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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talon5" data-source="post: 1357871" data-attributes="member: 14435">There are lots of great ideas in this thread, lots of which helped me to understand the same question your having here.One of the things I did in my last campaign was the PCs met an elderly man- Bard by the sounds of him, thou he claimed to be a wizard minus his books.  He noticed something one of the PCs (an anicent bow created by or for a follower of Ehlonna- thou no one knew for sure at the time (note the characters were 2nd lvl at this stage and the bow was only Mom's old adventuring bow) had and offered to help them identify the item.  They accepted, he said he'd been in touch.  He asked them- if they would be so kind, if they could deliver a message for him.  Adventure insued.  A few months later he contacts them with info and directs them to more adventure, thinking as he had in the previous that it would be nothing serious.Information related to the bow was offered up and the groups origin and history began to unfold via this old man.What was he doing through all this?  Seeking information for them.  Why?  He was bored, old, and tired, he was beyond his years to travel and sleep out of the ground.In the end he was there for the big fight, killing critters that were a half dozen levels above the PCs while they fought the menions and some of the leaders (hard to expalin without a lot of work).Needless to say he acted as a source of adventure and information.  He helped them to have a source for getting magic items made, or bought.  He knew lots of people and aside from some people in one forest he was well liked.Hope that helps.  Later.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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