Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
If you watch my Sandbox Campaign Creation Process videos, you will note that I make a lot of lists. Lists are one of my favorite game mastering tools for creating a campaign, preparing for an individual session, and running the game at the table. I use lists to help with sandbox campaign planning Planning is …
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Original Dungeons & Dragons is a set of tools and guidance for us to create our own game.
"Brain rot" is the word of the year for 2024. 1974 offers some ideas for what we might do about it.
Most referees know the rules and how to make rulings for secret doors. Why, when, and where to use them in a dungeon might is also worth considering.
Adventures written by other people can be hard to fit into a sandbox campaign I build myself. There are ways of doing it but it also requires picking adventures that fit the setting I've created. If I create a setting that is very different from the implied or intended setting of the game I'm running then I'll have an even harder time finding an adventure that fits.
An "adventure", in roleplaying game lingo, is a situation or scenario intended for play with a particular roleplaying game within an implied or specific setting. An adventure, as a product class, has a few characteristics that make it different from most forms of written entertainment. What is an adventure for? An adventure scenario is a …
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Starting game masters often build too much of their world before their campaign starts. Too much world building can produce a lot of stuff that players never engage with in play. It can make it hard to use material I find after the campaign starts because I'll have to revise elements of my world or …
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