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A place where Game Masters, Dungeon Masters, Storytellers, Narrators, Referees (and etc) can gather and ask questions. Uncertain of where to take the story? Want to spice up your big baddie? Encounters? That player? Ask away!

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Campaign planning/world building (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys! I'm a newer dm (not a new player, been playing for a few years) and I just want to ask what a dm should consider when it comes to planning and worldbuilding. I would also like to ask if you have any tips for when a player goes wildly off course in a direction you have zero ideas for. You guys got tips?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend looking up slyflourish and the series "lazy dungeon master". Helped me streamline prep a lot. Biggest things was coming up with the few things you want feature, understanding a general sequence of events and then tying them together along the way.

No session will survive contact with the party, and neither will a campaign. Being able to keep a loose framework you can work within throughout the campaign is the way everyone at the table can have fun.