and eventually get his name. My one concern is if the Professor would naturally have too much information to give the PCs access to?
