My apologies for not getting the roundup done until now. When I signed up to host the RPG Blog Carnival this month I knew two of my peers (in a three-person team at work) were retiring, I didn’t know we would only have replaced one of them so far and …
Even when they don’t appear immediately, it’s good to know what power centres exist in the campaign. If nothing else, it makes it much easier to lay groundwork so the players aren’t surprised that they exist. To paraphrase Kevin Crawford from his most excellent An Echo, Resounding, players seem a …
Who’s running this show, anyway? Some campaigns can work just fine starting with a local town, a local dungeon, and working out from there. Eventually the PCs will learn of non-local stuff and move on. In fact, this can work quite well as long as the PCs are the primary …
