Topics regarding design and game theory.
Sometimes scenario and setting ideas come from the weirdest places. Today on Facebook there was a conversation about the ‘biggest cataclysm in your campaign’. One of the comments included (something like) William: “The Dim Sun lasted for months, ruining crops. This led to widespread death, famine, and petulance. […]” Me: …
I am exploring an idea to do with Small Gods. I’m considering having them form covenants, agreements of exchange, rather than simply grant spells as normal gods do for clerics. On the one hand, this opens the door to having non-clerics have access to powers from small gods (which is …
D&D 3e opened the door (in D&D-land) to any race/class combination. To encourage archetypal combinations they introduced the ‘favored class’, where characters of each race could (potentially) enjoy reduced experience point penalties when multiclassing with their favored class — with no effect whatsoever if they didn’t multiclass at all, regardless …
I really, really don’t want to see this lost. Grey Knight went through some of the places I posted yesterday and described them. It looks like adding ‘small gods’ as an option when naming a place leads to some pretty inspiring thought.Creepy thought, some of it, but I can very …
The more I work with Matt Finch’s Tome of Adventure Design, the more I like it. In fact, I’ve been meaning to review it. Another time, I’m busy right now. In fact, I’m busy messing with the tables and how they interact. Some time ago I posted a list of …
I realized a while ago that for my polyhedral pantheons methods to really shine, I need more subdomains, and I want them to be more interesting. I think I know how to manage that, but it leads me to some other things I need to consider. The polyhedral pantheon methods …
Back in April I floated the idea of combining Lexicon and Microscope in an exercise to develop a campaign setting. I realized not too long ago that this could be a very useful activity for creating a baseline setting for my Seekers of Lore campaign. I see it working something …
I’m building a sandbox for my Seekers of Lore campaign, and decided it might be worth indexing the articles now rather than later, including my anticipated future posts. Posts So Far Finding the Map: I use Hexographer to generate random maps with three different settings (Default Terrain, Many Islands, Fewer …
I’ve chosen an initial map, which is still subject to adjustment, but for now I’m charging on. Time to place major landmarks and sites, even if I don’t know much about them yet. I’ll be leaning on Kevin Crawford’s An Echo, Resounding: A Sourcebook for Lordship and War for parts of this. …
I think I’ve been putting this off long enough. Time to start building the sandbox for my Seekers of Lore campaign. Normally when I plan a campaign I’ll start with the major movers and shakers, then work from there. This time I think I’ll start a little differently, with the map …