When keying locations for the Pictish Campaign I use a variety of methods starting with researching the real life location's legends and history. After this I pull from my Quests List (which I expanded to about 170 quests since posting and assigned each to a location) and check a spreadsheet of unassigned minor arthurian characters (which I made using the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends) for any characters I might add. After this I season with a rotation of tables for features and quests (D4 Caltrops Stronghold Quests, Murkdice Connective Tissue Table, My Knights Table, ) I modify these as needed once rolled to fit the quasi-historical arthurian vibes of the setting. The last step I usually go through is drawing cards with a features Oracle. I use a modified expanded version of the deck of many things for this (but modified this to work with a 52 card deck). The prompts drawn from the deck are taken in with everything else and enmeshed with what I already have to give…
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