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Scenario hooks in published adventures are often underwhelming. That's because the designers have no way of knowing what's happening in your campaign. But you do! ENnie Award-winning RPG designer Justin Alexander reveals the secrets of weaving your adventures together by planning and retrofitting your hooks.
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0:00 Intro
1:34 Long-Term Scenario Hooks
3:02 Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel

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17 июн 2024

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@w.i.t.c.h.q.u.e.e.n Год назад

Alexandrian: As the game master you do know what's going on in your campaign. Me: *laughing nervously* 😅

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

Ah. I see you have unlocked the True Mystery. Welcome, sister. (There are refreshments in the lounge.)

@goadfang Год назад

You are criminally under pushed to my feed. I aim to comment until that changes. Thank you for your service.

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

And thank you for your support!

@NemoOhd20 8 месяцев назад

It is astonishing really.

@veritanuda Год назад

Yes.. interesting points, and it is true we often forget as Game Masters we are also narrators as well, so we should be filling in some blanks and making the story flow. From my own experience, some of the more interesting campaigns come from the seemingly inconsequential events of another. So in every scenario where a PC steals from or kills another character, there could be consequences that come back to haunt the PCs. Likewise, reputation is a thing that can be leveraged on. If a party does something controversial or aligns themselves with some faction, there will be knock on effects, that are not always favourable. Consequences can be fun to play and easily leveraged to link adventures into a cohesive campaign world, where it really feels as if what you do does matter, not just to you but to others around you.

@Enfors Год назад

Great video, as always! However, did you perhaps accidentally reuse its description from your previous portals video?

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

I was actually just providing a scenario hook to the other video! ... no? Fine. I'll fix it. 😉

@estebanrodriguez5409 Год назад

I still think the Anthologies are the bests products for D&D. Imagine webbing stuff from Vault and Candlekeep with the stuff of the Citadel.

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

I agree completely! Walking through all three collections you can easily assemble a campaign of exclusively top-shelf adventures with lots of options left over.

@user-jq1mg2mz7o Год назад

it's almost like modules were always a good idea...

@ymdw45 Год назад

Great advice, thank you!

@geoffdewitt6845 Год назад

This is great, actionable, and fun! Thanks so much!

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

You're welcome! Always great to "see" you, Geoff.

@isaaclorrain9269 Год назад

Those shelves are #lifegoals

@Fiddler1990 Год назад

Love your content so much !

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

Thanks! I appreciate it!

@rasmuspetersen2480 Год назад

Great stuff, I been running a few Mercenary Company adventures lately, at the end of each job a few new (or older which have not timed out yet) ones, get offered by new or reoccurring employers

@ZubinMadon Год назад

Thanks as always

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

No, no. Thank YOU! ;)

@BetterMonsters Год назад

Whose adventures should I be reading? The third party work I've read and contributed to largely seems to imitate the things I find lacking about the official adventures I've run, but I don't feel as though I have a mental reference point for what excellence in adventure writing for a general audience really looks like. If the answer is yours (Justin or passing commenter), what are you currently most proud of?

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

A quick list, not limited to D&D: - Banewarrens (5E Monte Cook Games) - Masks of Nyarlathotep (Call of Cthulhu) - Eternal Lies (Trail of Cthulhu) - Welcome to the Island (Over the Edge... it's me! I did it!) - The Sunless Citadel & Forge of Fury (5E Tales From the Yawning Portal) - Ego Hunter (Eclipse Phase) - Dracula Dossier (Night's Black Agents) - Infinity: Quantronic Heat (Infinity... oh no, bias) - Feng Shui: Burning Dragon (Feng Shui... more bias, shameful really)

@BetterMonsters Год назад

@@TheAlexandrian This is lovely, thank you

@NemoOhd20 8 месяцев назад

Im never limited to D&D. Infreely steal from whatever is interesting, especially books and TV.

@MemphiStig 5 месяцев назад

This guy's so good he should write a bo-- oh, wait.

@TheAlexandrian 5 месяцев назад

Ah! I see what you did there! ;)

@AvengerYouT Год назад

Great video! I'm thinking about running a campaign combining the best from Radiant Cidatel, Candlekeep Mysteries, Golden Vault and Yawning Portal. Your reviews and your videos about hooks and stitching will help a lot.

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

I think this is a great idea for a campaign. I haven't had a chance to break open the Golden Vault yet, but the adventure anthologies are almost certainly the best bang for your buck value in WotC's 5E adventure content, and you can easily stitch together a great campaign from them.

@NemoOhd20 8 месяцев назад

Great video as always. But.... running a jelly wine and noodle search adventure in the Radiant Citadel? Sounds riveting. Im not sure why that book was such a hilarious failure.

@TheAlexandrian 7 месяцев назад

Merry and Pippin's quixotic quest for pipeweed arguably destroyed Isengard. It's all a question of your priorities. ;)

@NemoOhd20 7 месяцев назад

@@TheAlexandrian touche, but I still wouldn't play a game of Hobbits looking for weed.

@dominikdalek Год назад

I realize it's OK, but... Are you still working on hexnoir or is it sadly not happening?

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

I am still working on it! Hoping to have a final version out for non-KS backers soon!

@LddStyx Год назад

Or you could tell your players to provide the hook - they know best what would motivate their characters to risk their lives for this investigation/adventure/quest.

@TheAlexandrian Год назад

In a sandbox campaign, of course, you can take that even further and the players can provide the entire adventure! They'll hook themselves with their desires.