CREATING CAMPAIGNS

Campaigns tie many adventures together, increasing the scale and scope of the Adventurers' danger and impact on the game world over time.

Core Campaign Design

CAMPAIGN NAME
What catchy title does the campaign have?

CAMPAIGN DESCRIPTION
What critical or key challenges face the Adventurers?

CAMPAIGN THEME
Swashbuckling? Grim? Gritty? Perilous Intrigue? Fantastic? Operatic? Comedic? Horrific?

Additional Optional Campaign Design

CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT
What tools help run and maintain the Campaign? Campaign Logger?

CAMPAIGN HOMEBASE
Where do the Adventurers begin?

CAMPAIGN SANDBOX
Where can the Adventurers engage with the world story and various adventures within it?

CAMPAIGN HEXCRAWL
Can the Adventurers leave the sandbox region?

CAMPAIGN DANGERS
What spikes of danger exist to shake up or humble the Adventurers if encountered too soon?

CAMPAIGN OUTLINE
Outline the ideas seeds and possible progression of the campaign plots from homebase to sandbox to hexcrawl (if used).

CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS
Surveys? Player Campaign Book? E-mails? Newsletters? Journals? Bluebooks? Progress Updates?

CAMPAIGN EVENTS
What background events or disasters may change the world and campaign over time?

CAMPAIGN TIME
How does time flow for the Adventures moving through the Campaign? Seasons? Episodes? Fast or Slow Pace?

CAMPAIGN ARC, STORY LINE, MILESTONES
What possible Campaign story arcs, story lines, turning points, setbacks, or milestones may occur?

CAMPAIGN CLIMAX
What do the Adventurers face at the planned highest point of action, drama, and story?

CAMPAIGN LADDER
Can the Adventures climb a social ladder into different tiers of gaming within the Campaign?

CAMPAIGN DEADLINESS
How deadly might the campaign become?

CAMPAIGN REWARDS
What kind of rewards can the Adventurers expect progressing through this Campaign?

CAMPAIGN ENDINGS
What possible ways could the Adventures “ride off into the sunset” to end the campaign?

