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Realistic, Cinematic, Believable: Believabiity as Rule Zero (Part 1)

I was going to post this one today. But after 36 hours traveling and very little sleep, I realized that I had it wrong. At length. I’ll be revisiting this, most definitely. But I will say this: I was going to set up “believable” as an overall goal that people who clamor for “realism” actually…

Don’t forget to check the weather

Over at Dungeon Fantastic, +Peter V. Dell’Orto comments casually that he assumes that the local environment in his Felltower Dungeon Fantasy campaign matches whatever is going on outside his house at the moment. I thought this was brilliant, and extensible The internet, plus sites like weather.com, weather underground, and apps such as WeatherBug all allow you to get…