9781622832729

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The Borderland Provinces ''campaign'' is designed for characters who like to travel across wide regions, and Game Masters who like to run such ''sandbox'' campaigns. There are upsides and downsides to running a sandbox campaign rather than one where the characters are presented with a series of clear objectives, all of them roughly designed for the character''s current level of experience. A sandbox campaign like the Borderland Provinces requires that the players are able to identify objectives for themselves, or else they may become paralyzed with indecision, looking for the ''right'' place to go. So, on the Game Master''s side of the GM screen, it''s very im-portant that the characters are presented with lots of choices wherever they go. This - as any experienced Game Master will immediately note - makes a lot of work for the Game Master. How do you generate those choices? Do you need to prepare five or six different adventures for each time the characters enter a tavern and start asking questions?This book is a resource for generating journeys, but in doing so it allows you to fill the world with a realistic jumble of objectives, possibilities, opportunities, and motivations for the charac-ters, keeping them from asking, ''Well, what are we supposed to do?'' It might take them a bit of practice to switch into the ''sandbox'' mentality, but soon they will be asking, ''Which opportunity do we want to take?'' And that brings us to the reason for this book, because at that point they''re going to need lots of options, and it''s your job to produce those options.