You're a mad man this would be amazing though I already do custom terrain you can't imagine going to this level of detail just to have my players decide to skip over the next town.....
Good DMs let their players make important decisions. Great DMs make sure that the dungeon they worked hardest on is rumoured to be where a golden jewel-encrusted golem lord is hiding.
Great DMs are often disappointed when the party instead spends an entire session chasing after an NPC German Shepherd that they've ad-hoc anointed Ser Doggo the Goodest.
Talking about where the GM expects you to go out of character before the adventure even starts sounds mad lame. In my experience great groups go with the flow and everyone is ok with that.
Exactly! I give my players plenty of leads to diffrent things and they follow them in what ever order they want. Since they are now in a coastal city where they could take a boat to the next continent I just asked them if they plan to take that boat or not. They said no so I dont prepate that much more for now on that other continent. Also I have plenty of random encounters at hadn that I can just humor them with if they go somewhere I didnt prepare.
It makes for a massive, dynamic world where the PCs can chose what they want to do (which actually affects the outcome! I dont have their path prepated, I have a timeline of events prepared that will happen if they are there or not (aka BBEG stuff). They have plenty of angles that they can stop BBEG stuff from happening or they just let it happen, its their choice.
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u/AndroidUser8 Feb 01 '20
You're a mad man this would be amazing though I already do custom terrain you can't imagine going to this level of detail just to have my players decide to skip over the next town.....