tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617677799085549365.post3145633670277602478..comments2024-03-12T22:45:16.936+01:00Comments on The Disoriented Ranger: Thoughts on stories in open worlds (+ Morrowind: done)Jens D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617677799085549365.post-78103979855998598902016-05-13T07:01:45.624+02:002016-05-13T07:01:45.624+02:00I know who you are, of course :) And I read your b...I know who you are, of course :) And I read your blog every now and then. But seeing the posts you wrote about your Dark Ages campaign, I think I have to take a closer look. There's some good stuff! (and I had exactly that castle as a kid ...)<br /><br />I'm doing something similar, having two groups exploring the same sandbox and it has been quite demanding, but also very satisfying in a way. Wrote a post about it, too. If you haven't read that one, it's here:<br /><br />http://the-disoriented-ranger.blogspot.de/2016/02/two-groups-one-sandbox-some-osr-musings.html<br />Jens D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617677799085549365.post-11066220050157827082016-05-12T16:22:30.328+02:002016-05-12T16:22:30.328+02:00If you'd like to take a look at some of the th...If you'd like to take a look at some of the things I'm doing:<br />http://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/search/label/dark%20ages%20campaign<br /><br />The idea in my world is that if players (or I) want to wargame at a scale of thousands of soldiers, we can. Or if they want to go to 1-to-1 D&D scale and RPG, they can. That the world has events happening and I am tracking them. That the tabletop group may be focused on events in the Northeast, but the online group is focused on events in the Southwest. And that my solo wargame to the southeast, news will trickle back to them (horseback news takes awhile...) but that significant things have happened. Michael S/Chgowizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052820400496340137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617677799085549365.post-432852929040641832016-05-12T10:23:59.956+02:002016-05-12T10:23:59.956+02:00Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, Michael!...Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, Michael! Yeah, that music get me every time, too :) Interesting that you have things going in your world that might or might not concern the players. A bit like the fronts in Dungeon World? I try to keep track of the things the players know (because it came up)and concentrate on what they bring to the table ... Yeah, dangling hooks is another great and important aspect in open world games! Low hanging fruits and all that.Jens D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617677799085549365.post-21433226289961708742016-05-10T21:29:25.447+02:002016-05-10T21:29:25.447+02:00Morrowind... You can play about 4 chords of the op...Morrowind... You can play about 4 chords of the opening song and I get chills, that game was just amazing.<br /><br />I tell the stories that the players create and how the world reacts. I tell the stories of a much larger world and let the players write in what they're going to do. I learned that an open world needs obvious hooks, but those hooks dangle whether the players do something or not.. and then the world reacts to their interest or non-interest.Michael S/Chgowizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052820400496340137noreply@blogger.com