Sketching a new campaign for my table and while I love homebrewing everything, I am realizing coming up with Big Bads or interesting adversaries or even large scale problems doesn’t really get my creative juices flowing. I’d love some perspectives on how you lovely folks in this space approach this in your campaigns.
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@anderstallvik I keep a doc of ideas for adversaries. I add to it whenever I see something interesting/ridiculous/terrible.
But my main "trick" is to remember that (usually) my baddies don't think they are bad. They have a goal, a method of reaching it, and a varying level of ends justify the ends.
@anderstallvik for example an idea I had for a small one shot adventure was based on the wild/feral horses of Assateague who have zero fear and steal food from people. I saw an image of a horse stealing a bag of goldfish and just saved that social media post text and image to my nefarious plans doc.
@Khyrie These are great tips and I absolutely love this horse idea! Emboldened wildlife might actually fit my new campaign quite well 🤔
@anderstallvik Currently in the process of coming up with a kinda-one-shot, and I'm very inspired by the ideas in the Legend in the Mist source book (https://sonofoak.com/pages/legend-in-the-mist). While I might not use the system itself, it gave me lots of ideas of how to structure scenes, and what could be interesting challenges. At this point I'm tempted to create «playgrounds» – scenes that have a goal to achieve, a challenge to overcome – and then lots of objects/opportunities/possibilities in the environment.