Jun 8, 2019, 4:20 AM

Brainstorming Exercise:

Short scene sets that people can use as a jumping off place that aren't 'walks in' or 'sits on the couch when X walks in' or 'is at the bar hanging out'.

Action ideas! Any genre, any setting, public or private, whatever ideas you have. Games have different rules on plots and NPCs and things too, so go ahead and assume you have staff permission to do whatever:

  • Neighbor's dog is loose, the neighbor's gone, and one character is midst trying to dog-catch when the other character arrives
  • Everyone's been in the coffee shop for an hour already when the guy walks in to rob the place
  • Character is in the middle of an angry business meeting, and the person they're arguing with happens to start storming out when the other character arrives (catching the tail end of the fight, of course!)
  • And our tried and true favorite, of course: literally drop a pencil and have it roll under someone else's chair