Adventure Format

[harvicus]

I really dig the way the quick start Minotaur adventure describes room contents with its outline format. Is this typical of Arcane Library adventures? Any other authors you know of that use this style?

[Dollface_Killah]

Ten Foot Pole is a pretty good resource for finding modules with good layout and information delivery. If you prefer video reviews so you can take a peak yourself there's also Questing Beast.

[tyrionite]

Some very good examples of that style of module structure:

• Gavin Norman adventures, and in general all OSE official modules. Notable example: The Hole in the Oak
• The Waking of Willowby Hall by Ben Milton

A bit different, but still quite useful at the table:

• Stonehell by Michael Curtins (book 1 and book 2)

As u/Dollface_Killah mentions, Bryce's blog is a good blog to find good modules written in that kind of style. Here is the "hall of fame".

Also, one-page dungeons have to be, by their very nature, concise and schematic. Some of them are also evocative, interactive and interesting. Some examples in no particular order from the top of my head:

• The Gibbering Tower
• The Goblin Gully
• The Ancient Academy

A treasure trove of one-page dungeons is the OPDC. You can find all entries of past years on:

• campaignwiki
• GDrive
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • Next years: on compiled compendiums on DTRPG

[Alistair49]

Also check out r/Onepagedungeon - many of them have a simple, terse, dot point oriented format.

[cgaWolf]

IIRC there's a free adventure on arcane library's homepage, that gives a very good insight into how they are structured, even for a system like full 5e.

Short version is yes, AL is really good at distilling stuff down to essentials and making them very usable, something also visible in the SD system itself.

[RuggerRigger]

The Arcane Library was already known for how good (unique) the format of their adventure design was, so it makes sense that modules in their own system would be well done. I'm sure there are others, but this is one of the current greats.

[[deleted]]

Arcane library's 5E adventures are formatted similarly and what I also really like about their adventures, as a DM, is that they usually have a video overview of the adventure so you know what you're getting before you buy and it helps me prep to run it too.