{"id":488,"date":"2009-11-19T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2009-11-19T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:40:09","slug":"web-resources-about-writing-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/web-resources-about-writing-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Resources about Writing Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-489\" title=\"guidebooks-and-journal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guidebooks-and-journal.jpg\" alt=\"guidebooks-and-journal\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/>We all struggle with it (well, at least many of us struggle with it) &#8212; how do you write an adventure that your players will love? Here&#8217;s a collection of adventure creation resources available on the web:<\/p>\n<p>(Photo courtesy of <a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nataliehg\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nataliehg\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bardofvaliant.com\/2009\/04\/6-endangered-adventure-ideas\/\">6 Endangered Adventure Ideas<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bardofvaliant.com\/\">Bard of Valiant<\/a>. &#8220;This list of <em>10 endangered animals<\/em> caught my attention because with each entry they included a paragraph for &#8216;What you can do about it&#8217;&#8230;.\u00a0 I love it so much, they inspired 6 adventure ideas.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingdice.com\/2597\/beware-the-dangers-of-writing-an-adventure-for-yourself-instead-of-your-game-group\/\">Beware the Dangers of Writing an Adventure Entirely for Yourself Instead of Your Gaming Group<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingdice.com\/\">LivingDice<\/a>.\u00a0 Adviced on making sure you&#8217;re writing an adventure your whole group will enjoy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=454#tips\">Creating Adventures from Small Ideas<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/index.php\">Roleplaying Tips<\/a>. Using a small idea to create a big adventure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crngames.com\/oracle\">The Fantasy Oracle<\/a>. &#8220;The Fantasy Oracle helps you <em>instantly<\/em> generate a fun situation for your fantasy role-playing game tonight.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomestew.com\/gming-advice\/james-cameron-on-creating-fun-rpg-adventures\">James Cameron on Creating Fun RPG Adventures<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomestew.com\/\">Gnome Stew<\/a>. Advice on creating adventures based on an quote from James Cameron.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rpgathenaeum.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/need-a-jump-start-on-adventure-writing-start-with-a-legend\/\">Need a jump-start on adventure writing?<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/rpgathenaeum.wordpress.com\/\">The RPG Athenaeum<\/a>. Using legends as a basis for writing adventures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abstractxp.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/19\/plotting-adventures-part-one\/\">Plotting Adventures<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/abstractxp.wordpress.com\/\">Abstract XP<\/a>. A three-part series on writing adventure plots. In fact, this whole blog has a number of articles on writing adventures. Check out their archives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/articles\/preparation_of_game_material_for_roleplaying_sessions.php\">Preparation of Material for a Roleplaying Adventure<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/index.php\">Roleplaying Tips<\/a>. Advice on how to decide the depth of information you need to write a campaign or adventure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadone.net\/rpg\/designing-good-roleplaying-adventures\/\">Roleplaying: Designing Good Roleplaying Adventures<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadone.net\/\">The Dead One<\/a>. Things to keep in mind as you&#8217;re writing your adventure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/your-teacher-was-right-creating-adventures-with-the-6-ws\/\">Your teacher was right &#8230; Creating Adventures with the Six W&#8217;s<\/a>. One of my own posts on using who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to build adventures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s tons more information about this out there. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll continue with articles on adventure writing from the rest of my blogroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all struggle with it (well, at least many of us struggle with it) &#8212; how do you write an adventure that your players will love? Here&#8217;s a collection of adventure creation resources available on the web: (Photo courtesy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/web-resources-about-writing-adventures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-creation","tag-adventure-creation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}