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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Captian Tobacco" data-source="post: 5310045" data-attributes="member: 93707">Like Nagol said in point #1 decide on the structure. Decide what you want the adventure to accomplish. The next part is a little more time consuming. Look at each main encounter/session and decide how it should turn out. Jot these down like you would an outline for a school paper.  Now, for each main point, address what you need to have happen. (PC’s must find the map. Talk to the barkeep. Etc.) Then consider how to handle what to do if the party does not do this ONE important action of the scene.   Plotting what players are going to do is harder than most people think, so take some time and consider what they are likely to do (based on the party makeup), what they are really likely to do (based on the players makeup) and think of ways to, not counter their mistakes, but how to seamlessly get them the same info without breaking the flow of the game. Maybe a small side action (chasing down the thief who stole the thingie) or maybe this is a major change (the only guy who could stop the bad thing from happening is dead maybe his spell book has a clue in it…) It takes a while to get the flow of seamless corrections but the more you do it (and have a couple of ‘random’ but controlled encounters on hand) the easier it will become.  Hope this helps… (reading later, Ogre also had some great ideas.)</blockquote>