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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7504022" data-attributes="member: 29398">Fair enough.Next step: during the adventures that run up to the conclusion of that epic tale, sow seeds for a second one that may or may not be at all related to the first.  A brief (and maybe poor) example:First few adventures are rather sandboxy, party get to know each other and solidify into a functional group.  Then a grander quest arises, and about fifteen adventures later they've taken down a lich who had been raising undead that were terrorizing the north marches.  But, somewhere around the eighth adventure in the lich story you start dropping hints and clues of a conspiracy to overthrow the well-liked king, but leave it unclear as to whether or not the undead and-or lich are involved.  Then, when the lich falls, find a way to make it clear that it was not involved (maybe it had even been supporting the king somehow!), which should get the players/PCs wondering what's behind the overthrow attempt and whether they've just cost the king a powerful ally.  And away you go on Big Story #2 in the same campaign... <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=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>