As some of you might have noticed, it's been a while since I last mentioned any of my terrain projects here on the blog... and that's because the latest batch of videos kinda follow on from one another in a similar way to the 'build along' series. And, as such, I wanted to wait until I'd got everything finished before talking about them here.
Anyway, the idea was to build a basic self contained dungeon adventure (and everything you'd need to run it) that packs away into a small box (making it ideal for the traveling GM - or for someone that might want to run a one-shot at a game store or a con for example).
So the obvious place to start was with the dungeon itself... and here's what I came up with:
And, as you can hopefully see, despite having to overcome a few issues along the way, it turned out rather nice (at least in my opinion).
So, if you'd like to have a go at making something like that yourself, then the YouTube tutorial can be found HERE (there's a link to the 'pay-what-you-want' pdf file in the video's description).
In addition to the dungeon - the adventure also requires a few player handouts in the form of some old copper rings and a rusty amulet...
...well, I say 'requires' - you don't really need any of this stuff - so they're not essential, but they are fun to have. Therefore, there is a second video HERE that shows you how to put them together (with another pdf file to go along with it).
But a dungeon adventure wouldn't be much of a dungeon adventure without some monsters to battle (at least in my opinion) - so I had a go at making those too... starting off with some ghostly creatures...
...and then with some slimy oozes:
So, as you might have guessed, there are video tutorials for these as well. One for the GHOSTS and another for the OOZES.
And that's pretty much two months of video updates condensed into one blog post :)
However, in the first video, I did say that I would try and tidy up my adventure notes for this dungeon (once I'd run it a couple of times - once for my online group, and once for my in-person group), and share them online... and so that's what I've done.
But like I said at the beginning of this post, it's not meant to be anything special (in fact that was the complete opposite of what I was trying to achieve - as the aim was to have it be a simple one-shot that could be run with minimal fuss), so please keep that in mind.
Anyway, HERE is the link to those notes (it's just a google doc at the moment).
So yeah - that's my little 'dungeon in a box' adventure that I've put together. I'm not gonna lie, it is quite a bit of work to make - considering it might only get used once or twice - but I enjoy the whole creative process of putting this kind of thing together, so it has been a fun project to work on nevertheless (plus I now have a little boxed adventure to run if I ever get the chance to do something like that at a con, or a store, or similar).
And now that I've got it finished... I'm in the mood for some sci-fi - so I think that's gonna be my focus for the next couple of videos - so stay tuned for those :)
- here's a quick example of the kind of thing I've been experimenting on this past week -
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