I always thought I’d see a TPK coming from pretty far away. I thought there’d be time for me to think things through and understand what a party wipe will mean for the ongoing campaign. Will the players even want to keep going? Are they going to be invested enough in the world, the NPCs,…

I spent a few weeks this summer laboring over a hot MS Surface Pro drawing sci-fi themed, megadungeon chambers for what was supposed to be a very low-prep style of campaign. See, when I pitched the idea of a sci-fi campaign where the characters are stranded on an alien moon with no choice but to…