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Paulo Gomes (Order #24480303)

Adventure Template

Credits

Foreword

Author, Designer, Editor, Layout, and Cover Design: Luke Hart

Many game masters (GMs) enjoy creating their own worlds and adventures that take place in those worlds. This basic template was designed as a starting point for GMs to create their own adventures.

Artwork: Adobe Stock

This is a streamlined template with the basic components of an adventure that all game masters should consider. Is there more to building an exciting adventure than just filling out a basic template? Of course there is. But this will get you started.

Contacting the Author Please reach out to me anytime! Email: [email protected] Twitter & Instagram: @TheDMLair

And that’s really all this humble template is intended to do.

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The journey of becoming an awesome game master is often a long one, full of both successes and failures, and much learning. I do not presume to be able to encapsulate in this template every possible consideration a GM might wish to make during adventure creation.

Free Game Master Resources The DM Lair YouTube Channel - Check out my weekly YouTube videos for practical information and resources that game masters can use at their tables. The DM Lair Website - Looking for free 5e adventures and other game masters resources, such as NPCs, magic items, puzzles, and traps, to use in your games? Look no further!

Again, this is just a starting point. It’s also the template I’ve used for years to create my own homebrew adventures. And so I present it to you for use as a springboard to create amazing adventures that your players will recount for years to come.

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(Was that a little over the top? I feel like it may have been. Whatever. Just go makes some adventures already.)

Legal Stuff RPG Adventure Template, Copyright © 2020, Luke Hart, The DM Lair, LLC

How to Use This Template Each section contains italicized instructions for game masters to consider as they create their adventure. In addition to this PDF file, I’ve included an editable MS Word document in the file pack for you. If you don’t have MS Word, you can just copy and paste the content from this PDF into the word processing program you use. Finally, if you’d like some examples of adventures created using this template, I have lots of free adventures available over on my site, thedmlair.com. I hope you find this template useful!

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Adventure Template

Creatures List out the creatures, including monsters, that will be featured in this adventure. For handy reference, I like to include the page number of the core rulebook from which it comes and the creature’s challenge rating (CR) and experience point (XP) value. An example is given below. » Efreeti (MM 145, CR 11, 7200 XP)

Game Master Notes Here I make some basic notes for myself about the adventure. Below are three things I always like to keep track of. » Note for how many characters and of what level the adventure was designed for. » Note how many short/long rests are expected, if your game system contains mechanics like this. » Note how many treasure rolls from which treasure horde tables are contained in the adventure.

Storyline Give a brief overview of the situation the PCs will encounter in this adventure. Describe the major premise, who the villain is, what they are up to, what the stakes are – those sorts of things.

Locations List the main locations the characters are likely to find themselves during this adventure and give brief descriptions of them. Name. Details

NPCs List the main NPCs the characters are likely to encounter in this adventure, including villains, and give brief descriptions of them. Name. Details

Random Encounters Build out a handful of random encounters you can use. You might have a random encounter take place if the characters try to use more long rests than are expected, are in the middle of raiding a compound and take a long rest, or even on short rests.

Inciting Action Describe the inciting action, or adventure hook, that introduces the adventure to the characters and motivates them to go on it.

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Adventure Template

Adventure Details Build out the details of your adventure. Include things like descriptions of dungeons or enemy fortifications; descriptions of rooms; encounters the characters will come across; treasure they may find; traps and secret doors – all the cool stuff that makes up the meat of an adventure.

Resolution Describe what happens once the characters have completed the adventure successfully (or unsuccessfully). Do they receive a reward from an NPC? Does their favor with a faction increase? Stuff like that.

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