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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9381153" data-attributes="member: 42582">Not really. And it's not as if the writing is coy: "How do you expect the adventure will end? Think about possible endings as well as rewards for the characters."It's hardly James Joyce.I do tend to read instructional texts literally. I mean, there are some exceptions in the RPG world - some instructional texts that are also written with flair and allusion - but I don't think WotC is writing those!And I'm not "searching for problems". I saw a link to this preview, I had a read of it, and I was struck by the contradiction.This isn't true, if the map has multiple paths. (Which you seem to  recognise.)In the even more classic mega-dungeon, the players are also expected to scout out and choose their goal - so, in effect, it is the players who choose which scenes are framed (from a "menu" provided by the GM's dungeon building).Well, if this is what they're hinting at (i) I think they could be clearer, and (ii) I think it's bad advice. I mean, why would you prepare a sequence of events if you're not intending to follow that sequence of events?There are other ways of preparing and planning content for a RPG session than planning a sequence of events with a beginning and an end that you don't intend to use.</blockquote>