Madlibs?!
Anyone ever tried to begin an adventure with Madlibs? The idea would be that you have a paragraph or two written up with blanks to fill in. You ask the players for nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. and then read off the paragraph to the party. Boom, instant adventure.
That’s pretty much how I run my DW games. I show up with playbooks then ask some leading questions to get world background and the scenario for the adventure
Yes, when I have an idea I’d really like to explore I’ll start like that. IMO I feel that’s not the way DW was meant to be played though. Part of the appeal for me as a player is the shared world building, and if all I get to do is name the pieces that the GM has already created I feel robbed. So I always ask a group if they’re ok with that before I do it.
Sign in Stranger uses madlibs for world generation.
Something like this?
drive.google.com – Adventure builder.pdf – Google Drive
Brian Holland I agree completely. I only imagine doing something like this for a completely off the wall one-shot type of situation.
Peter J Though a great tool, I was just thinking back to how random and hilarious Madlibs sometimes turned out, taking simple verbs, nouns, and adjectives to fill in single blanks, thus completing the text.