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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rafael Ceurdepyr" data-source="post: 2770769" data-attributes="member: 16566">I'm currently working on an upcoming Eberron campaign set in Sharn and have wrestled with this same issue for an intrigue-centered game. Here's a method I adapted from Unknown Armies about coming up with threads for the plot. On a piece of paper (the book example used a napkin <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) write down six (minimum) names of organizations or people that you want to use. You don't even have to know how they'll be used.  I skimmed through all the Eberron books to come up with the groups I thought were interesting.Next draw arrowheaded lines between them and write in words like "Opposition", "Allied", etc.Come up with a "McGuffin", an item (or person) that everyone's after, and put it in the middle of all this. Some groups might be wanting to destroy the item, others want it for themselves.  Then I've written the name of a representative NPC of each group, either from the books or ones you'll make up.I'm generating the NPCs now, then I plan to write a paragraph about what each of the groups is after the item for in more detail.I already have a hook in mind that'll get the PCs involved with the item.I don't have the paper with me, but I can post later if anyone's interested.</blockquote>

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