First Adventure

In this section

• Goals

  • Paint a picture of daily life
  • Explore relationships
  • Identify what's important to them
  • Push them into the field
  • Establish details, leave blanks
  • Play up both the mundane and the mysterious
  • Draw them back home
• Structure
• Background

  • Identify the central threat or opportunity

    • On a 10+, an opportunity
    • On a 7-9, a threat and a gain
    • On a 6-, threats abound
  • Write up your threat(s)

    • Sajra the Swyn (villain)
  • Refine your hook
• Setup questions

  • Establish key details
  • Highlight setting elements
  • Foreshadow
  • Make things personal
• Love letters
• Setting the scene

  • Ask a provocative question:
• Dropping the hook

  • Reactions
  • If they ignore the hook
• Heading out

  • Preparations
  • Travel
  • Resolution
  • Aftermath