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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zweischneid" data-source="post: 4286178" data-attributes="member: 11843">Awsome, no need to aim to low <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But yeah, as with redclaw, I think this is aiming both too high and too low at the same time for a background.Too high: If our grandparents would be the guys (!) who brought about the second flight and killed a Great Wyrm as they went along (Epic tier stuff, to use the 4e terminology), you easily alienate some other players by occupying a major, major plotline by default.Too low: Unless there's a secret we don't know yet, sparring with Norsten, the constable and possibly Phillian will likely be heroic tier stuff. If the "grandparent adventurers" did something half as worldshaking as bringing about the second flight, putting those town authority guys into the same boat would seem strange (not to mention the PCs chanceless against them). Besides, every other town or village we'd ever visit would loose out on Evenfall for having only less important NPCs. The middle ground: I would see our grandparents as lower paragon tier adventurers. They adventured together, they fought against (smaller) dragons and might have been, knowingly or unknowingly, been up to a lead towards something bigger if a plot-hook is needed. They may have been in charge of a town like Evenfall, though ruling it just and fairly and without a dragon overlord. Somewhere along the line they got beaten for it, lost friends, family and fortune and fled to settle somewhere far away in Evenfall where noone knows them. If our group ever manages to put up with a Great Wyrm, it should have long ago surpassed this legacy however.</blockquote>

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