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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8264384" data-attributes="member: 7016699">[USER=7029930]@AnotherGuy[/USER]I'll give you a perspective from someone who runs 5E, albeit probably very differently from how you're doing so. The fact I do things very differently from you doesn't mean I think you're doing it wrong--I want that to be clear up-front; different approaches and techniques work for different people.It seems as though you are wanting your campaign to come to a specific point at the end of it--which seems to be why you're looking at something like a scorecard--and you're expecting &quot;skilled play&quot; to be, roughly, &quot;the players doing things before the end scenario that make that end scenario easier (with a plausible allowance for the players also doing things that make the end scenario more difficult).&quot; (I can see why you might choose to call that &quot;skilled play&quot;--it's much, much shorter.)I ... never intentionally prep much more than the next session, so I probably wouldn't be thinking in terms of a specific end scenario; I'd be thinking more in the lines of what the goals of the BBEG (or whatever) are, and what the goals of the party are, and where those goals come into conflict. I'd probably have a place outside my session notes where I was keeping track of what it would look like in-game as the BBEG progressed toward its goals. I'd probably look after everything the PCs accomplished (or didn't) and consider how that would change the position of that track--or perhaps how it would change what was on the track, depending on what the PCs did. Everything the BBEG did would be in service of its goals (if occasionally indirectly) and if the PCs interfered sufficiently those goals might change to &quot;kill the PCs.&quot;Having said that, I know that I probably wouldn't have most of that written down, at least not in my session notes binder. If I had a write-up for the BBEG, its goals would be in that write-up; I'd prep its actions based on the situation in-game and its goals; those actions would trigger scenarios in-game.That's possibly not as helpful as I was hoping it would be. Oh comma well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8264384, member: 7016699"] [USER=7029930]@AnotherGuy[/USER] I'll give you a perspective from someone who runs 5E, albeit probably very differently from how you're doing so. The fact I do things very differently from you doesn't mean I think you're doing it wrong--I want that to be clear up-front; different approaches and techniques work for different people. It seems as though you are wanting your campaign to come to a specific point at the end of it--which seems to be why you're looking at something like a scorecard--and you're expecting "skilled play" to be, roughly, "the players doing things before the end scenario that make that end scenario easier (with a plausible allowance for the players also doing things that make the end scenario more difficult)." (I can see why you might choose to call that "skilled play"--it's much, much shorter.) I ... never intentionally prep much more than the next session, so I probably wouldn't be thinking in terms of a specific end scenario; I'd be thinking more in the lines of what the goals of the BBEG (or whatever) are, and what the goals of the party are, and where those goals come into conflict. I'd probably have a place outside my session notes where I was keeping track of what it would look like in-game as the BBEG progressed toward its goals. I'd probably look after everything the PCs accomplished (or didn't) and consider how that would change the position of that track--or perhaps how it would change what was on the track, depending on what the PCs did. Everything the BBEG did would be in service of its goals (if occasionally indirectly) and if the PCs interfered sufficiently those goals might change to "kill the PCs." Having said that, I know that I probably wouldn't have most of that written down, at least not in my session notes binder. If I had a write-up for the BBEG, its goals would be in that write-up; I'd prep its actions based on the situation in-game and its goals; those actions would trigger scenarios in-game. That's possibly not as helpful as I was hoping it would be. Oh comma well. [/QUOTE]

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