Go from Zero Ideas to Complete, Playable Adventures Guided the Whole Way with my Step-By-Step Recipe

Creating adventures is tough. Where do you start? How to you write the story? How do you create the encounters? And how to you build up to that epic finale encounter with Demogorgon?

Welcome to my course on how to build complete adventures for tabletop and online RPG campaigns. Through online lessons including videos, handout, and templates, I'll guide you all the way to the finish, even you have haven't the slightest idea on what you want your adventure to be about today.

If we haven't met, my name is Johnn Four and I've been publishing RPGs, award-winning GM how-to books, and online courses and workshops for game masters 17 years. I wrote a column in Dragon Magazine for years, co-wrote the D&D DMG II, launched two hugely successful game master courses online, and continue to write an email newsletter several times each week with my latest tips for GMs. It's nice to meet you, fellow game master. :)

I know how tough it is making awesome adventures. So I'd like to invite you to my online course where I'll go through an awesome system for creating open-ended adventures. You can follow me every step of the way and look over my shoulder as I build a complete adventure using this unique and thorough system.

And you can choose to build your own adventure alongside me, or just watch and learn as I go through all the steps of my recipe while I create an actual adventure before your eyes.

Let's make an adventure together!

What You Need to Know

Not long ago I put together an adventure-building workshop. There were two parts to it. The first was the core study material. The second part was access to me as we went through the material and my special adventure-making recipe. It was supposed to last just a couple of months and be fairly small.

However, I kept adding more lessons, making new videos based on member questions, and expanding the workshop.

The Adventure Building Course is now multiple courses and growing! After enrollment, you will have access to the largest and most thorough online program on building RPG adventures in the world.

Here's What You Get Today

After purchasing the course, you'll get a login and can start browsing lessons right away. And it's all self-paced, so you can fit it into your schedule.

All lessons are unlocked immediately, so you can skip around anytime if you are interested in learning about specific topics like treasure pools, encounter challenges, sandbox design, and so on.

You also get lifetime access. So you can come back anytime to review or resume the course. I always find it helpful re-watching my favorite lessons in courses after gaining more experience (you can mark lessons in the Adventure Building Course as favorites just for this purpose).

There are currently four courses 100% complete and available to you today:

• Adventure Building Workshop: 39 Lessons. How to create sandbox + hexcrawl + story path type adventures
• Adventure Building Master Game Plan: 59 Lessons. We go deep into how to homebrew wondrous adventures.
• 5 Room Dungeon Workshop: Recording. Learn how to Plot, Build, and Polish epic 5 Room Dungeons to entertain your players for years to come.
• Adventure Hacking: 24 Lessons. How to prepare published adventures and mine them for homebrewing.
• The New Game Master's Guide to Adventure Design: 6 Lessons. By Sojourner's Awake, you'll learn how to design an adventure from scratch using a neutral tabletop roleplaying setting and a simple story led system.

I Am Helping You Each Step of the Way

Each lesson has a interaction area. If ever uncertain about things, or if you need additional advice, you can ask me questions directly as you work through the course materials.

The course works from scratch. It starts with how to create a strong adventure concept called The Razor that will guide you through the entire recipe. Then I will show you how to create an adventure outline, flesh out the details, build encounters, and smooth everything out.

I also cover all the nuances and smaller but critical steps in good adventure design, like what structure to choose (sandbox, linear, hexcrawl), how to integrate the PCs and get them invested in your story, how to make interesting new monsters, how to get players to roleplay more via adventure design, and other things like that.

Is This Course For You?

For years I struggled with adventure building. So I finally sat down, did the research, modelled several methods I found in books and online, and created my own successful recipe.

Once I started following a consistent recipe and levelled-up my skills each adventure, my confidence grew, my adventures improved, and now I'm about to publish my first mega-adventure to the world.

You will follow the same path (professional publishing optional, heh), but your quest will be one hundred times shorter because I've cut out the crappy parts learned from trial and error:

Building adventures in my unique way of linear + sandbox + hexcrawl blended format is awesome, because with a bit of up-front work, you get an adventure that's easy to run, simple to maintain, and goes practically on auto-pilot after the Inciting Encounter. I'd even call these adventures mini-campaigns, because your group will get so much mileage out of them.

Build adventures this way, and you get a lot more roleplaying out of your players too. You'll see what I mean when I lay it all out during the workshop.

What's in the Course

Here's a quick list of the 39 core lessons in the Adventure Building Course:

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