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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9774398" data-attributes="member: 2209">While I normally run modules in my fairly heavily prepped mashup campaign setting, I have done a complete improv game once years ago and it went well.I had agreed to run a game for the kid of a pair of my friends who were hosting us for Thanksgiving. The kid was the same age as my son (who had played D&D with me a bunch for years, though never regularly) and the kids was a friend of my son's. The kid had never played D&D before and had wanted to try it out for a while and the parents knew I played D&D with my son. I brought my 5e PH, and some dice. I walked him through quick PC creation and the two decided to make halflings after a quick description of races and classes. One was a fighter and one was a rogue. Since they were both halflings we riffed on that and we started in a dungeon, where they had both just activated a chaos magic blade trap that cut them in half and they realized they were now new halflings where before they were one person exploring the dungeon. They quickly joked about which one was the top versus bottom half, and which one thought with their brain versus their gut. Being new people they could not quite remember why they were there but they thought they were looking for something. A bunch of exploration, maybe a fight/escape from something from the PH monster appendix (is there an ooze there?), and the kids were having a great time. Lots of description from both me describing stuff and them describing what they did, lots of immersion. The parents were enjoying it as well watching and the kid's father started to jump in with improvving things they were discovering too as they explored and crazy magical effects. Eventually ended with them finding a wall map (carved into stone maybe?) with an x marks the spot that they thought looked like a treasure map. They decided that was what they had been looking for. When they touched it they instantly got transported to the island where they had touched and we ended there.Everybody had a great time and I felt good about it.I would not be really comfortable running a wholly improv campaign for a big group though I would be more open to it now and definitely up for individual sessions that go off module script.</blockquote>

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