CHAINMAIL: 09.29.2023

Including - Adapting Linear Stories, Worldbuilding Pillars | Identifying Your World's Key Elements, and What is high-trust trad adventure design?

Chainmail is a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing the abundance of excellent content available in the TTRPG space. You'll find YouTube videos, blog posts, quotes from books, and many other forms of media related to improving your skills as game masters and world builders. Enjoy!

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!

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