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Aug 15, 2023 · Introduction 1. Crafting a Cohesive Party2. Session Zero3. DIY D&D4. Party Dynamics5. Tips for Introducing New Players6. Group Challenges7. Creating Memorable In-Game Moments8. Strategies for Split Parties9.
Oct 18, 2023 · Here are 150 fun and creative one-shot D&D adventure ideas: The party stumbles upon a village where everyone speaks in rhyme and song. Breaking into prose is punishable by death. The party finds an ancient temple filled with devious traps guarding a powerful artifact.
- Festival Fiasco: The party attends a grand festival in a magical land. An ancient artifact goes missing, turning the festivities into a hunt for the culprit.
- Clocktower Catastrophe: The local clocktower has gone haywire. The party must fix it before time runs out and reality is shattered.
- Magical Beast Hunting: A random creature with a high challenge rating has been terrorizing a local town. The party must find it and bring it down.
- The King's Gauntlet: In a single session, the party is thrown into a gauntlet run by the King, filled with various encounter types, for the grand prize of a powerful magic item.
- 15 Get Out of Dodge
- 14 Pilfered and Plundered
- 13 Doomsday Cometh
- 12 Student Becomes Teacher
- 11 in Dreams
- 10 Ambushed While Traveling
- 9 Party of Prisoners
- 8 The Tavern
- 7 Political Meltdown
- 6 Help Wanted
One of the best ways to start a campaign is in the middle of the action! The PCs (Player Characters) are currently being pursued by the local guard, a gang of thieves, a den of owlbears, or maybe even a pirate fleet! Whatever is chasing them, the PCs aren't powerful enough yet to face it head to head, so instead, they've got to get out of dodge. A ...
Speaking of gangs of thieves and chases, another good way to start off a campaign, and for the same reasons, is to have the players chasing after someone who has stolen from them. It should be mentioned that whether the PCs are the ones doing the chasing or the ones being chased, this is a grand opportunity to involve player backstories. The item t...
It's another lazy day in the backwater town of Riverdwell. Or, at least, it was until an interstellar gateway opened up above the village and a spaceship looking like a shell with tentacles coming out of it. Departing the ship is a small contingent of mind flayers who effortlessly levitate above the startled townsfolk. They come to deliver a prophe...
The PCs are the bright young pupils of a current or previous group of heroes who already left their mark on the world. Unfortunately, they have recently stumbled upon the secreted-away knowledge that the group of heroes they serve isn't exactly everything they were chalked up to be. This is a storytelling device recently popularized by superhero sh...
Here's yet another campaign opener that adds a high level of mystery to the campaign. In this introduction, the PCs have all had dreams that feature each other's characters. The dreams might have started only recently, or the characters might have been plagued by these dreams for most of their lives. This campaign starter works even better if some ...
The beginning of many great stories follows the rule of in media res, Latin for "in the midst of things." Placing your players onto the same wagon, train, boat, or skyship forces them to introduce their characters to one another. Furthermore, new players who might be shy can be nudged for information by a curious NPC that's traveling alongside the ...
Widely known as a common introductory plot device from the Elder Scrolls games, starting the party out as prisoners gives them no other option than to work as a team. Outgunned and outnumbered,the players will need to lean on one another's skills and ideas in order to escape from their present dilemma. RELATED: Dungeons & Dragons: Best Racial Benef...
Speaking of cliches, here's the most popularized introductory campaign start in all of DnD. The player characters all arrive at a tavern during the same evening and come to know one another over drinks and conversation. Experienced players might be able to make this start work wonderfully, but your average player isn't quite so skilled at role-play...
Establishing what players want out of their campaign is an important step in starting a campaign for many reasons. It could even influence what the beginning of the campaign looks like! Players who are more interested in a story of political intrigue might enjoy having their characters take part in the event that led to the political meltdown upon ...
In the midst of all the shenanigans that occur on your average adventure, it's often easy to forget that adventurers often begin their adventurers for one simple reason: to get paid. Sometimes the beginning of a new campaign can be as simple as introducing the party's first quest. Whether through a poster board of requests and payment amounts or an...
- Any (Any) The beauty of D&D 5e is that it doesn’t really enforce rigid class stereotypes. It grants an immense versatility in character creation and development over the course of the game, not to mention the option to multiclass.
- Non-Spellcasters (Any) Have a party renounce the ways of magic altogether. It makes for an interesting and challenging gameplay experience in which the party cannot simply magic away their woes.
- Bards, Bards, Bards! Bards are like bees. They are annoying, and you can easily squash one, but you'll have a much tougher time against a swarm of them.
- Wizard (Order of Scribes), Artificer (Any); Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul); Bard (College of Creation) We now renounce the voodoo-hoodoo of the magic world.
Nov 1, 2023 · 1. The Forgotten City: A group of adventurers stumbles upon a long-lost city that holds mysterious secrets, powerful artifacts, and an ancient evil just waiting to be unleashed. 2. The Curse of the Lich King: The party must defeat a powerful lich who is threatening to raise an undead army and take over your peaceful mountain village. 3.
Have the classic 1980s D&D cartoon playing on the tv on mute Red Dragon Inn (maybe, but I did it with real drinks at my last new years party) Have a white elephant D&D miniature exchange D&D themed decorations. Maybe a Beholder balloon? Dragon orbs? What else would be classic D&D? Any other ideas?
