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In this Surprise Threat! we will discuss The Campaign Arc. 

Some people use the word Campaign to describe a setting (as in, “Seattle Campaign” or “Forgotten Realms Campaign”). Some people use the word to describe the entire life-career of a group of adventurers or runne...

In this Surprise Threat! we will talk about The Contract Brief. 

The Narration is all about Setting and Conflict. The Scene is all about Engagement, Challenge, and Consequence. The Contract Brief is going to focus on Objectives, Complications, and Story Arc. There are l...

In this Surprise Threat! we will talk about The Scene. 

The Scene can be thought of as the sum of all related Narrations. The Scene is also the smallest unit of storytelling that can stand on its own, in that it has a Beginning, Middle, and an End. You could potentially...

The next few posts on Surprise Threat will be a sort of primer on how to start playing Shadowrun: Anarchy. The shared-storytelling, rules-light system can be awkward to grasp when transitioning from a crunch-heavy system like Shadowrun 5e and it can be even more bewild...