Halfway into the month, and I'm finally going to dial one in.
Day #15: Best Source of Inspiration for RPGs
There's two directions I can go with this:
Current Events: I don't plan on basing any game on a plot device "ripped from the headlines." Rather, I use the newspaper to transfer local and state news into campaign appropriate forms. School boards and local municipalities are baronies, counties and cities are duchies, other states are neighboring kingdoms. I usually grab a paper once a week for this purpose and the weeklong story usually lasts 1-3 months in my timeline. If I really need some inspiration (or lots of filler), I'll grab the New York Times.
Other RPGers: This is a no brainer. With the expansion of blogs and podcasts, it's quite easy to take a technique or idiosyncrasy and go crazy with it. Better yet, I can see interesting techniques that fail on initial look and I can adapt them to my own game.
Day #15: Best Source of Inspiration for RPGs
There's two directions I can go with this:
Current Events: I don't plan on basing any game on a plot device "ripped from the headlines." Rather, I use the newspaper to transfer local and state news into campaign appropriate forms. School boards and local municipalities are baronies, counties and cities are duchies, other states are neighboring kingdoms. I usually grab a paper once a week for this purpose and the weeklong story usually lasts 1-3 months in my timeline. If I really need some inspiration (or lots of filler), I'll grab the New York Times.
Other RPGers: This is a no brainer. With the expansion of blogs and podcasts, it's quite easy to take a technique or idiosyncrasy and go crazy with it. Better yet, I can see interesting techniques that fail on initial look and I can adapt them to my own game.
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