Scott Christian
Hero
We've had quite a bit of discussion regarding railroading and story now and other forms of gaming. So, I thought a natural segue would be a question to all the GMs and DMs out there.
I sew together pieces of published ideas. I am, unfortunately, not creative enough to world build, totally from scratch. Of course, all creative process is ultimately a recombining of ideas from other sources, so arguably everyone does this - it’s just that the sources may be highly diverse and varied, and most likely they aren’t all conscious influences.
Sorry about that. I initial thought was about building an world, and then as I was writing the question, it seemed it should start smaller. But forgot to change the title. When I went back to edit, there didn't seem to be a way to change the title. My bad. I apologize.Are you asking specifically about adventures (as in a string of related encounters) or worldbuilding?
While the two are related, I don't see them as the same thing.
Yeah, I was being a bit self-depricating with the creativity comment, but time is of course the big factor. I certainly could build a world from scratch, but that’s a lot of time and energy to spend on stuff that mostly won’t be relevant in game play anyway. Borrowing ideas from my favorite existing settings an remixing them in a way I find fun is similarly rewarding for a lot less work.Same for me, it's more lack of time than creativity but the result is the same, it usually ends up a golem stitched from multiple ideas.