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I've also been pondering how to introduce the clues/legends to the Stanengist. I appreciate that the Free League wanted a sandboxy, Skyrim type of world where there is a main plotline, but players are free to ignore it - entirely or partially - and do their own thing for a while. I want to draw on that and have the PCs kind of stumble over the Crown or its associated artifacts and then get dragged into the plot further and further.

To help with that, I have recruited a bunch of "Shadow players" (inspired from Svavelvinter's Skuggmakter) - these are players who run the Key NPCs for me by discord chat and on a boardgame in Roll20. Their primary motivations are already clearly laid out, so it should be too hard to make them discover the PC group and then try to either recruit them to their cause or antagonize them...which in turn will prompt the others to react accordingly, and sooner or later, the web of Key NPC intrigues should make the PCs go..."Let's do something about this". Thus, the environment will create the motivation they need.

I think.

Awesome.

Im thinking something like... A key players flow chart. Quick sentence or 2 explanation of who they are and what they want. throw in major artifacts and locations too.

Then a second flowchart detailing major events. Here we can have the suggestions for how the players might get pointed in their direction of stumble onto them.

Include a pg number reference for the more detailed information about each location player and event.


When i have some time maybe i will dig through Ravens Purge and make an example.

Awesome.

Im thinking something like... A key players flow chart. Quick sentence or 2 explanation of who they are and what they want. throw in major artifacts and locations too.

Then a second flowchart detailing major events. Here we can have the suggestions for how the players might get pointed in their direction of stumble onto them.

Include a pg number reference for the more detailed information about each location player and event.


When i have some time maybe i will dig through Ravens Purge and make an example.

I also like this idea, and actually did a Swedish flowchart a while ago. It got really messy in the end. You can see it here: https://prezi.com/view/atbHLgU6ceo5xXP5kq8h/

I also like the way the campaign in Bitter Reach is structured with different phases that affects how the world changes over time and from the adventurers actions. I am thinking if sch a structre could be used for Raven's Purge as well. Maybe different randomized events-tables for different phases and even different tables for different areas of the map. Has anyone thought the same?

So my player has acquired Stanengist very early on, which sets an interesting dynamic. Instead of actively questing for it, she's now in a kind of Bilbo Baggins situation, trying to keep it safe and secret, and also trying to understand what it is and what it can do. I've set up a Rust Brother as a nemesis who's going to pursue it, so that should act as a 'push', and the 'pull' will be the drive to acquire the other artefacts.