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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1014954" data-attributes="member: 158">Jeff, i lvoe the plot, but I have a strong suggestion:You have a lot of places in your story where you say, "I'm guessing the PC's will do this," or "Assuming the PC's do this, then THIS happens."Read it back over, and at every juncture, ask yourself this: What happens if the PC's DON'T do "X"? In my experience, no group of players does what you expect, which means you must prepare for each eventuality.In my most recent session, I had planned several events that could happen in the area they recently traveled to. I had fortunately planned enough, and they took one of my several leads. However, they made a decision in that session that would take them out of the area they were in. They took great pains to travel there to explore something, they explored it for an hour or two, scratched their heads, said, "oh, well," and DECIDED TO MOVE NORTH!So what do I do? For my next session, I plan some NEW encounters for their trip and destination, and then I shelve my carefully constructed scenarios, and will recycle them later.So my advice is not to plan more than a couple sessions ahead, because your PC's can and will take tactics to alter things greatly.</blockquote>