I’m not an adventure writing expert at all, but I do have a little saying like that wedding day thing. What is it? Something new, something borrowed, something blue?
1. Put something to eat in it and what happens when a pc eats it.
2. Put something really gross in it.
3. Probably make it the same thing sometimes.
4. Put something pitiful human brains can’t possibly understand.
5. Put something weird in. But that can overlap with #2 and #4.
6. Put something scary in it.
7. Try to add a mystery and add clues and then fail and just put more horrible things in it instead.
8. Me? Always try to add some sort or ecosystem type order. Kind of like in Star Wars where something big goes by and something bigger comes and eats it. But... more like just nature and stuff.
9. Add something wonderous but this is almost so much like #4. I guess make it beautifully wonderous. And maybe not understandable.
I really don’t know where I’m going here. Read a lot of books. All kinds. Watch shows and movies and especially documentaries. Break all of that down and put it back together. I never feel bad for reading instead of writing because it’s all the same. Write something!
Well, 4 could have been worded better. Not the brains of your human players, but the brains of the pcs. Most Players love to figure stuff out and when it clicks they like it even better.
I kind of disappointed myself with this thread because I thought I had better rules...
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