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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6480058" data-attributes="member: 6668292">I definitely run my other campaign (which uses my own RPG) much differently. It's slower, more nuanced, more politically-driven, more in-depth. We might have one combat every two sessions. (Though the game supports completely non-combat characters much better than any D&D system.)For 4e, I try to keep the action going. There are definitely slower RPing moments, or bits where the players are planning, but the lulls don't last too long, and I always try to tie it in to more action. I want to keep us rolling, and I have plans for level 11, when they finally hit Paragon.But yeah, thanks for the compliment! I'm really used to bringing past NPCs, events, etc. around to have effects on the current game, so getting a feedback loop going is easy enough. Past play experience drives current play experiences, and all that. And between NPCs, accomplishments, failures, themes, gods, enemies, etc. it makes it all pretty easy. From where I'm sitting, at least.My players also got a kick out of their party "theme" going into Paragon (since they all chose their Paragon Paths independently, and revealed them this last session). The Warpriest is going Soul Reaper of The Raven Queen (goddess of Winter), the Knight is going Wind Rider (lightning/thunder/wind themed), the Scout is going Spirit Wind's Ally (wind themed), and the Elementalist is going Blizzard Mage (Cold/wind themed). So they have a kind of winter / storm thing going on. Also, the dwarf is part of Kord Clan. Kord's mother was the goddess of Winter, and that while she was fighting the other gods, Kord defended her. Moradin eventually fought Kord to a standstill and convinced him to change sides, and that's when Kord's mother was defeated and The Raven Queen took up the powers of Winter. It also said that Kord and The Raven Queen had some kind of ongoing relationship to this day, but the type was all speculation. So they have that connection going as well.It's all pretty tied together, and I really like how it's playing out. I'm looking forward to my next session (as always) <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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