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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 1879639" data-attributes="member: 12468">I think I could write a book on how to write adventures. Not necessarily how "I" do it, but how one should think about literary and game elements and use them in a game setting.  Although if you ask 100 artist how they create art, they will give you 100 answers, if you ask them How is art made they can tell you about color schemes, composition, media, hue, etc. They can't tell you how to use them to express your artistic feelings, that's for you (the artist) to do. But they CAN tell you about the basic formulas and "rules" that are involved in making a painting or a song.  I think I could surely write a book that covered:Chapt 1. The basic plot variations Chap 2.  Preparing not planning Chap 3. What is heroics Chap. 4. the flow of information and the give and take of communicationChap 5 Small group dynamics, group think, leadership etc. Chap. 6.Dynamic Dming and the flow of timeChapt 7. Designing encountersChapt. 8. etc.  I would also come to these boards and start a few discussions on the elements of good DMing and see what sort of input I could get from people.I'd like to write a book like that actually, but I won't have a chance until next summer some time.   As for how to develop a good plot, the Book of Broken Dreams has a great system for doing just that. The best plots are character driven. With the personality rules in the BoBD, you can create a group of realistic and unique personalities and put them on a matrix that determines their interpersonal relationships. Once you do that, plots and subplots emerge faster than you can count.</blockquote>

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