Planning Session ONE: How I Prep for Dungeons & Dragons
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In this episode I take you along while I plan the first session of my upcoming Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
The adventure kit I was using is the Oath of the Frozen king from www.absolutetab...
This was a project I personally backed on Kickstarter some time ago and I'm excited to finally put it to use.
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Step 1: carefully plan to prepare for the next session.
Step 2: throw that plan overboard and wait till the day before.
Step 3: panic for a solid hour.
Step 4: fix most things at the last moment and wing the rest.
Step 5: repeat.
That’s exactly what I’m doing today 😂
You've been here before
1 year later and i haven't learned 👍
Omg this is me every time I dm
Every time ;)
thank you for being so hands-on and teaching. So many videos have "how-to" but never actually show the "hands-on"
Get good
"What are you going to do, run the game for two people?"
I run one-on-ones with my brother.
@@ronins_sketchbook Awesome! How's that work for you?
I feel you. I'm planning a campaign for my 2 siblings
@@vinnregi4882 Cool! D&D is traditionally a group game, but a smaller group just means more time for each character. How is that working?
Same, I run 3 different small games. 1 for a Husband/Wife couple, 1 for my wife, 1 for 3 friends. It's definitely more RP oriented.
How do you do small games? I want to do one with my girlfriend but feel as if a pre made module will be too hard for just one person I am new to dnd so any help would be a big help
I really enjoy the videos that show the process of what ever you are doing, be it a build project
or in this case, prepping for a game. I love the idea of a 'Go forth and do good' guild. Sometimes
the players back stories can lead to another one shot. Great video as always. Please let us
know how it went.
Dude, how super cool. It's awesome to see one of our Absolute Tabletop books on such an awesome channel, and being used to start a new campaign. Absolutely love this. It's so super rad to see you flipping through it live. // Tim
You guys make the only published adventures I consistently enjoy using in games. That 2 year long campaign I mentioned? It was all homebrew/original story the whole time, with one exception. I ran Sewers during it. It ended up turning into several sessions in Sandwall well after the story wrapped and some in jokes/references from those sessions STILL make their way into my games today from the players that were there.
Thanks for the shout out at 19:19! great episode, as always.-- Professor DungeonMaster
No problem mr professor sir. I’ve always used this method but never really fully understood what I was doing until your vid. Now it has a name! The Batman example was brilliant.
Please do more videos like this, it was very helpful. Thank you.
this is EXACTLY the type of video I was looking for
"The things that happen when you don't use a pencil"
Continues to use pen.
Really liked it! I love seeing how other DMs prep, gives me some ideas for future ways to prep myself. Also cool to see how you think through the terrain portion as well.
This sounds like a west marches style of game. I heard it on Matt coville’s video.
Yeah this is basically West Marches I have been helping run on for a year now with a player base of about 30 people
@Ratko Mladic I think the name just helps in some situations. If you're talking with other table top gamers its faster to say "oh yea I run a West Marches campaign" rather than "oh yea I run an ongoing campaign with a large player pool that swaps out each week bit basically follows the same story," just quicker
@Ratko Mladic No problem at all! I get it!
@Ratko Mladic Google. When you categorize something it makes it easier to find resource for it.
You should look into a West Marches style game. It's a kinda sandbox where the players choose which area of a map they want to explore.
Also, you should have a rule of "if there are at least 3 players + GM, the game still goes ahead".
You mentioned the journal in an earlier video, I’ve since employed it for my campaigns. Put encounter stat blocks, rp choices, drawings of specific items (ritual dagger and stake for werewolf), and maps. It focuses my prep and gives me continuity for all things I come up with on the fly.
I use this concept Jeremy! Once per month, I hold an open invite game based around DotMM. Using the Waterdeep framework, players journey out from a bar they started in a previous campaign. Each evening is a self contained adventure and when the clock announces the end of the evening, the dice go down and the players are assumed to make the trek back out. The players are all assumed to be regular pub patrons and I hand out all attending new and old plot threads customized to their characters and applicable to their previous journeys in. I took the pressure off myself to "finish" the adventure and simply consider myself lucky to spend this particular campaign with friends and family. It has the flavor of a pub crawl but it moves down into a dungeon after a good jeering from the folks at the Yawning Portal. Nice seeing your method and some of the terrain. I was curious to see if the Frostgrave tiles were coming out after you pulled that particular module, lol. Have fun!
