Building Dungeons with Master Mike Mearls September 29, 2017Zoltar making<br /> one the classic way of bringing a good<br /> story to a dungeon is you just make a<br /> unique dungeon it has something about it<br /> that no one’s seen before I think back<br /> to Raven off the original adventure<br /> it really is giant dungeons it’s a<br /> haunted castle but it has an interesting<br /> story of the vampire who lives there you<br /> can do something gimmicky you can have a<br /> dungeon that’s flooded you could have a<br /> dungeon in a volcano and a lot of their<br /> stuff and that’s been done a lot and<br /> that’s a reason isn’t that a lot so it<br /> works now channel is just coming up with<br /> something unique but luckily most<br /> Dungeon Master’s you’re not trying to<br /> publish an adventure you’re trying to<br /> impress your players so as long as they<br /> haven’t seen it before it doesn’t matter<br /> how many times it’s been done it’s<br /> unique to your group so therefore it can<br /> be interesting the other way you can<br /> make the dungeon interesting is by<br /> making it part of a narrative of your<br /> campaign you know it’s a place the<br /> players have to go alright because they<br /> want something there or there’s someone<br /> or something there they want to defeat<br /> so if the players know there’s a dragon<br /> that’s been causing them trouble since<br /> first level we finally track a player<br /> down well that’s a dungeon right and<br /> even if it could be a fairly standard<br /> dungeon but if players they really want<br /> to find that dragon and defeated that<br /> done is now he’s no interesting to them<br /> and then the third way is the idea of a<br /> dungeon for me and there’s a billion<br /> ways we just add 3 to talk about of a<br /> dungeon of the location the tomb<br /> apart-er is being a great example of<br /> that it has a reputation in a place on<br /> your worlds mythology that makes it<br /> memorable you could stand out<br /> that’s tricky to pull off because you<br /> have to sort of reinforce it again and<br /> again without getting too obvious of the<br /> players but that’s the kind of dungeon<br /> where when the players find they have to<br /> go there they go right it’s an<br /> interesting like oh yeah I’m going to<br /> find it or like we know what’s deadly<br /> and so you know I think the long and<br /> short of it is you talk about the story<br /> of a dungeon it’s not just here’s a<br /> narrative it’s just what’s the stuff<br /> around the dungeon but what before<br /> during after you play it<br /> that’ll make it memorable for the<br /> players a lot of ways it’s like what<br /> makes a good story you know like what<br /> are the things that just make us stand<br /> out<br /> Share this:TweetWhatsAppTelegramEmail
