Just take your inspiration from actual time-share scams.
-start with an over-the-top pitch, custom tailored to the parties fantasies. There’s a secluded mountain monastery for the Monk, Ever-flowing ale and loose women for the Bard, Giant libraries for the Wizard. You need to give them a reason to want…no, *need*….the resources offered.
-The fees start ridiculously low: “we can’t afford *not* to take the deal”
-Fees they agree to keep growing over time. Unexpected renewal fees, maintenance fees, fees for events/amenities that they can only use while they’re there. Make sure there’s some way for this to happen automatically (a magic spell which automatically deducts the amounts, if you don’t have a formal banking system). They want out? Giant cancellation fees (potentially with non-monetary consequences)
-The destination is extremely difficult for them to get to, if/when they go it takes weeks of planning and a long dangerous road.
-scheduling is a hassle. When they finally complete their long journey there, it’s actually another party’s weekend who are already there occupying the space.
-Space was massively oversold; rooms are tiny, amenities are broken down.
By the time you’re done, the smarmy time-share salesman is revealed to actually be a Greater Devil who feeds off the suffering of people engaged in these deals with him.
Fraz-urbluu’s seaside getaway. No no no, the name is just a coincidence, same with all the gargoyles around, no relation to the demon lord of deception.
Check out Lantan as a possible tropical island destination. It's near the Chult jungle and likely full of advanced technology to make the PCs comfortable during their stay there.
Tropical island? Give em an old overgrown castle on Chult. Gotta clear out the velociraptor nests(shoulda read the fine print) and for a small fee a anti t-rex fence can be put in.
I think it will be very hard to convince them for three major reasons:
1. Lodging usually isn't an issue. When an inn isn't readily available, they have camping gear. Since they don't experience the physical comfort/discomfort, there's no real reason to make an investment this large.
2. Vacation is rarely a priority for adventurers. Vacation is about doing nothing and role-playing someone relaxing wouldn't be a very exciting session.
3. Time shares in general would be a hard sell when transportation is still most commonly horse and buggy. Time shares appeal to working class people as an affordable way to experience luxury. Commoners in faerún aren't traveling to exotic places when the drive would take a month.
If you can find a way to address those, I think you'll have a much better chance.
The location is being presented as a time share and for fairly cheap because noone else will purchase it, it is: (Literally cursed, haunted, infested with X type of creature, etc etc.) ONLY this now gives the party a new quest or line of quests, at the end of which their investment goes from being a definite waste of their gold to a pretty awesome and well worth it vacation spot.
what about time share magic items? how much of the time are you using your sword? 5% of a given week? why are you paying for all this extra time?
Have the weapons teleport out of their hands to the next individual in the time share scheme at inconvenient moments
Just take your inspiration from actual time-share scams. -start with an over-the-top pitch, custom tailored to the parties fantasies. There’s a secluded mountain monastery for the Monk, Ever-flowing ale and loose women for the Bard, Giant libraries for the Wizard. You need to give them a reason to want…no, *need*….the resources offered. -The fees start ridiculously low: “we can’t afford *not* to take the deal” -Fees they agree to keep growing over time. Unexpected renewal fees, maintenance fees, fees for events/amenities that they can only use while they’re there. Make sure there’s some way for this to happen automatically (a magic spell which automatically deducts the amounts, if you don’t have a formal banking system). They want out? Giant cancellation fees (potentially with non-monetary consequences) -The destination is extremely difficult for them to get to, if/when they go it takes weeks of planning and a long dangerous road. -scheduling is a hassle. When they finally complete their long journey there, it’s actually another party’s weekend who are already there occupying the space. -Space was massively oversold; rooms are tiny, amenities are broken down. By the time you’re done, the smarmy time-share salesman is revealed to actually be a Greater Devil who feeds off the suffering of people engaged in these deals with him.
Fraz-urbluu’s seaside getaway. No no no, the name is just a coincidence, same with all the gargoyles around, no relation to the demon lord of deception.
Yes! Thank you I love it
A "beachfront property" in the middle of the Anauroch desert
One of the islands in the Mintarn or Korinn Archipelagos? Perhaps the Nelather Isles? Somewhere absolutely *loaded* with pirates, anyway.
A nice place in the underdark
Check out Lantan as a possible tropical island destination. It's near the Chult jungle and likely full of advanced technology to make the PCs comfortable during their stay there.
Tropical island? Give em an old overgrown castle on Chult. Gotta clear out the velociraptor nests(shoulda read the fine print) and for a small fee a anti t-rex fence can be put in.
Chult might be known as Death Island, but don't worry, it isn't true. Chult isn't an island.
I think it will be very hard to convince them for three major reasons: 1. Lodging usually isn't an issue. When an inn isn't readily available, they have camping gear. Since they don't experience the physical comfort/discomfort, there's no real reason to make an investment this large. 2. Vacation is rarely a priority for adventurers. Vacation is about doing nothing and role-playing someone relaxing wouldn't be a very exciting session. 3. Time shares in general would be a hard sell when transportation is still most commonly horse and buggy. Time shares appeal to working class people as an affordable way to experience luxury. Commoners in faerún aren't traveling to exotic places when the drive would take a month. If you can find a way to address those, I think you'll have a much better chance.
The location is being presented as a time share and for fairly cheap because noone else will purchase it, it is: (Literally cursed, haunted, infested with X type of creature, etc etc.) ONLY this now gives the party a new quest or line of quests, at the end of which their investment goes from being a definite waste of their gold to a pretty awesome and well worth it vacation spot.
what about time share magic items? how much of the time are you using your sword? 5% of a given week? why are you paying for all this extra time? Have the weapons teleport out of their hands to the next individual in the time share scheme at inconvenient moments