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But I felt this might amuse. (Possible spoilers for Sixfold Trial)
Tonight, we got really underway for Council of Thieves, Sixfold Trial. After months of building my expectations for a wonderfully RP heavy read and play of the ... play, we quickly found that my sole player (and love of my life) did not want to actually play through the entire play. 10 pages of box text, basically, for one player. I had assumed she'd LOVE it.
This was after a smaller assumption, namely that the party's Big Dumb Fighter would fit perfectly into the role of Tybain the bumbling Paladin. She wanted Big Dumb Fighter to play Drovalid, and that worked very well afterall.
I had to recast Ilsandra to the party's female PC, a priestess of Pharasma, amusingly enough. So when said cleric cast cause fear on a random actress who was trying out, it was on the person who was written for Ilsandra, thus guaranteeing herself the spot.
Thus, I found myself missing an actor to play Tybain. I read that if the party was short on actors for the roles, to just use the iconics from the back of the book. I chose Seelah, the iconic Paladin of Iomedae, to play Tybain. This is Very Amusing because the party is very anti-heroic at best and downright criminal at worst. My Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") has hinted that she'd like Seelah to stick around, join the Children of Westcrown and eventually become part of the party. This, my dear friends, is going to be a challenge.
So, I've had to scrap the play and recast creatively. But I think I'm going to have fun, gosh darn it.
Rule #1 of gaming. The plan never survives contact with the players.
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One thing I learned as a DM is to *never* formulate plans involving players. Never. Ever. Whenever you read some ready material or come up with your own ideas and think "gee, player A will totally do this while player B for sure won't touch item X", in the end it all goes completely unexpectedly.
Whenever my players ask "so what's your plan with that" or "did you plan this all along" I make a puzzled impression and answer "don't look at me, I'm just a janitor here".