Back to Part 1 There and Back Again So a lot of the hexes at the 2 mile per hex scale don't have a detailed map at the third of a mile per hex scale. What do we do about that? Right now? Nothing. Except for when people are approaching Badun's dungeon, you can quite …
Back to Part 1 Scaling Up The map we created in the last article is the area outside the dungeon that you have been running. It's reasonable to detail that locale. We will revisit this scale a little later. But we aren't doing this everywhere, promise. Where do the players come from when visiting the …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. This year I am creating a campaign for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition that …
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Good guy and bad guy Non Player Characters in role playing games As a game master I am always looking for techniques that help me build rich experiences that provide opportunities and meaningful choices for my players. The most prominent of these are the ones that let me develop a full cast of non-player characters …
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