I don't like teaching easy classes. I teach ESL for immigrants at the local college at night. Mostly immigrants. Some au pairs. 'Travelers'.
Most folks don't have full control of their ABC's. But they're adults. They're 20 - 60. They've got big big brains and cool ideas. Limited power of expression in one country but in their own world, whatever private world they have, undoubtedly 'forces'.
I don't like easy classes so I don't give easy assignments:
Students developed together the 'fifteen essential elements of a town or settlement'. Then they each had to draw the town on a nice 11x17" map grid I designed for them and are now populating the map with fifteen people.
You can already see how I'm crowdsourcing my community work for more D&D material, but the crime continues.
These people have relationships to three other people. There can no duplicates. Only one brother, only one 'client of'. If Maria is listed as Juan's sister, Juan cannot be listed as Maria's brother, even though he is.
Then, every character needs to have a secret.
Just because, right? Just because—maybe—everyone has a secret.
I don't teach easy classes but it doesn't mean I'm cruel. I made some tables for secret sewing; for some percolator heat. I want that cask to bubble over with creative foam, baby. I need good material. I'm like an idea succubus.
So here's the tables. Post if you use them, I'd love to read your 'sample secret' wherever, whenever. Shyness doesn't become you.
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