Dungeons have been the foundation of D&D play since its inception, providing some valuable features. There is the ability for the novice DM to draw some rooms and connections, populate the rooms with some random monsters and treasure, each isolated from the other, and then run a successful beginner game. There is the value of …
When running a role playing game one of the major tasks for the game master is to bring encounters to the players. Here is my summary of the various methods I have used over the years. Random This is an improvised encounter method. The original and simplest of all methods, also very low prep. You …
Ok, its been a while since I posted here. Its not my fault. The dog ate my homework. There was a police raid. Australia is on fire. A volcano erupted. ITS NOT MY FAULT. Well, it is a bit, but I have also been beavering away on a new role playing game. All Us Gamers. …
A generic game structure that sits between combat mechanisms and crawl mechanisms (space, hex, dungeon, urban)
I have created a couple of pdfs for 6 x 6 hexagon map blanks that can "jigsaw" together to create higher scale maps. Their initial purpose is for use with Traveller or Cepheus Engine but they can be used with any game that needs scalable hex maps. https://www.patreon.com/posts/18072516
These concepts are built from Justin Alexander's Open Table Manifesto and over a year of practical application. The aim of the open table format is for casual play by the participants. People may show up for a session, play, and then may show up to the next or not. The public sessions are regular but …
How do you build a campaign? Can you generate all or most of it on the fly? If you play with whoever shows up in a casual, open table style, then how do they get started on an adventure and how do extended adventures get resolved by different groups? What is the nature of “the …
Back to Part 3 We are up to session 12, we have two dungeon masters running regularly (Andras is running the Trivale domain next door to Polemar), we have two new dungeon masters in training, we had 16 players at the last session and 6 others with characters who didn't happen to show up that …
Continue reading Constructing an Open Table Campaign for D&D 5e: An update
Back to Part 2 Spoiler Alert: If you are a player in the open table games you should not read this if you do not wish to spoil any sense of suspense, or to lesson the enjoyment of revelation during exploration. You have been warned. The big day for the first public flight of this …
Continue reading Constructing an Open Table Campaign for D&D 5e part 3
Spoiler Alert: If you are a player in the open table games you should not read this if you do not wish to spoil any sense of suspense, or to lesson the enjoyment of revelation during exploration. You have been warned. Following on from Part 1 the next step was to work out some specifics …
Continue reading Constructing an Open Table Campaign for D&D 5e part 2
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