Source: Vivid Worlds Will Kill You
Notes
- 🌱 Procedures act like enzymes
- 🪴 Dungeon procedures are typically the most robust OSR procedures
- 🌱 Overworld exploration is more deeply abstracted than dungeon crawling
- 🌱 Ecological interactions can convey the meaning of their environment
- 🌱 Fiction about survival ties plot to facts about the environment
- 🌱 Not everything in alien environments should be dangerous or beneficial
- 🌱 Observation and experimentation require uncertainty
- 🪴 Alien environments follow their own logic
- 🌱 In a survival narrative, the workings of the environment are the drivers of conflict and development
- 🪴 Environments may be benevolent, indifferent or hostile
- 🌱 Constraints foster vivacity
- 🌱 Six questions you can use to create challenging environments
- 🌱 Challenging environments should answer three questions
- 🌱 Biotic & abiotic factors for challenging environments