I did a very similar thing with the Village of Hommlet waaaaay back in the day. It worked pretty well for a while. Lots of fun.
30 year veteran DM here and one thing I love about the D&D community is that there are *always* new great ideas. Your perspective as a building DM/GM is unique and helpful, but even practicailities like the (now obvious) idea of a campaign journal (rather than infinite scattered papers gathered into a series of folders) is going to save a lot of headaches with this year's campaign. Thank you for putting the time and effort in to post this.
Having a visual representation and steps of how to prepare for DMs and the depth of it makes this so much more helpful then like 95% of other videos out there about DM prep
Never been interested in D&D until finding your channel and I would love to see your D&D sessions made into videos for us to watch. Especially to see all the terrain you've shown us over he years being used in action!
Now you should play it
Self contained smaller stories with a West Marsh style of drop in and out is certainly the way to go for adult schedules.
I had this idea a few years back, since i had a group of 11 friends who all wanted to play. It started out with just sort of randomized groups but they eventually formed 2 primary paries of 5-4 preferred players with others from other teams subbing in when necessary.
I love how the music in the beginning almost perfectly fits with the books slapping down on the table.
I think it is always nice to see how other DMs prep and plan for their game. That's how I learned about the tackle box trick for miniature storage and boy, that has been a life saver for me!
The "player pool" concept is what I ended up with as well. It's impossible to get the same group together consistently, so I've been running a series of One Shots that focus on a "main" character, one of the players makes a 1st level character, and whoever can make it, plays multiple simple characters. Now I can run sessions that develop characters a bit and form a "party" as well as letting people join casually and fill out background NPCs and stuff. It's worked well and I'm one session shy of having a 4 person party for Dragon Heist.
I am going through a similar phase of trying to go from long drawn out epics to more self contained sessions. I'm doing it for a slightly different reason though. We only meet twice a month for 4 hours each time, 2 and a half hours if you subtract the time it takes to get everyone's attention wrangled during the session. I also run for 9 other people. I'm getting fatigue from us not being able to get things done in the module I'm running but no one wants to reduce the size of the party, meet more often or drop the module we're running.
I enjoy this channel because you discuss process. I admire the candid way you share both your success and failures but approach everything from a growth mindset. Keep being you and sharing!
Very helpful dude, as a fledgling DM myself (for a party of 10... and somehow succeeding....) it's great to get validation on some of my own thoughts on how to prep and seeing the cool shortcuts and things you do. Hope to see more. man.
Love, love, love me some Absolute Tabletop. It is so awesome to see my worlds collide!
And Oath is a great product! I have run a version of it twice already and will be doing so a third time later this month, set in Eternia (the world of Masters of the Universe)!
Thanks Erasmas! You're awesome. // Tim
I rarely comment here, but more so in the FB group or Discord, but, seeing as how this is relevant to what you make the terrain for, and many viewers do similar, I thought this was a pretty outstanding video into campaign creation. Love it. I hope to see future videos such as this as time permits.
I had a very similar situation with player count! I knew once I started playing again I would have friends coming out of the wood works wanting in. I decided to do the first 5ish session following the Dragon Heist module. I ended up editing it quite a bit, but the 'base of operations' and urban feel has made for an AMAZING campaign thus far (level 7, left the module after 5 for homemade)
This is exactly what I needed. If this became a semi-regular thing, I would be very happy. It's interesting to see other DM's take on organizing and planning. Thanks again
As a winnipeger i really felt it when you said "in a permanently frozen land... something i can relate to."
😅😭
It's hard to play D&D during the summer here because everyone is out taking advantage of the short window of nice weather. Half my players are at the lake every weekend for a few months. Winter is game time.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial actually what an incredibly optimistic view!
One of your best vids yet, man. Love the DM "behind the screen" videos that help us DMs see other creative people's process on setup and running a game. ALWAYS some great inspiration to be had!
I started developing audio guided adventures for GMs to prep. They work great for quick prep like listening to a 20-30 min podcast with a map and plot web.
Look up Plotted Adventures or Fires Hunger I did for Shadows of the Demon Lord.
