GM help and advice

[bdcjacko]

So my players are tracking a rogue and her accomplices to a bandit town. I want to make some sort of skill challenges for them to enter that town as opposed to just let them come in guns a blazing so to speak. The party is 6 members strong, all level 7 & 8. Any thoughts?

 

[maninahat]

If it's a walled off town, you could have a guard that bars them entry. That's the easiest thing to do, because players now have to get through the guard or over the walls somehow. Alternatively, you could have a plague in the town, forcing the players to plan their approach carefully (they can't hang around too long or they'll catch something nasty). Maybe the rogues go into hiding within the town itself, and they have to figure out how to find them.