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Communicating Your World

Posted on 07/10/2022 by Graeme Barber

You’ve done it. You’ve built a world for your next campaign and you’re dying to show it off. Then things go sideways. The players aren’t asking the right questions. They aren’t engaging with your lore. Instead of following your world’s cultures and ideas, they’re defaulting to stereotypes, tropes, and so on from the base game. You put a lot of work into this, and there’s seemingly no payoff in the game. It’s time to talk about communicating your world.

Monsters of the Multiverse: A Review

Posted on 30/08/2022 by Graeme Barber

Spelljammer is live now, but if you’ve read my last post on the topic and been following any of the critiques of its slim pickings approach to the setting and its needs, you’ll have probably guessed that I can’t give the setting a fair shake in terms of review. So instead, let’s dive into a review of Mordenkainen Presents: Monster of the Multiverse!

One D&D First Day First Assessment

Posted on 18/08/2022 by Graeme Barber

Today was a big day. Wizards announced its release schedule for next year, dropped their plan for One D&D, and then released the first playtest material for it. Let’s dive in.

Running Session Zero

Posted on 04/07/2022 by Graeme Barber

A lot of people talk about Session Zero, how important it is, and then hit a few beats about what’s important in them that’s germane to the conversation or topic at hand. I know, because I’ve done the same thing or read about it dozens of times on social media too. So, it’s time to dive into Session Zero, and more specifically, my Session Zero process. Why mine? Because I don’t know other peoples’!

What Does Supporting Diversity Look Like?

Posted on 19/06/2022 by Graeme Barber

An excellent question came across my Twitter feed the other day. Paraphrasing, it was “What does supporting diversity look like?” And I realized I write a lot about how diversity is important, and how products and companies struggle and fail with diversity, but not what the actual effort looks like. So, what does supporting diversity look like in world building?

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