I have actually thought about learning to be a DM, how convenient
I'm sure you're familiar with it, but just in case you arent; check out Matt Colvilles "Running the Game" series. I was trepidatious about DMing and found tons of useful tips and ideas. I ran a 9 month game that was, in my opinion, pretty successful. I am now in the process of getting a new campaign together that will be my gaming group's main D&D game from here on out. Good luck
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Man, find a system that allows improvisation.
Don't get caught in the railroad vs. open world debate: get to the stage of rogue-like for campaign design.
Build up the battles using an Encounter Timeline as I call it (for the basic idea of what is an Encounter Timeline, look up Megaman X's first level design by Egoraptor).
Then, make up the story using what you and the players have previously established during the session.
Those are the four Absolute steps to success.
Thank you so much everyone, you are so kind! :O usually nobody reacts to anything I comment, and now, in just an hour, this many helpful tips! I'm greatful! ☺️☺️ (Sorry for my english💦)
@@Onsvaltti You're welcome! Good luck!
Great video. I have a simular group in my homebrew game, which is secretly run by an ancient silver dragon, that uses a secret identity as a powerful elven Sorcerer (same identity for 300 years) so most of society thinks he really is an elf.
I tied it into the group a bit more by having the PC Wizard the former apprentice (who also didn't know his secreet).
Main thing with this idea however. is keeping the dragon in the background and not having him overshadow the PCs. He tends to play the role of Gandalf or Charlie in Charlie's Angels...
So far they have,
- saved one of the PCs hometiwns from a mysterious curse, that caused villagers to act completely out of character and become bandits stealing and even killing neighbours and people they grew up with). Once they broke the curse people started acting themselves again...
Then they helped prevent an "allied army" from passing through a city that denied it entrance (the city's ruler didn't approve of the way the army treated the citizens of area it traveled through)... The PCs first haf to find a way into the city and then were hired to help find the old smuggler routes to keep the Army's scouts from finding them.
The third arc was safe guarding a princess as she traveled home to the Capital... ( the plot twist... He brother the crown prince was killed in battle a month or two before... The King was under a powerful Imprisonment Spell leaving him in a magical Slumber... and there was a price on the head of the Princess. The youngest brother wanted the throne).
This is exactly how I have been running DnD for the last year now. It makes it so easy to plan for and I love it. I'm using an adventurer's guild. This allows for you to easily use a one shot off Drive Thru RPG or The DM's guild without any major issues.
My friends and I have been doing this for the last 6 months or so, it works great! Here's some other benefits:
1. There are like 14 players now who work on a revolving schedule.
2. Everyone gets to make new characters anytime they want. Never played a Barbarian? go ahead and give it a shot? Want to try a Celestial Patron Warlock as the primary Healer? Lets try it!
3. We cycle GMs regularly. Everyone gets to try anything they want. It's also a great test-bed for a new GM.
4. We get to recycle campaigns with differnt players. They get better every time. We've got a Haunted house on its 4th generation.
5. Just make a new BMC Blood Fountain and want an excuse to use it? Done, build a one-shot based around a vampire court. Got a monster you really want to try out? Nice, that little girl has a Grey Render looking after her - and it's been eating the neighbors.
6. Its a great excuse to mess with your players. Want to make the Kobolds and good guys and the Halflings the BBEG? No problem, you don't have to worry about long-standing ramifications.
7. You can swap player level around as much as you want. "Hey guys, for tonight I want to run something high level, everyone roll up a level 13 character." or even "Guy, I really miss my goblins, roll up some level 3 characters."
8. The pre-built game nights make great fillers. Someone call out sick for the night, but everyone is already on their way? Throw together some quick characters, and run "The Heist" for them. Now you're a hero.
9. Not sure if you'll enjoy playing a long-term campaign with someone? Try them out in the One-shots.
We've seen a great success with these groups. Everyone always has a great time, and we've seen new friendships emerging. Everyone gets enough D&D, and it acts as an appetizer for a full campaign. Your first hit is free...
Totally agree: grown ups requires small and adaptable game sessions.
you know what, i have a very similar school schedule, Im in my junior year of high school and me and my friends are basically there from 8 am to 10 pm, leaving only sundays, and i have only 3 players, so its pretty much the same situation, especially because we have to to all of our other things on those sundays as well
Love all your videos Jermey and I have been a fan for years! Love the DM video this week. Would be cool if these “DM” tip videos happened again in the future. Is there a chance you’ll ever do a video on how to build a game table? Thanks and keep up the awesome work!
