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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 9381347" data-attributes="member: 6680772">Let’s look at Lost Mine of Phandelver.It’s got a story with a beginning, middle, and end. The dwarf Gundren has arranged for the PCs to come to Phandalin. Along the way they are ambushed by goblins. They follow the goblins to their hideout, defeat the bugbear there, and save Gundren’s friend Sildar. Arriving in Phandalin, they run afoul of the Red Brand gang, and investigate their hideout in Tresendar Manor. There they learn the location of Cragmaw Castle, where Gundren is being held. They go to Castle, save Gundren, learn about the Black Spider, and get the location of Wave Echo Cave. Going there, they find the lost mine and defeat the Black Spider. End of campaign.Now, of course, in the course of play, it probably won’t go just that way. There are multiple ways to learn the location of Cragmaw Castle. And plenty of side quests, some tied in with the pregen PCs’ backstories. The PCs may join a faction. They may decide on some unique course of action that the DM has to accommodate. But the structure on which all this stands is the through line described above.The way I see it, the advice is merely suggesting to make an adventure in that mode. Have a beginning, an inciting incident (goblin ambush), a middle (search for Gundren and/or find Cragmaw Castle), and an end (find Wave Echo Cave, defeat the Black Spider).But within that, there’s plenty of leeway. So a DM has to be prepared for players to deviate.</blockquote>

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