Tonight is game night. In this episode, the group intends to finish what we started last week and clean out the rest of the riffraff squatting in Samaradan Keep.
In other news, I'm still reading through Story. It's a great book but I'm not sure it's a great book for world-building. It's an excellent resource for story-building. It does an excellent job of laying forth the cardinal rules of plot and characterization. However, it really says nothing about setting. It says nothing about building the backdrop to the story. After all, the book is called Story, not World.
I also picked up Guns, Germs, and Steal (also recommended by the Shakespeare and Dragons Worldbuilding 101 Podcast) and I have a feeling it will do more to address world building by describing the trends that can shape cultures and societies.
I think Story is a great book for campaign-building and plot-building but I think it falls short as a great world-building tool. This isn't a knock on the book itself because world building was never its aim. I do think it's a great read chock full of a lot of very good information, just not for creating worlds.
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