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I design and develop experiences that bring people together. Creator of Trophy, Girl Underground, and other fine roleplaying games. Minnesotan and DFLer | he/him
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Love this idea! Gardens of Ynn would be a great thematic fit too!
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Here’s my first draft of how I’d write it up: After combat or other intense action, or if accomplishing the Set Goal requires it, or after the players look to you for what happens next, open up a path to a new Set and describe (or ask the players to describe) the transition there.
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This is a good approach, and is essentially what I do (without it being mechanically enforced). It’s a good note for thinking about what other guidance would be helpful in a future edition!
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Yep. If there's a choice of Sets, you're either letting them know what their next options for Sets are so they can choose, or you're choosing for them based on the logical outcomes of their actions in the current Set.
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If you've run a point crawl, think about the Set Map like a point crawl and transition between Sets as you would points.
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Some Sets have a Set Goal that describes how to move between them, but in most cases, the characters just go to whatever next Set makes sense when it makes sense. I often hard cut to the next Set when we get to a period of downtime: "You travel along the path for nearly an hour, when you see..."
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That would have been smart of me!
Shut the Box! Make that Cash!
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🎉 Happy, happy birthday, Chris!
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Ooo -- I'm loving the direction this is headed!
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Happy birthday, Evlyn! Thank you so much for making beautiful artwork to grace my Cairn supplement and that I know inspires others to make art and games!
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Happy summer to *you*! Enjoy the much-deserved time off!
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Yay! Happy birthday!
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Ooo! Very exciting! I'll keep an eye on your feed.
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These are great! Can I ask where you got them from?
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You're looking for a production artist, though any graphic designer who knows Photoshop should be able to do it as long as they have the advertising specs (typically pixel width and height, and file size limitations). I'd offer myself up, but have too much on my plate already!
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Oh, I'm so sorry, Gabriel. Thinking of you and Skye and the rest of your family.
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I'm not promising anything yet, but it's in my queue for this year.
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There should definitely be more Robin Hood-style forest banditry in our fantasy games!
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But would you be a Woke Marxist Pope? 🤣