{"id":1389,"date":"2020-08-28T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mossor.org\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:29:11","slug":"make-i-published-an-rpg-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/make-i-published-an-rpg-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Make: I Published an RPG Adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been playing Role Playing Games for a decade.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been the the guy in charge, the Dungeon Master or Game Master (DM or GM) a few times and for more than a year and twice ran my own homebrew (made up) game worlds with my own overarching story.\u00a0 What I haven\u2019t done was write my own adventure and make it available outside my game group.\u00a0 Until now, that is.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July I signed up for the <\/span>RPG Writer Workshop<\/span><\/a>: Write Your First Adventure.\u00a0 This was a course that was a month long and the end goal was to produce, well, Your First Adventure.\u00a0 It was largely focused on D&D, but the principles are applicable to any system.\u00a0 Really, to writing any piece of fiction, but there was a lot that was focused on writing a module or adventure for a Role Playing Game (RPG).<\/span><\/p>\n

The course came with a number of modules and exercises that were released throughout each week and through the month, as well as including guest columns by folks from the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The curriculum included a nice welcome package and how to put together a writer\u2019s toolkit to help stay motivated and organized.\u00a0 It also covered some welcome areas like how to design for accessibility, mind mapping, how to get unstuck and how to stay motivated.\u00a0 It covered the steps from Outline to Draft to final format.\u00a0 It introduced the importance of conflict when you are writing.\u00a0 The final portion covered format, cover design, layout and playtesting.\u00a0 The final portion was about marketing your work.\u00a0 We\u2019ll come back to that in a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

All this for $29 for the month and access to a very active Discord server where you could connect with others in roughly the same place in writing their first adventure.\u00a0 All in all, a very good value and I certainly received value from the exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n

I quickly generated an idea, based tangentially on an encounter that I created for my monthly game.\u00a0 I changed the setting and the villain a bit, but the main hook was very similar.\u00a0 This meant I could focus on all of the other parts rather than get bogged down in trying to come up with a story.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are some additional jobs if you\u2019re going to publish your own adventure.\u00a0 Off the top of my head:<\/span><\/p>\n