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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 5596978" data-attributes="member: 984">I find I go off-track often, and concurrently I find it very easy to create whatever I need on the spur of the moment to react to player choices.  The structure of and the tools provided within 4e make it a cinch.  If the party walks into a combat, I can find and plunk out a series of adversaries very quickly, and best of all I can customize them on the fly by adding whatever power I would think would be appropriate for them to have just by saying they have that power.  (Hmm, these orcs live in a wooded area and use vines with grapples on the end to traverse terrain quickly -- they have a Range 3 attack that pulls 3 and restrains save ends... cool).  If they are doing something creative (and I gave each player a "Do Something Creative" power card) I can adjudicate it with a delicious combination of powers and skill checks in an ad-hoc skill challenge, if that's appropriate.If they blonk up a diplomacy check, well I handle that like it's always been handled in all other versions I have played.  Let's hope they didn't insult the king at the same time!With the openness and clarity of the game design I've found it very flexible to tell all manners of story.  I'd say give it a whirl with less lockdown than you might normally do and you may find it has more adaptability for you than you may have thought it did.  }<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  peace and exciting gaming,Kannik</blockquote>

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