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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4817120" data-attributes="member: 807">Since my current campaign style is fairly "PC goes where they want" type I need to have some ideas for most situations.  So, for every session, I basically list down all the nearby or potential places that I think they could go ("the forest west", "plains north" "stay in the city" "use the magic gate" etc)   and then (using each place as a section heading) I list under each a basic plot/theme/concept and maybe a typical encounter they might end up facing while there.i keep it all very disjointed (after all, it only has to make sense to me) and somewhat brief (just enough to remind me of what i envision, i'm not writing a novel here).  Lots and lots of bullet lists and phrases instead of sentences.i keep it in electronic format (and have my laptop with me when i DM, but i do this only because i can usually glance at my notes and know what i need to know... if i couldn't do that, they i'd actually print it instead)Any section that doesn't get used gets copy&pasted in to the next set of notes in case the PCs go there the next time!  Or gets recycled if there is no chance of it happening anymore (i.e. if one of my notes was about how the king would give a speech on a certain day and if the pcs were in town they'd hear it -- well suppose the pcs weren't in town so they missed that, so any encounter ideas i had for that would get recycled in case i ever had to have a public speech type situation again).I also keep another list of random npc names, city names, and tavern names for when i need to come up with a name on the fly.I do it this way so that for every session all the stuff is in one document. (I don't like flipping around documents on my laptop isn't as easy as flipping documents on my desktop).  But if i were dming from my desktop (unlikley to ever happen, but just saying) then i'd actually have seperate files for each potential location.  that way i don't have to copy & paste over for each session.</blockquote>

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