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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6667436" data-attributes="member: 996">Sound like side-quests, to me.  Actually play through scouting each location.  One or more characters make stealth and perception checks, describe what they do, you describe what they see, they report back & you judge how useful the information they gleaned was and reward VP accordingly. Inspiring the troops is an RP opportunity.  Let one of the players give his best speech, assign a bonus or penalty to an appropriate skill check based on it, and dole out points depending on the RP and/or the modified roll.  Obviously, a Bard can just hand out Inspiration - if the PCs will be participating in the battle, he could do so for "the troops" gaining a VP, instead of the usual use to give someone a die.Battle tactics are just that - tactics.  They don't have to be tactics that'd work mechanically, but if a player suggests good tactics, let him make a check to see if his character can 'recall' them.   Again, you could award VP for the idea, or the successful roll modified by how good the idea was, or both.</blockquote>