The Secret to Creating Great Adventures

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This video is all about discussing Adventure Design and how you can prepare your games quickly and efficiently. We discuss the various types of adventures including Location, Event and Character-Based. This video should hopefully serve to encourage you guys to improvise more and create stories that your players can really sandbox in.
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@swordsnstones 2 месяца назад

i have a binder full of encounters and dungeons, which i drop into the game based on how the players are making choices. I do have an underlying story line but i only drop hints here and there until the party shows major interest or picks up the hint and decides this is the investigation or adventure they are going to invest in. Kinda partial sandbox, and partial railroad, partial story driven...trying to allow for as many choices by the PCs and yet still have enogh prep options so i dont fry my brain trying to improv something on the fly.

@BillNyeTheBountyGuy Месяц назад

One thing that helped my stories have a lot of momentum is stop thinking about scenes, but instead thing about motivations of the baddies. Everyone wants something, asking how they go about that and the effects on the world quickly inform you of what SHOULD be a scene. 'Oh you see a local shop keep getting mugged for their food at their cart', this scene comes from a crime organization maybe being strapped for food, or perhaps the thieves aren't there just for the money.

@boomboy1236 2 месяца назад

this is a very good video you are very underrated more of the ttrpg community needs to know this channel.

@AxionSurge 2 месяца назад

Loki you rock :) I am running my basic fantasy sandbox right now and it's way more fun. As long a I find out what they want to do next session I can work it out. Things that have been very useful: Clocks for events - eg: Goblins attack the farms in x days, An adventuring party go missing in x days, The town crier comes in x days. I'm using the Lazy GM's guide too and it's fantastic. The best bit: Its sooooo much easier than plot. Just say hey party here's a situation - have fun. Preparing situations not plots is soooo much better.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Thanks man; and hell yeah, situations are the best.

@kgames1240 2 месяца назад

Hell yeah, love Alexandrian - I actually ran a workshop at my local college D&D club about node based design. Great video!

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

That's awesome! I'm thinking of doing something similar at the Games Expo in Birmingham next month; just need to get confirmation and all that.

@talscorner3696 2 месяца назад

You just gave me an idea. Make a deck of cards with basic encounter prompts, focusing on who/how/why and then let the players unbroil it from there

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

I love this sort of stuff; I was thinking about making Event Decks a few months ago but it just sounded like so much work.

@capesword111 2 месяца назад

This helps me a lot. I needed a little more direction in my own design. The idea of focusing more on the available NPCs and monsters and environment and deciding what goals they have and what opposition they might provide is helpful. That's easier to prepare.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

It’s far more interesting and means you can adapt if the players do something you don’t expect, which they usually do 😂🥴

@Loweves2 2 месяца назад

Thanks for doing this. Its always nice to get more meat in adventure design. Great stuff.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

You bet!

@yagsipcc287 2 месяца назад

I think people over prep things and then when people play they over prepped for something that didnt happen, players done something else. Need to have random tables even ones you created that can be used for any area, maybe groups of "bad guys" you beat are out for revenge could turn into a great cat and mouse game. Have tables set up for areas or places to roll on and allow events roll out. I just got the AD&D corebooks and some others it has everything I would need for any game tbh.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Yeah I use random encounter charts and event tables when my players are travelling around, keeps things pretty juicy.

@yagsipcc287 2 месяца назад

@@LokisLair I do mostly solo myself but I also use cards alot of Philip Reed stuff they are amazing great way to mix things up not only for combat but random events also great to draw ideas from, I had a game were these Dwarfs were looking for an Assassin and were offering 500gold, later on I came across a caravan of "chaos warroirs" after the enocunter (was rough) I rolled to check to see if any of the people were the assassin that fitted the description and there was, I brought them back and since the person was dead they gave me half the gold. Now I have made a connection to a big group, I got lots of gold, found a bunch of chaos warriors, I know there were ruins near by perhaps somethere will unfold more events. All from two cards :-) I dont use them often but its a great tool for low prep or solo play to mix stuff up.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

That's actually really interesting.. I haven't done solo at all but I've seen some Livestreams of others doing it and it looks really interesting.

