Planning a New Campaign? Do This First!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- As game masters, dungeon masters, storytellers and narrators, we need to take a few things into account when planning our roleplaying game campaigns, and a few things before that too! These are the things that I believe you should be keeping in mind before you plan your next D&D, Star Wars or Pathfinder campaign.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:28 Constraint 1: Rules
03:55 Constraint 2: Outcomes
05:27 Constraint 3: NPCs
06:36 Constraint 4: Consequences
07:57 NPCs come up with plans
08:57 Coincidence
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*Thanks for watching!* What do you plan before you start actually planning your campaign? Let us know in the comments below!
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Well, I once had blue hair (a long time ago, when I still had hair on my head). Little did I know that the chloride in the swimming bath's water that I visited next day would turn that beautiful blue into spiderwebbish, mossy grey-green, a color that can probably often be found in that Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt. I'm still recovering from the many failed insanity checks, so consider this a life lesson well-learned.
I learned that same lesson when I dyed my bangs electric blue over the summer (when I was still a teen) and when school started back up we did swimming first in gym, my hair went from blue to zombie green/gray.
I had to strip the color from it because it was soo bad.
I'm so glad you talked about coincidences as a DM tool. I hate them because I find them so constructed. But on the flip side they really are helpful and kind of needed. Just nice to see I'm not the only person who gets hung up on them 😅
I was just thinking about planning my new campaign after my old one fizzled out. And then I saw this pop up! Much appreciated!
One of the most fun and helpful parts of planning I’ve used here in my first campaign is writing/journaling in character as the main npc, helps nail down their voice,motivations, etc. and it’s been helpful to go back and refresh who/what they are trying to do.
Thank you so much for this video! Even though I'm 6 sessions in, I still found a lot of help
I think the handling of coincidences is one thing that the Shadowrun system will handle quite well. A big part of the system is networking, and not the digital kind (though it certainly has that too!); one of the major resources you have access to from character creation is your contacts. Any time the players are setting up to do a job, one of the best things they can do to get ready is to reach out to their contacts to get any information or supplies they need. The "coincidence" then becomes something the players are actively seeking out, and when they get a hit it's a reward for clever thinking, good roleplaying, and asking the right people the right questions. Also, with the networking aspect of the game, the coincidence can be made a lot more believable (kind of like the idea that you're only 6 degrees of separation from anybody on Earth; reach out to enough people and eventually somebody will know something about nearly anything - whether they want to tell you or not is another matter). Instead of the players just happening to overhear one guy at the bar grumbling, it is that a person they reached out to follows the blog of a disgruntled ex-employee. Or that they hit up a job posting site where a recently let go employee of the company is now looking for work. It gives the players the agency to seek out those connections rather than having it just fall into their lap. The contact can possibly set up a meeting with the runners and this ex-employee. Is it a coincidence that the place they're going to hit up has a disgruntled employee willing to help? Yes, albeit a coincidence that takes into account player agency in actively seeking out that big break (as opposed to just being thrown a bone by the GM).
Plus coincidences are fine to even great to start a story, they can just be terrible when ending them (and you aren’t writing a comedy and trying to play it serious)
Thanks, Guy!
I found this video as I am working on my world building for a new campaign, and I just want to say thank you!!
I hope all your videos are just as informative because I am going to binge them all now!
Love the hair! And the video lol. Thank you as always for your insight 💯
Just got the PDF of the book and workbook! So excited to start making my next campaign! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. You're experience and this information is invaluable!
ghost of saltmarsh had a bunch of rules for boats and boat combat in the appendix
These videos are great. I'm a seasoned veteran and I glean something from every video.
Genesis, the game I host on this channel, uses so many of your tips that I recommend you often to anyone who wants to learn how to run right…
Do you guys work with unknowns?
I would love to collaborate on something
You have so many great videos, but I sometimes feel I can’t find the one I need. Is there a master index somewhere?
Why don't I?
Because I'm probably going to go for dark green! :)
Wow, love your sponsor. Looked at running a Cthulhu game but wanted a 5e version. Perfect.
To answer the rhetorical question....Black hair matched my eyes and complexion better then blue... This was an interesting video. Thanks for it.
"And for some reason, I've got blue hair."
-Strong Bad.
You are missing a word in the first sentence of the Great GM book (indicated by the _________: “You find yourself sitting in a tavern. Smoke clouds __________ the low ceiling and the reek of old beer and pipeweed is
heavy.
The blue hair looks amazing
Love your hair Guy!
You really should be a Bluebeard, too. ;)
Nice hair, I’m glad you are enjoying it :)
I am going to be starting my 3rd long-form campaign soon and I have settled on a "3 act" plan. Enough to plan each adventure based on which act we are in.
In a campaign I'm working on I've made something like different "zones" which are massive places that are very different from each other but each carry a narrative that is specific to the place and also ties together the players might discover if they want (or they can do whatever). Almost like a "Beginner zone" -"intermediate" - "advanced" and "end-game" area, with other optional places that they might visit if they feel like.
@@TextiX887 similar to what I've done. I have a modified chult that the party is in to begin as conservationists/hunters (responsible hunting only ofc)
I’m sure you’re sick of hearing it but we’ll done on dropping the LBs my dood.
Just a comment for the algorithm.
Awesome video btw :) A lot of constant brainwork though
Guy rocks blue harder than Jack White. Do you, sir!
I do have blue hair! I'm not sure what flavor of blue you are,(your lighting is cool, but maybe not for color assessment) but i really love the almost dusty look. I know that sounds not like a compliment, but it is, i promise.
Leaving a comment for the Al gore's rythem...what eva that is haha...top hair by the way
Would you be willing to share your rules for ship combat?
I would have blue hair, IF I HAD ANY! 😭
Oh my, I thought you had blue hair because you were getting on in years. Actually, I am not so much on the colour as on the quality of the coiffing, time to update your sexy hair game and hit the salon. ;) :D
Why don't I have blue hair, cause I like purple hair better.☺️
Because I'm bald. That's why I don't have blue hair.
I love the blue hair. hmmm... now I am indeed asking myself, why dont I have blue hair... hmmmm....
The blue hair looks good on you!
You should run something else 7 seas maybe
That hair is way more grey than blue.
I dont agree with the PCs being "heroes" all the time. I prefer to seem them as normal people. Thats why I like warhammer 4e so much. The characters die all the time and get replaced by new ones. Nobody has any backstory, no plot hooks. The game is like a board game, not a glorified RP session. The people are not there to make a "story" they are there to play a actual game.