If you've ever stared at a blank prep doc wondering what happens next in your campaign, this one's for you.
The
Story Pressure Template is a simple but powerful tool to help GMs prep less and react more. Instead of writing plot beats, you'll track three active forces that are already squeezing your world:
- Social Pressure: Factions on the move, politics shifting, unrest brewing
- Magical or Environmental Pressure: Arcane decay, divine silence, creeping blight
- Personal Pressure: Something from a PC's past coming to call
Pressure builds. Pressure collides. Pressure moves the world.
Use it between arcs or before each session to keep your game world vibrant, reactive, and emotionally grounded. We use this exact tool behind the scenes in The Shattered Path, and now we're sharing it with you, for free.
Download the template here and start riding the wave:
Jeyleigh's TTRPG Story Pressure Template PDF.