>As part of my ongoing AD&D campaign,
>I write up a broadsheet (once every game week or so),
>detailing current events in the main city.
>This, therefore, is an appeal for ideas on possible events.
I did much the same thing, "publishing" 4-6 stories of a few paragraphs
each per week of game time. What I usually did when it came time to come up
with ideas was to pick up a copy of the local paper (the Chicago Tribune)
and flip through it looking for interesting stories. I would then adopt
these stories for my campaign.
For instance, when the story broke about a spy passing U.S. nuclear
secrets to the Chinese I reinterpreted it as the discovery of imperial
general secretly defecting to the barbarians. Along with the defection went
knowledge of current troop deployments and tactics. I extrapolated that the
general had shared heritage with the barbarians and added a few other
details to make it fit the setting, but the event as it occurred in the
campaign was entirely instigated by real life daily news.
Other news such as epidemics, demonstrations, political scandals,
obituaries and crimes all adapt easily to a typical campaign.
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