Introduction Adventures - or How characters meet

[LoneStar]

I think the first adventure of a group is extremely important since it allows the characters to meet and introduce each other. It also sets the mood of the group and how they (dis)like each other. Of course, this implies you don't use the old trick of the players being sent on a mission together.

So I'd like to hear from your introduction adventures. Meanwhile, here's the one I'm offering my players:

It's called A Journey Cut Short. The background tells the players they were on Tanaab - an agricultural planet and a quite peaceful place if you don't count the nearby pirates bothering the sector. They were there for different reasons, and for different reasons had to run away (or so they think). A Rebel thinks the Empire is aware of his existence; a smuggler ran into the thugs of a crimelord, his creditor, and ran away; etc, etc. They all buy their way in a low-class transporter heading to Nar Shadaa in hope to get away from their pursuers. Once the transporter enters Hyperspace, the players think they are out of trouble (that's when the game starts). After a day, the transporter is intercepted by an imperial light corvette. Stormtroopers board the ship; they are apparently looking for someone in particular and the players are among the suspects. Well, here is a good reason to get to know each other, and cooperate to get out of this mess. In fact, the stormtroopers are looking for someone else, but they might still find out about the players' little secrets since they are being investigated.

I haven't played the adventure yet, but I'll tell what happened once we have.


LoneStar (the scenario guy)

[Hellstorm]

Or you can simply have them be childhood friends, Thats what I did in my last D&D, well they weren't all friends but all knew each other and some even didn't like each other, I left it up to them to decide if they liked each other or not 8)
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[Esoomian]

We were all rebels individuals who through some choice or another became part of a rebel cell... Once it was realised that we all had some of the skills needed to become a special opps team we were turned into said team.

We were all responsible for our own back story and opinions of each other though

[Loc Taal]

That's a cool idea, LoneStar. I agree that the first meeting is always the most important. Many of our adventures took quite a while to get going just because we couldn't decide how the characters knew each other or how they would meet up. A lot of our adventures started with the players (separately) in a cantina. The GM left it up to us as players to meet/join forces with the other players, sometimes with a little "prodding".
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[Hellstorm]

or you could have them escape form an Imperial Prison for a start of an adventure. 8)
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Tuco: "But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco."
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[Rahl Jynco]

I usually sit down with my players before the game starts, and we just throw around ideas of how the charactors could know each other... but then a cantina is always the classic standby.
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[Hellstorm]

Ah, the good old cantina, the answer to D&D's Inn or tavern LOL.

No adventure would start right if it didn't start with alchool 8)
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Tuco: "But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco."
-The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Peter Griffin: "Embrace The Fear." -Family Guy