D&D 5E Reclaiming Blingdenstone

[Li Shenron]

I've always liked the idea that the first session be really simple: PCs meet, perhaps travel together, are attacked, investigate why they were attacked. Session over, level gained. It is like getting your feet wet, and past that awkward and horrible phase of having single digit HP (for many of them).

This could be as simple as:
"After leaving your home, you got employment as a caravan guard on the way to X." Caravan gets attacked by goblins/orcs/gnolls/undead, someone gets stolen away - children and/or young women to be sold to duergar slavers? Etc. PCs, all guards, rally to fight them off, then track them back to their lair, maybe face more of them and their leader, perhaps a bit of treasure and/or save a captive or two and/or a reward from the grateful merchant, whose daughter you saved.

It is a very simple scenario, can be played in one night, and doesn't require much planning - just decide what will attack them, who gets taken, what the lair looks like, if there is any treasure.

After that, level them up, and then they can go off on their first true adventure - a dungeon, or whatever.

But that wasn't your question, I realize. I was riffing off your desire for a one-shot adventure to get things started.

Yeah it's a bit late. I have ONE minute to leave the house But thanks anyway!

 

[Sacrosanct]

Unfortunately I'm a a bit late here, but if you need this in the future, or if anyone else is interested, I have several one-page adventures designed specifically for these types of situations. And they're free. I'm sure if you look around, a lot of other people have put out one page adventures as well.

 

[Redthistle]

Unfortunately I'm a a bit late here, but if you need this in the future, or if anyone else is interested, I have several one-page adventures designed specifically for these types of situations. And they're free. I'm sure if you look around, a lot of other people have put out one page adventures as well.

Thank you, Sacrosanct. I downloaded 5 of these and they all look good. In addition, the different formats that you used have only increased my admiration for your creativity.

 

[Li Shenron]

Well... there it went, our first session of Reclaiming Blingdenstone. Four hours of game, including at least one hour of warm-up introduction to D&D and the pre-gen PCs.

Meet the cast: Sonja the Fighter, Wilhelm the Cleric, Robinia the Rogue, Esmeralda the Wizard...



...their gender-switched back-ups...



...and the first session's adversaries!

 

[Magistus71]

check out Merric's list of adventures by level.

http://merricb.com/dungeons-dragons-5e/dungeons-dragons-5e-adventures-by-level/