I've had similar experiences running years-long tabletop roleplaying games (online, these days, but it's still a table. With a computer on it). For the game that's been running off and on for seven years now, things I put in at the beginning and did not pursue further have ended up being exactly what I need several years, many odd player decisions, and a bad guy that the party absolutely refused to kill later. It makes it look like I had much, much more of a devious and detailed master plan than I honestly did at the time. Sometimes you just know it needs to have these bits and go that way without being able to back it up logically yet.
It's so nifty to read about an author I enjoy having a similar kind of long-running story experience. It's also bizarrely reassuring.
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I've had similar experiences running years-long tabletop roleplaying games (online, these days, but it's still a table. With a computer on it). For the game that's been running off and on for seven years now, things I put in at the beginning and did not pursue further have ended up being exactly what I need several years, many odd player decisions, and a bad guy that the party absolutely refused to kill later. It makes it look like I had much, much more of a devious and detailed master plan than I honestly did at the time. Sometimes you just know it needs to have these bits and go that way without being able to back it up logically yet.
It's so nifty to read about an author I enjoy having a similar kind of long-running story experience. It's also bizarrely reassuring.
Thanks for sharing, and yay Corambis!