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<blockquote data-quote="Mary_Crowell" data-source="post: 6091637" data-attributes="member: 6701853">For me I set a campaign in what could have been a fairly typical world. (It has a whole lot of Greek mythology in it.) But, I'm a musician, so all of my names and bits of character histories come from composers and pieces of music history--patchworked together. Also, I read Onward by Howard Schulz and got obsessed with researching coffee, how it's made and grown, religious associations with it, etc. And then all three of those elements interacted in a way that has been really interesting and fun for the players and has created sometimes mysterious but plausible and logical motivations for the NPCs.Mike Shea describes something like this in his book the Lazy Dungeon Master. (Mash ups.)I am fortunate that three of my five players are teenagers. They would make something happen--even if I did have an unimaginative night. Just listening to them speculate as to what I 'might' do next gives me great ideas.Several DM's have mentioned using that particular strategy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mary_Crowell, post: 6091637, member: 6701853"] For me I set a campaign in what could have been a fairly typical world. (It has a whole lot of Greek mythology in it.) But, I'm a musician, so all of my names and bits of character histories come from composers and pieces of music history--patchworked together. Also, I read [I]Onward[/I] by Howard Schulz and got obsessed with researching coffee, how it's made and grown, religious associations with it, etc. And then all three of those elements interacted in a way that has been really interesting and fun for the players and has created sometimes mysterious but plausible and logical motivations for the NPCs. Mike Shea describes something like this in his book the [I]Lazy Dungeon Master[/I]. (Mash ups.) I am fortunate that three of my five players are teenagers. They would make something happen--even if I did have an unimaginative night. Just listening to them speculate as to what I 'might' do next gives me great ideas. Several DM's have mentioned using that particular strategy. [/QUOTE]

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