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Questions tagged [adventure-writing]

For questions about designing and writing adventures, for personal use or publication.

For questions about writing adventures (a.k.a. scenarios or modules), including creating adventure material either formally for publication or informally for one's own game. This includes story, encounters, and anything else prepared ahead of time as part of the adventure proper.

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Where can I post quests I've written online for others to use and benefit from?

I've written a few quests now and documented them fairly thoroughly. Are there any places online where I can share them so that others would be able to review and use them if they needed to? It would be great if there was a place where people could…
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Where do I get inspiration for good scenarios?

What are the best [not only RPG related] sources of ideas for a good scenario? I'm not asking about ready scenarios, but inspiration to create your own. For starters: Shutter Island movie - good ideas for Cthulhu scenario Detective series [CSI…
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Adapting Kafka's The Trial to a scenario

Last evening I had the priviledge of seeing quite an ... interesting ... adaptation of Kafka's The Trial. I am wondering if the community has any suggestions on the best ways to adapt it (or other plays) to a game. The sense of surreal fatalism…
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Suggestions for how to simulate the players performing a robbery?

For our next session I'm considering making robbing an artifact from a noble the central event of the quest. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about this as I've never actually played or seen a question that focused on a heist. Here's some of…
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Writing a character-oriented adventure for characters you don't know

I recently finished a campaign that worked out pretty well, and was considering writing it down in order to share it. However, I realized that a lot of the plot points and twists are extremely relevant to my players' characters (their backgrounds,…
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