Rules for Collaborative Campaign Creation

Want invested players? This guide provides a simple six-step process to collaboratively build a campaign together with your players!

Engage your players! This process helps you create a campaign where players will become a part of your setting before play even begins, and will remember places and details better once play does begin. This technique gives players a stake in the setting, and they will look forward to seeing what you add to the world.

The Rules for Collaborative Campaign Creation also empowers you, the GM. With a setting your players understand, the secrets and surprises you add will resonate with your players. 

The Rules for Collaborative Campaign Creation can be used with D&D or other RPGs and provides the following:

• A simple six-step process for creating or furthering a campaign with your players, before play begins.
• Examples using both a published D&D setting and a custom setting.
• An example setting created during the Dragon Talk podcast with host Shelly Mazzanoble!

This guide came from my guest appearance on Dragon Talk, the official D&D podcast. Host Shelly Mazzanoble and I discussed this technique and used it live on the air to create a fantasy clockwork version of Seattle. The guide furthers concepts found in the Dresden Files RPG and games like Fiasco.

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