I have been driving for about 4-5 years and during this time I realized a lot of things. For example, I realized that newcomers who are just starting to meet any nry quite often say “well, I don’t know, there’s so much to read, there are such complex rules”. Still, when these newcomers climb into adventures, which are registered in advance as complex, they whine about how hard they have to have in every battle and ask the master to fix it. This article I want to show how the masters (at least I) are preparing their adventures. And yes, for all my examples, I will use D&D 5 of the edition, t.To. This system, by which I have been led the last 3 years and I have accumulated quite a few stories related to it.
So, first you need to understand that in the case of DND there are 2 types of adventures – official and copyright. The former are published by the creators of the system and all of them are spelled out. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Opponents, their arrangement, lutus, locations, NPS, NPS characters, NPS goals, NPS appearance. All. In the second case, the host does all this himself. But even when the master has a ready -made adventure, another no less difficult task falls on his shoulders – creating an atmosphere. A fairly large number of factors affect it, but about them a little later. Let’s go in order.
Ready adventures can be found in electronic form in the public domain on the Internet. Some of them even in Russian. However, they can be bought on the official website of the publisher in print. These adventures are divided into several types, but now not about that. It is important that if the master wants to conduct these adventures, then you will not believe, but they need to read them. And you know what? Read them is the same as reading a good book. Well, by extreme, most of them. However, you need to read without missing important things. So, for example, a year ago I had little time to prepare an adventure and because of a hurry I missed the driving power of history in the text-the motivation of the characters. The experience was to put it mildly like that. Well, after reading, the most cheerful part begins in ready -made options, what is in copyright, t.e. It comes time to catch up with the atmosphere.
For a more colorful transmission of the atmosphere, the masters use different techniques. I will try to highlight the most important of them and describe my approach to them.
The first and one of the most important ways is to play the characters. The fact is that the master controls a huge number of NPS and for the bunning effect, many prefer to change their voices or speak with an accent. For example, the goblin can poorly know the common language and speak only in simple words, and talk about yourself in the third person. Also, quite often, goblins are added to the voice of hoarse and speak in a higher tone than during the waging of a person. In fact, on the Internet there are even guides to play out of different creatures. Personally, I belong to this method of creating an atmosphere very seriously. It comes to the point that I almost stand in front of the mirror with a piece of paper, which I read several times.
In a very obvious way is a colorful description of locations and characters. Here you can not even explain anything just about the examples: “You went along the road and suddenly saw dead horses."And" You moved along the Trilorsk path for about half a day, when you saw after turning two dead horses lying fifty feet ahead, burning out the path. Several arrows sticking out of each carcass with black plumage. The forest here is close to the trail, surrounding it on both sides with steep slopes and dense thickets.»I think the difference is obvious.
In general, in terms of creating an atmosphere, in my opinion, network parties win, as they give more scope. Firstly, you can find a variety of tokens for creatures. In this regard, I adhere to the rules that only art can be tokens. No photos. You can also find different sounds and music and run all this at the right time. For example, if your characters are in the tavern, then you should find the corresponding audio tracks. I always turn on 3-4 tracks at the same time, so the sound turns out to be more alive.
Well, the last and most difficult thing that can work for the atmosphere is work with the backstory of characters. Usually, if the player has prepared a good story, you can use it during the game. But this is usually done only in copyright adventures, since in the official it is almost always very difficult to implement. By the way about copyright plots.
Creating your own story is a real challenge for the master. It can take quite a lot of time. For example, my last Kampeyn, which I have been led by about the end of May, I thought about a month and a half. He corresponded about 7 times. This process is very funny. When I was inspired, I almost firmly with a stick or with a sword in my hands lost these scenes live. Here I cannot give any advice or say something objective. Creating your adventure is a purely creative process. Although no, I can advise one thing. Make the plot as flexible as possible. Players in 99% of cases do not want to go in the rectum as in some Call of Duty. Yes, the gut can be bright and beautiful, but this is still a gut, they play NRI for the real opportunity to choose. Any computer game cannot be compared in terms of variability with NRI. And this is a fact.
After you prescribed the main story, came up with the characters and perhaps even made a couple of side quests, you need to do the balance of power – the most tactical moment of preparing the adventure. A competent choice of monsters affects the interest of players during the fighting. And you need to understand that opponents, locations for battles and the battles themselves should be diverse. Firstly, you do not need to throw very strong enemies at the party alone. It’s not enough when it works. But if you do this, then think over an interesting mechanics to them. For example, from my recent bosses, I can cite an example from which, when the damage was obtained, blood clots flew out, which crawled to this creature and if they crawled to it, they completely restored all the resulting damage.
However, packs of weak, but diverse opponents are Slots Safari Casino still much more interesting. But here you need to correctly choose the difficulty. A month ago, I created an enncaunter, with a bunch of various creatures and thought that he was balanced, but it turned out that these very creatures were not able to withstand two fire balls and an icy storm in a row. As a result, the battle ended without even starting. And although everyone liked this moment of the game, an important character for the plot died in such a simple way.
