doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
When did I say anything about anything being novel?None of the ideas in the quoted text of the DMG being discussed here are actually novel.
What would be novel is having the DMG acknowledge the innate tension in adventure path style play, and be direct that while the players have some freedom to diverge, there's a tacit social contract that the players won't try to derail the DM's overarching plot.