At Will

Where do you get your ideas? This is a question, but also a bit of a setup…I can’t tell you where your ideas come from, obviously. I’m not in your head yet (still working on that mind-control WordPress plug-in, but that’s another post).

I can tell you where I draw inspiration from. There are likely and unlikely sources I draw from. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a GM, ideas come at you like weather. Drizzles, dry spells, and thunderstorms can be expected. The flow of ideas is also as unreliable and tempestous as the weather. What you want is a process that harnesses those mistimed flurries to when you need to go.

I used to start my session prep by sitting at the computer and just starting. You could imagine how uneven this process could be in terms of both motivation and creative energy. Sometimes, it was the easiest thing in the world –my head rich with ideas, I sit at the computer and record all my notes and thoughts in record times. Sometimes, starting out was difficult, but it became easier as I knocked a few things down. And yet other times, the whole affair was a disastrous non-starter. I’d sit in front of my computer with my brain totally smooth and unengaged. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s my pitch for the Slaughtervale, the setting for my online game.

Long ago, this realm had another name. That was before the Elemental Chaos and the Astral Sea creaked at the barrier of this world. Sensing the ending of this realm, many fled. They fled to echoes of the region in the Feywild and the Shadowfell. Some fled to other parts of the world. Others stayed, unbelieving the words of sages who foretold the doom of the land. Read the rest of this entry »