1) Here's how: just as in the real world, what are the current flash points (disputes over valuable resources like oil)? And, where haven't we heard from in a long while? With those in mind, follow 25 important NPCs (Szass Tam, Manshoon, etc.). What are they up to? #realmslore
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Replying to @TheEdVerse
I'd love to be a fly on that wall and just see how you develop such!

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Generate a local broadsheet (newspaper) headline about what they're doing, or a rumour about it. How might it get twisted/inflated if retold by a tavern drunk? Gather the 25 results, and there's your current clack. Wars first. #realmslore
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Which one of the supervillain immortal evil world-threatening NPC villains would be the most pleasant to have tea with? Which one would be the easiest to talk out of a lethal encounter?
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Depends on you. ;} However, if we include dead as well as the living, good candidates would be: Tea: Syluné or Shaaan the Serpent Queen and talk out: Larloch or The Simbul #realmslore
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@TheEdVerse does it again a simple answer to making your Realms interesting! I’m in prep for my son’s Middle School RPG club ( yes D&D still gives people an occult vibe that we changed the name and add more RPG to the mix) and this will be great to help get the kids started!
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Hey, that's kinda how I've been running the Realms, as well as my own setting: Nulna! I fill out a calendar with the different things happening where and when, then the PCs' decisions, actions, and inaction inform how and if that calendar changes. Living world!
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That sounds very much like how I approach Traveller: what are the Hi pop worlds up to, what's their relationship to the megacorps, and what trickles down to the level of the adventurers?
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