Recent content by Piperken

Are you seeking something more granular, like kinds of scaffolding and structures that can be used for different kinds of adventures?

The 1st two recommendations that came to mind, and both are quite recent. Useful bits in each.

In addition to above, another suggestion that works well in-the-moment is leveraging players' expertise in a relevant area that applies to the moment you're embroiled with, that you know little about. e.g. Your party has an injured member who needs medical help, and have come to a hospital...

Two posts, one towards interrogating your own setting; where it discusses 3 and 1 may be helpful. The second by the same designer, talks about Paint the Scene.

It seems you would want to look at any games that have robust settlement play loops; Stonetop comes to mind, even though it is meant for Iron Age fantasy.

A5E would've taken longer. In retrospect I could've short cut some steps in the process to make it more timely. Like for example, I could've gone through making the character with them? There were some additional factors influencing what I decided to do w/o going into too much detail. One was...

Just doing a bday party is trial enough! I can imagine! :LOL:

I've not focused closely on these, so these are more second hand thoughts that I've picked up from discussion of the two in other spaces. There is more reliance on several different meta currencies in Daggerheart (Hope/Fear has been discussed a lot, but there are others). How these are employed...

It doesn't! Also that's excellent you were able to get that organized! The time involved might be explained by that the player is was 14 as supposed to 10, and they were invested in reading the different sections of the PHB that informed their character choices.

e.g. I recently had the experience of taking a brand-new-to-roleplaying player into my 5th ed D&D campaign last year, creating a character from scratch. It took them two hours for them roll up their 1st level character. That is, done in earnest, with the PHB, and they had the benefit of...

Not without precedent: (also, the Lady of Pain casually pursuing quarry while grinding a skateboard is badass.)

At a music festival, listening to classic rock... In the audience, at the theater watching Hamlet... While watching a basketball game... a soccer game... an American football game... Observing as someone cooks French cuisine...

I agree to go out with friends. We decide, after some back and forth, that we prefer to go to a coffee and tea shop. At the coffee and tea shop, there is a menu of what kinds of coffee and tea drinks one can order. We discover to our surprise, that the venue also offers coffee and tea drinks...

I don't feel the valid approaches both of you have mentioned towards game design contradict one another; a designer can hold these in the same container and benefit from them. I think what's changed significantly is the navigation one takes with their game from ideas > development > play...

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