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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8640449" data-attributes="member: 22779">That's certainly one way to go about it.  I was more trying to address the point about how his players avoid plot hooks.  So, building in avoiding the side bits is perhaps not quite the right solution.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And, I was assuming, which might be a bad thing, that the side bits aren't necessarily all tied to the main storyline, but, rather, more a "side quest" sort of thing.  Maybe something that only takes a couple of scenes to play out - good for character and/or setting building, but, not really part of the main action.At least, that's how I took the question.  I know that it's a problem I tend to struggle with as well.  My group tends to be really laser beam focused on the task at hand and I find it really hard to try to broaden that focus.  Laser beam focus is great for episodic campaigns but, I'm looking for a more serial approach and that needs some times where there is a need for pace change.</blockquote>