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My hope is that this article will serve as a single landing-point for folks curious about what I mean by "High-Trust Trad" roleplaying, or HTT.
https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2026/08/whats-forever-for.html
But, I know about hope, and the Internet. 😁
It was maybe 1989 or 1990 when I first started saying some version of the following in GMing conversations:
"When I prep, there's a likely version of the game session in my head, but anytime it actually goes that way, I feel a little pang of disappointment."
Delight at the PCs upending my expectations, to the point of (a little) sadness when they didn't, was a pillar of my GMing years before I had the tools or perspective I have now, but it's a clear antecedent. 😅
And here's a treasure trove of alternate earths mapping material: https://zenodo.org/records/10659104 check out 3c. Global Elevation Source Maps.zip in particular!
edit: more maps: https://zenodo.org/records/10659112
Events need to be fed back into the campaign, so they develop into living campaign lore that's accessible through play. I feel that's time much better spent then writing up session reports:
https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/blog/004-campaign-lore.html