D&D Adventure Design: The Lost Village 

Thanks! The recipe metaphor is spot on - or was that a simile?

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Thanks! Oh yes that happens sometimes for sure.

If you like this, watch Runehammer or Dungeoncraft. Two best imo.

@@jimmybrook7119 DungeonCraft only does book reviews and museum tours now. He’s run out of ideas

For sure

Glad you like them! I did a few of these. Maybe something I can try again at sone point.

Thank You!

Thanks! I feel you, my players often go in every direction - not sure if you saw the actual play of this one 😂 - I think the simplicity of these is at least partially coming.from the process, and partially from having purchased tons of adventure that are great to read but hard to run with all kinds of sub-plots etc. so when I write my own stuff I try to keep it simple.

I know this comment is a year old, I hope you have had many good adventures since. I liked that you mentioned it was simple. I have found in D&D and in teaching, what I think is, or should be simple, is not when you don't know how it was made. It took me a long time to get away from convoluted plots and keep it a series of simple encounters. I have a bunch of stuff in my head, from reading all sorts of things, but the players take it in a direction that makes creating the next simple encounter much more than I would have come up with an adventure or two ago. Keeping it simple is the best advice for new and old DM's in my opinion. Great video Daniel, thank you for making it.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

Glad you found me! Thanks!

Thanks! I agree - traps can be fun when they become more like environment hazards

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Thanks!

Absolutely! It’s given me ideas about a whole new type of encounter or even an entire adventure premise: What sorts of fungi might spring up from the bodies of the magically animated evil dead? What if, instead if the zombie hordes spreading it, the true threat was the semi-sentient fungus itself, directing the animated corpses like a mycelium network of death? Maybe this is a curse issuing forth from a long-sealed tomb the adventurers opened a couple adventures ago?

@@mookiewilson4166 sounds a lot like Sons of Kyuss. In that case, it was worms that infected victims and created zombies, but could just add easily be fungus.

Ah, yes that’s a good idea!

Hmm I think I photo-bashed 2 public domain images from wiki commons

Right, the HD plus 1x Typically in OD&D it’s a d6 in BX for monsters it’s d8

To be honest I prefer the classic B/X or BECMI to the “gonzo” style of some modern OSR. But each to his own - lots of space in the hobby for different styles 👍🏻

Thanks. I prefer to allow the PCs to bring the exotic flavor.

For sure, many different and fun styles of adventure and play.

I’m curious what types of things you’d like to see in future adventures. More exotic monsters? locations?

@@BanditsKeep I scour RU-vid for ideas for my game. Locations, their inhabitants, to me this is the easy part. Hook ideas, plot twists, time pressure ideas (the ticking clock) to create player agency, interesting NPCs. This is what I need. Drawing boxes and assigning bad guys, I got that covered. Thanks for your hard work.

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