Acts

ACTS

Acts consist of multiple Scenes - depending on your goal as an adventure designer, there can be as many or as few as you like, but it’s often simplest to keep an Act to three Scenes in order to very easily organize each chapter to have a discreet beginning, middle, and ending point. The way Acts are traditionally structured actually works very well from an adventure designing point of view, so I’m restating them here:

The Three-Act Model

ACT 1: SETUP

Beginning, Inciting Incident, Second Thoughts, and Plot Point 1

ACT 2: CONFRONTATION

Obstacles, Subplots, First Culmination (possible twist of Plot Point 1), and Disaster/Crisis (plot point 2)

ACT 3: RESOLUTION

Descending Action, Confrontation, Climax, and Wrap-Up (possible twist of Plot Point 2)