asking for some general recommendations

[Iceworm]

I am currently developing a new campaign to be starting for my little group of players. It is going to be home brewed, but drawing on several sources of published material to help me out, in fact some things will be directly transplanted into the campaign.

It is going to be primarily city based with some politicking and role-playing strongly used. I have a very good start on the general structure I want to use. What I need now are a good dungeon that doesn't have to be completed in one trip and will take them from a low level to a high one (The ruins of undermountain were excellent for this, but it has been used). I also would like some good sources for npcs and city based locales.

And my last point is where would people recommend I start as far as writing all this stuff down for myself to use, I currently have several pages of notes in a rather randomly arranged fashion, but it all needs to be organized and detailed, so anyone more experienced than I at doing this I would surely appreciate some advice as to a good way to organize myself and what you would regard as essential to doing the job properly.

I know all this is a lot to ask, but I would surely appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance

 

[Silver Moon]

You may want to check out another thread that was started here yesterday by Randomling, titled "Elements of Plot Building", that is very similar to what you are asking for.

 

[Iceworm]

ah, excellent!

how blind of me not to notice it, thanks

 

[Silver Moon]

Welcome

You're welcome - and don't feel bad for not noticing as there is a ton of material on this Internet site to look at, and even though the content of the other thread was similar the thread titles were clearly different.

And let me also let me be the first to say "Welcome to EN World!" I only found the site myself a few months ago, and have been enjoying it ever since. I currently have three active threads which you can feel free to check out (hint, hint).

Two are here on "Plots & Places" - one about a region with three rival elvan kingdoms, titled "Kingdoms of the Elves", and the other is for a module that I will be starting soon titled "League of Assassins", where I am seeking input from the readers of this board. My third thread is over on Story Hour, titled "Chinese Take-out" and is the log of a module I ran last year set in the Forgotten Realms Orient. It's a bit long, but a fun read. I'm about to start posting the climax battle, which took place on the plane of the Abyss.