Hope this makes sense. I am continuing a campaign someone else did a couple sessions of, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, dnd 5.5e if that matters. The concept in my interpretation is several adventurers go there because they're seeking something at the island, wisdom, spells, etc. One PC is looking to find out what has happened to his long lost grandfather. This whole thread has nothing to do with the prewritten material other than there's a dragon type quest to resolve and the rumor about the grandfather is he was carried away by a dragon over 50 years ago. I have planted a couple clues that would lead the crew to think this PC(paladin aasimar) has a "twin" that has been seen on the island and that there are some signs of a time travel vortex or field or something. I'm thinking maybe they'll find the twin and realize it's actually the grandfather and there's a time warp. Then I'm thinking maybe they'll get pulled into some other world/timeframe/something and that might be the new proactive campaign. I'm planning to tell the actual players about these concepts a little bit each week as we resolve the pre-written scenarios/adventures prior to the time warp. Any thoughts on how to transition in a cool or conflict driven way? Or any suggestions on moving forward? While on the island I have a sorcerer & wizard who both want more magical powers/spells etc., a tabaxi rogue who wants cat nip but is holding back on other motivations, a warlock on a quest for knowledge, patron still a mystery. Open to any reactions, thanks.

Started playing about 9 months ago, also started DMing for one shots. Am 2 sessions into a campaign using Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (it's a starter adventure for dnd). I had read the proactive turquoise book many months ago so my players all have goals of varying complexity I'm working into this adventure module. I only started the newer book after this campaign started so we didn't do a session -1 but I'm intrigued to explore this more later. I'm also a talk therapist and just watched the zoom session of the gold membership, I see a lot of overlap in certain skills like using silence to encourage players to generate their own ideas and reviewing group norms or goals each session, basically holding the frame-- this was what drew me in so much to the first book, I love this idea of putting it back on the players, somewhat because I'm new, don't know all the rules, and in a way I'm not even that creative lol. So glad you started this community, I love the idea of more active player involvement!

The Dungeon Mistress is here. 😂 Hi, I'm Helen - a UK-based DM of one-shot adventures that I run at Manchester Board Game Festival. I also run Spelljammer for kids every Sunday, which is tremendous fun! I'll be running sessions at EasterCon and UK Games Expo (I'm still pinching myself), as well as submitting to Dragonmeet (next year). Oh, and I'll be doing my first actual play at the end of March. 😆

Heading to GaryCon Wednesday thru Sunday. First time there. I’ll be running Shadowdark RPG for a company while I’m there and also attending some Gamemaster seminars. Exhibit hall should be fun too and seeing all the industry greats