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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9620805" data-attributes="member: 7029930">You've just described me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I played a +10-hour duet last Saturday (2:30pm-1am including) whereby the PC was wrapping up their mini-campaign stint in Sigil and was attempting to return home to Toril to join the rest of the party by doing a leap of faith through one of the portals that appeared to be the most promising from all the research and investigation they had done. He knew he was teleporting into a forested locale which looked like a Prime.So, I created many tables, the first of which (d6) being:1-3 - A Prime World (which directed you to another table with 21 Prime settings)  4  - Feywild5-6 - Outlands (which directed you to another table with 6 Outlands which could fit the description from the research done)I had handful of scenarios (6-7) mapped out which I could use for interesting encounters in various Primes which I wanted to possibly explore with the player, but for the most part I was going in blind, with DMG tables on weather conditions, internet tables on locations (aquatic, dungeon, underdark, hill, mountain, urban, forest, jungle ...etc) and a number of tables to determine which Random Encounter tables I would use. The idea was, Toril was entry 21 on the Prime list I created, and he would be rolling a d20.So obviously his FIRST portal hop to a Prime was never gonna be Toril, but from then on each Prime world he experienced would be removed from the list, i.e. Toril would drop to 20, then 19-20, then 18-20 until he rolled and matched the Toril entry.So this game very much included DM fiat with a plenty randomisation but overall the entire system was my mental modelling and I believe a lot of what you write in (d).I plan to do a decent write-up of this on Enworld, but the short version is he jumped fromSigil - Bytopia (Outlands) - Oerth (Prime) - Titan (Prime) - Mystara (Prime) -  Kara-Tur (Prime) - Toril (Prime)I agree with much of what you write here, but want to add:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Choosing the right DM or players for one's preferred playstyle is standard;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The DM being alert and versatile to accommodate their players so they do not fall into some sort of "same pagedness", particularly with players who would dislike this sort of style - rudderless exploration.</li> </ul>I was fortunate the player I ran this for enjoyed it thoroughly.This was his jam, he was torn between getting back to the party and continuing with his duets. I was surprised how well it worked.I would have likely taken a different approach with some of my other players - perhaps an extended fail forward Skill Challenge.EDIT: Regarding what might seem as Rudderless Exploration - Much of what I ran is pertinent in that the characters are on the last leg of the Toril campaign and I plan for the campaign to move forward to exploring the planes as we pursue the PCs goals/desires. So everything learned/experienced by this PC regarding the lore of the cosmos, NPCs ...etc can now be shared and useful for the party's future.</blockquote>

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