![]() The target audience for my One-Shot has sooooome experience with D&D 5e so I’ll be designing the encounters based on a 4 players, each with a level 4 character. I’m also assuming that you are at least somewhat familiar with how to play D&D, so I won’t be going over every single little detail ( Ask for a perception check here, Roll the enemy’s initiative here, etc). This will be broad strokes, big picture kind of stuff. Since this is a One-Shot, I’ll also be operating under the assumption that the party will not be taking a long rest and the events all roughly take place over the course of a single day. There are all sorts of ways to structure your story, but today I’m gonna try to keep things nice and simple ( stupid). Feel free to change things around of course, but this is the general formula I’ll be using to create a One-Shot: ![]() If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m certainly not an expert on writing adventures and I have absolutely no formal training. The party is exploring a mysterious and dangerous swamp because… This gives us a better understanding of the One-Shot, but it could really be switched out with any other MacGuffin (see below) The party is exploring a mysterious and dangerous swamp because a fallen star recently crashed down there. Primary concept = The party is exploring a mysterious and dangerous swamp There’s no right or wrong answers here, but just try to give the people what they want. If the party is full of new players then maybe your best option is to have the entire One-Shot be a single-room dungeon with only a few enemies. If the party loves straight up dungeon crawls, then don’t really worry about story and throw a random dungeon full of encounters at them.
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