When I was preparing my game, I got so many great ideas from this forum, I felt I should give back a little. Please feel free to critique, advise, etc.
Eventually I want to lead up to a big weasel war campaign, but here’s where I have started:
GAME 1: Deliver the Mail
I modified Deliver the Mail slightly to reflect my patrolmice’s beliefs. I’m just describing the modified parts below:
One of my mice, Clove, female pathfinder, has a friend in Lockhaven, and she has a crush on him. I decided to put a letter in the mail from Cale (her friend) to Loretta about their romantic rendezvous– one of the twists mentioned in the deliver the mail mission description.
They encountered the raven as the twist to the weather pathfinder check, and as a result of the fight, lost some letters in the compromise. Clove had kept Cale’s letter separately, though, and she decided to deliver this to Loretta using one of her checks in the player’s turn. However, she already had opened the letter and read it out of jealousy. She decided to deliver the letter to Loretta when she realized she might be allowing her to make a dangerous journey by not delivering the letter. We decided that the test she bought with her check would be a deceiver check to see if she could fool Loretta into thinking the letter had accidentally come open in the raven fight. She failed… and as a result of her failure, they mayor and her fellow patrolmice knew that she had opened a letter.
For the other two mice, I tried to put them on opposite sides of the next challenge using their beliefs. When they met the mice challenge, I changed the listed NPC to Merro, who is Sebastian’s friend (he’s the fighter mouse in the group.) Sebastian’s belief is “Always help a friend”. I thought he might be inclined to go get the rocking chair. The leader of the patrol has the belief “ Mouse guard duty above all”, so I figured that would square them off on opposite sides of that conflict, and it worked. Sebastian and Clove both helped Merro in the duel of wits, which they lost, and the patrol leader won. It worked into some very cool RP moments.
Sebastian decided to spend his player’s check helping Merro get the rocking chair. They failed their scout, and instead of getting captured, I had them battle the weasels, which was a cool fight as well.
I was shocked at how a few simple mods (really only using stuff on the PCs character sheets) radically changed this module-like scenario. It really came alive at the table.
