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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6199392" data-attributes="member: 386">I may have.In my last 3E game (Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil) I set up a timeline.  The PCs managed their time well.  They reached the "key location" (where the leaders of the cult were) well before they needed to engage with said location.  That doesn't mean they couldn't have engaged with the cult leaders, just that they could wait a long time before doing so.  (If they hadn't managed their time well, the cult would have succeeded, and the campaign would be quite different.)I'm not sure if that qualifies as "long before the adventure at that location."In another example, I had a hill giant chieftain massing an army (under the supervision of the Scarlet Brotherhood).  When the PCs interfered with one of his goblin tribes, he decided it was time to march.  The timeline was set.The PCs took care of some other business, and a while later the PCs returned to the Cairn Hills to see if they could find the hill giant's lair.  One PC could fly, so he spotted the army on the march.  It just so happened that the PCs went back on the same day as the giants were marching.  If they went back earlier, they'd find the army massing; later, and some towns would have fallen.I think this is what Gygax had in mind when he said that keeping track of time was important in the AD&D DMG.I think it's important to note that, in my game, there isn't "the adventure", there's the world of Greyhawk and what the PCs choose to do that makes up the adventure.  I may detail the world, but it's a big enough place that the players can choose what they want to do.</blockquote>

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