When it comes to planning for your session, I found that for myself that one session can hold around 5-6 encounters. That's a lot of time that we need to make content for it, right? So what do we do? Plan each hour? Wrong. I know it's confusing, but D&D session lasts for around 3-6hours in most cases. Trust me on this one.īefore we get into the structure and tools, we need to understand how Dungeons & Dragons are structured so that we could make structure around that structure. Oh, you think you're a tough guy/gal, and you have a laser beam focus? Wrong, when you will need to roleplay your characters, order the initiative, and do all of the combat things, you will be lost in your sessions if you have poorly structured notes and don't use necessary tools. What happens if you over-prep, during your DnD session, you will be lost and out of focus, trying to find those juicy lore bits, essential character descriptions, and the most crucial things. You could think that you will miss something by not including it in your notes, but when you try to include EVERYTHING, what you're doing is drowning yourself slowly in that information. For the love of God, Don't Over-Prep.įirst things first, there is nothing worse than preparing too many notes for your first D&D session. Today we will be looking at how to prepare for your D&D session and learn a couple of ways how to avoid some of the mistakes I made as a Fresh Dungeon Master. You will need to decide on your Note structure, for having a productive D&D session, how to balance the game itself, since there are so many things to juggle at the same time. There are many tools that you might not know yet. It's quite daunting to start your first D&D session.
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