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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6092034" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, I would assume something like this sort of AP what would be happening in say Pemerton's game, except ALL the elements related to how it can be accomplished, what the stakes are, etc are all decided by, if not actual action scenes, at least some kind of &quot;step up&quot; by the PCs.For instance I might imagine it being something like the PCs decide to enter Bobville, the DM offers them a meeting with the local town priest, they accept. The meeting reveals the possibility of a quest being given by said priest. Perhaps the players consult and step up, making it an all-out bid to save the town from the snake cult! The DM can of course offer to pile on more stakes or less stakes so they have a choice, which could range anywhere from &quot;there's some treasure in the old mines&quot; all the way up to &quot;save the town by stealing the idol&quot;. The DM might even come out and say &quot;Hey, I've got this AP, and it assumes X, Y, and Z, so if you guys want to play through it then lets frame it up this way.&quot; You'll want to play to the PC's personalities of course, so maybe the DM knows one is a valiant fighter against evil, and another is simply a mercenary. Maybe one PC is even looking for a chance to run off with some treasure to settle an old debt! Anyway, the contents of the adventure can then be offered in line with how the thing was framed at the start, or it might not get quite that explicit. Usually IME the DM does a lot of the offering, so if he's got published material to use, normally he'll offer at least major parts of it as it seems appropriate. You probably won't skip over the whole temple if its say a dungeon crawl, but you might skip past the boring parts with a hand wave, or just reinterpret things so they don't even form part of the story. No doubt Pemerton will tell me where I'm pretty far off from his way of doing things, but its not far from the way I swing these days. I may even get all the way to completely deciding everything at the spur of the moment, eventually... lol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6092034, member: 82106"] Well, I would assume something like this sort of AP what would be happening in say Pemerton's game, except ALL the elements related to how it can be accomplished, what the stakes are, etc are all decided by, if not actual action scenes, at least some kind of "step up" by the PCs. For instance I might imagine it being something like the PCs decide to enter Bobville, the DM offers them a meeting with the local town priest, they accept. The meeting reveals the possibility of a quest being given by said priest. Perhaps the players consult and step up, making it an all-out bid to save the town from the snake cult! The DM can of course offer to pile on more stakes or less stakes so they have a choice, which could range anywhere from "there's some treasure in the old mines" all the way up to "save the town by stealing the idol". The DM might even come out and say "Hey, I've got this AP, and it assumes X, Y, and Z, so if you guys want to play through it then lets frame it up this way." You'll want to play to the PC's personalities of course, so maybe the DM knows one is a valiant fighter against evil, and another is simply a mercenary. Maybe one PC is even looking for a chance to run off with some treasure to settle an old debt! Anyway, the contents of the adventure can then be offered in line with how the thing was framed at the start, or it might not get quite that explicit. Usually IME the DM does a lot of the offering, so if he's got published material to use, normally he'll offer at least major parts of it as it seems appropriate. You probably won't skip over the whole temple if its say a dungeon crawl, but you might skip past the boring parts with a hand wave, or just reinterpret things so they don't even form part of the story. No doubt Pemerton will tell me where I'm pretty far off from his way of doing things, but its not far from the way I swing these days. I may even get all the way to completely deciding everything at the spur of the moment, eventually... lol. [/QUOTE]

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