Turn Slogs into Showdowns: Making Memorable and Epic Finales for Your D&D Campaign

About this episode

The episode discusses how to create memorable and epic finales for D&D campaigns, focusing on collaboration and communication among multiple DMs.

Some listener questions come in and just HAVE to be answered. This was the case with a question that came in from longtime friend of the show, Dr. DM himself, Jason. His son’s school D&D club was planning a seriously epic finale to multiple campaign tables in a stupendous one-shot. Everything was gong well until the head DM brought their BBEG… we’ll let Jason tell you the rest. In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave sit down to discuss what makes a good finale, a good BBEG, and best practices for collaborating with multiple DMs. Not surprisingly, it always comes down to communication. 1:50 Dr. DM’s question about an insane BBEG for his son’s school D&D Club Finale. 7:00 The concept of the finale game sounds AWESOME! But if you’re doing a collaboration, you have to collaborate. 8:45 Benchmarking when creating homebrewed monsters. 10:00 The BBEG should matter in each of the separate campaigns storylines. 11:05 In our Curse of Strahd finale, the players mowed through 2000 hit points in a session… that’s still 128,000 to go. 14:25 Monsters aren’t just bags of hit points to soak up damage. 20:30 With collaborative storytelling, keep lines of communication open. 22:15…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tony, Chris, Dave

Topics covered

• D&D campaign finales
• collaborative storytelling
• BBEG
• homebrewed monsters
• communication in gaming

Keywords

• D&D
• finale
• BBEG
• collaboration
• homebrew monsters
• communication
• epic encounters

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Curse of Strahd

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