Hi, gang! One of our local Dungeon Masters at our friendly local gaming shoppe’s “One-Shot Wednesday” splintered off a group to run a series of games with a rotating DM/GM scheme revolving around what’s called The Infinite Staircase. For those unfamiliar, The Infinite Staircase is a landmark in the Planescape setting, recently unearthed in modern versions of D&D. The premise is we traverse The Infinite Staircase to a doorway to another setting, have some adventure, and when we return to the Staircase, the current DM/GM tags in the next GM, who takes us to the next world and adventure, and so on. Same characters across the multiverse. Meanwhile, we started a private Discord, share exercises with each other and try new things together at the table. I’ll let you know how it goes. And yes, I bought SiG: City of Blades, which is the Forged in the Dark version of Planescape. We’re doing OG Blades in the Dark first.

Some of you may have heard me talk about wanting to do a 5 week mini campaign this Halloween. I've got my players and I've come up with the scaffolding. I sent out the following questionnaire to them. What I love about this is that I'm giving them the opportunity to actually share their real fears with me to be used as material for the game, but I have stressed that I DO NOT WANT THEM TELL ME IF THEIR FEARS ARE REALLY THEIRS OR JUST FEARS I GET TO USE FOR THE GAME. If they give me their real fears they will have a more intense experience. Once I get their questionnaires back I'll put together the actual sessions. Each session will focus on a different horror element with the guiding principle being that if they can hit it, its combat, not horror. If anyone is interested in my over all story I'm happy to share it. I just dont want to type it all out if no one is intertested. As a setting, Im loosley using a four session module called One for the Sorrow - Whispers in the Mist as my sand box. Its ideal because its already split into 4 sessions. I need 5 but I already know what my fifth session will be

Where might my players encounter giant bugs that can be domesticated? Which species would you pick as mounts and beasts of burden? What might the players provide that they need... In my Beyond the Wall game, we have ended up with a bit of a plot hole. We need some mounts and beasts of burdent to move mateirals, but the storm requiring that everyone take shelter means that there would be precious few in the outer city. I asked the players and their pitch was bugs, giant bugs. I can see them reacting differently to a storm and not being affected by the curses etc. I can see them not directly competing for paturized land. Sometimes I think they come up with these crazy ideas to see if I can figure out how to make it work.

Hi all! First time DM here - although I have been a D&D player for over 4 years now, where I've been in multiple campaigns and one shots. I've also ran a couple very very elaborate but successful murder mystery parties that my group said felt a lot like larping/irl d&d if that counts 😂. I discovered Jonah and Tristan's book on proactive roleplaying in my local bookstore a couple months ago, and it CHANGED my life! So many of the things that I had struggled with as a player seemed to be addressed in this alternate DM style, and after discussing it with my group everyone seems really excited to try and give it a go. I am running a one shot (although I'm calculating it will be about 3+ sessions with my group) to try and test the waters a bit for possibly DMing our next campaign. I am using a published homebrew adventure (Fey Fayre by r-n-w), although I am changing lots of it to make things more mature and increase the content + difficulty. We are still doing a session 0 (this Sunday 30th August, eek!) so that everyone can finalize their characters together, do the goal creation, and contribute to the world building. Then, I'll have about a month before we are supposed to have our first session, which should hopefully give me enough time to plan everything out. Most of the examples in the book have been written for more long term campaigns, so I was wondering if anyone has any tips specifically for running it for a one shot? Particularly one that will be adapted from an existing game? How much information should the players have about the world prior to session 0? How many goals should they realistically set for this one off game with characters they likely won't be using in a future campaign? I was thinking it would make sense for the players to have a mid term goal for the overall duration of the one shot, and then maybe two short term goals although I don't know if that's too much/too little. How many factions should I worry about creating and including (other than the obvious ones relating to the feywild courts).

I created a proactive campaign note-taking setup in Notion for our workshop members last year. I posted a link to the template for you to copy in a new course in the Classroom tab, plus two videos on how to use it. I'll be using it myself in the next few weeks as I start my new campaign, so I'll be uploading new videos as I do that, to illustrate how it works in practice. If you have questions, feel free to post them here or on the video itself. Hope this helps!