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The Adventure Funnel

Started by RPGPundit, November 29, 2006, 10:18:05 AM

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RPGPundit

November 29, 2006, 10:18:05 AM
Dr.Rotwang, you must make known your secret recipe of making adventures in 4 easy steps!!

Find it here.

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November 29, 2006, 10:41:50 AM
Man, is this thing really that cool?  It gets linked now and then...
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#2
November 29, 2006, 10:52:26 AM
The technique is cool and the presentation is awesome.  It ought to be linked a lot.
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KenHR

#3
November 29, 2006, 10:57:34 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Man, is this thing really that cool?

Yes!
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#4
November 29, 2006, 11:17:36 AM
Damn.  Too good to keep to myself, too small to sell.

I will go the Tesla route on this one, only, umn, without the earthquake machine.
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#5
November 29, 2006, 12:14:21 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Man, is this thing really that cool?

Yes.

RPGPundit

#6
November 29, 2006, 12:55:40 PM
All it really amounts to is a method for ordering one's thoughts in coming up with an adventure, it should be seen as really basic GMing advice, but its very well put, and I think strangely a lot of people didn't realize how to modularize adventure-creation in that way before.

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November 29, 2006, 01:00:53 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditAll it really amounts to is a method for ordering one's thoughts in coming up with an adventure, it should be seen as really basic GMing advice, but its very well put, and I think strangely a lot of people didn't realize how to modularize adventure-creation in that way before.

Good methods of ordering your thoughts for game prep are a hot damn commodity.

RedFox

#8
November 29, 2006, 01:14:50 PM
Wow, this is really really cool.

Interestingly I'm finding that I have difficulty coming up with obstacles.  Which at least tells me where the frustration comes from when I work on adventure ideas.

This is as much an analysis tool for writer's block as much as anything else.  Hmm.
 

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#9
November 29, 2006, 02:48:42 PM
Redfox -- if you're butting heads with obstacle choices, man, seriously -- just write stuff down.  Anything.  Whatever.  I don't care ifit fits or not.  It'll end up jarring you loose, and you might end up with some interesting, memorable encounters built out of weird ideas.
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SunBoy

#10
November 30, 2006, 03:54:36 AM
Hey, really nice, Doc.
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RedFox

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November 30, 2006, 04:17:09 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Redfox -- if you're butting heads with obstacle choices, man, seriously -- just write stuff down.  Anything.  Whatever.  I don't care ifit fits or not.  It'll end up jarring you loose, and you might end up with some interesting, memorable encounters built out of weird ideas.

For Bleach so far I've got:

GOAL: Recover the missing shinigami*.
OBSTACLES:
* Ishida shows up looking for a fight**.
* The shinigami are kept underwater.
* Animals attack.
* The shinigami are being puppeteered.

*shinigami = death gods.  In Bleach they're basically ghost samurai.
**Ishida = a character from the show.  A Quincy.  Quincy are exorcists that use arcane archery.  They were wiped out by the shinigami years ago, so Ishida's got a bit of a vendetta against 'em.
 

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#12
November 30, 2006, 06:38:15 AM
Quote from: SunBoyHey, really nice, Doc.
Goal: Steal the cool pink tie...
OBSTACLES:
  • Dr Rotwang! drives really fast in his customized Lamborghini
  • Erik Estrada, henchman for Dr. R!
  • Phoebe Cates will not allow it -- too loyal to her lost love
  • Martha Quinn, too
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#13
November 30, 2006, 07:24:19 AM
Yea, but I would still do it for this...
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jrients

#14
November 30, 2006, 10:51:13 AM
Red Fox:  You need to drill down on 'animals attack'.  Are they gorillas?  Sharks?  Robots shaped like dinosaurs?
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