With Worldwide Adventure Writing Month kicking off yesterday, I figured now would be a good time for a roundup of the various adventure writing tips and tools that have been posted on TT over the years.
If you’re stuck or just need some advice and inspiration, see if any of these grab you. From the blog:
- Adventure Writing Tips from Dungeon
- Adventures Ripped from the Headlines
- Create Adventures and NPCs Around a Focal Scene
- Robin Laws on Linear Adventures
- Scenario Creation Basics
- Scenario-Writing Tips from Craft (Adventures)
- Squeeze Out Tasty Adventure Icing
- The Buffy Principles
- Tips for Creating Scenarios and Story Arcs
- Tips on Writing Adventures
- Writing Adventures Like TV Episodes, and Time Loops
- Writing Adventures the Wolfgang Baur Way
From the forums:
- Adventure templates?
- GM adventure preparation checklist
- Good luck + RPG Plot List
- Guidelines for a One-Shot
And the wiki:
- Adventure Seeds (note the wiki license)
Any tools you’d like to add to the list?
Can anyone recommend an auto-word-counting widget thingy for a blog? I seem to recall one being recommended… somewhere around here, maybe.
I’m independently hosting my blog, so nothing wordpress-dependent or whatever, please (although other TT patrons might find those useful, I suppose.)
Exactly! Thanks.
One day, there will be a course in college called “Gming RPGs”!
and then, we can get a “Masters in gming”!
What does it have to do with the topic?
Well, there´s so much information in this site that we could base half the course on it!!!
I would call Robin Law to be the headmaster… or would it be Martin??? lol.
It´s so nice to have so many tips on the fly. Why not create something like a POKÉ-AGENDA. something you can ask: What do I f***ing do now? I´m stuck!
Then it would give you the right tip during the game! hauhau