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An adventure to solve a common problem…
a 3-4 hour single-session adventure for teaching D+D to new players
Remember being a new player and getting overwhelmed with information when you tried to learn to play D+D?
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A Strong Start! focuses on the basics.
I spent lots of nights and weekends re-tooling the basic 5e adventure formula, with many notes in the margins, to create a text that walks a GM step by step through players’ first adventure. As I was wrapping up the first draft, Kickstarter announced their fourth annual ZineQuest and my fun weekend pastime became a goal of a printed adventure.
A Strong Start! makes learning 5e fun.
The adventure will look familiar to seasoned players, but that’s not who it’s built for. A Strong Start! is a stripped-down adventure with *just* enough mechanics to learn the game, and plenty of time and opportunity for players to both learn and practice. In that order. (Not at the same time.)
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The end goal (for me) was a full-color, professionally printed ‘zine booklet complete with custom artwork and plenty of beefy supplemental material.
The end result – for you! – is a robust adventure built with the specific intention of keeping potential players excited about the game beyond their first session.