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The Architect DM: Winging It

January 5, 2012 by Bartoneus

Let me know if this situation sounds familiar to you: You’re the DM/GM for your gaming group and you’ve just wrapped up an adventure, and you have at least a whole week until the next one. You sit down the next day, or even that very night, and start the adventure planning process. Over the next few days you stay on track but before you know it the next adventure is looming and you feel like despite your best efforts the game is still not as ready as you feel it should be.

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games, The Architect DM Tagged With: Adventure Prep, advice, architect dm, D&D, DM advice, dnd, Dungeons and Dragons, planning, preparation, roleplaying games

Instant Dungeon Crawling, Trial by Dragon

December 20, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty shares the highlights of his New York Comic Con D&D 4e game, featuring dungeons crawling and dragon mustering… or was that dragon mustarding. I forget.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Game Hacks & Content, Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, convention, d&d 4e, DMing, DMing tips, new york comic con, nycc, One Shot games

Instant Dungeon Crawling, The Formula and the Setup

December 14, 2011 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty shares is instant dungeon crawling formula that he used at the New York Comic Con to improvise a full D&D session.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, convention, d&d 4e, DMing, DMing tips, new york comic con, nycc, One Shot games

Chatty Plays, Part 3: Burning Wheel, Monstrous Power Play

November 22, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty finally reveals what happens to Yan’s Snake-woman PC when our unified group of adventurers decide to attack her. Will the alliance stand? Will the snake woman survive? Come and read about it!

Filed Under: Actual Play, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, Burning Wheel, Monster Burner, The Sword

Chatty Plays, Part 2: Burning Wheel, Compromising Canucks

November 17, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty starts relating a play-by-play account of the Burning Wheel scenario “The Sword” as played by his long-standing gaming group.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, Burning Wheel, Monster Burner, The Sword

Chatty Plays, Part 1: Burning Wheel, Getting into the Game

November 15, 2010 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty explains what brought him to finally try Burning Wheel with his players and how he prepared for running the game’s introductory adventure, a short Dungeon Crawl scenario called ‘The Sword”

Filed Under: Actual Play, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Adventure Prep, Burning Wheel, Monster Burner, The Sword

The Dungeon Master Guys, Episode 1

April 12, 2010 by Dungeon Master Guys

The very first episode of the Dungeon Master Guys focuses on adventure planning, creating a cast-of-heroes setup for your campaign, and using failures to make your games more interesting.

Filed Under: Dungeon Master Guys Podcast, Podcasts, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Adventure Prep, DMing tips, failures, hall of justice, Mouse Guard, PC switching, superfriends

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