Additional Resources

Campaign Logger
Campaign Tracker Workbook
Roleplaying Tips #0007 - Save Time & Get More Planning Done Through Campaign Newsletters
Roleplaying Tips #0008 - Imaginary Languages Excite The Brain And Add Depth To Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0012 - Top 6 Ways To Use Encounters To Build A Compelling Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0015 - Campaign Structure - Part I
Roleplaying Tips #0016 - Campaign Structure - Part II
Roleplaying Tips #0017 - Great Campaign Journals - 6 Tips
Roleplaying Tips #0038 - How To Use E-mail AS A Super Campaign Management GM Tool
Roleplaying Tips #0072 - 6 Ways You Can Use Names To Enhance Your Campaign - Part I
Roleplaying Tips #0073 - 6 Ways You Can Use Names To Enhance Your Campaign - Part II
Roleplaying Tips #0097 - 6 Tips For Starting & Planning A Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0103 - 8 Ways To Make Your Campaign World Come Alive
Roleplaying Tips #0108 - Ten Ways To Enrich Your Campaign With Lists Of Rulers - Part I
Roleplaying Tips #0109 - Ten Ways To Enrich Your Campaign With Lists of Rulers - Part II
Roleplaying Tips #0116 - 9 Tips For Enhancing Treasure To Improve Your Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0121 - 8 Ways To Spice Up A Campaign With Religion
Roleplaying Tips #0129 - Old Campaign, New PCs: Creating New Characters For Existing Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0153 - The 10 Essentials Of A Swashbuckling Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0167 - The Principles of Gaming Etiquette: A Real Document That Helped A Real Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0178 - 5 Post-Session Player And Campaign Development Tips
Roleplaying Tips #0181 - 5 Tips For Sci-Fi Campaign Preparation
Roleplaying Tips #0182 - Help, Help, I'm Being Oppressed! Rights And Privileges In A Campaign Setting
Roleplaying Tips #0184 - Cool Planning Tool: The Campaign Survey
Roleplaying Tips #0186 - 8 Campaign Starter Tips
Roleplaying Tips #0191 - 20 Tips On Managing Campaign Time
Roleplaying Tips #0194 - Running Single Player Campaigns - Part I
Roleplaying Tips #0195 - Running Single Player Campaigns - Part II
Roleplaying Tips #0201 - Political Campaign Tip: Create A Social Ladder
Roleplaying Tips #0203 - Political Campaign Tips - Part II
Roleplaying Tips #0237 - 4 Tips For GMing A "Local" Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0238 - 5 More Tips For GMing A "Local" Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0250 - 12 Steps To An Epic Campaign - Part 1
Roleplaying Tips #0251 - 12 Steps To An Epic Campaign - Part 2
Roleplaying Tips #0272 - A Simple Method For Campaign Creation: Managing Complex Systems Over Time In A Campaign World
Roleplaying Tips #0283 - Rebooting Your Campaign - 7 Tips
Roleplaying Tips #0289 - Rhyme Clues For Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0308 - Baby Steps In Campaign Setting Design
Roleplaying Tips #0341 - Idea Seeds: A Campaign Design Method
Roleplaying Tips #0345 - Scenario and Campaign Arc Building Tips - Part 1
Roleplaying Tips #0346 - Scenario And Campaign Arc Building Tips - Part 2
Roleplaying Tips #0381 - PC Death And Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0396 - Start Campaigns With Unrelated One-Shot Adventures
Roleplaying Tips #0405 - Campaign Settings: Fantasy Greek and Roman
Roleplaying Tips #0408 - Near Future Campaign Settings
Roleplaying Tips #0436 - Introducing New Characters Into An Existing Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0438 - 7 Tips To Keep The Fear Of Death Alive In Any Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0451 - Police In A Modern Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0464 - 12 Disasters In Fantasy Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0470 - How To Add Pizzazz With A Great Campaign Name
Roleplaying Tips #0493 - How To Design A Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0499 - Turning Coal Into Diamonds - How To Mine Backstories To Create Killer Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0502 - 6 Ways To Assemble The Party And Kick-Off Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0505 - 56 Campaign Concepts & Starts
Roleplaying Tips #0507 - 5 Tips For Running Long-Term Epic Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0508 - How To Run Killer Zombie Campaigns?
Roleplaying Tips #0517 - For Awesome Campaigns Build A Player Campaign Book
Roleplaying Tips #0520 - Killer Campaign Management
Roleplaying Tips #0521 - High Death Campaign And How To Bring New PCs In Fast
Roleplaying Tips #0522 - Designing A Successful Modern Horror Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0530 - How To Keep Your Story And Campaign Consistent
Roleplaying Tips #0534 - My Digital Campaign Toolbox
Roleplaying Tips #0553 - The Secrets To Successful Long-Term Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0563 - 5 Ways To Breathe New Life Into Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0568 - Getting Organized For A New Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0591 - NPCs As Campaign Rewards
Roleplaying Tips #0598 - Tips For Running Single Class Campaigns (PCs of the same character type)
Roleplaying Tips #0604 - 10 Tips For Running A Riddleport Style Campaign of Intrigue and Peril
Roleplaying Tips #0607 - Episodic Campaigns Part 1: 3 Ways To Run Them
Roleplaying Tips #0608 - Episodic Campaigns Part 2: Tips And Session-Ender Narration Tool
Roleplaying Tips #0610 - My 4 Step Recipe For Creating Great RPG Campaign Seeds
Roleplaying Tips #0611 - 12 Campaign Seeds For Your Next Great Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0616 - 10 Wildly Creatrive Adventure & Campaign Seeds
Roleplaying Tips #0633 - Pre-Campaign Checklist + d100 Jungle Encounters
Roleplaying Tips #0666 - Connecting Everyday Life Encounters To Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0672 - Prevent Player Disagreements With This Quick RPG Campaign Survey
Roleplaying Tips #0680 - Tips For New GMs Creating Campaign Outlines For The First Time
Roleplaying Tips #0686 - Wrangling Unrule Campaign Outlines: How To Keep Track of Plot Threads
Roleplaying Tips #0702 - How To Spend Even Less Time Prepping Dynamic Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0744 - Good Campaign Design Should Not Hurt Your Players
Roleplaying Tips #0745 - Rebooting My Murder Hobos Campaign (And Yours) In Three Easy Steps
Roleplaying Tips #0747 - D13 Magic Item Concepts From My Demonplague Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0754 - Campaign Reboot Example: Murder Hobos
Roleplaying Tips #0788 - Running Parallel Groups In The Same Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0802 - A Secret Society of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #0820 - How To Wrangle Your Million Campaign Details
Roleplaying Tips #0826 - 5 Room Campaign Planning
Roleplaying Tips #0843 - Here's A New Source Of Treasure For Your Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #0851 - Cut Away The Dross For Better Campaign Craft
Roleplaying Tips #0868 - 6 Examples of Published Sandbox Campaigns You Might Run
Roleplaying Tips #0876 - How To Stop Campaigns From Fizzling Out
Roleplaying Tips #0888 - How To Make Campaigns Interesting While Avoiding GM Burnout
Roleplaying Tips #0891 - Creating A Sandbox Campaign - 7 Steps
Roleplaying Tips #0921 - Measure Campaign Progress So Players Can See It And Feel It
Roleplaying Tips #0942 - An Example Sandbox Campaign With Tips To Avoid GM Burnout
Roleplaying Tips #0958 - When Do I Peel Back The Cosmic Curtain In My Campaign?
Roleplaying Tips #1000 - How To Conjure Incredible Sandbox Campaign Climaxes
Roleplaying Tips #1007 - What Would Be Your Best Campaign Ever? Part I
Roleplaying Tips #1008 - Your Campaign Agender => Best Campaign Ever Part II
Roleplaying Tips #1034 - Campaign's Pillars: How To Pacing Your Game's Exciting Moments
Roleplaying Tips #1041 - The Keep: Introducing My New Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #1078 - The Secret Ingredient for Great Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #1084 - Add Spikes of Danger To Get Deeper Campaigns
Roleplaying Tips #1091 - How To Move Your RPG Campaign Online; Tools
Roleplaying Tips #1092 - Easier Campaigns With A Storyline Mad Lib
Roleplaying Tips #1125 - Players "Checked Out" When Campaign Switched To Virtual Online
Roleplaying Tips #1146 - 3 Things To Do When You Get Bored With Your Campaign
Roleplaying Tips #1147 - Starting A West Marches Campaign - Step By Step
Roleplaying Tips #1156 - Do You Get Bored Of Your Campaigns?
Roleplaying Tips #1190 - New Players - New Group - New Campaign

Salvage Space: Campaigns

Salvage Space: Campaigns

Chronology :: ◢ References: Plots and Complications