Tonight was the second session of our D&D 5e campaign. After game a player asked me, “how much of that did you just make up, because it went great.” I told him honestly the only thing I had preplanned so far was the concept of the first scene of the first week. Everything has been improvised because I’m playing to see what happens using Dungeon World’s DM tenets and moves and 5e’s flatter math so I don’t even have to tweak the monster stats that much.
Tonight was the second session of our D&D 5e campaign.
Tonight was the second session of our D&D 5e campaign.
How do you come up with encounters on the fly?
That’s awesome. I’ll echo Tim Franzke’s question though.
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And was he offended? I’ve heard (though never witnessed) people who get upset/sad/offended because it wasn’t all some elaborate ‘puzzle’ setup that the GM had put together for them to ‘beat’.
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For combats, I just kept the DM basic rules open in front of me. Whenever the fiction led to a combat I found the appropriate page and used it out of the book that’s where 5e flatter math helped. I could play pretty much out of the book. I thought about using a random encounter table, instead I just picked what monster was right for the area and threw in a combat whenever the game started to feel lagging.
Mike Pureka he didn’t seem offended. He was just more impressed when I said it was all improv.
Cool!