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A distributed campaign for Cloud Empress: the Land of Cicadas

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Instead of continuing my theoretical rant on distributed campaigns, I want to just show you my current game as an example. If you're new to this blog series; a distributed campaign style lets a large group of players adventure across multiple GMs without any coordination between GMs needed. Part I  goes into the agenda and principles that led to this campaign style. Part II goes into the first steps of setting up a distributed campaign for yourself. At the start of this summer I began a new distributed campaign at the RPG Night Utrecht for Cloud Empress in the Land of Cicadas. Currently we have two GMs actively running weekly games with room to grow. We wrote the campaign setting truths in a Discord post, restricting it to the Discord character limit of a single post to force brevity. It goes into how to deal with published materials and how to split that amongst GMs, which is something I already planned to address in this series. In the discussion at the end I also talk about a s