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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 1524118" data-attributes="member: 3109">Depending on your group, some variety might not be a bad thing.  My campaign has just passed an important milestone in which the previous six months of six hour bi-weekly sessions averaged one combat every two sessions and 1.5 in game days per session.  I call that RP-heavy.  Not that there couldn't have been more combat, but my players did manage to unknowingly avoid quite a bit of it.  So now they're about to head in a different direction, though I won't know which until next session.  But it's going to be a bit more varied for a little while to lighten things up.In your situation, I'd consider a few options.  1) There might be varying levels of devotion to the cult; maybe some people are just along for the perks.  So you can have RP encounters that don't have to turn into combat.  2) The cult could be infiltrated by some opposition group whose overall goals/methods are not compatible with those of the PCs.  3) Unexpected inhabitants have taken up residence in an unused part of the hideaway, or have found a breach into the compound.That's all that comes to mind, but that mind is laboring under infant sleep deprivation, I'll think some more on it since I'll need to think of things like this for my game as well.</blockquote>