#5e character builder instructions movie#

#5e character builder instructions movie#

It should envoke something about your adventure, just like a movie title invokes something within the movie. If you take notes on your computer, you’re going to need to have a file name for it, so it might as well have an interesting name you can tack on to it and tell your players. Or maybe you’ll just get Bob who has no last name, barely has picked out a class, and the player forgot to buy Bob some armor so he is just running around naked the entire session, destroying whatever atmosphere you were going for unless you were planning on your one-shot taking place in a nudist colony.Ī part of the hook is the name of your one-shot, even if it is cliche or nonsensical. Players may take this time to make the most off-the-wall characters they can imagine, making Smelly Olga the Sentient Ooze who kills monsters by throwing rotten garbage at them (by reflavoring their spells). If you tell your players you are going to run a one-shot, and then tell them nothing about what it is about, you are going to have a rough start and nonsensical characters. Time & Date, including length of the sessionĪs an example, I’ll be using a one-shot I ran in October, the Winds of Gravenmoor. What you need to provide to the players include: They need very specific information to make characters, as you don’t want to spend your limited time during the one-shot to make those characters. When you are trying to get your players excited for the one-shot, you can’t just tell them to make characters for next Saturday and then be mysterious about it. The biggest thing for one-shots is to have a clear and concise location for all information, and that information needs to have some hooks within it.

Crafting, or preparing, for a one-shot requires a different way of getting the table into the story because you are very limited in time, sometimes you only have an hour for the game.

I’ve run dozens of one-shots some for Adventurer’s League, some for GenCon, some for just my normal table of misfits, and at least once a month for Dump Stat. This week I am writing about how I set up games for a one-shot, as it was a topic requested by someone a few months ago. Header Art: Uncharted Book Cover by Sylvain Sarrailh