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Dragon Empire Campaign Building – Lazy GM Prep
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
Mike begins his campaign prep for his Dragon Empire Midgard-based Tales of the Valiant campaign! Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Tales of the Valiant Midgard Worldbook
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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish. Today we are going to have a kind of a special episode of Lazy GM Prep. In this show, I normally go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday role-playing game, but my game has been cancelled. So instead, I'm going to do some homework for our next campaign.
Our next campaign is going to be set in Midgard, the world of Midgard by Kobold Press, and specifically in the Dragon Empire off to the east. So we are going to go through what steps I have... in order to start preparing for a brand new campaign.
Some of the things that I plan on doing today is building a giant faction list of all of the different factions in the area, having a general idea about where the campaign is going to start, get some big ideas about sort of the friction points that exist in the world, in this particular region of the world, so that I have a general idea of what kind of adventures might be fun.
Maybe a list of the kinds of adventures that we would actually run here.
probably at least a paragraph about what the first adventure will be, like narrowing down to what's the first session going to be like, and putting together a session zero guide so that I have something I can give to the players before we begin to talk about what the campaign is going to be like and kind of set the ground rules for all of it.
So I don't know if we're going to get through all that today, but we're going to try. I actually, I think we can get through some of it. It is also going to be my first time that I'm using Obsidian for my prep, so I have a little separate window here for Obsidian because we're going to be building out this campaign using Obsidian rather than using Notion. I am not dissing Notion.
Notion is just fine, but I have really enjoyed using Obsidian for adventure and campaign planning, and I plan to do more of it because I like having local files not being dependent upon a server, and they're already in Markdown rather than having to convert to Markdown. So I find that to be very useful, and that's been very useful for my game so far. So we are going to get started.
One of the things that I did is I already did some homework up front. And in particular, I already read through a lot of the material for the draft. So this is all from the Midgard World Book. Midgard World Book is one of my favorite campaign source books. I've now run two campaigns in it. This will be my third campaign using the Midgard World Book.
it is really really big rich huge tons of material and what i recommend is doing what i've been doing is focusing on a particular area whether it's the crossroads whether it's the northern reaches whether you know whatever region you pick the western wastes you know whatever you want to pick you can kind of focus down on that and i thought you know the dragon empire sounds cool a because there are no real adventures taking place there there's no big campaign source book
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