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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2195911" data-attributes="member: 2810">I don't like spending a lot of time fleshing out NPCs and organizations.  Too often, the party will do something really off-the-wall, and it ends up being a lot of prep time for nothing.  I tend to lay out big-picture plots, and then provide more detail as the party gets closer (kinda like object detail in video games -- just blobs when they are far away, fully fleshed out when you are interacting with them.)I've found that if I try to run the world like it exists in the absence of the PCs that I spend way to much time on it, and get annoyed when they don't appreciate the brilliant subtleties and creativity that went into it  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Or I start railroading them to follow my plot.</blockquote>