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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadLordOfMilk" data-source="post: 4787677" data-attributes="member: 77691">If you're getting bogged down in the details trying to get everything down, just have an "idea dump" brainstorm session. I do this here and there whenever I'm feeling inspired. Basically I just grab a notebook or open up a word processor and start putting every little thought that pops into my mind that sounds cool (not necessarily in detail). Later I go back to that when I'm writing the detailed part of the adventure, using it for inspiration and ideas. Later, I go back and add more ideas that pop into my mind throughout the day.As an example, my initial brainstorm for an adventure to start off a campaign was the following:Yes, some of it is absolutely ridiculous stuff I just found funny at the time (see: corn bread monster). But basically I just sat there writing down whatever came to mind. The DMG is a great source of inspiration, by the way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I later took that and fleshed it out into a full adventure, using maybe 1/10 of all of that with ideas left over for the next session. I'd send what I made up but I did it on paper and I don't have a scanner (I made it all in a notebook but just copied the brainstorm to a .doc file).</blockquote>