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Scenario Creation Basics
Sat. May 27, 2006
Reaching back to 2003, here’s a great article by Heather Grove on the essential elements of writing an adventure: Author’s Style Guide II: Adventure Writing.
And going back still further, to 1992, Writing for GURPS covers the most basic of basics (and not just for GURPS). Whether as an intro or a refresher, both are worth a read.
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Her twelve part series, The Color of Adventure, does a great job of walking you through the basics of preparing an adventure– or a whole campaign. She discusses things that aren’t commonly mentioned, like the number of players you can handle, setting expectations for the players, and more.
Nice link, Scott — thanks! I hadn’t seen that series before, and it looks like good stuff.