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Announcing the Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge!
mario September 30th, 2021
I’ve collaborated with @probablybadrpgideas on a thing!
For the 31 days of October leading into Halloween, let’s all make one Dungeons & Dragons monster per day. Challenge rating starts at 0 on day 1, and each next monster is CR+1, culminating with a CR30 nightmare on the 31st, representing the monsters getting spookier and more dangerous as we approach the most sacred day. Post your monsters each day like an advent calendar, try running encounters against monsters posted by others, build one-shot Halloween-themed adventures, make monstrous player races to oppose the growing threat, make fan art of other people’s monsters, or just enjoy and share the community’s creations!
For your consideration, a prompt list:
- Pumpkin Spice
- Undead
- Kaiju
- Fairytale
- Accursed
- Spoopy
- Beast
- Outer Space
- Doppelgänger
- Capitalism
- Insects
- Trick-or-Treat
- Misunderstood Monster
- The Deep
- Prehistoric
- Secretive
- Ooze
- B-Movie Monster
- Expanse
- Parasite
- This is Not a Place of Honor
- Chaos
- Mythology
- Supernatural
- Mecha
- Psychopomp
- Forest
- Abomination
- Caves
- Boss Monster
- End of the World
Feel free to follow the prompts in any order you like for inspiration, skip and replace any you aren’t feeling, use another list, or just follow your heart to make the spoopy spooks of your dreams. Dealer’s choice for D&D edition, or Pathfinder, or Monster of the Week, or whatever TTRPG system you like, just make them scarier and tougher each day.
This is the Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge. Let’s see what amazing things we can come up with to celebrate the best time of year. Hope your party survives to the end!
DM Diary – Adelia’s Gift
mario September 16th, 2018
I’m running my own Dungeons and Dragons campaign! After several years of not being able to figure out scheduling with my existing gaming group, my desire to play D&D again finally won out over my fears of putting on the Dungeon Master hat. It’s a little daunting, especially since I’ve chosen to write a 100% original campaign and story (this may end up being a mistake), but the players are all new (playing 5e) so at least we all get to go through the learning process together.
Though I don’t think the campaign I’ve written is anything exceptional or original, I’m happy enough with how it’s gone so far that I wanted to share our experience at the table, in case other would-be DMs out there need a little extra push to start running their own games.
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