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Campaign Building

Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #6: Geography

by Bob

I don’t know what your favorite subject was in school. In High School, it was probably English for me; In college, it had to be History, closely followed by Philosophy. For those reasons, we’re going to hit an entirely different subject today: Geography.
You see, I had a little Philosophical fun yesterday working on my little [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #5: From the Top Down

by Bob

Happy Monday, all.
If you’re like me, it sometimes helps to take a step back, and try to look at things from the “big picture” perspective. I’m not saying that the details aren’t important; quite the contrary, the details in any new D&D campaign will determine, at least initially, how your players respond to the world. Players [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #4: Answers Redux

by Bob

All right, now that you’ve got your juices flowing and have done some serious brainstorming, I want you to take a step back. Read through your freewriting from yesterday, and compare it to the original 41 questions. I want you to choose between three and five questions of the 41 that are, at least in a superficial way, addressed in [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #3: Freewriting

by Bob

OK, so, now that you’ve got the juices flowing, it’s time to keep moving forward. Today, you want to do more of the same that you did yesterday. However, whereas yesterday I wanted you to write just a paragraph, today I’d like you to write several. Yesterday’s paragraph was focused and organized, while today’s should [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #2: Answers

by Bob

The DM: Well, you’ve had 24 hours. Do you have all of the answers to those questions from yesterday?
Unsuspecting Blog Reader: Eh…
The DM: Good, let’s proceed. First, you’ll take the six questions about ….
Unsuspecting Blog Reader: I don’t actually have them with me. My, er, cerebrus ate them. No, I dropped them. Yeah, that’s it.
The DM: [...]

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Building a New D&D Campaign Diary – Entry #1: Questions

by Bob

So, I’ve been toying with the idea for some time of creating a campaign world from scratch. I haven’t really had a compelling reason to do so, as the games I’ve had running have been in existing worlds with plenty of source material. Still, I know that the best sessions I’ve had as a DM [...]

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