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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 312302" data-attributes="member: 172">What I do:I make up the personalities and power groups, and define their resources, motivations, goals, methods, and current plots and plans, and from that decide what activities they are up to. I decide how such groups interact with each other.Then I flesh out those plans, activities and interactions are into adventure ideas. I add the details needed to run the adventure as needed, based largely upon the resources of the power groups. I also sort of plot out &quot;what will happen if the PCs don't interfere,&quot; and get an idea of how the PCs can make a difference.The PCs invariably will go off the beaten path though. But having already defined the power groups and personalities, I can decide how they respond to the situation.To me the joy of RPGs is precisely that it can go any which way. Unlike a novel, if you get too specific in details of what happens, those details may never come to pass. Concentrate on the NPCs/Power Groups themeselves and play them according to their motivations and resources.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 312302, member: 172"] What I do: I make up the personalities and power groups, and define their resources, motivations, goals, methods, and current plots and plans, and from that decide what activities they are up to. I decide how such groups interact with each other. Then I flesh out those plans, activities and interactions are into adventure ideas. I add the details needed to run the adventure as needed, based largely upon the resources of the power groups. I also sort of plot out "what will happen if the PCs don't interfere," and get an idea of how the PCs can make a difference. The PCs invariably will go off the beaten path though. But having already defined the power groups and personalities, I can decide how they respond to the situation. To me the joy of RPGs is precisely that it can go any which way. Unlike a novel, if you get too specific in details of what happens, those details may never come to pass. Concentrate on the NPCs/Power Groups themeselves and play them according to their motivations and resources. [/QUOTE]

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