Happy New Year to you all.
And, as sure as eggs follow bacon, the time has come to make some New Year Roleplay Resolutions:
1. Take more notes - Over the last few years, with respect to note taking, I have become just plain lazy and has often resulted in me taking a back seat in games as a player when I should be taking the lead. When DMing, I've been relying on my player's memories and notes way too much and I need to start driving the scenario rather than it driving me. This has got to stop!! My new campaign starts in a week's time and I want to start writting session resports again. I find they invaluable in helping me record the improvised detail I generate in-game that you don't get during normal worldbuilding activities. If I don't record it, type it up and publish it on the campaign website, it will be lost forever.
2. Build a weekly blog series - Frankly I'm jealous of the likes of Dyson Logos: Geomorphs and Land of Nod: Deviant Friday and thought it was about time I created a weekly(ish) series which might possibly be gathered together into some sort of publication perhaps. Ideas so far are:
Anyway, I think that's enough to be getting on with, if you have any preferences for series ideas let me know.
And, as sure as eggs follow bacon, the time has come to make some New Year Roleplay Resolutions:
1. Take more notes - Over the last few years, with respect to note taking, I have become just plain lazy and has often resulted in me taking a back seat in games as a player when I should be taking the lead. When DMing, I've been relying on my player's memories and notes way too much and I need to start driving the scenario rather than it driving me. This has got to stop!! My new campaign starts in a week's time and I want to start writting session resports again. I find they invaluable in helping me record the improvised detail I generate in-game that you don't get during normal worldbuilding activities. If I don't record it, type it up and publish it on the campaign website, it will be lost forever.
2. Build a weekly blog series - Frankly I'm jealous of the likes of Dyson Logos: Geomorphs and Land of Nod: Deviant Friday and thought it was about time I created a weekly(ish) series which might possibly be gathered together into some sort of publication perhaps. Ideas so far are:
- Monday Motivations: Inspired by the excellent Campaign Mastery: Character Hooks, this series of articles gives some suggestions for PC Background Motivations, why does a PC become an "adventurer" or embark on a "career class" in the first place?
- Tuesday Trailer: I get a lot of my inspiration from movies and TV although I rarely lift a plot from a movie. It might just be a single object or a character or it may even be something as intangible as the art direction which gets the creative juices going and I want to share that with you all.
- Dramatis Pictura: I hate reading NPC descriptions which don't have a character portrait to go along with them, in fact I find it hard to visualise a fully rounded character without one. Shouldn't be too hard to find some good NPC portraits in deviant art
- Serious Locations: On my travels round the interweb I stumble across some amazing photographs many of which inspire RPG locations.
- City Geomorphs: There's enough folks doing dungeon geomorphs to last me a lifetime and most of my adventures take place in urban environments so I'm going to take a crack at cities.
Anyway, I think that's enough to be getting on with, if you have any preferences for series ideas let me know.
