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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9377067" data-attributes="member: 7006">Part of adding the willie-nillie extras encounters that are outside of the module means also doing the self-editing of the module itself.&nbsp; Taking out or moving magic items from areas within the written portion and into the stuff you add.&nbsp; Not giving out as much XP or just not tracking XP at all and merely doing milestone leveling.&nbsp; And reading far enough ahead and really digesting the full plot of the entire AP such that anything you do add via improv can and will have a solid tie into the plot of entire story.I often read in threads that talk about these APs wherein the DM says they don't actually want to have read the entire book, or especially not read it enough times that they were able to remember most of what was supposed to happen.&nbsp; But for an improvising DM... in my opinion that's actually the best and most effective way to use these things.&nbsp; By knowing ahead of time everything that is written to happen and being comfortable with remembering the paths to get there... it allows the improvisor DM to go off-road and off-script whenever necessary, but thus always knowing where you need to end up and thus have the foresight to redirect the action so that the players will find their way back to the path down the road.&nbsp; Even if it means jumping ahead a bit in the AP, having skipped over some other written parts that ultimately got replaced by the improvised off-road action (which also help take care of the &quot;too much XP&quot; and &quot;too many magic item&quot; problems.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9377067, member: 7006"] Part of adding the willie-nillie extras encounters that are outside of the module means also doing the self-editing of the module itself. Taking out or moving magic items from areas within the written portion and into the stuff you add. Not giving out as much XP or just not tracking XP at all and merely doing milestone leveling. And reading far enough ahead and really digesting the full plot of the entire AP such that anything you do add via improv can and will have a solid tie into the plot of entire story. I often read in threads that talk about these APs wherein the DM says they don't actually want to have read the entire book, or especially not read it enough times that they were able to remember most of what was supposed to happen. But for an improvising DM... in my opinion that's actually the best and most effective way to use these things. By knowing ahead of time everything that is written to happen and being comfortable with remembering the paths to get there... it allows the improvisor DM to go off-road and off-script whenever necessary, but thus always knowing where you need to end up and thus have the foresight to redirect the action so that the players will find their way back to the path down the road. Even if it means jumping ahead a bit in the AP, having skipped over some other written parts that ultimately got replaced by the improvised off-road action (which also help take care of the "too much XP" and "too many magic item" problems.) [/QUOTE]

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