Instant Campaign Builder - Dungeon Mastering

1 Instant Campaign Builderby Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 1 ..8 Your draft is your final product Have faith in your improvisation skills Choosing a style of play Cashing in on familiarity Copying games and stories you ..12 Impress your players Props suggestions ..15 Trusting your skills Benefits of improvisation How to improvise efficiently in 14 easy ..21 Railroad vs. Outline Outline ..24 Lead Objective Conflict Kick assInstant Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free!

2 Page 2 ..27 The Buzz How to generate hype The danger ..29 Why is planting essential How to plant Positive side-effect of planting10. Beginning ..31 Setting the tone Setting the mood Making a promise Getting a spark11. End ..34 Planning the ending early How to end a campaign12. Fine-tuning ..36 Superstar potential Unique and bizarre elements Random and useless elements Game helpers13. Have fun .. 38 Instant Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 3 ForewordI poured hours of writing and years of Dungeon master experience in this project.

3 I believe any DM can use the information in this document and reduce Campaign preparation time Instant Campaign Builder Project was originally published on I gathered the articles and made a few additions and corrections to provide the DMing community with a concise and helpful Campaign building suggestions and comments are Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 4 IntroductionWhat is the Instant Campaign Builder Project?This project will help you achieve 2 of the main goals a Dungeon master should have when preparing a Campaign : Create the best Campaign ever.

4 Not spend any time doing it. They seem to be contradictory goals. Well, they are. Compromises have to be made. The more time you spend planning and plotting, the better your Campaign should be. But I believe that it is possible to prepare a quality Campaign without spending too much time at the drawing Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 5 The Instant Campaign Builder will help you to: Optimize prep time Channel inspiration Create unforgettable scenes Have more D&D fun with less workIf you're really short on time and have a to prepare a game in 30 minutes right now, then check out this article on How to prepare a great game in 30 objective of the Instant Campaign BuilderWhat is too much time?

5 In my opinion anything over 1 hour of prep time for 4 hours of play is unnecessary but feel free to spend as much time as you want creating and writing I wish I could!So let s say you re planning a Campaign that will last 100 hours of play - roughly 25 4-hour games. You should be able to plan the whole Campaign in 25 hours so you ll probably need as much as a few weeks of preparation in Instant Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 6 your spare time or 1 week-end if you re really pumped up. (to get pumped up, you can browse this collection of gaming motivational posters or read this article on the Top 10 ways to get pumped up for your next D&D objective of the Instant Campaign Builder is to give you the necessary tools to keep that prep-time to play-time ratio under 1 to prerequisitesNone.)

6 This project will help all Dungeon If you re just undertaking the Dungeon master profession, You might be best served by using a published Campaign setting, and maybe a published adventure to get your feet wet, see what your players like and what your strengths and weaknesses are as a Dungeon Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 7 KnowledgeThe most important building block in a Campaign is knowledge. Your knowledge of yourself, your DMing skills, your players and their characters.

7 If the characters have yet to be created, I suggest you plan a first game around character creation before you start working on the details of your this first game, make sure all the players have some backstory. Also survey their expectations and style of play draft is your final productChances are you will be the only one ever using your Campaign . If your goal is to publish your work then the Instant Campaign Builder is not for you. Let's take for granted that your work will not be submitted to an art or literary contest.

8 It is yours. Don t spend too much time on maps or character sketches and be brief in your notes - as long as you are able to understand your notes when you read them. All the shortcuts are worth something - time! If you can save time by bookmarking a rulebook instead of writing down Instant Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming. It's free! Page 8 some info, then do faith in your improvisation skillsIf you believe in your improvisation abilities you won t feel like you need to plan out every single detail of the Campaign .

9 For improvization helpers check out Before the second game and The second game - 2 articles I wrote about planning and running a spanking new game. More on improvisation on page of playDetermine what your style of play will be. Hack & Slash? Heavy role-playing? Casual fun? Burlesque D&D? Ultimately that decision should be heavily influenced by your players. The best way to assess the success of a DM (and his Campaign ) is by measuring the enthusiasm of his players, so make sure they are playing the kind of game they Campaign Builder by Subscribe to Dming.

10 It's free! Page 9 Cashing in on familiarityDo your players have a particular hatred for one kind of monsters? That s probably because you have introduced that creature in a past game. By planning a Campaign around creatures and monsters you know well, you ll save a lot of time. A couple of tweaks and modifications to theses creatures should bring unexpected surprises and a new challenge while still triggering memories of past creatures also have the advantage of rarely being utterly retarded games and stories you likedI don t know how many DragonLance games I ve played when I was in high school but I know I always had fun during them.