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Message: <blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1594883" data-attributes="member: 16581">Sure that's fine too, even if there is a nebulous plot out there that maybe even the GM doesn't fully understand yet, but it ties together multiple series of adventures.  I would call that an overarching plot.Perhaps I should give a counter-example.The party, while traveling, comes upon a cave to spend the night.  As they are making sure it's clear, one of the falls down a hole that was hard to see in the darkness and discovers a cave network.The party decides to explore it the next day, goes in, kills some random underground dwelling, non-intelligent monsters, maybe find an item that is magical but not unique at all (ie a generic +1 longsword etc).  They kill everything they can find and climb back up.  They proceed to continue to go where they were going.This session which I just made up is totally optional.  It furthers no plot.  It gives no items that further plot.  It provided xp and a little treasure.  That's all it did.  That's what I am trying to measure.Now, that is an extreme, but I wanted to use it to show as a good example.  A less simplistic but perhaps more interesting example, is perhaps you add a band of drawven explorers somewhere in the cave system.  The party may not even find them, and you, as a DM, don't have any plans at the moment, to include them as more than "window dressing."In such a situation, it may be possible that someday, those dwarves may come back into play (assuming the party even meets them), or, it's also possible that they will never meet the dwarves again and will never have anything to do with them ever again.  But it's another example of an adventure which doesn't start off as a session to move the plot.I know what I'm trying to ask, but feel that I'm not describing it well.  :-/</blockquote>

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