Ambitious (Dark Sun) Adventure Design
My favorite adventures are bold and innovative. We look at how to take risks, using an Ashes of Athas adventure as an example.
Critical Role and Bringing Emotional Investment to Campaigns
Critical Role, the acclaimed and influential livestream series, showcases how a campaign can create emotional invested players. Find out how to create emotionally rich play in your campaign.
Ashes of Athas: The Development Process
The development process can help identify and resolve an adventure’s weakest points.
Ashes of Athas: Where to Begin
Find out how Ashes of Athas designed its first adventure, and the start of its campaign, with a bang!
Use these techniques for your campaign!
Ashes of Athas – Looking Back on the Dark Sun Organized Play Campaign
The secrets of Ashes of Athas, the Dark Sun organized play campaign, are shared with Mike Shea and with the Misdirected Mark podcast. Find out how Chad Brown, Derek Guder, and I lost so much sleep.
From OD&D to Playtesting New Editions… and Back Again
When I can’t tell my gaming group that I secretly playtested the upcoming version of D&D, I do the next best thing: I run them through the editions, starting with the grandaddy OD&D. The result blows our minds.
Gen Con Report Part 2: Why I Love Gen Con
Step back in time to the amazing events at Gen Con 2011 and the reasons why I come back every year.
Adventure Hacking in Dark Sun
Where we mash-up Aliens and Thunderspire Labyrinth to create a fantastic Dark Sun adventure – or was it only in our minds?
Breaking Patterns in Encounter Design
We can work really hard at creating great adventures and yet still not escape the patterns of conventional adventure design. Here is how we break the mold.
Changing Adventure and Encounter Design
Rob Schwalb reexamines the dungeon – a way to redefine dungeons and encounters to create a greater marriage of story, exploration, and combat.
Warming up for Dark Sun
This post serves as an index to all of my Dark Sun posts.
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