You set aside three months to let your party of heroes have a grand adventure through your better-than-Tolkienesque campaign and instead of completing their first quest and ridding the cellar of rats for the money they need to gear up for the adventure, they capture the rats and begin breeding them. Then they set up a pest control service in the starter village and sneak into cellars at night to let the rats go so they can go in a few days later and receive more starter quests to rid the cellar of rats.
So how long such a campaign lasted for you last time exactly?
Oh I haven’t ran a D&D campaign since I was 16 or so (~ 30 years). My players at that time weren’t that clever (maybe a couple). If it were to happen to me now I’d probably just let them go about their merry way while dropping hints once per session about the goings-on outside of their little hamlet and then eventually have the level 15 baddies descend upon their lazy level 3 butts and lay waste to the starter village.
That’s a smart way to do it. Appreciate the response. Why don’t you organize a new campaign now? Id join 🙂