Whenever I have a short pause in in what I’m doing at my desk, I reach out for the little pile of index cards called “The Horizon Consipracy” and add new cards to it.
The Horizon Conspiracy
Then a question came to me: “Which icon is going to run interference in this scheme?” and asked for a final d12 roll and came up with “The Diabolist”
The Godless Lands: The Fall of The Divine
As players were picking their character’s classes, I noticed that no one was jostling to pick primary divine-powered classes like clerics or paladins. That gave me a new idea to support my Godless Lands setting.
The Selesnya Brief: Introduction
Three Parts Dead put the idea of a fantasy legal thriller in my head. And I knew the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica was coming out soon. Putting them together and The Selesnya Brief was born.
The Godless Lands: Genesis
As we settled on the core setting, the ideas of playing in a world were all the gods were violently snuffed more or less recently still churned in my mind. I decided that this was a theme I wanted to explore.
So You’ve Decided to Run Your Own D&D Campaign…
If you’re thinking about starting your own D&D campaign you should pick an underlying theme as the structure with which you’ll build your world.
Vignette D&D Play
When we started a new D&D campaign, my players made it clear: they’d much rather not start at level 1 again.
A Study in Collaborative World Building
Our gaming group got together to start planning a new D&D 5e campaign. I went back into my world-building tools and applied methods I talked about in my Index Card Codex series.
A Busy Year, Part 1: NPC Importance
Working as a part-time RPG freelancer is a proverbial rollercoaster ride. Sometimes it is thrilling, and other times the reward at the end of the ride is that you get to stop.
The Index Card Method Codex, Part 2
A stack is a great inspiration tool when you’re looking for what happens next, especially when you run a no-prep style game. When you’re thinking about what comes next in play, just pick up your stack and go through it. You might find something that inspires a whole scene, especially if you keep up-to-date notes.
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