r/HyperboreaRPG

I'm about to start running The Anthropophagi of Xambaala for a group of six. We've been playing White Box: FMAG for a couple of years now, and we wanted to up the crunch a bit and try a setting swap, so this felt like a good change of pace.

Here's my hook. The party arrives at Xambaala by port, expecting to meet an NPC who's hired them on as muscle for his caravan business running trade between Xambaala and Yithorium. The catch: that NPC has already fallen victim to the city's cannibals before the party ever sets foot on the docks. So instead of meeting their employer, they arrive to find him missing with their job and pay on the line, they've got to scour the city to track him down, getting drip-fed clues about the larger horror as they go.

The idea is that a missing patron gives them a personal reason to poke into every corner of Xambaala.

Any tips from people who have run this? It seems like a wonderful sandbox setting and I am very excited to get it to the table!