The Personal Character Quest Plus One Campaign
Let’s keep the Not-Character-Arc Momentum going. Here’s my super secret recipe for executing an absolutely terrible Personal Character Quest Campaign in the least terrible way possible.
Let’s keep the Not-Character-Arc Momentum going. Here’s my super secret recipe for executing an absolutely terrible Personal Character Quest Campaign in the least terrible way possible.
This isn’t a Feature about incorporating Character Arcs into tabletop roleplaying games. That would be interesting. This is a boring-ass Feature about players picking their own stupid character quests. Which is a terrible idea.
I’m off to Walden Pond. I’ll send back some Features, but otherwise, I’ll be off the grid for a week. It’s the only way to turn shit around. See you in April.
Time to post the weekly report on my failures. What fun.
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