Preplanning

[Wavefunction]

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

It is, without a doubt, the BEST way to represent characters who are chessmasters, magnificent bastards, and those schooled in the Xantos Gambit. Doug's character in my supers game has it and it ends up making him pull off tactically genius things even if Doug himself forgets.

For the sake of clarity, the article you're thinking about is 'Fortunately I Saw This Coming', there's another article in that same issue about planning called 'I've Got An Idea' which seems to be what WaterAndWindSpirit is refering to.