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I added a few little things to happen in the first session that will subtely foreshadow the rest of the campaign. This is more to pat myself on the back for being so clever as I wholeheartedly expect my players not to notice or care.
Hecka spoilers abound.
During the swallowtail festival: There will be a "test your strength" game called Ogre Smash. The bell to ring will be encased in a papier mache ogre head. Win or lose, the PC will receive a comment like "Those ogres don't stand a chance!" Or "Sure hope you never have to go up against a real one!"
Instead of a set lunchtime there will be a food tent. A wizard will be putting temporary arcane marks on everyone who enters to ensure everyone only gets one plate apiece. Perceptive PCs will notice, before finding the food tent, that the majority of people in town are marked with a mysterious rune.
During local heroes: on the boarhunt with Aldern they will come across a dead boar in a dark section of the woods being devoured by an undead creature. Aldern will be horrified "Filthy undead!" The creature will give off a distinctive odor of rotting flesh and gravesoil.
Madame Mvashti will give a PC a free reading. As she gets into it she will fall into a trance and recite this poem:
You will learn from a monk, a madman and a mother
You will fight within a prison hidden like no other
You will face one god upon the face of another
She will then return to normal and speak the last line
And within the week you'll find a sweet, young lover!
At some point when speaking to Brodert Quint he will wistfully make a comment about the old light "If only those stones could talk, what secrets they would tell!"
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ROFL awesome - in the spirit of the thing.....
Overheard while wandering through the festival...
"Flood - oh good lord the ocean won't flood - but could you imagine the kinds of horrors a flood would wash up on the shore?" followed by riotous laughter...
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A mother scolding her child "Don't you run off alone - you know there are monsters waiting to put you on their dinner table as a centerpiece..."
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The first night in the tavern a somber song is playing - the name is 'Dawn never came, ware the Wendigo's game"
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Found on the ground after the goblin raid... A single black arrow broken in half.
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After the glassworks - cries of "Dragon!" - followed by mild panic when an elderly man starts laughing and someone else says "It's just a kite!" - a pair of young boys from the Academy are found snickering and promptly whipped by the headmaster for the trouble...
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Another tavern song played somewhere before the party leaves Magnimar...
"The Nymph and her lover" a tale about a romance doomed by fate...
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I gave Titus Scarnetti some stuff to do in between Books 1 and 2 for several reasons. First off, I wanted the PCs to think that he might be a suspect when there's a mysterious death in one of his sawmills, and introducing him early is the best way to put his name in their heads. Second, I wanted some rivalry between his house and my Deverin PC. Third, I wanted someone who could threaten them in town in a completely different manner than anyone else - he's a noble, and has legitimacy on his side. He wants to be mayor, and the Deverins are always in the way. Since they've been working closely with Kendra, if he can turn the town against them, it becomes easier to turn the town against her. Fourth, when Scarnetti Manor burns in the beginning of Book 4, I want the party to truly be conflicted. Do they do the right thing and try to save them? Or do they let the giants do what they will to this guy that's been a jerk to them? Finally, he's an underused foil in Sandpoint, and I wanted to give him his time in the sun.
