Chill, Till The Next Episode – 3WD Answers The Question Of How Long An Adventure Should Be And How To Build Episodic Adventures For Your D&D Game

3 Wise DMs

2:05 A listener question regarding how to run episodic adventures that serves as a jumping off point for Matt Colville’s recent video asking the question, “How long should an adventure be?”

3:40 DM Tony’s lead-off question… what is your table hungry for?

5:25 The classic Monster of the Week theme and DM Chris’ love of The X-Files.

7:25 Episodic Adventures can easily become a railroad.

8:25 How epic, longform stories are the current zeitgeist and how that affects the adventures we create.

10:15 Whether a longform campaign or a one-shot, every adventure needs to be self-contained with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

20:05 The issue of players remembering ALL the lore and information gleaned over longform adventures.

22:45 The adventure should be as long as it needs to be to feel complete.

27:40 The level of prep needed between short and longform adventures.

30:50 Creating episodic adventures even in longform adventures, like DM Tony’s Storm Kings Thunder and Journey to Ragnarok campaigns.

40:30 Final Thoughts.