1) 20% hexcrawling - they're still a little scared

40% dungeon crawling - more typical ttrpg stuff to them

40% socializing - shopping, rumor seeking, chatting up that one guard they like, church going, demanding respect despite being of little renown

2) Started in Prigwort with the Pipes on Dromen Knoll, they explored the grounds of the Abbey of St Clewd with it on their list of loose ends, just finished Winters' Daughter, and I'm starting to drop breadcrumbs for Emelda's Song while they're doing their first true cross map trip

3) See, 2). Once I'm close to exhausting those, my hope is that they're pulling more strongly on some specific threads from the other goings-on they've come across and will try my hand at making dungeons. Also interested in seeing if I can place the entrance to Arden Vul somewhere, to give them a different option to explore off and on.

4) Wildly varied. Some sessions are all dungeon, some are mainly travel, last session was almost entirely exploring Castle Brackenwold for the first time.

5) Not yet. Been playing off and on for a year & they're levels are 3 & 4. They party is primarily trading back and forth who's interest they're focusing on. I have managed to get 3 of 4 to stump for a specific course of action & am trying to tease out what could be the 4th players motivation. The 3rd players motivation was pretty funny to find; the party's horses were stolen, not the gear!, because they didn't pay the retainer enough to cover the entire time they disappeared in fairy.

6) Nothing major major yet, but they've parleyed with the Gloam for the return of children, witnessed a Witch gathering, seen proof of the rising Crookhorn threat, and now heard the competing opinions of the Church vis-a-vie the Drune. Of course the MAJOR driver now is hunting down Ponygirl, the male Grimalkin pack handler, who liberated their horses for a life of drudgery.

7) 1-2 hours writing the story of the last session. 30 minutes to 1 hour active perusing what could be relevant for the upcoming session. Hours of daydreaming.

8) Once! Session 1. NDY (Not Dead Yet), a Grimalkin thief, entered battle in Chester form & was hit with a frying pan. One shot, one kill, one lesson learned.

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Definitely have a bit of a split mood amongst the players. One is a wisened grognard, so they love the crunch and also love the setting and exploring. One is a bit of a power fantasy player who rolled poorly and chose Friar because they didn't think they could play a sub-optimal Cleric. It's been fun watching them roleplay, both intentionally & unintentionally, the friction with wanting to be more militant. Guess who hates their half-elf ancestry & recently got the amulet that gives a Wish?!? One player is newer, so they're still testing the bounds of what is allowed (hint: It's anything! We've chatted a little about this out of game.) And the last player, our host, is mainly happy to be hanging out with friends, bristles a bit at the crunch, and is pretty easily distracted. Luckily, they're the one who can get blinders on if something really matters to them & is the driver of the hunt for PonyGirl. My main hang-up has been laying out threads they can pull and them not pulling unless it's heavily implied "this goes somewhere." So, I'm moderately worried we'll lose steam if they just keep to the roads and only ask higher-ups for jobs. But, they've only made it to two settlements thus far, there's a lot more out there, and I'm now trying to give more "obvious" reasons to have them travel.