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| Topic | ~1b8~ Board 8 D&D One-Shots - All Welcome, Low Commitment! ~1b8~ |
| HanOfTheNekos 04/12/17 8:58:32 PM #1: | Come one, come all and join us in creating a community for D&D one shots here at our very own Board 8! Han, what is this? Simply put, I want to bring Board 8ers together into a community where we can play a bunch of D&D together. By making it based on one-shots (single session stories), we can have a wealth of DM's, players, and stories without needing the usual commitment that a D&D campaign requires! Low commitment? What does that mean? It means you can put in as little/much time as you want to! Usually, a one-shot takes 3-4 hours, though it can vary. If you only have time to play one session a year, then that's perfect! If you want to try DMing but are worried about the crazy commitment a DM takes to run a campaign, then that's perfect! The point of this is accessibility. People like playing D&D, but it's often hard to get a group together and make time. This makes that hurdle significantly easier to hop! I've never played D&D before, can I play? By golly yes! In fact, I already have plans for some one-shots aimed for new players! Some DM's might prefer their players to be a little more seasoned (for example - a spellcasters only episode), but there will be plentiful opportunity for new players! I want to DM. What do I need to do? 1. Express desire to DM a session. 2. Post a short synopsis advertising your session, perhaps including plot teaser and unique character restrictions. 3. Collect player interest in topic. 4. ???? 5. Profit! What edition/system are we using? This is really up to the DM's discretion, as some people are preferential How do we plan to play? The key to one-shots is brevity - a self-contained story/adventure that can fit into a few hours. In my experience, playing by text is incredibly slow. Some people can work it, but playing by voice is probably going to be standard. Some DM's may want to use roll20.net, some may use Google Excel sheets for battlemaps, some might not require anything other than imaginations and speaking. Also, playing through voice chats allows us to record and post sessions here for others perusal. Record? Are you trying to turn this into some kind of podcast!? If people are ok with that, then yes! I'd love for people to get to listen to the stories that happened in sessions they missed. After all, turning this into an anthology of wacky Board 8 adventures that can be kept for posterity is the dream! I'm not very comfortable with RPing/speaking a lot. What do? Some sessions might lend themselves better to you than others. After all, if someone wants to run a session where you're on some kind of dating show, then not being much of an actor would probably mean you have less fun. Some DM's might want to run combat heavy sessions though. The point is - do what you are comfortable with. DM's should take stuff like this into account with their advertising. Are there plans for continuity? That is ultimately up to the DM's. It would be cool to have callbacks to sessions that have happened, or characters occasionally making multiple appearances, but in general, we want to keep this limited to one-shots. Some DM's might run similar themes, or two+-shots, and that's ok. Some might want to run sessions with level 20's destroying the world. We'll go the Star Wars route and call that the "Legends" collection. Let's roll some B8's! --- PokePokePokePokePokePokePokePokePokeXXX "Bordate is a pretty shady place, what with the gangs, casinos, evil corporations and water park." -FAHtastic ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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