It’s astonishing how captivating you make these videos. I watch every single video you put out because of that. Thanks for all the hard work, thought, and planning you put into this craft/hobby.
I just started running a D&D campaign with 8 players and it is 2x/month. I'm having a really hard time making it work so this video is perfect for me!
As someone who runs for 8+ routinely I have a few tips, especially for combat. The first is that the action economy is now firmly in your players' favor, this isn't necessarily good or bad it's just something you'll need to keep in mind. The second is that I would encourage a "timer" on their combat turns. I tell my players they have 45 seconds to tell me what they want to do with their turn and that we can then take as much time as necessary to complete the turn. This sounds a little harsh but it's often way more than enough time, encourages players to know what their spells and abilities do so that they take less time and really dials in their attention as their perceived time limit adds a mental resource they want to manage.
Thank you so much for this video! I am a long time BMC fan, but this is the first time i watched this one.
I am getting ready to prep a DnD campaign, and have watched a bunch of videos on session and campaign prep, but this has been by FAR the best, most helpful, and easiest tips and processes to implement!
I would love for a few more videos on this topic of campaign prep, and story dev in the future!
This video is a bit different than the others I really love on this channel... and... I've so much liked it too 😄!
Thank you to show us how you plan your tabletop sessions and how you use the pieces you built before.
Did you plan to make another video with a report of your game? What turned good/bad, what was funny, maybe some in-game footages... I think it should be very interesting to have this kind of return 🙂.
Oh god! My comment is sooo long, sorry about that 😅. Thanks again for the high quality of your content/videos and I'm impatient to see the next one 😁.
Great video. I'll be DMing my first 5E campaign with a group of brand new players. I haven't run anything in a few years. This was incredibly helpful.
Always fascinating to watch other DMs prep a game! Super cool seeing you use a module and breaking it out into your game.
The first 2 minutes related to me so much it's so awesome to hear I'm not going insane!! Thanks for sharing this
Love this format of a video. I think the prep and planning that goes into the game, especially the thought process on the terrain is something that there are precious few tutorials on. Knowing how to use the terrain is something I struggle with, and this video helps me understand the process.
I have another video I did a little while ago focused entirely on how to use terrain in your game. Incase you missed it.
I'll echo the results from below and say that I REALLY liked seeing the process. Your thoughts and ideas on how to flesh out an adventure. Prep is so important to make game play that much more enjoyable for all. I look forward to seeing what's next.
This is great. Loved to see how you prepare. I always tend to overdo preparing. Now I dont like bought adventures because it takes too long for me to go through reading it and writing everything down, preparing monsters and details in rooms for my pcs. It took me 3 months last time (with work and my house and stuff) to prepare. Now I use homebrew stuff. It still takes time but not so much and it feels more organic to me. I dont get always the feeling I missed something to tell the pcs.
I d like to see more videos like this ^^
Awesome to see your process in action. Love that you’re using Oath. ❤️
This was great!
I was hoping you were going to have plans to make dungeon tiles with some snow covering the floor but not completely. That’d be a kool project
I know this video is so old but I just stumbled on it again. I had good times playtesting this and I am honestly still lowkey obsessed with the dice drop dungeon method. I think that was a stroke of genius and I still often use a modified edition of this method when I prep to this day!
Very cool. I love how you made everything custom, and not intimidating for new DM's who feel like they need to plan or keep every detail. I would like to see more like this. It would be fun to hear how it played out.
We also find that "real life" sometimes interferes with gaming life. These 1 or 2 shot "vignette" adventures would work well for us. I plan on using this method for my upcoming Gamma World campaign. Thanks for sharing, Jeremy!!
I've only played one session, but this was fascinating. I'd never quite grasped how the DM planned what would happen. Thank you for letting us see this side of it. I love the crafting, of course; that's what drew me to your videos. Keep up the good work.
Enjoyed this departure from crafting to learn a bit more about your prep and campaign organizing. Hope to hear more about the party's various exploits and how you ran the sessions. Thanks!
This is so great. I rediscovered my passion for RPGs some time ago, and one of my highest priorities for after moving apartments is finding a group of people to relish this passion together. That, and also getting a quite comfortable itch to get creative again makes this channel such an awesome source of entertainment and inspiration. Thank you very much for what you do and keep these videos coming :)
I always respect someone who shows off their books, cover facing out. Book bindings aren't that interesting! Great video, followed. Thanks man
This is the episode me and a few more thousands where waiting for. This was a great. Thank you.
