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What is your favorite dungeon starter? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I’m looking for something that works well with a new group.

What is a dungeon starter?

Dungeon Starters are for those times when you want to just sit down and start a game right right away. Just a couple pages long, Dungeon Starters provide a unified flavor. Among other things, they include some simple details, questions, impressions, custom moves, items and services, spells and monsters. Sometimes there is even a map or visual image or two.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had great luck with Marshall Miller's dungeon starters— they used to be all over the internet but looks like the canonical Google drive source got taken down. Looks like there's some backups here: https://rpggeek.com/rpgseries/22715/dungeon-starters. Several are also included in that 20 dungeon starters book that wunst mentioned, and I also highly recommend. I used a modified version of the Sky Chain as a dungeon in my first DW campaign and it worked great!

As a side note, it's pretty trivial to convert over one-page dungeons (like those from competitions or the amazing Trilemma Adventures https://trilemma.com/ ) into dungeon starter-like prep. Good quality one-pagers tick all the same boxes as good dungeon starters— dripping with flavor, self-contained, and easy to drop in to most settings without much work.