My group and I recently switched back to 3.P and after reading about the Kingmaker AP I am itching to run it. The problem being, now I have a pack of ravenous PC's that want to start playing this month. Anyone have suggestions on what I could do to sate their thirst for adventure while I "patiently" await the print of Kingmaker?
Primarily I have three concerns
1. Appropriate starting location
2. Not throwing a curve ball to get them into the Kingmaker storyline.
3. Not giving them too much xp/loot before the AP ships while still giving them something.
I had an idea of just having them deal with some bandits/monsters from the "low level adversaries" thread in a hodge podge of encounters around their village/city leading into their involvement of the main storyline.
Thoughts?