But you need to do your best to calm your tits, relax, and just enjoy an act of low-stakes creation. I’m gonna do my best to give you solid concepts and useful advice. But I know you won’t be happy without a process and a lot of hand-holding. You may even worry about utterly stupid, useless, pointless bulls$&% no real human gives a f$&% about like rain shadows and prevailing winds and plate tectonics.Īnd if it weren’t for that fact - if it weren’t for you - I could crank out this lesson in 3000 words tops. You’ll worry about how far away things should be. You’ll worry about properly distributing the map features. In other words, if you chill the f$&% out, you can just enjoy this s$&%.īut you won’t, will you? You’re gonna try to get this right. It’s something you’ve got to do, but how you do it doesn’t matter at all. Hell, it’s the easiest, lowest-stakes part of running a campaign. And that can be a nice, relaxing, low-pressure activity. In today’s Simple Homebrew Campaign Startup lesson, I’m going to show you how to map the geographical region around your Starter Town. You’re either gonna love this or you’re gonna hate it. Your Starter Region: Is the Map Half-Empty or Half-Full So, when I wrote the first draft, the Long, Rambling Introduction™ was all about how the article was going to be too f$&%ing long for a Long, Rambling Introduction™.Īnyway, this has been the Long, Rambling Introduction™. Never underestimate the power of bulls$&%. My 5000-word behemoths grow from single-page outlines.

Which, for comparison, is twice as many pages of outline as I usually start an article with. And I ended up with two pages of outline. Because this whole Starter Region thing’s pretty much the most open and most creative and least systematic part of the whole Simple Homebrew Campaign startup process.īut then, I outlined the article. See, before I outlined this s$&%, I was worried that I’d have barely anything to say. Except, it turns out, there’s not as much as I thought. And again, there’s a crap-ton of s$&% to cover.

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