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Message: <blockquote data-quote="likuidice" data-source="post: 1231594" data-attributes="member: 12040">ask your players what they want to do next session, whether it be visit the caves of no return, or the bog of eternal stench, you'll know in advance. if you're clever about it, you can drop in stuff that relates to your main plot.for example, the bbeg necromancers rituals are creating a butterfly effect, wild magic storms appear in distant locations, one of which is the area the pcs are visiting, this could lead to curious pcs attempting to find out why this has happened, yadda yadda. or the assassination of the king has affected trade routes, the pcs cant buy the goods that they wanted because of it. make sure they know about these events in advance, so that they recognise there is a reason for them, not just the "mean dm" trying to stop them creating the "sword of slaying everything except squid." if the pcs are motivated enough, even if all they want to do is dungeon bash, they'll start to get involved to stop this evil guy interfering with their plans to loot tombs. after all, they arent the only party in the world, maybe have them arrive at thelost tomb of blurgle furgle to find it already empty and looted by minions of the big bad. hell hath no fury like that of an adventurer deprived of "their" loot....</blockquote>