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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5170781" data-attributes="member: 4937">I disagree.As I understand it, the term 'chumming' means adapting your game world to conform to player speculation.&nbsp; I think I very clearly stated I was not going to do that when I said: &quot;I'm not going to change the story to put it on the new path...&quot;All I'm saying is that if the PC's evidence interest in a particular line of play, that I'll go ahead and prepare for that choice.&nbsp; I've said nothing about putting in that place anything that they expect to find or using there own good ideas against them.&nbsp; By suggesting that I'll develop contingencies for the possibility that the players will follow up on a particular red herring, I'm really saying IMO nothing different than if I hadn't planned to take the campaign into the mountains by the PC's end up deciding to follow up some minor rumor I'd considered trivial by heading off in that direction.&nbsp; In that event, I'll go ahead and prep mountains and whatever is there.&nbsp; But I'm not going to take the player expectation that something in the mountains is the BBEG behind it all into account when doing so.&nbsp; I'll just let them head out that way, have adventures, and they'll probably eventually end up with clues to come at the BBEG from a direction I hadn't anticipated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5170781, member: 4937"] I disagree. As I understand it, the term 'chumming' means adapting your game world to conform to player speculation. I think I very clearly stated I was not going to do that when I said: "I'm not going to change the story to put it on the new path..." All I'm saying is that if the PC's evidence interest in a particular line of play, that I'll go ahead and prepare for that choice. I've said nothing about putting in that place anything that they expect to find or using there own good ideas against them. By suggesting that I'll develop contingencies for the possibility that the players will follow up on a particular red herring, I'm really saying IMO nothing different than if I hadn't planned to take the campaign into the mountains by the PC's end up deciding to follow up some minor rumor I'd considered trivial by heading off in that direction. In that event, I'll go ahead and prep mountains and whatever is there. But I'm not going to take the player expectation that something in the mountains is the BBEG behind it all into account when doing so. I'll just let them head out that way, have adventures, and they'll probably eventually end up with clues to come at the BBEG from a direction I hadn't anticipated. [/QUOTE]

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