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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2747525" data-attributes="member: 158">I have done this in the past with a Forgotten Realms campaign that went very well, and recently with an Arcana Unearthed campaign (that went decently but went on indefinate hiatus - don't know if we'll finish it.) My answer was to have an extensive campaign planner organized as follows:--Player Character general stat blocks (overview to remember their capabilities)--NPC matrix (name, important stats, descriptors & characteristics)--Past plot hooks (almost a journal, only sketchier)--Future plot hooks (about a dozen, one for each environment they were near)--Calendar (current day, upcoming events, etc.)In this way, I kept abreast of where they were and where they were going. They wandered about nine months real-time from place to place just having a blast! I made sure to remember flavor hooks to keep the world alive (they often ran into people doing their own thing, sometimes they helped, sometimes they didn't) and I also made sure that any plot hooks could be altered to be dropped in with existing NPC's, etc.The Forgotten Realms was an excellent place to do this; I had so much flavor material to draw from, I could describe nearly every locale they wanted to visit, and give them detail run-downs of everything they would experience. My prep-time wasn't so much creation, as it was study and research!</blockquote>