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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6060604" data-attributes="member: 42582">It's a bit hard to answer without knowing what counts as a "new idea"/"fresh idea".I don't think every session can have a PC-related reveal at the level of "Luke, I am your father!" That would tend to leave the players with too little traction on the identify of their PCs and their place in the gameworld.But I tend to think that every session can have a situation-related twist/reveal at the level of "Lando sold us out to the empire": one salient aspect of the storyline has something about it that was not what the players (and perhaps the GM, if you're improvising) expected up until now.In my own game, I tend to focus twists/reveals on NPC backstory/motivations (eg it turns out that A is connected to B in an unexpected way) and on opposing forces (eg there's an enemy we didn't expect!). I personally think it is better if these twists/reveals are linked to the PCs in some way (eg A is the cleric's friend and B is the chief immortal enemy of the cleric's god; the enemy is, or is in the service of, some important aspect of a PC's backstory), but I know some groups prefer to downplay those sorts of PC-oriented links in their games.I would also strongly advise you to be open to the players introducing their own twists/reveals. For example, if they decide to bargain with or befriend some NPC or monster rather than fight it, you shold be open to that and see where it takes things.</blockquote>

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