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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Committed Hero" data-source="post: 9757640" data-attributes="member: 15341">If you are only writing for yourself, you can cut corners you wouldn't do when writing for an audience. Of course, many of us develop our thoughts further when we do write things down, but even then you can be less consistent and clear in your personal writing.I think the biggest trap is to try and come up with player-devised contingencies. That's their job. Say that you write "the moat is 25' across." You don't really need to add "if characters try to jump across, the difficulty is X" unless the calculation is hard to do on the fly.  However, if writing about it makes you wonder about the fish in the water, perhaps you've just thought up a nasty surprise for swimming PCs. And if the party has a flying carpet you forgot about, then hopefully you get surprised at their initiative.</blockquote>