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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 5467376" data-attributes="member: 6669048">That's been my strategy in the past.&nbsp; I write down everything I do in a campaign somewhere, especially names.&nbsp; When I get stuck, that's when a long-lost brother/sister/daughter/son/whatever of an NPC they killed comes back and starts harasses the players.&nbsp; Or I can drop an NPC's name as a member of a cult/group/conspiracy that they encountered weeks or months before.&nbsp; I do this in advance too.&nbsp; I have a vague idea of what to do with the Yellowskulls from the Storm Tower adventure (popularized in the Penny Arcade podcast), so I'm going to drop hints now about them.&nbsp; I want to have a demon show up later as well, so I'm going to have its name pop up here and there even though at this point I have no idea what I'm going to do with the demon and probably won't for a while.&nbsp; I may not even go with the demon idea.&nbsp; I'm going to throw a few more random things in too.Now will I get to all of these plot threads?&nbsp; Not even remotely.&nbsp; But I will take the ones the PCs focus on most and develop them.&nbsp; And when some random enemy they faced at 2nd level turns out to have a major connection to an enemy they'll face throughout all of Paragon, you'll seem like a genius.&nbsp; Hey, it worked for Joss Whedon!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 5467376, member: 6669048"] That's been my strategy in the past. I write down everything I do in a campaign somewhere, especially names. When I get stuck, that's when a long-lost brother/sister/daughter/son/whatever of an NPC they killed comes back and starts harasses the players. Or I can drop an NPC's name as a member of a cult/group/conspiracy that they encountered weeks or months before. I do this in advance too. I have a vague idea of what to do with the Yellowskulls from the Storm Tower adventure (popularized in the Penny Arcade podcast), so I'm going to drop hints now about them. I want to have a demon show up later as well, so I'm going to have its name pop up here and there even though at this point I have no idea what I'm going to do with the demon and probably won't for a while. I may not even go with the demon idea. I'm going to throw a few more random things in too. Now will I get to all of these plot threads? Not even remotely. But I will take the ones the PCs focus on most and develop them. And when some random enemy they faced at 2nd level turns out to have a major connection to an enemy they'll face throughout all of Paragon, you'll seem like a genius. Hey, it worked for Joss Whedon! [/QUOTE]

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