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SPOILER. Just wanted to warn other GMs for a small problem in the beginning of the adventure book, or a least a little detail that can mess things up if you want to run the campaign without modifications. When my PCs found the tattoo on the dying guy in the beginning one of them wanted to roll to recognize it. He rolled a 1 and my mind slipped and told him about it being related to a evil cult. Oooops. Now I have to modify the rest of the story instead of running it as written. So I would recommend that the PCs don´t find that tattoo.

To use the word "bug" here is misleading. Your players found some clues. Clues that the campaign even adress that they can follow up on later in Outskirts, which the players most likely will get to next. Smart players (they don't have to be that smart really) knows that there is more to this story than whatever information they got during the first session and they should research more about this with caution.

To use the word "bug" here is misleading. Your players found some clues. Clues that the campaign even adress that they can follow up on later in Outskirts, which the players most likely will get to next. Smart players (they don't have to be that smart really) knows that there is more to this story than whatever information they got during the first session and they should research more about this with caution.

OK, I changed "bug" to "problem". I could change it to "potential problem" but I felt it got too long. I hear what you say, but if feel that if they know that the tattoo means evil cult the "twist" gets too simple, so the adventure/campaign needs modifications. Or?

My players ended up digging up stuff i was not expecting they would find out about until much later, and from throw away lines began to nose around and ended up dealing with the cultist plot quite early in the campaign.

I think that ultimately, the campaign isn't REALLY written to make it "essential" for the cultists to be involved all the way to the end, especially with the number of ways the players can learn about them. The only main thing is if Leanara or Quasimund makes it for the ambush after retriving Um-Durman.

You may also mislead them, saying that he was maybe infiltred or changed his mind and try to make things right and give you something important.

I think to be just enough vague here is the trick, to mention some alternative truths. That way, they got the clue so they have a bit of information but also some alternative ways of interpret that information.

I'm not seeing the problem. Are Leanara & Quasimund tatted up?

I actually had PCs spot Leanara pass Quasimund a note with the demon emblem on it! They still took no action until Quasimund's thugs killed the female knight. At which point they looted the knight's room for the 200gp they knew she must have to pay for the statue parts from them.