How to Make Impactful D&D One-Shots

Welcome to How To Be A Better DM. My name is Tanner Weyland, and together we will learn about how to prepare the best adventures and environments for our players to enjoy. Today, I am talking about how to make D&D one-shots impactful for our players (hint: it's not about doing just combat).If you would like to sign up for future one-shot podcasts, sign up at this link: https://how-to-be-a-better-dm.....captivate.fm/one-sho We always love playing with you!

Mentioned in this episode:Housekeeping and AnnouncementsWelcome back to How to Be a Better DM. I’m Justin Lewis and I’m Tanner Weyland and we are here to help you tell better stories for yourself and your players as you dungeon master sessions of Dungeons and Dragons. We have a great show for you today, but first we have some announcements. If you want to skip the announcements, hit the skip button two or three times and you should be at the start of the show. To start off: Monsters.Rent I am proud to announce the launch of our sister company, Monsters.Rent! Have you ever looked on with envy at the Youtube Dungeon Masters who always seem to have the right mini for the right encounter? What about worrying about the space to store all those minis? That’s exactly what Monsters.Rent created to solve. Just like the original Netflix, you sign up for a subscription and you get a box of minis every month if you want. Or get the first box and then keep that as long as you want. Return them when you’re ready and get the next box. Go to monsters.rent to sign up for you subscription and make every session the best session ever! The Level 1 Dungeon Master Tanner and I are excited to announce our new community at betterdungeonmaster.com! What is it? Well, it’s a community of DM’s that can help each other out and inspire each other, and it’s a library of Dungeon Master Resources. To join the Guild it’s just $1.33 a month and you get access to the Community, to the Library of Resources and to Immortality!! Well, you don’t get that last one, but the other two for sure! Just go to https://betterdungeonmaster.co....m/register/level-1-d and sign up today then check your email for more instructions. One Shot We have openings for our upcoming One-Shot. Go to betterdungeonmaster.com/one-shot and sign up to play in a free D&D session. One of the best ways to improve as a DM is to play as a player and you can for free. Get your spot today. Feedback We are still looking for feedback on the show. Go to betterdungeonmaster.com/feedack and give us your opinion on how things are going. If you want a specific response, make sure to leave your email so we can reach back out to you. Swag: I’m excited to announce that today, we have started selling swag! One of our listeners, Golden Sligting from Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/goldensligting/) was awesome and designed an alternative logo for the show. To give some appreciate to him, I slapped that logo on a Hoodie and now you can buy that hoodie. 50% of the profit goes straight to Golden Sligting so if you like the hoodie you should get one. Just go to https://betterdungeonmaster.com/shop/ and get yourself a hoodie. Or, if you too want to have something you designed on our store, send me your designs at howtobeabetterdm@gmail.com. You’ll 50% of the profit and become part of our community! I think that’s enough announcements for today. Let’s get to today’s show: