Best articles for adventure writing?

hcobb · 02-12-2020, 08:58 AM

Which articles or online resources would you advise for an adventure writer?

~~namada~~ · 02-12-2020, 11:48 PM

Other than what's provided in the Basic Set and inside How to be a GURPS GM?

L.J.Steele · 02-13-2020, 05:06 AM

General writing stuff. I find things for screen or TV writers tend to have the right mix of action and structure -- Blake's Save the Cat, Stracyznki's book on Screenwriting, the Scripnotes podcast, etc.

exalted · 02-13-2020, 07:43 AM

I'd try this one, it is short and better advice then most. It can also be applied to any game.

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress...ont-prep-plots.

Dr. Beckenstein · 02-13-2020, 08:01 AM

I always found Dru Pagliassottis method helpful.

First, you develop an adventure focus:

https://www.modus-operandi.co.uk/gen...ing-the-focus/

Out of this, you grow your adventure tree:

https://www.modus-operandi.co.uk/gen...dventure-tree/

And, of course, nothing can beat TV Tropes for ideas, hooks etc. But be careful, grasshopper, one can get easily lost there:

https://tvtropes.org/

02-12-2020, 08:58 AM	#1
hcobb Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacheco, California	Best articles for adventure writing? Which articles or online resources would you advise for an adventure writer? __________________ -HJC

02-12-2020, 11:48 PM	#2
~~namada~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2006	Re: Best articles for adventure writing? Other than what's provided in the Basic Set and inside How to be a GURPS GM?

02-13-2020, 05:06 AM	#3
L.J.Steele Join Date: Apr 2005	Re: Best articles for adventure writing? General writing stuff. I find things for screen or TV writers tend to have the right mix of action and structure -- Blake's Save the Cat, Stracyznki's book on Screenwriting, the Scripnotes podcast, etc.

02-13-2020, 07:43 AM	#4
exalted Join Date: Nov 2013	Re: Best articles for adventure writing? I'd try this one, it is short and better advice then most. It can also be applied to any game. https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress...ont-prep-plots.

02-13-2020, 08:01 AM	#5
Dr. Beckenstein Join Date: Sep 2013	Re: Best articles for adventure writing? I always found Dru Pagliassottis method helpful. First, you develop an adventure focus: https://www.modus-operandi.co.uk/gen...ing-the-focus/ Out of this, you grow your adventure tree: https://www.modus-operandi.co.uk/gen...dventure-tree/ And, of course, nothing can beat TV Tropes for ideas, hooks etc. But be careful, grasshopper, one can get easily lost there: https://tvtropes.org/ __________________ ""The origin of everything good is due to games." - Friedrich August Wilhelm Froebel, creator of the kindergarten.