HHC NEWSLETTER: 11.16.2024
Including - Encounter Harbingers, BETTER Worldbuilding : Exploration & The Weird Wilderness, and Titles and Honors to Award Your PCs.
Encounter Harbingers - Kontent Punch
This is a post about tension. The author explains how foreshadowing, done properly, is the key to setting up tense encounters in your campaigns. Check it out. He bases the article around The Isle which is a sick adventure written by Luke Gearing so I recommend you check that out, as well.
BETTER Worldbuilding : Exploration & The Weird Wilderness - TRILL
This is a video essay on why you need to re-wild your wilderness exploration in TTRPGs. This video is not a focus on mechanics, but a reorienting of how we design our natural world in our fantasy campaigns.
Titles and Honors to Award Your PCs - Brandes Stoddard
This is a great post listing out potential titles and accolades you can bestow upon your PCs that might not give them specific mechanical benefit, but definitely define their place in the world and how others view them. Titles like Knight of the Plum Flower or The Rook of Graves.
Remember, it doesn't have to all be about numbers.
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!