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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 1095745" data-attributes="member: 1427">I'll start with anything that grabs my imagination. Then I build on it from there and see if I can make it work out. Sometimes it doesn't, and I just file it away and maybe come back to it later. Or it turns out to be a side trek or a piece that I can use in a larger adventure.But it all starts with whatever hooks me. In the past this has included many different sources. I've started with maps from other adventures or sources (tossed away the adventure and built a new one based upon the cool map). I've used basic plot or situation ideas from other sources (adventures, books, TV movies, news stories, often completely unrelated to the fantasy genre). I've had an idea for a cool villian or an idea for a cool plot twist or an interesting NPC. Inspiration has also come from stories and rememberances from previous campaigns. More than once I have started with only a vivid picture of a scene in my head and built outward from there.Like many here, I have been playing D&D for over two decades. I have a big library of store-bought adventures which I often mine for ideas. I love taking the best various bits from different adventures and gluing them together.But, as I said before, the key for me is that something has to grab me enough to keep my interest. Without that, I'll never be able to slog through the various parts of putting an adventure together. Rumours, hooks, plots, events, maps, encounters, NPCs and villians, treasure; often some of these items are fun and practically set themselves up, but very rarely do all of them do so. And it is when they all come together that my players will talk about it for weeks afterward.-DaveUnfortunately, since nothing I ever do is wholly original (or even mostly so) I don't have much to offer the community in the way of adventures or ideas which can be posted somewhere. Practically everything I design and DM uses copyrighted material from others.  Bummer. (edit - spelling, three times)</blockquote>

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