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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6279522" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>As far as coming up with the big idea, the main story the campaign will be about, that comes from thinking deep thoughts.</p><p></p><p>Fantasy is about big ideas and particularly about good and evil. If you want to write good fantasy, you have to think long and hard on what it means to be good or evil in your best opinion.</p><p></p><p>So for example, the current campaign against the Esoteric Order of the Golden Globe came about from an essay I wrote for my own benefit on the heretical cults that inhabited by game world. I tried to sympathize with the cults and why their members might feel as they did and what complaints that they might have that could be considered legitimate. Then I tried to imagine how that complaint could be posed as a moral dilemma, in this case, "Do the ends justify the means?" and "What is justice?"</p><p></p><p>Another campaign I want to run is about the question, "What is the relative merit of stopping present suffering compared to preventing future suffering?", or put another way, "What about the messes we leave or children in out of otherwise noble desires to protect them?"</p><p></p><p>Another campaign I began running at one time and might like to revisit is about the question, "Is it ever right to rob the rich to give to the poor?", and concerns economic and social inequities in the wake of an otherwise just revolution.</p><p></p><p>And again, I have a campaign idea that involves considering the values and dangers of tolerating antisocial or simply just abnormal behavior in a society, and the relative merits of tolerance and intolerance. </p><p></p><p>Pretty much any question you are interested in can be posed as a fantasy conflict.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6279522, member: 4937"] As far as coming up with the big idea, the main story the campaign will be about, that comes from thinking deep thoughts. Fantasy is about big ideas and particularly about good and evil. If you want to write good fantasy, you have to think long and hard on what it means to be good or evil in your best opinion. So for example, the current campaign against the Esoteric Order of the Golden Globe came about from an essay I wrote for my own benefit on the heretical cults that inhabited by game world. I tried to sympathize with the cults and why their members might feel as they did and what complaints that they might have that could be considered legitimate. Then I tried to imagine how that complaint could be posed as a moral dilemma, in this case, "Do the ends justify the means?" and "What is justice?" Another campaign I want to run is about the question, "What is the relative merit of stopping present suffering compared to preventing future suffering?", or put another way, "What about the messes we leave or children in out of otherwise noble desires to protect them?" Another campaign I began running at one time and might like to revisit is about the question, "Is it ever right to rob the rich to give to the poor?", and concerns economic and social inequities in the wake of an otherwise just revolution. And again, I have a campaign idea that involves considering the values and dangers of tolerating antisocial or simply just abnormal behavior in a society, and the relative merits of tolerance and intolerance. Pretty much any question you are interested in can be posed as a fantasy conflict. [/QUOTE]
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