I like this! There are a lot of DnD channels out there, but I appreciate the "we'll figure this out as we go" kind of feel to your narration. Also, since you're kinda a terrain channel, I like the way your video focused on how you're using terrain in actually executing a game.
Awesome video with lots of good spontaneous advices. Making a draft with these short phrases beforehand is a really good idea, like pre-drafting where you can easily see what exactly are you doing and what ideas can you involve in overall structure. I’m constantly finding myself in the midst of prep trying to come up with some ideas to install and not to fuck up my previous work. Easiest solutions are the best ones I guess. Good job!
Great video... and perfectly timed... I'm prepping my first big campaign (I'm new to DM'ing)... and it's great to see how other people approach this. I've been crafting stuff for my table for the last couple of months... and I'm excited to start putting this all to use. Thanks again!! Love the channel, and I've been using your how to videos as inspiration for creating my own stuff!! :)
i know im a solid 3 years late on this video but i’ve been workin on my own tabletop game for the past couple weeks (which is how i ended up finding this channel during a dive down the tabletop terrain/mini crafting rabbit hole). players not being able to show up for game night is the exact reason that im making my game as a single player experience first, i have plans to add a “co-op” esc rule set and a 1v1 or 2v2 (maybe even a 3v3) later so that way, i can play whenever i want and carry on my own single player campaign when my friends can’t make it over to play
Solid episode. I started running a very similar bounty board style game recently with rotating players and it's been much easier to prepare content and coordinate times to play. Also loved your cannibal pun at 17:59. Keep up the great work.
That was a great video! When I have run a campaign I struggled to stay organized. It was great to see a rundown of how you organize and plan a session!
For people who like the sound of the large player pool style game. It’s a pretty well established campaign style known as West Marches games. They were super popular in the 70s and 80s and it was kind of the standard way people played AD&D. There’s tons of material online on how people have run them and they’re great games for busy players and even multiple DMs
Being a DM is soooo much work and so under appreciated!!
Very Nice. So much of getting people running d&d games is a) getting players to the table consistantly and b) how to prep. Most "officially" published d&d modules are lacking in the "how do you actually use this at the table" aspect. Last bit: are you familiar with Ben Robbin's West Marches style of game. Seems like what you are setting out to accomplish with your group is right in line with a West Marches style of game.
I always forget your Canadian. You reminded me in the first 30 seconds. Love your stuff and has helped me a crap tonne.
I always enjoy seeing the creative process of fellow GMs. Thanks for sharing.
I liked this!!! it's great as a Dm to see others process for prep. I really like the idea of a template that you fill out for location with smell, sights, feeling etc that's done ahead of time
Good stuff. I’d definitely like to see more vids like this. I haven’t GMd a game in over a decade. It would be scary to try again now!
This was greate. I always feel like being a Dungeon master is a huge undertaking with way to muck detail for me to get right once we play the game. You showed me a perfect way of prepping for a game where i dont need so read the book so often and can focus on the players instead.
Im gonna use your method and im shure its going to help me allot in The future.
Your crafting vids are amazing but its also fun to see other peoples planning and play style.
Thank you SOOO MUCH for this. I'm making sort of a knock-off of DnD campaign and am making everything from scratch so this helps so much. And i hope you didn't damage your camera!
Oh I absolutely love this!!! This is super helpful, from the outside being a DM can be such an intriguing position, love seeing the ins and outs of it!
I am in the process of creating a new world for my party. This video was awesome as far as ideas for the new campaign. Thanks for sharing!
Great stuff. Really enjoyed your commentary regarding what the suggest and how you normally do it. Keep it up. Love to see all the rooms
when I was a younger lad...I used to play with my GI Joes and Xmen like this but rather than being a DM vs players it was more like DMs vs each other..so there was multiple story lines intersecting over a larger story arch..I've found that was a very helpful creative process now that later in life I am a comic artist/writer. I see a lot of parallels between playing,writing,and DMs as it's all about escapism and world building just slightly different tools for each. Pretty neat to see the process here of how to create and organize a campaign and how to do it effectively.
Great video man - yes to seeing more like this!!!
I dig it! This campaign build walk-through is just as interesting as your craft builds!
