From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
How do you go about it?
ReplyDeleteI have no process. Think about it until it's not as shitty as it was before.
ReplyDeleteWould this be any help? http://xbowvsbuddha.blogspot.com.br/2006/10/adventure-funnel.html
ReplyDeleteI tend to skirt the problem by sandboxing and being decent at improv. I often start with a random encounter and work back from there. What are doing here? What or who got them there? In a few sessions I usually have enough hooks for a sandbox that branches out fractal-like from my off-the-cuff assumptions that I develop between sessions.
ReplyDeleteI've found Felipe to be barren of good ideas. Why we even include him is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteThis is me too. I think I should try something other than come up with adventure ideas. Like illustrating or doing layout.
ReplyDelete