After I wrote recently about procedural generation for dungeons, my brain kept chewing on the possibilities here. I decided to try the process outlined in the Dungeon Masters Guide (5e) Appendix A. This post will run through my experience doing that, as well as a look ahead at what could come next. Random layout The … Continue reading Worked example of a procedural dungeon
In a dungeon crawl adventure, the characters have different goals: finding treasure, not killing monsters. In fact, if you can get through the dungeon with minimal risk, so much the better, because the payoff should be the treasure. Combat serves roughly the same purpose as traps: an obstacle preventing the characters from getting to their … Continue reading Experience for treasure
Last night's game started to see the adventure take shape in greater detail. Unfortunately, this noob streamer didn't realize that the voices of the players didn't make it through to Twitch, so the video is fairly one-sided and I've decided to keep it unpublished. Streaming is hard, y'all. As a reminder, if the setting Krevborna … Continue reading Krevborna – Session 2 Review
Last night, I ran Session 1 of my new Dungeon World campaign using Krevborna. The YouTube video is embedded at the end of this post, and we stream live on my Twitch channel. Here are my thoughts about how I did... For context, DW expects the players to shoulder more of the worldbuilding than traditional … Continue reading Krevborna – Session 1 Review
I started playing Dwarf Fortress again recently, partly inspired by the videos produced by Kruggsmash. He does a wonderful job of extracting the story from a fortress, illustrating it in a cartoonish way, and pulling out a narrative. But a lot of that narrative comes from the game systems, influenced by player actions, through procedural generation. That … Continue reading Coming back to procedural generation in D&D
Despite the way Wizards of the Coast has positioned them, I don't think that Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage really pair together very well. One is an urban intrigue and investigation campaign, and the other is a chthonic megadungeon. These have very different tones and structures, and many players will … Continue reading Dungeon of the Mad Mage lead-in alternatives
The release of Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, as fun as it is, should be seen in the context of the Plane Shift documents that provide more Magic the Gathering settings for Dungeons and Dragons. This also included a free adventure "X Marks the Spot" for the Ixalan campaign. Among other cool things ported from MtG into D&D, it uses … Continue reading Using treasure tokens in D&D
