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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snoweel" data-source="post: 5035767" data-attributes="member: 4453">Me too.One of the joys of DMing, for me, is paving the road in front of the PCs.Because I like to keep my campaign prep modular, I can invent (or more likely, steal) metaplot and threat elements with the confidence that the players won't miss them - because they can't miss them.The story requires that an NPC ally of the PCs has close links to the cult they're opposed to? No problem. It could be anyone. After all, what the PCs think they know about someone is just that - what they think they know.Obviously this requires reshuffling my background fluff on the fly but that's one of the things I love about DMing.This whole modular prep thing is what made me give up sandbox world-building. I got sick of the players missing stuff that I really wanted them to encounter so after a while I just started filing the serial numbers off and putting that cool stuff in front of them anyway. If the players never know that the desert pyramid in the east was originally a jungle ziggurat in the west then there's no harm done.Of course this puts the onus on me to retcon all the setting links that no longer fit (before the players find out) but as I've said three times in this post already, that's all part of the fun.</blockquote>