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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7029097" data-attributes="member: 6871653">Hey,I plan to run princes of the apocalypse this spring with my usual table. They are a group of players that think they like sandbox, open-world, character driven campaigns, but fail to deliver characters with meaningful motivations or background each time, and eventualy each game fizzles after a few sessions. So I want to be able to run with them a full campaign to get them in a D&D mood before running more advanced campaings like CoS and SKT.The question: Has any of you been confronted that it feel strange that, in a quest to save the world from an elemental apocalypse from obvious cult activity, only 4 heroes are actualy working to save the world, while Waterdeep, Neverwinter, Luskan, Silverymoon, Miranbar etc stand idle while they are only 3 days away? What prevented your players, even more when they grow in ranks in diverse faction, from just asking the large cities to get involve and deploy some troups?I hesitate between setting my campaing in the actual Dessarin Valley or in the Nentir Vale, from the 4e PoL, where there's an easy answer to the idleness of any organized army: there's none.</blockquote>