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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6538638" data-attributes="member: 22424">My suspicion is that you're over-thinking it. There's not really any great secret to it: ideas come from all sorts of places, and then it's mostly just a matter of building from there.If you don't have it, I recommend the &quot;Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide&quot; from 2nd Ed.I found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-Faces-Bollingen-Series/dp/0691017840" target="_blank">&quot;Hero With a Thousand Faces&quot;</a> somewhat helpful, though more for campaign structure rather than building an adventure plot. On a recommendation from Monte Cook, I also read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-DC-Comics-Guide-Writing/dp/0823010279" target="_blank">&quot;The DC Guide to Writing Comics&quot;</a>, which was perhaps even more helpful. And recently I found <a href="http://narrativefirst.com/articles/four-acts-not-three" target="_blank">this article</a> useful (the rest of the blog is interesting, but prone to One-True-Wayism, so take with a pinch of salt).Mostly, though, it seems to be about finding a seed of an idea, and then asking lots of questions: &quot;what if someone found a lost Shakespeare play?&quot;, &quot;who might try to acquire it, and how?&quot;, &quot;what if it's a fake?&quot;, &quot;where do the PCs come in?&quot;, and so on...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6538638, member: 22424"] My suspicion is that you're over-thinking it. There's not really any great secret to it: ideas come from all sorts of places, and then it's mostly just a matter of building from there. If you don't have it, I recommend the "Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide" from 2nd Ed. I found [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-Faces-Bollingen-Series/dp/0691017840"]"Hero With a Thousand Faces"[/URL] somewhat helpful, though more for campaign structure rather than building an adventure plot. On a recommendation from Monte Cook, I also read [URL="http://www.amazon.com/The-DC-Comics-Guide-Writing/dp/0823010279"]"The DC Guide to Writing Comics"[/URL], which was perhaps even more helpful. And recently I found [URL="http://narrativefirst.com/articles/four-acts-not-three"]this article[/URL] useful (the rest of the blog is interesting, but prone to One-True-Wayism, so take with a pinch of salt). Mostly, though, it seems to be about finding a seed of an idea, and then asking lots of questions: "what if someone found a lost Shakespeare play?", "who might try to acquire it, and how?", "what if it's a fake?", "where do the PCs come in?", and so on... [/QUOTE]

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