Intro If you’ve been patiently waiting for this then I can only extend my gratitude. This one’s been a long time in the making. I’ve mentioned it here and there, but this whole series was effectively complete, then after posting the first part I decided I wasn’t happy with the rest and pulled the whole … Continue reading Building Better Campaigns Using Puzzle Game Design: Lesson 2
Tag: Worldbuilding
Maintaining Technological Realism: The Industrial Pocket
Intro Hello again everyone. Today I’ve got a write-up that deals with maintaining a sense of realism when we include more technologically advanced and pseudo-industrial societies in our DnD settings. This is born from a desire by many DMs to have a mixture of early to mid industrial style technologies (like electric circuits, or pneumatic … Continue reading Maintaining Technological Realism: The Industrial Pocket
Building Better Campaigns Using Puzzle Game Design: Lesson 1
Intro Hello again fine folks! I hinted at this already, but I’m following up my series on taking lessons from puzzle games for dungeon design with a series on doing the same thing with campaign and setting design. First, Some Definitions I’m using ‘campaign’ here pretty loosely, as really these lessons can be applied pretty … Continue reading Building Better Campaigns Using Puzzle Game Design: Lesson 1
It’s Time to Ditch Great Wheel Cosmology
There’s one thing everyone agrees on: this realm is called Midgard. Dwarves and Elves will tell you the Gods all live on Asgard, and that it’s connected to Midgard in some way, but the ‘how’ is a little fuzzy. They also talk about the elemental planes, and the sphere they make around the material world … Continue reading It’s Time to Ditch Great Wheel Cosmology
Seasons of Adventure: Polar Climates
This is the third and (for now) final part in a short series I’ve done on how different seasons affect your DnD settings and inform the sorts of adventures that can take place within them. I’ve so far discussed the standard 4-season cycle most of us are familiar with as well as various tropical climates … Continue reading Seasons of Adventure: Polar Climates
Seasons of Adventure: The Tropics
This post is a direct follow-up to the Seasons of Adventure post here from about a week ago. I mentioned in the comments that I was going to do a piece on Tropical and Polar climates given that their seasonal cycles are profoundly different to the standard ‘4 seasons’ cycle discussed in the original post. … Continue reading Seasons of Adventure: The Tropics
Seasons of Adventure
Often DnD exists in a kind of seasonal vacuum. The climate is always ‘generic adventuring climate’ and the weather is whatever the plot needs it to be. But there is an opportunity to get more out of the environment and the cycle of seasons in our DnD campaigns. This piece is going to go into … Continue reading Seasons of Adventure
The Mortal-Made Wonders of the World
Today's post is in the same vein as the Hire-A-Healer post from a few days ago in that it's more of a resource to provide inspiration for your own games. I started mentioning mortal-made wonders of the world in some of the setting guides I give to my players ahead of new campaigns, and I … Continue reading The Mortal-Made Wonders of the World
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