Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
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 …
Continue reading How I Do Worldbuilding For My Sandbox Campaigns
Non-player characters are where I put my main effort when I create a sandbox campaign. There's an old how to post on how I create NPCs but in this one I'm going to tell you a bit about why I put so much effort into non-player characters. Non-player characters are the most important thing in …
Continue reading Why are Non-Player Characters My Main Focus in a Sandbox Campaign?
One of the biggest challenges for a sandbox campaign is getting players to engage with adventure locations. Set up and run the campaign correctly, and this challenge goes away.
The implied setting of Original Dungeons & Dragons was post collapse not post apocalypse.
Focus on the thing that players are likely to interact with and what they will care about, and the rest of your worldbuilding can be made up of bullet points, quick sketches and scribbles on index cards.
When I'm creating a campaign for Swords & Wizardry one of the first steps in my process are to define the groups that exist in the setting. I start with very broad strokes and ideas. In the beginning...there is swirling Chaos that becomes more clear as I make progress. I start by thinking about the …
What is it for? is a question that can help you when you are brainstorming ideas for magic items, locations, and quest objectives.
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