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CCF07 replied to the thread World of Design: Flipping the Hourglass.So I don't die under prep burden I give PCs freedom of selection of a few choices and ask about what choice they want and prep that. I...
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CIt's fairly easy to get a game session to feel like a story by using scenes, which is why so many games call out running games that way...
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CCF07 reacted to Barner Cobblewood's post in the thread World of Design: Flipping the Hourglass with
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Like Soloist I find the top down model is not that helpful at the table. I use a centre and periphery model. The original centre is... -
CLike several posters already, I follow an iterative process - do enough top level prep to provide a ‘helicopter view’ of the campaign as...
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CCF07 replied to the thread World of Design: Flipping the Hourglass.For an RPG I think a good bit of that is necessary to be able to adapt to PC actions. Too much top down is going to push towards the...
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CFor fiction, I've often heard of the bottom-up also called pantsing. As in, "By the seat of my pants." I imagine some genre authors do a...
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CYes, meet in the middle, that is really where the game happens anyways. There is a lot of world building that is never seen, never meant...
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CI guess most people are a mixture of the two ideas. I tried both and had varied degrees of success. I think if I was going to make...
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CCF07 replied to the thread World of Design: Flipping the Hourglass.I tend to have some big design principles and then fill in specific details as needed, so a mixture. One thing I tend to do is fill in...
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CMaybe if the party is a set of grizzled 6+ level characters. A party of 1st levels isn't going to be much better then a set of just off...
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CCF07 reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Provides Guidance on How to Run Heroes of the Borderlands As More Traditional Campaign with Like.
Yeah, that's a perennial problem with the Caves of Chaos. I intend to have one of the guards know generally about the danger levels of...
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CCF07 reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Provides Guidance on How to Run Heroes of the Borderlands As More Traditional Campaign with Like.
In our first game, the characters met and traveled together to the Keep, getting to know each other on the way. Then they interacted...
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CCF07 reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Provides Guidance on How to Run Heroes of the Borderlands As More Traditional Campaign with Like.
There’s something very amusing to me about the idea of trying to make an adaptation of Keep on the Borderlands - one of the earliest D&D...
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CPicture courtesy of Pixabay. This mantra echoes through the mind of any experienced backpacker, a constant negotiation between...
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CThat would be a unit/party with terrible discipline. Every military dismounted movement I ever had ensured this DID NOT happen. I assume...