All tagged Worldbuilding
So why is it important for us as DMs to have Hub Maps? Hub Maps are mainly used to organize your NPCs, stories, and plot hooks in one place that would lead to your quests or other locations. Hubs might also be an excellent avenue to add some side quest content for your players to invest more into the NPCs and add a layer of story for the quests connected to a hub.
While World Map is the most helpful tool for the DM to design their overarching sandbox campaign, Region Maps is one of the most valuable tools for the player to experience your story in your Sandbox Campaigns. Regional Maps entice the players to go to different plot hooks and be intrigued by what the region offers. For the DM, it's also a valuable tool for planning your quests and having a player progression that does not go out of hand with too many choices for your players but also provides the freedom to explore your sandbox campaign organically.
World Maps are essential for DMs to grasp the big picture and define the type of world in which your campaign is set. Even though it's the first step, and it's not the most crucial map type, but its creation leads to the most important map type creation - Region Maps. The reason is that the players will not use World Maps the most often, but a good World Map is a founding block for everything else.
Not so long ago, I wrote an article about which Note/Worldbuilding app DM's should use for their games. And the thing was, I didn't hear about LegendKeeper at that time, but afterward, after getting a couple of recommendations, I tried it. Previously, I said it's not worth migrating your notes into a new app if it's not good enough since it takes a lot of time. And boy, oh boy, my notes are flying off into LegendKeeper for a good week now, and they will not stop.
So what made me change when it comes to LegendKeeper instead of Evernote? Well, let's find out.
I like worldbuilding, mechanical props, miniatures, everything that supports D&D. But not everybody enjoys long written books on the lore of the game you're running. It can become tedious for players if you overexpose worldbuilding in some capacity. These are a couple of Magical Items I use for better worldbuilding...
Towns are probably the most balanced location for Dungeon and Dragons stories. They are not too big like the cities or small as villages, yet towns strike a perfect balance in their scale. I choose Towns over other areas since they don't require as much work and preparation as the cities and give way more content opportunities than the villages..
I like a little bit of realism in my DnD games. I like City Building games, and I think it's rather fun to try and have some elements of the economy in my DnD world. By implementing a couple of things that emulate the economy, it made my merchant/shop/guilds more interesting and believable, and today we will take a look at those ideas.
Villages are not the most exciting places in DnD. Most of the time, a village is a place for your players that just started the campaign or in the long run, a stop to rest up between adventures that lead the players to Dungeons or other Quest Locations. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be boring or don’t have something to do with them. The opposite, if you craft your village well, there could be plenty of things to explore for your players and stories to craft if you do it well.
