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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8834998" data-attributes="member: 7024893">I think lore is incredibly underrated.I think some people think of lore as that superficial worldbuilding that the stereotypical failed novelist shoves into his campaign. It can be that, but it's also much more.If your players are moving around adventuring, and they eventually go through a few villages. What sets them apart? What makes them interesting? The events surrounding them, the characters living there, the things to do around there. All these things can be fixed in the world with lore and they become so much more interesting. Instead of just being a generic third medieval village, this one is a fishing village. What do you find around in a fishing village as opposed to other villages? What kind of unique problems might they encounter? Who sticks around in these villages?Same with inn number #367. Who's the owner? Where is he from? Then take lore from that place and bring it into the inn for flavor. He comes from that dark gothic part of the world. The inn has bats and were wolves head carves into the cauldrons. There's a bouquet of wood, incense and other ingredients burning next to the door to push away evil spirits.Once you start writing lore, it's really easy to pull threads from it and make every element you're player interact with (places, people, objects, events) much more flavorful. They also tend to remember things much better when there's a coherence! A well though-out naming patterns of places or individuals of a culture makes remembering these names easier and can connote that they are from that culture.There's so many interesting things that can be done with lore. But lore for the sake of lore, especially when it's communicated through exposition dumps, often through long winding descriptions is pretty tedious in my opinion.</blockquote>

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