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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4624810" data-attributes="member: 32740">I have variously used all three options, past, present and future in different campaigns.  But I don't know that I have ever had my decision as to which I wish to use cemented in place at the start of any of them, and even less often has it actually factored into play. I had an incident in one campaign where players found some kind of teleportation gate.  I had a big list of possible destination planes and one of them was present day, real-world Earth.  One player wound up there and I realized I had nothing prepared and no particular plan as to how to proceed.  I made a couple of percentile rolls to determine lattitude and longitude and put the character on a cold, windy bluff looking south over the ocean in Tierra del Fuego.  Had he decided to explore I'd have given him a really interesting adventure, but seeing nothing of particular interest he just went back where he came from. The great thing about D&D is that it's fantasy in the first place so time and space are malleable and negotiable at just about any stage.</blockquote>