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I think the free form nature is great. I think the presentation could use work.

As a DM it would be much more helpful to have some flow charts of key information along with 3 or 4 suggestions for how to implement the various aspects of the story. I don't want step by step directions because my players are going to go nuts and do things all crazy anyway. But a zoomed out view that gives me a quick and easy to understand map of the entire stories elements across a 2 page spread is much easier than reading a 200 page book and taking notes.

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This sounds like a good idea. Since I'm currently structuring a similar (but hopefully different) campaign challenge for the Aslene expansion, I think I'll pick up on this and make a flow-chart suggesting how players MIGHT have pieces of information presented. The information may obviously be presented otherwise, but this would give the SL a structure to consider, as well as an overview of the different pieces.

I really like this idea. Thank you for puckona this up!

On a side note, for our international friends: ”SL” is swedish for ”GM”...

On a side note, for our international friends: ”SL” is swedish for ”GM”...

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Ha, ha, you're right and I'm Pwnd!

Damn this autocorrect... *picking! I mean *picking* this up!

On a side note, for our international friends: ”SL” is swedish for ”GM”...

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Ha, ha, you're right and I'm Pwnd!

No! No, you're not and I'd never do that to you! Loving all of your work!

Awesome.

Im thinking something like... A key players flow chart. Quick sentence or 2 explanation of who they are and what they want. throw in major artifacts and locations too.

Then a second flowchart detailing major events. Here we can have the suggestions for how the players might get pointed in their direction of stumble onto them.

Include a pg number reference for the more detailed information about each location player and event.


When i have some time maybe i will dig through Ravens Purge and make an example.

On a side note, for our international friends: ”SL” is swedish for ”GM”...

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Ha, ha, you're right and I'm Pwnd!

No! No, you're not and I'd never do that to you! Loving all of your work!

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Thanks, and NP. You might want to consider your everyday language though, if ”picking” autocorrects to ”puckon”

Awesome.

Im thinking something like... A key players flow chart. Quick sentence or 2 explanation of who they are and what they want. throw in major artifacts and locations too.

Then a second flowchart detailing major events. Here we can have the suggestions for how the players might get pointed in their direction of stumble onto them.

Include a pg number reference for the more detailed information about each location player and event.


When i have some time maybe i will dig through Ravens Purge and make an example.

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Good idea too!

Awesome.

Im thinking something like... A key players flow chart. Quick sentence or 2 explanation of who they are and what they want. throw in major artifacts and locations too.

Then a second flowchart detailing major events. Here we can have the suggestions for how the players might get pointed in their direction of stumble onto them.

Include a pg number reference for the more detailed information about each location player and event.


When i have some time maybe i will dig through Ravens Purge and make an example.

We GM's would love you forever if you did this!

King for a Day by Jim Pinto is a great example of a free play campaign with a timeline structuring the events that happen if players don't interfere.

And I also like the free form campaign quite a lot!

I've also been pondering how to introduce the clues/legends to the Stanengist. I appreciate that the Free League wanted a sandboxy, Skyrim type of world where there is a main plotline, but players are free to ignore it - entirely or partially - and do their own thing for a while. I want to draw on that and have the PCs kind of stumble over the Crown or its associated artifacts and then get dragged into the plot further and further.

To help with that, I have recruited a bunch of "Shadow players" (inspired from Svavelvinter's Skuggmakter) - these are players who run the Key NPCs for me by discord chat and on a boardgame in Roll20. Their primary motivations are already clearly laid out, so it should be too hard to make them discover the PC group and then try to either recruit them to their cause or antagonize them...which in turn will prompt the others to react accordingly, and sooner or later, the web of Key NPC intrigues should make the PCs go..."Let's do something about this". Thus, the environment will create the motivation they need.

I think.