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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9734045" data-attributes="member: 7026617">You could set it up so, as the saying goes, "all roads lead to Rome" not in the sense where everything the PCs do will continue the plot as intended, but so that if they miss or destroy one node, there's other routes allowing them to reconnect.Its just that its both a pain in the behind to constantly do, wastes a fair bit of effort potentially (as you're providing encounters and other material that no one group will ever use all of), and in some cases narrows the kind of adventures you can do more than you may want to.Well, I'm with Frogreaver; as long as I get into an AP knowing that's what it is, I don't mind following all the breadcrumbs.   But I do think there's alternate methods, they're just rarely done for the reasons I mention above.Well, to some extent you can get around it with a low-prep approach if you assume the PCs are at least going to engage with the adventure in a consistent way and not just walk away from it the moment they don't like the cut of its jib.  But not everyone is good at that approach, and not all of the problems I address earlier go away just because you do.Yeah.  The only exceptions you're going to get are people who really are expecting everything to be a freeform sandbox, or have a very self-centered view of play anyway.</blockquote>