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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6083530" data-attributes="member: 463">I think there's definitely a dysfunctional school of DMing exemplified by James Wyatt's GMing advice column where he detailed his planned 'Greenbriar Chasm' campaign, to be centred on 'Gates of Firestorm Peak' I think it was. And instead of starting his party at the gates of Firestorm Peak, he pushes this ca 6th level 2e adventure up to 4e mid-Paragon and starts his party at 1st level, with around 15 levels to go before they actually 'get to the fun'. Unsurprisingly the campaign he had spent countless months developing then crashed and burned after a few sessions of pointlessness.It's ok to sketch out a possible 30-year campaign arc that will support years of play (I just did that), but you better make damn sure that the stuff happening next Tuesday is as cool as what you have planned for 2016. If not, then skip to the fun and run that 2016 stuff now.</blockquote>