little space, big imagination

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 recently my D&D group was able to squeeze in a session on thanksgiving weekend
and this past weekend.
and through all the action and mischief that was taking place,
i noticed one thing that has been a occurrence for sometime now and it's how much little
i need to create an encounter for them to enjoy themselves.

over time especially this year with our group we have been more role-playing than
playing the game with large table set-ups. 

with all the papers, books, and the DM area there isn't much room on the table to create
an elaborate table display to game on.
certainly if an encounter is created randomly out of the blue.

like several weeks ago a group was sent to take down a raised skeletal dragon.
and i wasn't even sure if we were going to get to that particular fight so i didn't make room
for it, but somehow we got to it so i just put the essentials down on the table for that
encounter, which was a crashed sky-boat, the adventure party, and a dragon.
 and in the end we all had fun.

at thanksgiving we were able to get some session-play in which i was surprised and
the adventure party went to visit a powerful ogre wizard.
i created the sanctum of the ogre using my trusty dungeon tiles,
which i have to say was a nice investment.
threw some Mantic Games scatter terrain together and brought back some fan-favorite
NPC's and we all had a blast.
Dale and Amber did not know several of these NPC's which made it all more,
they didn't know what to expect.

and this past weekend i honestly didn't have an adventure planned and was just going
to have the group do whatever they felt was right.
we did have two characters go on a date which turned into a bar brawl.
so i pulled out my tavern mat from Arcknight and i have to say i need to get more of
these mats.

such  chaos was created inside the tavern, we even had an encounter taken place outside
of it with Chris' warlock.

i just have to say i am blessed with such a great group of folks to play D&D with.
we might not play it 100% correctly or seriously like some do but overall
we are having fun and if it wasn't i don't think they would want to play anymore.

Comments

  1. mistercDecember 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM

    Your absolutely right, you don't need much for a fun session.
    Some of my best sessions were very much improvised at the time (but shhh, don't tell the players).

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  2. Dave StoneDecember 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM

    D&D was where I started, and not all my friends used models some just used scraps of paper for their characters, and never did we have scenery, so to see your set ups I'm totally jealous of your gaming group ! LOL

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