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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7177824" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Lot's of great advice.  As other have stated I'd find some small but critical missions for the PCs to accomplish - you can even figure out multiple scenarios.  They are part of a special forces team and a runner finds them (or they are magically messaged) that they can either do a relatively safe mission that will have minimal impact or a much more dangerous mission that could have a bigger impact.You can also set up some scenarios where if the group is smart, they can follow up on little things.  They notice that the wizard on the wall is talking to someone.  But it's odd, the wizard (who is obviously one of the leader types) is being subservient to what looks like a street urchin.  What's going on?I would also have some set pieces where you give brief overviews of the battles.  You don't want to do more than a few sentences - the PCs are the center of attention not the NPCs - but describe the scene as dwarven siege engines are being attacked by ogres only to be rescued by the cavalry or some such.  The LOTR and Hobbit movies had some scenes you could steal from.Good luck!</blockquote>