It’s a sad fact of life, but most commercially available dungeons only seem to have one—or at the most two—entrances.
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Tag: GM Advice
Tips to Help You Prepare Modules Quicker and Better
Like me, I suspect you are a busy GM, who doesn’t have unlimited time to prepare for an upcoming session. I hate wasting time (as I seem to be perpetually short of it).
To that end, I’ve compiled three posts below dealing with preparing modules. I hope you enjoy them and find them useful and that they help you get through your session prep as quickly as possible.
Shadowed Keep on the Borderland Retrospective
A couple of years ago, I wrote the Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands as a homage to the Moathouse from T1 The Village of Hommlet (perhaps a perfect low-level adventure). Before I started, I sat down and worked out what I wanted to achieve with the adventure and how I planned to achieve it. These four posts layout my evil scheme:
Encumbrance
Everyone who plays D&D and Pathfinder loves encumbrance…While that might not be completely true, I’m a big fan of encumbrance (within reason). I love resource management and a part of resource management is managing encumbrance. (As a player said to me the other day, “Why can’t I carry 200 arrows?”) In any event, here are some of my thoughts about encumbrance:
Pathfinder: The Slow Advancement Track
I’m on record as saying I love the Slow advancement track for Pathfinder. I was recently asked for my advice on how to convert an adventure path to the slow advancement track. While I ponder that, I thought you might be interested in these slow advancement track resources: