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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1151807" data-attributes="member: 172">I'm also a big fan of the NPC driven (or as often, the organization driven) plots. I don't here many other people say they do games that way; I'm surprised to hear it today.I typically decide who the powers in the world are, what their motivations, resources, MOs, and goals are. Then, I try to decide what conflict might arise that the PCs might get entangled in, and plant some hooks to draw the PCs in.I just switched campaigns and find that without my richly developed and familiar stable of NPCs and organizations, it's a bit harder to make plots come together. Having the existant NPCs and organizations are a real boon when it comes to campaign design. When you are sitting there trying to conceive what would be a challenge/what could happen/etc., it becomes really convenient to free associate until you have a really rich plot.I still do some "events imagining" and have an events agenda vice a strict plot to drive things, since you never know which way the PCs are going to go. But I have learned the hard way to not try to conceive plots too far in advance, because a lot of times your tastes, your players tastes, or the campaign conditions will change, and you will have wasted efforts. So, I like to keep things further in the future sort of vague.</blockquote>