D&D Adventure Design: Exploring the Unknown

In this video I use the procedural approach in B/X D&D (OSE) for designing adventures to create a level 2 dungeon exploration with the theme of exploring the unknown and location being a tomb. Will the characters find the ancient resting place of the Warlord and recover their magic sword?
Here is a play through of the adventure: • BX (OSE) D&D Actual Pl...
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D&D Adventure Design: Exploring the Unknown

[@DanielNortonPhotographer]

Here is an actual play of this adventure: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnWZiK2Jf5tgoKs

[@TheK5K]

Love watching your adventure creation process. After a long time playing it's nice to see that getting back to 'Basic(s)' for adventures can yield such good results. Now to watch the playthrough!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks 😊

[@DarkHorseCom]

Watching a creative mind at work. Thanks for the great video :)

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks Mike!

[@anathema1828]

Thanks for taking the time to build this on screen!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks for watching

[@usapatriot4163]

I like this format for your videos. A vid showing the PCs playing the scenario followed by a vid showing the scenario creation! Excellent!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thank You!

[@Grimlore82]

Another great one! Love the exploration style campaigns.

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks!

[@stevefugatt7075]

Good stuff! For a game I've played and ran for 40 years your videos always give me a fresh insight.

[@BanditsKeep]

Awesome, thanks!

[@WayneBraack]

You run a game that's lasted for 40 years? As in the same campaign world? That would offer such depth of history that the opportunity for deep immersion has got to be an incredible experience.

[@TheMarvelousmike72]

This was fun to watch. It's exactly how I always did (and still do) BECMI Dungeons. Really enjoying your content.

[@BanditsKeep]

Thank You!

[@DanielMendoza-qx5rl]

I've always made my attempts to make adventure with this type of exploration for my games. Props to ya for making it!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@chodenji]

Hey! This is the adventure we just played couple weeks ago! LOL

[@BanditsKeep]

Yes it is!

[@howardkingston7901]

Nice video Daniel I think these videos of B/X 'adventure design' are very good and shows how B/X is very detailed but on first look doesn't look so that's why many people are revisiting this.

[@BanditsKeep]

For sure, thanks!

[@jamesm9560]

Dude. This would take ten years to play!

[@BanditsKeep]

It would be a fun 10 years!

[@andrewhaldenby4949]

So good to see your process Daniel ty!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thanks

[@dantherpghero2885]

Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it... and lived! BONES of full fifty men lie *strewn* about its lair! So! Brave knights! If you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth... (Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975).

[@BanditsKeep]

😊

[@DarkHorseCom]

That movie never gets old for me

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

I nearly soiled my armor!

[@mitchellslate1249]

Stop! I am reading Lovecraft! The Unknown is scary!

[@BanditsKeep]

It’s even worse once you know!

[@himesjb]

A lot of people SAY they enjoy Moldvay's edition, but it's cool to see you actually using it! Where did you get that font??? I can't locate it on the webs.

[@BanditsKeep]

It is called soutane - I can’t remember exactly where but a search should find it

[@toddvanevenhoven7736]

Sliding door trap room: to make things interesting and distract party when they enter put a few skeletons in far ends of the room for them to see. When door slides shut, skeletons rise up

[@BanditsKeep]

Nice

[@Astartes36]

Cool stuff!

[@BanditsKeep]

Thank You!

[@jeffallen559]

Do you ever post the writeups of these adventures you create on here?

[@BanditsKeep]

Some of them I stream on the channel “bandit’s keep actual play”

[@MrRourk]

Better Games did this better in the 90's with Designing Fantasy Scenarios and Designing Fantasy Encounters.

[@BanditsKeep]

I wasn’t gaming in the 90s unfortunately, but this system works well enough for my group 🤷🏻‍♂️