Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey guys,

I have an objective-based campaign (e.g. each "Phase" of the campaign has a set of objectives for each race/faction involved) that I posted in the 'Campaigns' forum, and I also plan to write a few more in the coming months. Though I came across a problem:

In my campaign (that I posted up), I have a lot of objectives with a lot of different potential outcomes. Now, I have all the background lore and campaign premise, but when I tried to do it for the objectives (e.g. trying to come up with some fluff based on the outcome of the completed objective), I had trouble making so much fluff for so many potential outcomes without eventually sounding either repetitive or generic.

My question is: Out of the following, what would be the best option:

-- Allow for more objectives, and create fluff for each potential outcome.
-- Allow for more objectives, but have no fluff (allowing players to make their own).
-- Allow for fewer objectives, but create fluff for each potential outcome.
-- Scrap objective-based campaigns and try a different format.

Because fluff for so many scenarios is so hard to right, but if people think the campaign would benefit from it, then I will try. My personal opinion is that it would be too much effort to write fluff that can be highly situational.

Additional
Do people enjoy the campaign more if it's objective-based? Or do people enjoy being given a scenario (a premise for a campaign) and then fighting it out where the victor of the camapgin is the one with the most victories?

Cheers Guys

I did a lot of this at my local hobby shot with three other dudes... unfortunately, two of them are really poor sports (rage quit turn two against their necrons/DA versus Tau/nilla marines)

@Tactical_SpamMade

I assume that this occurred because they were losing (and possibly losing pretty badly) in what I can only assume to be an objective-based game?

If you're having problems coming up with fluff for the scenarios, I'd be more than willing to come up with suggestions for it (assuming I know enough about the races, that is.)

@2BlackJack1

If you're up for it, that would be fantastic! I'm definitely open to all the help I can get. The only fluff I need help with at the moment is the fluff for my campaign 'Corona Infernus' (which I have posted up) in terms of fluff for the completion (success or otherwise) of each objective as well as the 'Total Victory', 'Total Defeat' and 'Draw' result fluff. I did try, but as I said in my initial post, I couldn't write them with it sounding either repetitive or generic, so I chose to (for the moment) exclude them).