You set aside three months to let your party of heroes have a grand adventure through your better-than-Tolkienesque campaign and instead of completing their first quest and ridding the cellar of rats for the money they need to gear up for the adventure, they capture the rats and begin breeding them. Then they set up a pest control service in the starter village and sneak into cellars at night to let the rats go so they can go in a few days later and receive more starter quests to rid the cellar of rats.