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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9014477" data-attributes="member: 29398">Without knowing what style of play or game you're otherwise designing for here (D&D-like?  story-now? or ?), it's hard to comment in much detail.  That said, a few things occur to me.....One thing I'd write differently, were it me, are the creating the game world and creating the adventure pieces; as instead of saying don't prep in detail I'd say go ahead and prep in lots of detail but be ready to abandon that prep at a moment's notice.  The key point to hammer home is don't let yourself get attached to your prep even though you may have put a lot of effort into it.Adventures in particular - I often find the more details the author gives me the easier it is to run, as the author has handled the what-ifs so I don't have to.  Prepping in too little detail can leave a GM - particularly a new one - floundering.  Don't write plots, write locations - but write them in detail.In GM traps you might want to give a brief example of what railroading can look like in play. There's probably no good way to add this as a guideline without opening Pandora's box, but a little short-term railroading now and then e.g. a forced capture scene or a teleport trap that puts its victims into the middle of a dangerous situation can be a useful tool.Under types of villains I'd add something like "The Mob" or "The Faceless Mass" to accout for situations where the "villain" is a widespread cult or guild or large family or even another adventuring party.  Failing that, at least indicate somehow that "the villain" doesn't always have to be a single person; as all your examples otherwise seem to assume that it is.Your describing the scene ideas are great for random places; though ideally that info would already be prepped were the location in a written adventure.</blockquote>

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