It kind of depends, really.

Once we were done a few years ago with playing a short D&D campaign I wrote, we simply switched to fading suns for a long time; switching settings can sometimes be quite helpfull, as fading suns has this sci-fi dark ages crossover theme which allowed for a whole lot of new stuff to be going on.

The quest there was the players racing against the shibbang of church factions and noble houses to uncover clues to the location of an archeological dig of which most members had been assassinated shortly after it's discovery. They had to act partially in their own interest, but also in that of the phoenix emperor. I turns out after trouble with inquisitors, nobles, mercenaries and thugs, that the artifact is in fact an old space battleship that could dramaticly shift the balance of power in whoever obtained it's favor.

After a dramatic finally, replete with a massive space battle, orbital bombardment of the site and a lot of trickery and skullduggery, the players made their escape with the vessel and gained a lot of favor. That campaign took a year and a half with a session each week to resolve, and man, we had a blast ;)

You see that a basic, cliched story can actually be quite fun and hold up nicely for a long time. there was loads of good combat, interesting conversations and many filler quests in between.

Allow me to continue with some tips in a next post, while you are reading this ;)

He, indeed, I never noticed ;)

Here in Belgium it's a mess though. We always have had QWERTY in this household, but many belgians use AZERTY, which is a real mess ;)

I was thinking at some point of trying to learn to type on a dvorak keyboard, but I'm at my speed limit already as is (not good with finger/hand dexterity things)