
Learn what a dungeon master does as the referee, guides gameplay, and builds the story in fifth edition, with techniques to introduce new players, start campaigns, and craft custom adventures.
Introduce new players to fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons using a visual slide deck, cover core concepts, character creation, races, classes, abilities, skills, equipment, and basic combat and spellcasting rules.
Learn how to run published adventures in 5e, pick fits for your party, balance encounters, and apply tips like reading the full book, improvising, and using music and foreshadowing.
Craft a campaign from scratch by shaping a story idea, genre, tone, and tropes to guide players as a dungeon master.
Brainstorm your dungeon master adventure with fill in the blank prompts for starting quests and genre ideas. Explore magic, technology, divinity, government, and monsters to craft a rich 5e narrative.
Identify archetypes and chart the hero's journey to guide dungeon master storytelling, shaping adventures, puzzles, NPCs, and encounters in dnd 5e.
Master improvisation as a dungeon master by using yes-and and heightening to keep campaigns flexible, narrative-driven, and impactful through combat, NPC wants, and ex machina.
Explore campaigns, published and custom adventures, and learn to shape tone, tropes, and genre; master character-driven narratives, archetypes, the hero's journey, collaborative combat improv, and heightening for immersive storytelling.
With the increase in popularity of Dungeons and Dragons in recent years, are you being pressured by your friends and loved ones to Dungeon Master a game for them? Or are you a D&D expert who knows the ins and outs of every mechanic but want to increase the roleplaying of your players and get them invested in an epic tale in a setting of your own design? Well you're in luck, this course is for Dungeon Masters of all levels as every level of Dungeon Master has something they can take away from this course and use to improve their home games. Improve your Dungeon Mastering skills by learning narrative structure, improv, and how to create your own setting in order to become the awesome Dungeon Master you were meant to be! This course goes over archetypes, the hero's journey, tone, tropes, genre, and the Rules of Improv in order to build your skill set as a DM so that you can craft a fun and fulfilling story together with your players! This course also has a lesson on how to introduce D&D to new players and some tips and tricks for running published adventures! Follow along with a unique brainstorming activity to kickstart the creation of your own D&D setting.