CHAINMAIL: 09.29.2023
Including - Adapting Linear Stories, Worldbuilding Pillars | Identifying Your World's Key Elements, and What is high-trust trad adventure design?
Adapting Linear Stories - The Alexandrian
This is the secret to turning any of your favorite stories into a game at your table. Justin absolutely nailed it with this post, so I will just leave it at that and let you read it yourself.
Worldbuilding Pillars | Identifying Your World's Key Elements - The Templin Institute
This video covers a more basic concept than I usually highlight, but it is still very useful. It breaks down the very beginning phase of worldbuilding into 3 pillars that will help ground your ideas and create a structure to build from. I'm going to explore this format in my worldbuilding moving forward.
What is high-trust trad adventure design? - Indre Auge Studio
It wouldn't be a Chainmail post without me offering up a resource that gets fairly academic. I'm a sucker for the intricacies of our hobby, and this article explores a really fascinating concept: High-Trust vs. Low-Trust adventure design. Give it a read, learn the difference, and hopefully it will help inform your designs going forward.
I hope these resources inspire you! If you haven't already, the best way to stay up to date with everything hothead related is to join the discord. See you next week!