Soen

It's happened to all of us who have been the game master at one time or another. In creating the session's adventure, it is utterly impossible to predict which way the players will jump in a given situation. No matter how well you know the players and their characters, and how well they stay in character and role-play, they will eventually do something for which you have not prepared. Unless your game is 100% on rails, like in the DM of the Rings campaign, you have to be prepared to follow the players' whims and run off in a totally different direction at some point. I once had to run an entire gaming session on the fly when the players decined to go on the adventure I had carefully prepared, and picked something else entirely to do.

My Dear Brother William, Gruwald was beyond our worst nightmares. I fear we barely escaped there with out lives, and we have definitely chosen a side in the coming battles. May Obad Hai have mercy upon us all, we fought the Inquisitors. I think we made the right choice, but by the gods, there is an enormous difference between continuing the clandestine practice of magic in defiance of the king's edict and taking up arms against his very soldiers! We are quite out of our depth here, and fleeing as I write this to the city of the elves. After what we witnessed this day, our only faint hope may lie with a people who live and breath magic. The abbey and all of Goyem Valley no longer need protection solely from the kobolds; they also need a sanctuary from the Inquisitors.After discovering the kobold infestation at Cowick Abbey, and eventually fighting our way though them to seek help for the abbey and the town of Meadowcroft, we finally arrived at Gruwald. With us was the merchant Markam, recently a prisoner of those filthy vermin, grateful for his rescue and return home. As we dragged into town, intent on finding the head of their militia and requesting aid, we were woefully unprepared for what we did find.