Mike Shea

I know it's going that way, and that's enough for me.

Then the majority of my focus is on the next set of games.

And that's where you get into the 3-2-1 quest model.

What are the quests that the characters can work on now?

Which one are they going to pick?

And then I prep for that quest.

And they're still lined up.

They're still aiming in that direction, right?

They're still going towards that North Star.

But the characters are deciding which ones they want to pick to go from one area to the next, right?

They get to decide what they're going to do and how they're going to go.

And I think when we think about that, spending at least 80% of our energy on the next game that we're going to run is better than less, right?

When the characters, when you are letting the game go in interesting directions and knowing it's going to change.

And the idea of how the world changes is what changes for the villains, depending on what the characters do.

My characters decided that Ibalin the Illustrious is really the main Morza that they're going against right now.

Although now they're actually headed to go talk to, or not talk to, but they're going to go deal with agents of Adasha of the Burning Sands.

So how those Morza, how those powerful Dragon Lords react to the things that the characters are doing, that's what's going to drive the story forward.

And that's really fun.

What's funny is players don't always understand that we're doing this.

And I have players who are like, how many more sessions do you think this is going to go?