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Creating your world: Is it a struggle or does it just come to you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calithorne" data-source="post: 7511154" data-attributes="member: 6874058"><p>For me, it isn't a struggle at all. My world feels real to me, and when I sit down to create it, it feels more like it's being revealed to me, rather than me making things up.</p><p></p><p>This happens whether I'm preparing ahead of time, or whether I'm free-balling it during play.</p><p></p><p>I know I'm not the only one who feels this way, I think there are others who feel this way during the creative process.</p><p></p><p>I'll tell you one story to illustrate:</p><p></p><p>The PCs were in a city called Middleton, which was a trading town half-way between the human and elven kingdoms, and run by a gnome called Nyrond the Negotiator.</p><p></p><p>I told the PCs that something was off, that things were not as they appear.</p><p></p><p>What they could see was a clean, well-kept, very wealthy town which had no crime or problems.</p><p></p><p>Nyrond's headquarters was a glamorous castle, inlaid with gold trimmings and gems of all colors and descriptions.</p><p></p><p>At this point, I did not know what the secret was.</p><p></p><p>But one of the PCs had a pair of Goggles of True Seeing, so I had to make up something quick.</p><p></p><p>They put on the goggles, and what they saw, I made up on the spot right there:</p><p></p><p>The town, in actuality, was extremely poor and rundown. There were beggars and homeless people everywhere. Nyrond's castle was a brutally efficient fortress of simple gray stone blocks.</p><p></p><p>A powerful illusion had been cast on the city, to make it appear prosperous, and to turn the beggars and homeless invisible to those not wearing Goggles of True Seeing.</p><p></p><p>Now mind you, I did not know this going in, it came to me like it was just something that had always been true.</p><p></p><p>The explanation I made up later, the elves had cut off Nyrond's exclusive trading deal and his town had suffered a deep depression as a result.</p><p></p><p>So how about you? Is it is a struggle to make things up, or do ideas just appear in your mind?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calithorne, post: 7511154, member: 6874058"] For me, it isn't a struggle at all. My world feels real to me, and when I sit down to create it, it feels more like it's being revealed to me, rather than me making things up. This happens whether I'm preparing ahead of time, or whether I'm free-balling it during play. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way, I think there are others who feel this way during the creative process. I'll tell you one story to illustrate: The PCs were in a city called Middleton, which was a trading town half-way between the human and elven kingdoms, and run by a gnome called Nyrond the Negotiator. I told the PCs that something was off, that things were not as they appear. What they could see was a clean, well-kept, very wealthy town which had no crime or problems. Nyrond's headquarters was a glamorous castle, inlaid with gold trimmings and gems of all colors and descriptions. At this point, I did not know what the secret was. But one of the PCs had a pair of Goggles of True Seeing, so I had to make up something quick. They put on the goggles, and what they saw, I made up on the spot right there: The town, in actuality, was extremely poor and rundown. There were beggars and homeless people everywhere. Nyrond's castle was a brutally efficient fortress of simple gray stone blocks. A powerful illusion had been cast on the city, to make it appear prosperous, and to turn the beggars and homeless invisible to those not wearing Goggles of True Seeing. Now mind you, I did not know this going in, it came to me like it was just something that had always been true. The explanation I made up later, the elves had cut off Nyrond's exclusive trading deal and his town had suffered a deep depression as a result. So how about you? Is it is a struggle to make things up, or do ideas just appear in your mind? [/QUOTE]
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