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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8914380" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Catch the world-building bug!!!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(209, 72, 65)">Obsessively daydream about it!!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">Start feverishly writing!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">Update and impulse-buy cartography software.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)">Spend hours watching YouTube training videos and reading user forums..</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">Go crazy with map building...</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Buy/subscribe to a campaign-management / world-building tool....</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">Spend hours watching YouTube training videos and reading user forums . . .</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)">Go crazy with data entry -</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">Realize you suck as a cartographer but let your ego and love of your world convince you that it is worth spending a lot of money to hire a cartographer to make a professional world map you can print with a large-format printer and hang on your game room wall --</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">Realize your how large your world is and how hard it will be to create all the adventures and minor locations from scratch —-</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">Subscribe to ENWorld and scour DTRPG for plug-in content - - -</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Get a new job that is very demanding and requires lots of travel ~</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(61, 142, 185)">Realize it'll be challenging enough to find time to run the game much less find time to prep everything from scratch ~~</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201)">Read the Lazy Dungeon Master books and articles ~~~</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Clutch pearls. NOT WITH MY BABY!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Buy a published setting and published adventure path and run that.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8914380, member: 6796661"] [LIST=1] [*][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Catch the world-building bug!!![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(209, 72, 65)]Obsessively daydream about it!![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]Start feverishly writing![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(235, 107, 86)]Update and impulse-buy cartography software.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]Spend hours watching YouTube training videos and reading user forums..[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)]Go crazy with map building...[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)]Buy/subscribe to a campaign-management / world-building tool....[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(247, 218, 100)]Spend hours watching YouTube training videos and reading user forums . . .[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)]Go crazy with data entry -[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]Realize you suck as a cartographer but let your ego and love of your world convince you that it is worth spending a lot of money to hire a cartographer to make a professional world map you can print with a large-format printer and hang on your game room wall --[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)]Realize your how large your world is and how hard it will be to create all the adventures and minor locations from scratch —-[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)]Subscribe to ENWorld and scour DTRPG for plug-in content - - -[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Get a new job that is very demanding and requires lots of travel ~[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(61, 142, 185)]Realize it'll be challenging enough to find time to run the game much less find time to prep everything from scratch ~~[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Read the Lazy Dungeon Master books and articles ~~~[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Clutch pearls. NOT WITH MY BABY![/COLOR] [*]Buy a published setting and published adventure path and run that. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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