{"id":1228,"date":"2018-07-26T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mossor.org\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2020-08-17T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:30:02","slug":"rpg-one-shot-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/rpg-one-shot-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"RPG: One-Shot Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago now, when I first started trying to explain my Role Playing Group to my wife, it was clear that she didn’t see what I saw.\u00a0 Didn’t see the epic battles, the intense negotiations, the realization that discretion really is the better part of valor and retreat is always<\/em> an option.<\/p>\n

Rather, she imagined foam swords and bad accents.<\/p>\n

Since then I’ve imagined convincing her to take part in at least an RPG one-off night where I could show her what it was really<\/em> like.<\/p>\n

She wasn’t interested in playing with a group more experienced than her, so decided I’d have a newbie one-shot night an invite some other friends who I thought I could arm-twist in to playing with me, even for an evening.<\/p>\n

I decided it would be D&D 5e because even though I hadn’t GM’d 5e before, I felt I was familiar enough to guide a bunch of starter players through a night.\u00a0 I also wanted them to have enough cool things to do that it would feel epic, so I also decided their characters would be fourth level as, from my reading, it seemed as though the first couple levels might not be all that much fun for a starter players.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought I’d simply download a free one-shot and play that and that’s pretty much what I did.\u00a0 I found The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse<\/a> on the very cool site The DMs Guild<\/a>.\u00a0 It felt about right, it was very well written and made it easy for me to run as a first-time D&D 5e module. Also, I knew I could get pre-generated characters for the players so I wouldn’t have to make them go through all the cruft of generating characters from scratch.\u00a0 A few emails asking what they want to be and I’d be ready to go!<\/p>\n

So, ready to roll, right?\u00a0 Just invite folks over and make it happen.<\/p>\n

Would that my brain would let it be that easy…<\/p>\n

The rational part of my brain thought I was in pretty good shape.\u00a0 The obsessive part of my brain said, “Oh!\u00a0 This’ll be fun.\u00a0 How about if we…”\u00a0 and then started bombing my brain with ideas to try and make this a special night.<\/p>\n

I did email the players and discuss what kind of characters they would be and thus was born the Party:<\/p>\n