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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6676097" data-attributes="member: 40176">Conspiracies can be tough, partly because players are often genre-savvy enough to figure out the likely suspects, and partly due to the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfConservationOfDetail" target="_blank">Law of Conservation of Detail</a>.Basically, if you never include any significant indication of the existence of a conspiracy, the players may have no chance to affect it, and get annoyed when it goes ahead and succeeds - but on the other hand, it can be awfully tricky to find a way to keep hints of the conspiracy confined to just background details, and not have the players instantly pounce on them, simply because you wouldn't have mentioned them if they weren't important.Sprinkle in a few red herrings and a couple of sacrificial lambs, but ultimately, if you allow the players to investigate the conspiracy, be fully prepared for them to unravel it 'prematurely', and have some contingency plans for when they do.</blockquote>