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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5826267" data-attributes="member: 42582">Great posts, and I find it very telling that you get responses that immediately characterise your approach as a linear railroad.I think off the cuff can have huge advantages in not railroading, as you can tailor the montage, the encounters, etc to reflect whatever it is that the players are having their PCs do. It's a very dynamic approach to play.One mechanical issue in off the cuff D&D can be if the players expect to be using divination magic to "outsmart" the GM (in the style of classic dungeoneering play), which is a style of play that tends to rely on the map being predrawn and the GM having already committed to various creatures and treasures being in various locations. But that is a fairly specialised approach to play, and so not a general reason to avoid or be worries about off the cuff GMing.</blockquote>