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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5439576" data-attributes="member: 2093">I agree with you; story comes from the players' actions.  The site in  which adventure happens is just that; a site.What that site needs is plenty of color, first of all. It needs an interesting BACKstory. For example,  dungeon-a-day (Dragon's Delve) has a great backstory -  dug by dwarves, inhabited by a dragon, turned into a prison, lived in by wizards, explored by other wizards, eventually abandoned, and now refound by adventurers. But even that is just the first layer. A great site, or set of sites, which is really my preference, needs to DRAW the players. Hooks is one term used, but it doesn't quite get to the full meat of what I mean. A hook draws a PC to a place. It doesn't KEEP them. A site needs to have ongoing,  multi-layered meaning over time for the PCs. Things that change according to how the PCs mature over the campaign. TODAY, the story of a dragon in the lowest levels of the dungeon is merely terrifying. Next year, it is intriguing, and a year after that, it is a plot point that they cannot abandon.And the PCs need to be able to affect changes to the locale. If not to the dungeon itself, then to the community around it, the creatures who dwell there, etc... If when the PCs arrive, the goblins rule the dungeon, and when the PCs leave, the goblins still rule the dungeon, nothing the PCs have done had much impact, did it?Anyway, that's my take.</blockquote>

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