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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 2918496" data-attributes="member: 24357">“What does a GM owe his Players?”  Without reading the post (which I have) the title just annoys the hell out of me.A GM owes his Players nothing.  They should be thankful they have a GM that is willing to put in the effort.  To answer your question though (IMHO)- alert your Players as to your campaign intent.  Few years back I did the old bait and switch campaign, because I wanted no one prepared for what I had in mind.  The campaign died, very quickly, the Players were completely thrown by the campaign and could not recover in time to save the campaign.  In recourse I started just plainly telling my Players everything I have planned for my campaigns.  Plots, some hooks, etc.  Course that might have something to do with why I am no longer GMing, but that is beside the point I suppose.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> To shorten my response- let your Players know your intent, they should be more then happy to just be involved in a campaign, to know that you have put dozens of hours into what takes then just a couple to go through (I generally figure about 2-5 hours per hour of play for prep time).Good luck, and hope all goes well for you and your campaign.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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