I’m super-excited about making a start on the Spring 2022 Write Your First D&D Encounter Workshop, which is a fully-online 4 week course that launches on 1 May and finishes on 31 May.
We are so excited to see all of the buzz about our upcoming Write Your First Encounter workshop! If you want to get started in writing for #DnD 5th Edition, this is a GREAT place to begin. Join us starting May 1st!
— Storytelling Collective ✏️ #StoCoComics (@StorytellingCol) April 26, 2022
Register here: https://t.co/SIPsYuX9pT pic.twitter.com/2MWSNPHg5Y
What I’ll do
By the end of the workshop, I’ll have written and produced a one-page D&D 5th Edition encounter – a mini adventure. In the workshop, I’ll learn about:
- elements of an encounter
- designing my encounter
- writing my encounter
- playtesting my encounter
- Dungeon Masters Guild Best Practices – cool!
Workshop schedule
The weekly schedule looks pretty good – here’s how it unfolds over the four weeks of the workshop.
| Week | Lesson | Date |
| 1 | What is an Encounter?
|
1 – 7 May |
| 2 | Writing Your Encounter
|
8-14 May |
| 3 | Playtesting Your Encounter
|
15-21 May |
| 4 | Producing Your Encounter
|
21-30 May |
| 4 | Submission day | 31 May |
Before it begins…
So far, I’ve been able to successfully sign-up, join Discord and request to join the #wyfe channel where participants will be able to share their work and thoughts with others – great stuff.
The off-platform discussion and participant engagement and sharing via Discord is a vaguely similar to the way #DS106 used Twitter and each participants’s personal cyber infrastructure as well as a central hub to deliver the course, sort of – making use of available tools and platforms (that the target audience most likely already uses) is more efficient and flexible than designing an LMS/walled-garden situation. It probably also keeps costs down, which means the course is more viable.
The next steps for me is to continue to make my way through the pre-course welcome area and continue to monitor the Discord channel before it all starts on 1 May, of course – not much time!
Our work is going to be published – cool
Our work is going to be published – cool
The Storytelling Collective is going to assemble a collection of the one-page encounters into an anthology that they’ll release as one title on DMs Guild, much like Collective Encounters Vol. I, Collective Encounters Vol. II and Collective Encounters Vol. III.
