Ryan and Shannon choose to begin their campaign in Black Marsh. After setting up the game’s components and their adventurers, the players choose their starting quest. They draw 3 guild cards. Each guild offers a different quest, with a first step described in the Black Marsh Gazetteer as listed below:

Mages Guild: Unnatural Selection.

Undaunted: Curators of Chaos.

Psijic Order: Sap of Ages.

Looking at their 3 options, they decide that working for the Undaunted sounds like the most fun for its level of complexity, so they choose Curators of Chaos as their quest. The players refer to the quest’s first step and see its starting location is Lilmoth, so they place their party token in that town’s hex.

Quest choice and map setup.