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<blockquote data-quote="sev" data-source="post: 5179416" data-attributes="member: 77780"><p>This is the situation I end up having the most trouble with, and what started me hunting for a better tool this time.</p><p></p><p>I've got a few major loose ends from a previous campaign: a high-level NPC, a geographical location of great interest, a fallen city and the army that's occupying it. And while I could just pretend there's nothing interesting going on in the fallen city & simplify my life a great deal, it fell because of actions the PCs took and so I'm well-incented to bring it back, and one of the players expressed interest in the geographical location and the NPC is *in* that location and, well, that means I'm on the hook for all my loose ends from a campaign that ended unevenly, several years ago.</p><p></p><p>And then I've got the published adventure I picked without too much forethought because I figured I could create a link to the NPC (which turns out to be tenuous, but it's better than nothing) that I ran a few weeks ago.</p><p></p><p>And then I've got several published adventures that fit the theme the players have requested, which I can link to the geographical location...</p><p></p><p>...and then I start losing track of what pertains to which how.</p><p></p><p>I spent this evening mapping many of those connections out and I feel *so* much better now that they're out of my head.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sev, post: 5179416, member: 77780"] This is the situation I end up having the most trouble with, and what started me hunting for a better tool this time. I've got a few major loose ends from a previous campaign: a high-level NPC, a geographical location of great interest, a fallen city and the army that's occupying it. And while I could just pretend there's nothing interesting going on in the fallen city & simplify my life a great deal, it fell because of actions the PCs took and so I'm well-incented to bring it back, and one of the players expressed interest in the geographical location and the NPC is *in* that location and, well, that means I'm on the hook for all my loose ends from a campaign that ended unevenly, several years ago. And then I've got the published adventure I picked without too much forethought because I figured I could create a link to the NPC (which turns out to be tenuous, but it's better than nothing) that I ran a few weeks ago. And then I've got several published adventures that fit the theme the players have requested, which I can link to the geographical location... ...and then I start losing track of what pertains to which how. I spent this evening mapping many of those connections out and I feel *so* much better now that they're out of my head. [/QUOTE]
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