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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3410079" data-attributes="member: 7533"><p>Other posters have alluded it to it, but let me lay it out, since I have the similar strengths and weaknesses as a GM...</p><p></p><p>Play to your strengths. Don't give up the episodic adventures. If they're good and they work for you, keep them. Just link them together with an over-arching plot.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Exactly. And so, during each episodic A-plot adventure, you drop a few more side hints about the B-plot, which never quite goes away. Every couple of adventures, you swap the A-plot with the B-plot, to bring the long term plot to the fore for a moment, and then let it fade back.</p><p></p><p>The big pay off is when you have that last big, climactic adventure that's nothing but fully-fledged B-plot, and you see the realization of the players that all those clues along the way are coming together and that the main reason for any of the A-plots happening in the first place is that B-plot, what they thought were just side plots or red herrings, made them happen all along.</p><p></p><p>You get to add in that over-atching plot you want, while still running what you're used to and guaranteeing your players the fun of what they're used to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 3410079, member: 7533"] Other posters have alluded it to it, but let me lay it out, since I have the similar strengths and weaknesses as a GM... Play to your strengths. Don't give up the episodic adventures. If they're good and they work for you, keep them. Just link them together with an over-arching plot. Exactly. And so, during each episodic A-plot adventure, you drop a few more side hints about the B-plot, which never quite goes away. Every couple of adventures, you swap the A-plot with the B-plot, to bring the long term plot to the fore for a moment, and then let it fade back. The big pay off is when you have that last big, climactic adventure that's nothing but fully-fledged B-plot, and you see the realization of the players that all those clues along the way are coming together and that the main reason for any of the A-plots happening in the first place is that B-plot, what they thought were just side plots or red herrings, made them happen all along. You get to add in that over-atching plot you want, while still running what you're used to and guaranteeing your players the fun of what they're used to. [/QUOTE]
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