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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 4539520" data-attributes="member: 54840">How does it play out?So reading through, this adventure is clearly not on the rails. It would seem after the first room, the party can wander about however it wishes. This might seem like a good idea to let the party decide where they want to go but as a DM, it drives me a little crazy.How can I prepare the encounters when I have no idea which encounters the PCs will face? I use Dwarven Forge so I like to have it set up ahead of time. I suppose I can just draw it out like normal people, but I'd like to do some good homework ahead of time.How evil is it to change the adventure around to put it more ON the rails? I'd hate for the PCs to miss the Charnal Lord or the rat room because they just happen to miss it. It would seem the party could miss quite a bit if they just open the other door.So should I run this on the rails a bit more or should I throw control out the door and let it play out how the PCs go through it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 4539520, member: 54840"] [b]How does it play out?[/b] So reading through, this adventure is clearly not on the rails. It would seem after the first room, the party can wander about however it wishes. This might seem like a good idea to let the party decide where they want to go but as a DM, it drives me a little crazy. How can I prepare the encounters when I have no idea which encounters the PCs will face? I use Dwarven Forge so I like to have it set up ahead of time. I suppose I can just draw it out like normal people, but I'd like to do some good homework ahead of time. How evil is it to change the adventure around to put it more ON the rails? I'd hate for the PCs to miss the Charnal Lord or the rat room because they just happen to miss it. It would seem the party could miss quite a bit if they just open the other door. So should I run this on the rails a bit more or should I throw control out the door and let it play out how the PCs go through it? [/QUOTE]

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