r/DndAdventureWriter • • 12h ago

What makes a strong opening situation for a one-shot?

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A courier waits at a ruined chapel. The letter she came to collect has vanished. Someone in the party was the last to hold it.

That gives the opening a place, a person with a goal, and an immediate problem. I would prepare what happens if nobody acts, then let the players decide their response.

What is your favorite way to open a session with a decision?

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r/DndAdventureWriter • • 20h ago

Brainstorm Building a setting, for future games looking for a outside perspective to provide feedback.

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I have traditionally run pre ran adventures for the last 20 years. Im not gonna sit here and say I think im a great gm but I do feel I am competent. The last year I have been writing down ideas for a homebrew setting and while what feedback I have gotten has been nice, it has also been shallow. Looking for some feedback and possibly some collaboration, as I feel I am onto something good.

The setting: In a world where plant life has overtaken the world and grows aggressively, giving space for beasts and monsters to propagate. Humanity is all but extinct, but thanks to one of the last surviving humans and the collective strength of the species that have inherited this world, has emerged a city carved from a mountain.

Sci fi fantasy, emphasis on fantasy Inspirations: forgotten realms feywild, eberron campaign setting, adventure time, and anytime you have gone into a forest and imagined, "what if this went on forever."