Microscope is a very cool game by Ben Robbins, focusing on the collaborative generation of fractal history. I cannot recommend it strongly enough if you’re interested in that sort of thing. I’ve run a few sessions, including one to prepare for my Seekers of Lore campaign, and I’ve been consistently …
I have long agreed with the premise of Justin Alexander‘s article, Don’t Prep Plots. The gist of it is that if you prepare an adventure or scenario with a plot, it is easy to become attached to the outcome, and the game play can become ‘fragile’, where deviation from the …
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: …
When building a scenario or other campaign entity, I like to graphs to show in an abstract way how various things link to each other. Sometimes I like to build purely organically, constructing these graphs as I think of the entities, but lately I’ve been taking a page from the …