Intro This is a direct companion piece to the ‘Running the Sandbox: The Living World’ piece that can be found Here. I mention toward the end of that piece that there’s a few extra details I didn’t have the chance to dive into. It’s taken me a while but I’ve finally got them laid out … Continue reading The Living World – Appendix
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Getting Paid
Intro Maybe this is just a me problem but I’ve always struggled with the whole ‘you get to the final room of the dungeon, beat the boss, and find a bunch of coins and items just sitting there’ thing. In short, I find loot weird. Obviously by default D&D has to have heavily ‘game-ified’ elements … Continue reading Getting Paid
Five Folk Heroes
Intro Your players aren’t the only heroes out there, and not all heroes are adventurers. Here’s five folk heroes to drop into your campaigns and bring life into your world. What I have here are some basic narrative bones. Remix, flesh out, and adjust as needed. The Mountain Man A small, fairly isolated village nestled … Continue reading Five Folk Heroes
Steal This Worldbuilding: The Waning Pantheon
Whenever I create new settings I always look to lay out some fundamental principles that inform the worldbuilding and, by extension, create unique story possibilities. For my most recent campaign I wanted to take on the idea of a very minimalist pantheon with religion being viewed as something dangerous and even volatile. Below is a … Continue reading Steal This Worldbuilding: The Waning Pantheon
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