Building a TTRPG Campaign
Two years ago I was brand new to being a Dungeon Master/Game Master (I will stick with the acronym GM) and I barely knew the Pathfinder 2 Role playing game system. Today I've learned a bunch about the rules and how I like to play, but I'm still far from perfect and often make mistakes. Much of my time and energy these past two years was spent creating a story and characters for my players to interact with. Coming up with methods to track the events, story beats, situational notes, and details was also a difficult hurdle. And trying to enrich my own GM style and experience to put on the best performance possible for my players. This article will be my experiences as a first time GM, including some of the key struggles I had to overcome and the design decisions I made along the way to best structure the game for my players. I will include some of the story beats themselves where appropriate, but I want to keep things high level and abstracted away from any specific story. A littl...