I subscribed to your channel a while ago (I have a rule - if I watch two or more videos on a channel, I subscribe) and I've been enjoying your videos. As it happens, I decided a few days ago to see if my kids (10 and 14) would be interested in D&D so I've ordered the starter kit because they've never played, I last played 40 years ago and have never DM'd. I like the ideas you describe for setting up bite sized sessions as I think that, just as for adults, a smaller session would be more interesting for kids and, if they don't like the theme of a particular session, I can just change it up for the next one.
This video has been extremely helpful in giving me some ideas on how to set up and run the game. One of the things I like about your videos, and it's the same thing I do on my channel, is that you actually show the process. I get comments from my viewers in the same vein - too many people say "go ahead and do this" rather than actually showing how to do it. Your ethos seems quite similar to mine in that regard, actually show people how to do it rather than just assume knowledge. This has been very useful for me, so thanks for that.
Hell yeah you run a game for two or three people. I’ve been DMing a campaign for over a year for just two people and it’s been awesome.
I remember playing a game just me,the ranger,and our DM.Everyone couldn't make it. We were supposed to be studying an ancient city we discovered but we opted out of that and decided for downtime. The rogue I was playing was really mischievous and was quite the prankster. So the ranger and I spent 4 hours pulling pranks on other people in our camp or in the city. Adventuring with 4 pc's or more is great but goofing around with one other and watching the dm laugh and sigh was so worth it.
Have a group of friends that play D&D every weekend. Thought about running my first campaign ever. This video gave me a bunch of ideas. Thank you. loved the video hope you make more.
Love the Erol Otus covers on the shelf behind you. Best from NorCal, where we still play.
My ragtag group of four players ranging from 12 to mid-50s is coming up on 2 full-years of very intermittent gaming. Right now? We're in the middle of my take on Oath of the Frozen King, adapting it to match my own world's background. I really like what Absolute Tabletop has done in that book and it was great seeing your approach to it as well. It will be interesting to see what builds this might inspire.
I did this, I called it the Adventuring guild, they swapped out hunting monster basically, which was two 4 hour sessions and worked great!!
This is a great way to play the game!! I recently had the same idea, but my problem was that I didn’t have enough players. So my roommate and I play together and when a friend had time they can join in. As someone who always has ideas in their head for the next campaign, this method allows me to use these ideas for one-offs and I hope it works well for you!
This is great timing. I'm coming up on a massive mine complex in the campaign I'm running and the one room at a time layout solves the biggest issue... Space.
I'm still not sure how I'm going to work around possible elevation differences, but this is a fantastic way to approach the process.
Very cool video Jeremy! And the game room is looking top notch! There are some serious treasures on those shelves.
I am also getting into Frostgrave. Fun game.
Love all the vids. Its good to get a mix like this and see the creative process.
Just what I needed! We are in the same position and you gave me the DM inspiration I surly needed.
Thanks
The large group/drop in method is exactly how ive been running my game of 2.5 years or so. (8 player pool, 5 regulars, 4 player minimum)
I've also found a way to have a massive world traveling campaign arc at the same time(they've been working at the same massive goal for a whole year and a half now, campaign should be over soon actually), although it does require people who don't turn up to session to catch up through the grape vine between/before sessions.
They all travel around in a large ship, those who show up leave the ship for the current session, those characters whos players don't make it stay on/return to the boat that day. RP wise, the players who miss a session or two, need to ask the other players on the ship while they travel what happened while they were gone. I don't recap the last session for the players often, only rarely will I add details they forgot if extremely important. I think I got the philosophy from Colville, but my perspective as a DM is quite different from the players perspective, so I let them handle it.
I DM for 11 people. You are spot on with the reasoning of not everyone making every session. The players tend to come quite regularly. Meaning, I average only -1 player every game. That is even having a session every other week! The game has been running for a year so far. Expect really good attendance and good luck!
I got to say you have a really interesting way of prepping your games. It seems like a really efficient system
I've never seen a game in real life and it's been fascinating to see that there are actually 'guide' books to help prep the games. I'd LOVE to see a basic game being played. Loved the bit at the end 🤣🤣
Feels Good to see that your doin it kind of what i thought myself to do to do my very first adventure.
Absolutely love seeing you drop into this sort of content. Rock on, man! Now... on to making ice tiles.......
This was exactly the scenario I wanted to use! Thanks for the ideas of how to start.