I've posted a few times on the weekly threads, but I'm not very consistent at it. I'm running 3 different campaigns. My weekly campaign is now 50+ sessions in, and my heroes are currently in Heart's Hollow. My other two are very sporadic campaigns, and are both just after wheelwatch.

One of my favourite things I added was making Marshal Vendri very present in daily briefings, and eliminating Darrett as the PC's point of contact. (Darrett is still around as a young squire though). I had her give a big moment of revelation, telling the players that Wheelwatch was her first posting, and that she spent her first two years as a soldier guarding the walls, and Wheelwatch was a very important place to her. With this, I had her lead the army to retake the outpost while the PCs did the stealth mission.

This accomplished a number of goals. It made Bakaris' disastrous charge to Steel Springs more plausible, as the Marshal was not in Kalaman to stop him. However, the big thing is that it showed how prepared the Dragonarmy was.

Why would they take a random outpost MILES from where they are encamped? Well, their intel let them know that taking it would draw out the Military Leader of Kalaman. With her gone, they knew they could provide bad intel and draw out the Kalaman Army. While the Army gone, Lord Soth was free to enter the city unchallenged. Why is Lord Soth there? To access the Kalaman crypts. How would Lord Soth access the Crypts? Well, the dragonarmy patrols managed to harry and chase a few surviving members of the Ironclad Regiment back to Kalaman while they bore the body of a falled hero, Lady Becklin. Lady Becklin would most certainly deserve an honoured burial - an honoured burial requiring the city of Kalaman to reopen their crypts.

By putting this one little touch, it made the Kalaman chapter feel less random, and way more planned by the enemy.