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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 5847878" data-attributes="member: 6182">Those are the dots in the connect-the-dots of the game. The spark of the story is, at most, a page of bullet points, mostly so I can consistently use names, and I do that a level at a time. The meat of the game is improvised on the spot with some loose ideas floating in my head. I once had the party trying to decipher a path that was determined by five pairs of "Harrow" tarot cards. While I did have some ideas going in, which determined the pairs I set up, it was ultimately five hours of the players telling ME what the fates had in store for them.Do note that the encounters are not in linear order, and not all required to succeed. They had an opportunity to try and talk it up with two sides of the island's inhabitants, honestly or falsely, and had plenty of resources to set up traps. The party ended up ADOPTING a random twig blight who they tracked down to use as a guide, and the adventure (combined with the shaman/druid hybrid who turns into tree forms) resulted in a meme of enemies screaming "Tree!" in fear, which later led me to develop trees into the greater campaign.4E is a godsend for improvisation, and doesn't sacrifice complexity to allow it.</blockquote>