Master’s behavior during the game.
The primary task of the master is to conduct players through the plot. But it should be interesting. To maintain interest, I adhere to my own rule: "Do not spare players, but act strictly according to the plan". This means that players should feel the threat. They must understand that their characters are mortal. And their characters can really die during the adventure. This is a completely natural course of things. Players should feel risk. If they are too sorry for them, they will not feel like the heroes of this world who overcome difficulties. But if you all the time throw them into hopeless situations, they can just stop playing. You need to find a balance. However, this comes with driving experience. Remembering my first adventures now, I understand that I had a full trash.
This article was designed to show how strong the masters are preparing for games and that it really is work for us. But you know what, most masters are in terms of NRI, including me are egocentric assholes. It is very important for us that the adventures that we drive are successful. After all, if they are such, we will get praise from the players, and the opinion of the players about our adventure is very important for us, because we still try for you.
On this I will probably finish. Thanks for your time.
And there are also masters, but not about this in this article.
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So it is not the knowledge of all aspects of the system by the player that is not evil (in the kid PBTA you can not know about the existence of a 300-t page of the page rollbook).
In general, people are steamed with the same music and in real life. Yes, in general, with all the same are steamed.
So, first you need to understand that in the case of DND there are 2 types of adventures – official and copyright. The former are published by the creators of the system and all of them are spelled out. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Opponents, their arrangement, lutus, locations, NPS, NPS characters, NPS goals, NPS appearance. All.
After reading these passages, I remembered one rather lulz case. At one time I played with a master who was not too bothering about preparing for games, but playing it was still interesting at least due to excellent setting and attention to these trifles. It was in Rokugan-a world resembling a fantasy cross between Japan and China, where there are samurai, ninja-synobi, magicians and other monstrous ranges.
Our detachment saved during the implementation of the side quest of some court and brought to the big city-the capital of the province. But while we were led by a courtier along the street, an arrow suddenly arrives at him from somewhere in the roof and kills in place. Having realized, we manage to notice how some ranger reminiscent of Sinobi runs out of the crime scene of the crime. Having chased him after him, we catch up with him and interrogate who he was and why killed our saved court.
Then the master asks to pause and the module leafs through 10 minutes. Then he raises the unfortunate eyes on us and says so much: he says so:
– Listen, you won’t believe it … but it’s not written here. Just "when he is driven along the street, he is killed by Sinobi arrow and run away". All. I read the whole module twice … I don’t know why they killed him.
As a result, it all ended with the fact that Sinobi killed himself, swallowing some kind of poison, and the causes of the death of the courtier remained a secret. But I will never forget the unfortunate gaze of that master.
The master is more difficult at least because the player’s “work” is often limited to “printing Charnik”. = D
You drove along the road and suddenly saw dead horses."And" You moved along the Trilorsk path for about half a day, when you saw after turning two dead horses lying fifty feet ahead, burning out the path. Several arrows sticking out of each carcass with black plumage. The forest here is close to the trail, surrounding it on both sides with steep slopes and dense thickets.
Player reaction:
“Some time ago I undertook to drive his friends on D&D 5e. Since we all played for the first time, I decided to start with something simple and took a ready -made entrance adventure. In the first session, the party goes to itself on a cart to the main place of action and sees that the corpse of a horse is burned with the road. The corpse squeezed with arrows. You can’t go around it t.To. In this place, steep wooded slopes of the hills support the road on both sides. Only a huge neon sign “ambush” is missing. The detachment brings its 200iQ and gives birth to the most logical action plan – the barbarian stands on a cart and begins to scream terribly into the forest. Rollite for intimidation – stagnant. Our Fiter looks stupidly at him for a while … And he also stands on a cart and begins to yell into the forest, which is characteristic, also fading the roll. The Byzard somehow survived the double Facepalm kicks the horn so that he would stop letting the drool with the look of an autist and still slide into reconnaissance while everyone is blunting. The horns normally throws on stealth … And Feilite of attentiveness, literally dances on the heads of 4 goblins, leaves the bushes, spreads his hands, declares “Lol Posona, but there is nothing” with a draw. Barb, as the only semi -ork in the party, is unanimously elected to the post of coaching of corpses and deignedly wander to drag the horse into the nearest ditch and trigert gobbins who have already lost patience. As a result, there was almost a rather lulz TPK."
As I understand it, all of the above refers to the onlain driving, I think it was worthwhile to indicate. And so there was even a desire to ever play you (new and gained experience), but damn it in this stupid day you need to read so much))
I just finished driving season 7 and decided to start the barov on the weekend. Your screenshot from a discord as a knife has walked through my heart, for three days already with such messages the channel in Telegram has been clogged. = D
My screenshot from the discord? You apparently confused me with the author of the post, I just tried to drive a Fallout PNP among my friends and shared experience, here.
Well, in real life, I think there are my underwater stones and aspects. So it would also be interesting to read about such experience (winked).
