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Laren

Authors/DMs/Storytellers:

Let mysterious things be mysterious. Not everything needs explanation. Let your villain's ancient tech be ancient. Did your characters interact with it? Give them a glimpse of something greater - but just a glimpse, just the leading edge of it.

Weird shit can be weird. Needs to be weird. Weird is the fun of it.

#ttrpg#dungeonmaster#dnd
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For Pete's Sake!

Aaargh! I've made a huge rod for my back. This world building folder redo is so convoluted. All my existing maps are hand drawn ( and crudely at that) same with the town and city scale maps.

I need to work macro to micro scale. I need a world map that roughly matches the regional maps I have, my regional maps need to dictate logically where the towns and cities go. I realise in collating these old hand drawn maps I was a little free and loose with scale. Towns and cities are too far apart. So I'm creating more hamlets and market towns in between.

The creation myth relies on geography and the pantheon of gods. I keep finding myself needing to call upon something I haven't updated yet... while all along shoe horning in a weekly games session with colleagues after work! So the maps etc I generated for those also have to "make sense" in the grand scheme of things!! #DnD #RolePlaying #GamesMaster #DungeonMaster #TTRPG

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For Pete's Sake!

I sat down last night and began looking through the two folders that contain the world I created for my #DnD campaigns—something I started over 30 years ago (the world, not the campaigns, that is!).

When I first started playing as a non-GM, we’d often get the usual, "You're in an inn, and you hear the barkeep talk of troubles at <story link>." That was fine, but it soon dawned on me that these inns we kept visiting were rather generic—nothing ever seemed to happen until we, the adventurers, arrived.

I used to sketch maps and layouts of locations based on the DM’s descriptions as we roved from village to village, town to town, and city to city. But I quickly noticed huge inconsistencies and illogical choices.

When I became a #DungeonMaster / #GamesMaster, I wanted the world to feel real to my players.

The small town they found themselves in had a reason for existing. The people who lived and worked there weren’t just there to push the story forward. The bars were full of gossip, of course, but not just about the bands of kobolds lurking in the nearby woods. The people were three-dimensional, not just cardboard cutouts.

My first map was a crudely drawn sketch in a lined A4 notebook, but it was a start. I put it in a folder for safekeeping.

Fast forward nearly two decades, and I now have two folders filled with typed-up notes, maps, handouts (feelies), props, and more.

Most of my notes are rough—some typed, some handwritten. I even have a couple of 5¼ and 3½-inch floppies with who-knows-what on them, simply labelled "D&D Stuff."

So, to that end, I’ve decided to start organising and modernising everything.

I’m also thinking of documenting my progress on my woefully underused blog. As you can probably tell from my toots, my writing tends to veer towards verbosity, and I enjoy long-form content.

So, watch this space! I have a lot to sift through and rethink—histories and maps, religions and pantheons, socio-economic factors, and more.

It’s a lot of work, but I think other DMs might find it interesting—whether to follow my thought process or even to borrow elements for their own #TabletopRolePlaying #games.

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Spooky Panda 🇺🇦

I'm currently enjoying a Witcher Oneshot of my own creation for my players. At the moment, they're struggling with the age-old question: Should we break the door down, pick its lock, seduce it, or just juggle the knob to open it—because it might not even be locked in the first place? I'm quietly sitting here, trying with all my might not to outright laugh or cackle at the group. Spoiler alert: It's actually unlocked.

Also, I told a player, in response to a seduction attempt—"attempt" being the keyword here, honestly—that the door just doesn't swing that way. LOL.

Attempting intimidation to get the door to respect you isn't going to work, either. They always try this with random and inanimate objects and yet it never works. Gee, I wonder why.

This is a meme. It's a picture of a door. It also says this: DM tips: If you need 10 to 20 minutes to write some notes or design the next encounter just throw one of these at the party. They'll give you plenty of time while they overthink it to death.
#GameMaster#DungeonMaster#TTRPG
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