Fitting a full story into a short D&D session
Some players are in it for the game choices, some are in it for the world immersion, and some are in it for the character story. If the last one applies to you. and you've played anything like D&D, you'll be used to being frustrated with sessions that felt like the story went nowhere. Story is not a given if your game's goal is to simulate a battle step-by-step. What if we set up our session in a way that you can't help but have a complete story? Let's do it. From dungeon lingo to story lingo First up, we need some story vocabulary. We'll use that throughout this blog. Fortunately, if you know D&D lingo, we can easily think of a mapping from one to the other using the three-act plot structure (check the image below). MAIN QUESTS, SUB QUESTS and SIDE QUESTS ➡ Main Plots, Sub Plots and Side Plots. A full story contains at least one full plot. ACCEPTING A QUEST and ENTERING THE DUNGEON ➡ Act I: ‘the Setup’. DUNGEONCRAWLING ➡ Act II: ‘the Confrontation’. T