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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3763899" data-attributes="member: 114">Seconded. It has the kind of information about adventure design and setting story-based xp awards that ideally (IMO) should have been in the DMG. Maybe Monte hadn't thought it up at that point though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.for those who haven't seen it, it illustrates the difference between a railroad adventure (where the PCs have lots of opportunity to lose the 'one track' and more of a network adventure (where the PCs can follow up one or more clues to lead to the finale, and the more clues they are able to follow up the better things are likely to go). It also suggests setting 'story award sections' - since who in CoC is going to get much (lasting) experience from fighting a CoC nasty? Right. For each 'story award' it suggests matching together a suitable pair of words, giving things like "Find the diary", "Survive meeting the zombies", "rescue the journalist" or whatever. The real thing has much better examples than this, of course.It was such a neat idea that I used the concept in D&D for a while, enabling PCs to focus on the adventure and not what they were killing this week.Cheers</blockquote>