Principles of Fantasy

The Principles of Genre series provides practical guidance for designing roleplaying campaigns and settings. Each volume examines how a particular genre works: the kinds of worlds it imagines, the types of characters it favors, and the conflicts that drive its stories. Instead of presenting a single prewritten setting, these books examine recurring, reusable patterns that shape the genre. Recognizing those patterns can help gamemasters adapt these ideas from fiction and film, so they can ru...