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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7100076" data-attributes="member: 29398">Where I'd have had most if not all of that pretty much set before the adventure even started, so that the results of any pre-investigation and information gathering done by the party would either a) agree with what was actually there or b) be known at the time at least by me-as-DM to be wrong (false rumours, etc.).Note that I'm not saying I never make things up on the fly.  Sometimes I have no choice; if they've gone somewhere or done something I just didn't see coming I have to hit the curveball.  But at least the major stuff (in what you reported, the mixed-up religion and practices of the cult - and evidence of such - would certainly be among such things) would be in place beforehand, such that if the PCs start casting divinations or scrying the locale I'm on a solid and consistent footing when narrating the results they get.That said, if your system doesn't have much by way of PC-available divination or scrying you're to some extent off the hook.  My system does, and I never know when they're going to pull 'em out of the toolbox.Lanefan</blockquote>