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Treasure Maps In OSR

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The Greater Risks Comes Greater Rewards One of the things I've heard over on YouTube was Daniel Norton of Bandits Keep is introducing a way to reward players and by guiding them to the next adventure. After watching the video it made sense and it would make exploring the referee's campaign in search of the magic item that one player seeks. Lately, I've built this rut during solo play new ways of motivating myself to create an exciting adventure without wasting time. So I have a few tools to do so and at some point in time they never lived up to their use long-term.   So rather than spending money on things I didn't need. I needed that inspiration to come up with an adventure to later build a campaign from that initial dungeon. The solution is treasure maps. Exploring Is How We Find it the main reason exploration in D&D and RPGs that handle rules for traveling in the wilderness is the treasure that is left behind in the world the referee makes. Obviously if you play ...

Expert Level Play & Outdoor Survival

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Touching Grass For Once I think looking at my current Pits & Perils solo campaign leaving the low-level, dungeon skirmish tier of play always feels satisfying. Though if it wasn't for reading Muster It would destroy my investment into the hobby because I haven't been using the system suitable for a narrative experience. There also was a costly investment of Outdoor Survival by Avalon Hill that was worth it long term to establish a campaign setting using the same map. Though drawing your own hex map, printing out premade hex maps with terrain laid out are more practical in this day in age. Establishing Extended D&D The driving force someone must have to build a campaign beyond the scope of the dungeon is this: consistency & growth . Because motivation can only get you so far to creating a campaign only for it to crash. Believe me when I say the amount of wilderness maps were bound to become my dedicated only end up in the bin and being counter-productive to somethi...