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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6711045" data-attributes="member: 4937">In general, that's not a problem.  Most of the path stays usable.  You just have to improvise more.   Storminator's humorous example above is not what you do.And in Savage Tide particularly, it's not even necessary to stonewall players like that.  The next section of the adventure path is very open world and expects the PC's to explore widely, so the content that they skipped remains in play.  The journey across the island doesn't advance the story much so skipping it is really just skipping grindy content meant to level the PC's up (one my biggest problems with the 1-20 AP concept).  You can if you need to always create new hooks to give them a reason to explore that area, and if not you can always improvise grindy content if you need to.  In particular, the PC's aren't actually behaving very rationally either.  There are NPC survivors that they'd be abandoning on the beach if they took to the sea, and PC's of that level simply can't sea journey effectively.  A potion?  Are you serious?  Trying to swim 200 miles to shelter without a guide as a dolphin in sea dragon infested waters?  It won't take them long to think better of that, and even if it doesn't, I can improvise content about that journey just fine.  My biggest fear would be that the players are heading to a TPK trying to get off the rails in a very irrational manner.   Most of the time, the path allows for detours or short cuts.</blockquote>

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