2019-03-20 Episode 22

{.right} Halberds and Helmets Podcast Creating settlements, starting with a few non-player characters, rumours about adventures to be had nearby, the importance of merchants.

Halberds and Helmets Podcast

22-halberds-and-helmets.mp3

Links:

The podcast episodes about starting a sandbox campaign by Michael “Chicago Wiz”: Part 1, Part 2
2013-10-23 Settlements in Sandboxes: “I treat settlements … as safe places and thus as not very interesting with the exception of one, two or three important non-player characters.”
2007-02-14 DM Advice – Organic Campaigns: “Basically I think it is very important that you don’t waste your energy early in the game. Have two or three small things ready that you can spontaneously place anywhere when the party goes in unexpected directions. Reuse people and places. Hometowns, returning villains, old ruins reoccupied, that kind of stuff.”
Microlite Campaign: “Evolve the world as the game progresses. Plan ahead, but only as far as the next few steps – then stop.”
Pleasures of the OSR: Secrecy and Discovery, by Ben L., with a word of warning: “I’m not so keen on the raving enthusiasm for low-prep gaming that is expressed episodically in certain strands of OSR culture.”
Lists of names I have collected over the years
Halberds and Helmets: my homebrew rule set with links to the PDF files

Part 1

Part 2

2013-10-23 Settlements in Sandboxes

2007-02-14 DM Advice – Organic Campaigns

Microlite Campaign

Pleasures of the OSR: Secrecy and Discovery

Lists of names

Halberds and Helmets

Settlements

#Halberds and Helmets Podcast

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As I listen the episodes, I get the feeling that I have edited them to fiercely. Now it’s just a rush of words tumbling into my brains and it takes focus to get what’s being said. I think I should leave more pauses even if I myself feel that I make way too many pauses, speaking … like a … priest … from a pulpit … in and old church … you know … it’s big … and there’s an echo … and in these pauses … I think about the things … I want to say. Aaargh.

Well, there’s no other option but to try differently next time.

– Alex Schroeder 2019-03-21 16:16 UTC

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Re your ‘rush of words’ comment, I didn’t even notice.

Also, maybe it says as much about me and my preferences as anything but I really like the “Random Name Tables for the Peoples of the Flanaes”:

http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/10206/random-names-flanaess

– Michael Julius 2019-03-27 01:40 UTC

Michael Julius

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Oh wow, beautiful! Exactly the kind of thing one needs at the table.

– Alex Schroeder 2019-03-27 08:37 UTC