@yagsipcc287 2 месяца назад

@@LokisLair Yeah just try to be objective allow things to unfold and use some good creation tools :-) can then sort of follow things maybe do a bit of a set up if you like how something is going. Id hate to do solo on a live stream, I take my time make sure I have everything right and how I want. But I love watching people play solo ha Doing AD&D next myself :-)

@illiafilatov5521 2 месяца назад

1:50 "Then C happened" BWOOOOOOOM

@mercilessmage7300 2 месяца назад

Some interesting and thought provoking pointers. Keep up the great work Loki!

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Thanks buddy!

@mikehallaron 2 месяца назад

New video, Loki! Yeah! 👍🏼 Bought ‘Designing Hex Towns’ on DriveThru RPG, too.

@matthew_thefallen 2 месяца назад

I was doing this all along without even knowing it was the correct way of doing it 😅 good to know!

@ashenwalls3558 2 месяца назад

This is such helpful information! I remember working so hard on my first game, feeling like I needed the whole game written out. Now I make situations and cool places, and we all just jump in and play there.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Very happy for you. I hope more dms will learn how to do situations too!

@jayteepodcast 2 месяца назад

Best video you ever made

@jasoncustomizer56 2 месяца назад

Always great to see you upload! I love your channel!

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Thank you man. I really appreciate that.

@tonyb9290 2 месяца назад

I do a mixture of location, event and character driven quest lines, often the event and location ones are overlooked or ignored by my players, only felt with if they believe they have to. but we’ve got two new players so maybe they will take interest.

@cyclopsgaming6974 2 месяца назад

Loved the video man!

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Glad to hear it!

@astridity7 2 месяца назад

Great video, more like this please!

@BigCowProductions 2 месяца назад

4:41 A pre 'you're welcome' before i buy this after the vid 😊

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Yes!!!

@metakarukenshi 2 месяца назад

one thing i've noticed, as a GM you gotta create a story you yourself are excited to run. ive seen so many gms run whatever their players want, forgetting they themselves are a player at the table and deserve to enjoy themselves, sure maybe your players wanna play a hard political conspiracy and you wanna run a wilderness game. well you're the one who has to run it. if you're not interested in conspiracy, tell your players. i have had a campaign going 2 years now and despite the hard work havent felt worn out or burnt out once yet, as the story is a big passion of mine and my players are now almost as passionate as me to see the ending.

@ShaneKennedy-gt8nl 2 месяца назад

Thank you

@honpolyo 2 месяца назад

Nobody told me chicken herding would be so hard

@VicSicily 2 месяца назад

Great work as usual. Took a little break from ttrpg's for a couple of months but ready to Delve back into things in prep for some more dm work. I've a question, for a low magic system would you have any suggestions? It seems easy to just make magic rare or non existent but when it comes time to make it happen it does feel quite hamstrung in having any variety amongst players and npcs etc.

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

Depends on what system you're running. For 5e, I'd recommend having players roll Spell Checks. The DC is 8+Spells Level. If they fail, the spell slot is wasted and nothing happens. On a nat 1, refer to one of the many critical fumble tables out there.

@VicSicily 2 месяца назад

@@LokisLair I've mostly been running ShadowDark but that gives me some ideas I could run with. Thanks.

@RPGradio49 2 месяца назад

cool

@johnmagowan6393 2 месяца назад

LOL! Our "other DM" likes to complain loudly when he rolls bad. It's all in jest and hilarious

@LokisLair 2 месяца назад

I've had a few DMs like that and I think that's okay. I think tone and body language matters a lot though.

@johnmagowan6393 2 месяца назад

@@LokisLair 100% I just had to share because the second you said that I heard his booming "GOD DAMMIT!" in my head.

@johnmagowan6393 2 месяца назад

@@LokisLair I'm laughing extra hard tonight. He's the power gamer that drives me mad on Sundays so I became the power gamer that drives him nuts on Saturday!