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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9758566" data-attributes="member: 6804070">For homebrew games I write the background. This is mostly so that I understand the situation and can capture it and put down names and such. Then I create the locations, but not full level of details. I like maps, and will often create custom maps of various level of details but I never write out much. I can improve all of that. Then I create lists of NPCs, majors will have a description and goals/intents, but then will just have flexible squads of minors so I can have a combat/encounter prepped when needed.Then, when I lay in bed at night falling asleep I think of possible paths the party might make and the reactions of the NPCs and factions.I know things that are going to happen outside the scope of the player's immediate actions (faction A will do Y, Faction B will do Z) but I never plan what the party is going to do next. I have enough flexible stuff ready to through in a patrol or outpost or ship encounter whenever the party makes a decision that leads them that way. I set the events in motion, the players decide where it will go and how they will try to solve it.</blockquote>