
Or possibly after a Session 0 and I’ve had a chance to meet the players’ characters, discovering their backgrounds and motivations for the campaign. The other details can come later, after the campaign commences. But I could absolutely run a first three hour session of this campaign just with the info I provided myself when starting to world build.

I’m uncertain just how many elves are hunting travelers in the western woods. I legitimately don’t know the details of what lurks in the misty forest to the south east. It didn’t even have a big bad evil villain, yet. The open world I built to use as an example for the video wasn’t particularly deep or complex. That’s why the final tip given in my video above is so important.
ANVIL.OF THE SKYSEEKER HOW TO
When watching YouTube videos for advice on how to run excellent TTRPG adventures for games like 5e, the unintended impression can be given is that the steps provided need to be 100% completed before the players ever show up for their first session. So make sure you head on over and put in your entry and you might be one of the lucky winners of the World Anvil Tavern Challenge! Ending on April 2, there is only a few days left to go. If you want to learn more about the challenge, we’d encourage you to check out the World Anvil website and that will tell you everything you need to know about the Tavern challenge.

And you can use it for a world of your own! We’ve partnered with the wonderful people at World Anvil to sponsor their Tavern Challenge! World Anvil is a set of worldbuilding tools featured in the video below have a look to see how we’ve used it to help create, organize, and store a burgeoning campaign setting that could grow to the size of Etharis.
