[quote=@Lugubrious]
Alright!  Here's the deal: Experiment, I want you to come up with the village's layout and enemy placements, which you'll do IC by telling Gaius what Kel saw while scouting.  Give us something fun but not too difficult for our first encounter, alright?  There will be two enemies of note among the normal bandits: a bandit leader, and none other than the Kindred, Taene.  Make sure to describe them.
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All those years of designing battle maps in DnD are finally paying off somewhere else! 1 level 1 party of uh... 16 challenge rating 1/2 coming up. Bandits and Taene? Shouldn't be too hard to throw down maybe 2 bandits each each... give them some cover, varying weapon types... God this is like the perfect thing for me.

EDIT: Do I need to get a pic of the map? like a crude map of the place?