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.
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, part 3: Abstract 4E
We break established design patterns to have a strong story-rich wilderness travel skill challenge feel and two abstract combats – including one with an army unit!
Breaking Patterns, Part 2
When a combat is dissatisfyingly easy, we drop in a ferocious custom-built sand drake! Download the monster for your game. Episode 8 of my Dark Sun campaign, Crown of Sorrow.
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.
Tavern Trouble and Taking Risks
What if we create a Dark Sun bar fight, where every PC can discover special tavern-related “powers” they can use? These kinds of experiments can really help us grow as DMs.
Integrating PC Backstory
A player-driven campaign really takes off when we encourage the players to collaborate on backstories that tie them to the setting.
Hexploring the Possibilities
SRM has a cool idea on giving players a hand in overland exploration, turning random encounters into a neat new system of Hexploration. Let’s experiment and apply it to Dark Sun!
Dark Sun Campaign Development: Storyboarding and Arcs
One of the ways we can make our campaign feel like a cool movie or TV show is to employ the same storyboarding and story arc techniques.
Bone, Wood, Stone, and Obsidian – Fighting in Athas
From the materials used to the differences in construction to paying with clay pieces, Athas has a unique flavor when it comes to weapons.
Warming up for Dark Sun
This post serves as an index to all of my Dark Sun posts.
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