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RPG Courses & Training

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
A guy called Red Trolls Gaming has set up a Teachable video course about writing RPG adventures:
This is an awesome online video course on writing your own adventures/quests/campaigns that kick serious butt!
Never run out of ideas for a gaming session again, write an interesting adventure in less than half an hour that people will want to play. Create nonplayer characters that are memorable.
https://redtrolls.teachable.com/p/writing_dnd_adventures_alt2

He also has a short, free course about creating an online random generator using an existing randomization service.
Create html-based random generators that you can use to make encounter tables, new monsters, random villages, names, items, NPCs or really anything that can be described with text. You can use these offline, put them on your phone or tablet and use them at the gaming table whenever you need them.
https://redtrolls.teachable.com/p/creating-random-generators-for-roleplaying-games

The generator course was pretty basic, just about the tool usage, but I'm kind of tempted to support his efforts nonetheless (a TWENTYOFF voucher code should get 20% off).
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Registration for the summer 2020 course of Write Your First Adventure by the RPG Writer Workshop is now open:
Do you aspire to write adventures for your favorite tabletop roleplaying game systems, but don't know where to start? This is the workshop and community for you!
https://www.rpgwriterworkshop.com/courses/write-your-first-adventure-summer-2020

My impression is that the workshop is focused more on creating a publishable product than improving your gamemastering skills.
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
The Quickstart Guide to Game Mastering is an upcoming, free gamemastering guide by Sword & Source. purveyors of some fine generators:
This quickstart guide to Game Mastering will teach you how to start. It will give you a set of clear, simple, dependable steps that you can follow.

It will take a couple hours of your time, and cost you 0 dollars.

The guide will do this and nothing more. You will not learn every rule. You will not learn how to become the world's best Game Master. You will not learn the ins and outs of Dungeons & Dragons or 40 different ways you can write a plot hook.

You will learn how to run an adventure with no fuss.
https://howtogm.guide/

You can join the mailing list now to get notified when the quick start guide is available.
 
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ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
One Hour TTRPG Prep is a Zine Quest Kickstarter with an interesting theme:
One Hour TTRPG Prep is a system agnostic, how-to guide for dungeon masters of all abilities. This zine will simplify your planning process and shorten the preparation time needed to run a great session of TTRPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and others.

Not only can you prepare a great game in less time, cutting down on unnecessary preparation improves the game for both dungeon masters and players. One Hour TTRPG Prep provides simple but powerful organizational tools to run a smooth and free flowing roleplaying game.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spielknights/one-hour-ttrpg-prep
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Skull RPG is offering a small number of online courses for gamemasters. The prices range from free to $39:
I could easily come up with a world and create an idea to play, but I could never quite execute my vision. You see I realized that there is a huge step missing between the campaign setting and the individual game sessions. They didn't have the feel that I wanted. I could never make them into a complete story, until I switched over to the Play / Act / Scene Model of being a storyteller. Check it out below.
https://www.skullrpg.com/

They have a podcast, a Youtube channel and some Kindle publications as well.
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
D&D Workshop for Beginner DMs will be arranged in Romania on January 30. There will be local participants in Bucharest, but the lectures will be also streamed. Online tickets cost 3 €.
Join Elemental Beacon and become a Dungeon Master at D&D Workshop for Beginner DMs. Learn how to run adventures for your party, help them fulfill their destiny, and forge the heroes of tomorrow.

The event will be held this one time only. Do not miss the opportunity!
https://elementalbeacon.com/dnd-workshop-for-beginner-dms/

I have no knowledge of the arrangers and cannot vouch for the quality of the event, but I was curious enough to purchase a ticket. The time is 11 AM in the Eastern European time zone, so this will probably not be very convenient for people outside Europe.
 
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JohnnFour

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Adamantium WoA
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Gamer Lifestyle
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How did it go, @ELF?
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
The Elemental Beacon D&D workshop is currently ongoing (on a 15-minute break just now), and so far it's been great (apart from a tech issue that caused the stream to start 30 minutes late). This is mainly an on-site event in Bucharest, the online stream is just a bonus.

This is a full day event and will cover quite a lot of ground. Here's just the first page of the schedule:
timeline - page 1.png

This is an introductory course, so can't expect any advanced techniques to be discussed, but the slides have been very detailed. So really excellent value for a 3 € fee.
 
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ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Monkey DM is planning a free DM workshop:
I'm going to be hosting a free workshop to help improve your DnD games. In it I will help you with:
- How to have people pay attention to you when you talk at the table
- How to manage your time better
- How to make combat faster and skip boring moments
- many other issues GMs and players run into!
https://www.monkeydm.com/fb7689021

I don't have much info on this, but did sign up to see how it's going to turn out.
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Maybe I should mention also Blue Collar DM's The Blue Collar Guide to Worldbuilding for Tabletop RPGs Kickstarter, even if it does not seem to be doing particularly well at the moment:
There is a void in the tabletop space. That being, a comprehensive guide to the formation and creation of worlds. This project is a 2+ hour, on-demand video course, 200+ page reference book, and printable exercises to guide the creation of worlds in the tabletop rpg space. The exercises will be utilized to not only increase understanding, but they will also be the building blocks for a world you will build throughout the duration of the course!

These exercises, along with random tables, settlement creation flowsheets, conflict and resolution charts, and organization templates, will be a guide for you to manifest and create an in-depth and developed world for your tabletop, novel writing, and storytelling endeavors!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...llar-guide-to-worldbuilding-for-tabletop-rpgs

I haven't seen much material from him, so I'm not sure about the value proposition.
 
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