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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 894508" data-attributes="member: 6929">I gestate, long and hard. I come up with the kernel of an idea - a map, a 'what-if' scenario, a compilation of cool stuff from TV or games or whatever - and swish it around a lot. Bits fall into place. Other bits get rooted out. Ten years later, I'm ready to go.(I'm 22.)I'm also fond of shortcuts. I set my campaign in medieval Europe because it's easy, there's lots of material to draw upon, and a couple of little changes makes everything so much cooler. The core idea of the campaign is known to the players, but not to anyone else - you'll have to read my webcomic for a few years before I reveal what precisely the 'twist' of the setting is.Ah, twists... how I love ya. Take something normal. Change something about it. Proceed logically from there. Brainstorming and free association are the important things here. It's where I got my Trollslayer world from (a weird little idea involving a feudal state completely covered by water to a depth of about a foot, and it grew into something much stranger). My scifi ISAF setting doesn't resemble the original vision much at all any more, and is so much cooler because of it (it's also my oldest setting - the ISAF itself wasn't created until years after the setting was laid out, and that momentous foundation itself was a decade ago).Maybe I just have a mind like a jigsaw. Not the puzzle, the thing that makes the puzzles.</blockquote>