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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3649292" data-attributes="member: 18280">The original C&C had some great articles in their books about the things you're looking for.  Wish I had them handy to quote from.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />For home games, the best thing you can do IMHO is read prodigiously.  I would recommend reading the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels (particularly the Tarzan, John Carter, and Pellucidar books) and the original Robert E. Howard stories.  Then steal like a 20th level halfling rogue in a bakery after midnight.This edition is really focused on putting things into game stats the "right" way.  Go down that road, and you'll never get anything done.  I recommend that you write out your basic plot, draw your maps, and determine what sort of things are where before you even crack the game books.  Then, if it comes to a choice between your cool idea and the rules, side with your cool idea if at all possible....just be sure that you aren't stepping into Player territory.  You can swap out equivilent class abilities, for instance, to make a monster into exactly what you want, and you can call it "Varient Class X" and give it a nice write-up if it makes you feel better later.For plots, ask your self who the villian is and what the villian wants.  Usually, the villian wants riches, power, revenge, or simply to survive (often by making local villagers provide food....sometimes including local villagers).  It isn't what they want that makes villians the bad guys, it is what they are willing to do to get it.  In the Doctor Who story, "Terror of the Zygons", the Zygons want to be left alone until a rescue ship can pick them up.  When they learn that their home world has been destroyed, though, they want a new home world....and they are willing to wipe out humanity to get it.We all understand the need for a home.  We are not all willing to commit genocide to get it.  Similarly, your PCs might want wealth and power, but there are some things (one hopes) that they will not stoop to.  Figure out what they are, and then let your villians stoop.Basically, give a villian a need that we all have, notch it up a bit, add in one of the Seven Deadly Sins, shake, and scoop up whatever comes out of the bottle.  Or else just Wiki any human conflict that ever was, and disguise your source.You should hope to be able to sum up your adventure in about one sentence.  These are all ones I've used:Spider cultists kidnap a merchant's son and intend to sacrifice him on the new moon. Undead druids, mislead by a demon, stir up the orcs for war. In a ruined city of the Elder Titans, a bound abomination struggles to break free. An unliving creature from days gone by musters armies to try to conquer the modern world. Aboleths gnaw at the underside of a city, planning to collapse it into the dark waters of the lake. An outbreak of plague requires a sacred relic be brought from another town in order to stem the disease. Human sacrifice awakens an ancient evil.RC</blockquote>

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