322) So You Want to be a Dungeon Master? Lesson 2 — How to Plan in order to Balance the Plot with Characters’ Freedom of Choice

The truth, and beauty, of D&D is that THERE IS NO PLOT. Your characters are not on some prescribed path, like an obstacle course, where they just try to surmount one pre-set challenge after another, and slowly get better at it. D&D is not a video game. It’s not a pre-written script for a TV show. It’s a truly “open world”.