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How
Do I Create a Campaign? -- Cynthia Hart
This is probably one of the most commonly asked questions by a new
Game Master (“Narrator” in Decipher’s book, “God” to your
players). I suspect this is usually inspired by reading a detailed 1
˝ page dissertation of a proposed campaign complete with genealogies,
timeline, maps and intricate character analyses of the NPCs
(Non-Player Characters) on the message board.
As a new GM about to embark on my first role playing game in over 20
years, I ran into the same problem. I am not a Tolkien scholar
although I have read the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and (of
course!) seen the movie. Still, ask me about an elf not mentioned in
one of those 4 books and I’m clueless. Nor am I familiar with what
happened between the time of Bilbo finding the ring and Frodo becoming
the ring bearer. I knew that I wanted to create an adventure versus a
dungeon crawl but that was about all .... More...
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