Imagine this: you’ve spent two weeks crafting the perfect session. You have dungeon maps, NPC motivations, even some subtle foreshadowing and some dramatic lines for the big boss. Now, on game day, your players roll up to the door of the dungeon, take one look at your ominous stone doorway, and decide, “let’s go talk to that farmer we met three sessions ago instead”. We’ve all been there. You spent so much time and energy, and now your carefully orchestrated plans are closely resembling a collapsing house of cards. Your first instinct is probably to nudge (or violently shove) your players back towards your prepared content. And you can do…