I'm always torn, as a DM, because some of the best games just kinda spiral out of an ad-hoc conversation with an NPC. But also some o the worst games.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting on a Wizard's Tower that's 100 floors of frights terminating into a portal to Limbo with a petrified god's body infested by Illithids just kinda waiting for you to get to it. But you're doing idle chatter with the tribe of goblins you met in a random encounter right before the entrance.
Some of my best sessions are when my players get caught up in their RP for 4 hours and we never get to the encounters that I had planned.
I sometimes derail sessions because I love screwing around in cities and talk with random passersby instead of looking for cool equipment.
I'm always torn, as a DM, because some of the best games just kinda spiral out of an ad-hoc conversation with an NPC. But also some o the worst games.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting on a Wizard's Tower that's 100 floors of frights terminating into a portal to Limbo with a petrified god's body infested by Illithids just kinda waiting for you to get to it. But you're doing idle chatter with the tribe of goblins you met in a random encounter right before the entrance.