Improvising an adventure (Part I)
Don’t do this. No, don’t you ever improvise an adventure. Players will notice and hate you… But if you really, really have no choice. This is a sequence you may use, while you ask your players a few minutes to “review your notes” 1. Steal a plot Start searching your own memory first; look for any action, scifi or mystery film. It does not have to be of the same genre of your campaign or game. You could take Star Wars and make it into a Fantasy story, you only need to adjust a few things: X-Wings and Ties could be horses or some other noble stead Big space...
Read MoreSources of inspiration: My ear trumpet
To me, visiting My Ear-Trumpet is like reliving the days of boyhood. There was this old trunk lost in a forsaken room filled with family treasures. As I opened it and browsed its stuff, I felt like the ancestors were back alive speaking to me. As a young kid, I found only natural that people used to worship their ancestors. My Ear Trumpet features quite a lot of content about the Belle Epoque, the Victorian, the Steampunk and the Edwardian among its many other wonders… and some silliness. The sublime, the geeky and the weird, it’s all there. It’s hard that you love every...
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