Calithorne
Explorer
Do you watch TV shows and movies to get ideas for your campaign world?
I do. I watch a lot of TV, and I see it as research. I see the stories as inspiration to give me ideas for my own worlds.
I just finished White Princess, which is a show about the War of the Roses. Basically, two rival families are fighting a war over control of the throne of England, and it's amazing how stubborn these people are in going to war over who gets to be king. White Princess is a sequel of White Queen, and I recommend you start by watching that.
I have also been watching a Turkish show, which is about the conflict between the early Turks and the Crusaders. Most of the trouble, however, is within the tribe, as different factions compete over who gets to be in charge.
What's amazing to me is how many stories you get if you make up a bunch of NPCs who are related to each other, or in a rival noble family, and then just figure out who's king and who wants to be the king, and shazam, you have a major conflict that involves all the other characters.
Player characters can get involved in all this, and choose sides, and then they have to watch out for court intrigue, assassination attempts, outright battles in the corridors of the castle, and/or getting arrested for treason.
I think all this is much better than a simple hack-n-slash to go out and kill a local orc tribe. I mean, you could have that, but why not have the orcs working for the evil uncle of the king who wants to overthrow him?
Any way, that's just my idea.
I do. I watch a lot of TV, and I see it as research. I see the stories as inspiration to give me ideas for my own worlds.
I just finished White Princess, which is a show about the War of the Roses. Basically, two rival families are fighting a war over control of the throne of England, and it's amazing how stubborn these people are in going to war over who gets to be king. White Princess is a sequel of White Queen, and I recommend you start by watching that.
I have also been watching a Turkish show, which is about the conflict between the early Turks and the Crusaders. Most of the trouble, however, is within the tribe, as different factions compete over who gets to be in charge.
What's amazing to me is how many stories you get if you make up a bunch of NPCs who are related to each other, or in a rival noble family, and then just figure out who's king and who wants to be the king, and shazam, you have a major conflict that involves all the other characters.
Player characters can get involved in all this, and choose sides, and then they have to watch out for court intrigue, assassination attempts, outright battles in the corridors of the castle, and/or getting arrested for treason.
I think all this is much better than a simple hack-n-slash to go out and kill a local orc tribe. I mean, you could have that, but why not have the orcs working for the evil uncle of the king who wants to overthrow him?
Any way, that's just my idea.