“Why does X not want to kiss you?” – Better Bonds for One-Shots
One of the things I’m always mindful of when prepping one-shots is encouraging player roleplay. I don’t mean PCs talking to my NPCs (you can directly influence this as GM), I mean PCs talking to other...
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How to Run Daggerheart One-Shots
Daggerheart has been out for a while now, and I’ve had a chance to run a few one-shots of it, both online and face-to-face; it’s a great system for them, with its narrative focus bringing the epic...
View ArticleOne Shot Purity
I’m not generally a purist about TTRPG terms. It’s still a convention if it’s just you and 4 friends playing a few games at an AirBnB. You can play Glorantha using any number of systems (Runequest...
View ArticleDaggerheart : Into The Witherwild
I wanted to run Daggerheart as a one-shot, so I tried to adapt (most of) the entire Witherwild campaign frame into a 4-hour slot. It ran to 3 hours. My loose prep notes, along with some advice, are...
View ArticleMayhem in Miquera – a One-Shot for Daggerheart
An Introductory One-Shot for Daggerheart in the Colossus of the Drylands campaign frame Credit for the structure of this has to go to the wonderful Teos Abadia, who on his Alphastream blog (and linked...
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Tatooine Manhunt – for Outgunned!
I’ve been doing a fair bit of adapting old “classic” adventures for modern systems recently – this was one that I did from the old WEG d6 Star Wars system into Outgunned! Here’s the notes for it –...
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Strike Force Shantipole – for Outgunned!
I’ve been doing a fair bit of adapting old “classic” adventures for modern systems recently – this was one that I did from the old WEG d6 Star Wars system into Outgunned! Outgunned!? Outgunned is a...
View ArticleThe Downtime Sandwich – a one-shot structure for Forged in the Dark games
There’s a number of games, we’re often told, that really don’t do one-shots well. Often this is because of complexity, or a detailed (and unnecessary) background setting, all things that a skilled...
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Beware of the Cat! – Review: No Small Crimes in Lankhmar, for Dungeon Crawl...
A slightly different review post today, being a review of a short adventure published by Goodman Games for their Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar setting. As with all my reviews, this is play-informed;...
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The Kowloon Knife-Kut Knoodle Katastrophe – a Feng Shui 2 One-Shot
As I write this, I’m knee deep in prep for Summer Kraken, a baroque gaming retreat in the German wilderness. As usual, I’m bringing a new Feng Shui one-shot, and so I thought I’d release this – from...
View ArticleSupercharge your One-Shot, Part 5: Big Starts
In this series, I’m going to be showcasing some techniques you can drop into almost any one-shot TTRPG session to improve it – even if the adventure you’re running is already published, these will...
View ArticleSupercharge your One-Shot, Part 4: Montages
In this series, I’m going to be showcasing some techniques you can drop into almost any one-shot TTRPG session to improve it – even if the adventure you’re running is already published, these will...
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Review: DIE RPG – Play the Player, Play the Game
DIE RPG is a bit of an odd beast – this TTRPG from Rowan Rook & Decard, written and developed from Kieron Gillen’s comics, is quite unlike anything else I’ve played on recently. It’s...
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Supercharge your One-Shot, Part 2: Hexcrawl Plots
In this series, I’m going to be showcasing some techniques you can drop into almost any one-shot TTRPG session to improve it – even if the adventure you’re running is already published, these will...
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Supercharge your One-Shot, Part 1: Sidekicks
In this series, I’m going to be showcasing some techniques you can drop into almost any one-shot TTRPG session to improve it – even if the adventure you’re running is already published, these will...
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“To Boldly Game…”– Playing Star Trek TTRPGs: A Guide to One-Shots and Campaigns
For a media franchise so big in everyone’s minds, it’s no surprise that Star Trek has seen a few TTRPGs through the years. And, as we’re currently in the Neutral Zone between editions of Modiphius’...
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Ice Station Zeta Alex – a One-Shot for Stoneburner
I’ve started doing this more – sharing prep notes for one-shots. This time it’s for Fari RPGs game of space mining dwarves, Stoneburner – a rules-light solo-friendly game you’ll be seeing on...
View ArticleThe Empress’s New Clothes – a Feng Shui 2 One-Shot
I’m just about ready for Spring Kraken, one of the highlights of the TTRPG gaming calendar, and so I thought I’d share my prep for one of the games I’m running there. This scenario was the very first...
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The Forlorn Hope – A Cyberpunk Project
Tales from the Forlorn Hope is a classic old-school not-D&D adventure book, of the kind we used to see all the time back in 1992, the year of its publication. Written for Cyberpunk 2020, it has...
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Step-by-Step Prep: Ghost Mountain (Index Card RPG), Part Two
Just like in Part One, I’m continuing to share my prep for an upcoming one-shot for a system I’ve not run before – the Weird West setting Ghost Mountain, for Index Card RPG. In part one, I did my...
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