Meanwhile, if you’re armed with a full arsenal of DnD dice,Rand Rolloffers free ‘quick adventure’ tables for your DnD one shot ideas. These operate in a similar vein to the tables seen in officialDnD 5e sourcebooks, in which numerous characters, events and goals are ascribed numbers, an...
Finally, remember that player characters can die in a one shot. Unlike in a campaign, these characters won’t need to be reused in the next session. So, if a player takes a dumb decision that you know will kill their character… let them do it! Pre-generated characters Pre-generated ...
This can be dangerous in a short game like a one-shot. So it’s important to keep it in mind during the adventure design process, too. Look at your plan and see if there are any scenes that the players could derail. For each of these scenes, find a way to put the players back...