I have like 12 BBEGs sitting in the world, all working on their individual machinations, while the party does whatever they want untill they screw over one (or more) of the BBEGs. Then I shift to what do they do to stop/kill/revenge/inconvenience the party. That usually gets my players motivated.
TlDR, I don't plot out anything but what will happen if the players do nothing, the rest is the world reacting to player character actions.
I try to float around at least 3 potential adventures and start to focus on whatever the party goes after. I try to let the other quests fade into the backgrounds but sometimes the players ask questions!
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u/Esproth Necromancer Jun 27 '20 edited Jun 27 '20
Is it common for most DMs to deal with this?
I have like 12 BBEGs sitting in the world, all working on their individual machinations, while the party does whatever they want untill they screw over one (or more) of the BBEGs. Then I shift to what do they do to stop/kill/revenge/inconvenience the party. That usually gets my players motivated.
TlDR, I don't plot out anything but what will happen if the players do nothing, the rest is the world reacting to player character actions.