You Say It’s Your Birthday – 3WD Reveals 7 Tips That Will Help You Build Your Own Very Special One-Shot D&D Game 3 Wise DMs

Birthday games. Several of our recent articles and episodes
discuss our passion for running birthday games for our game group, whether it
be D&D, the OSR, Avatar Legends, or the classic Marvel Super Heroes system;
it’s become our thing.
In this episode, Tony, Chris, and Dave discuss the recent Birthday
Game they ran where The Doctor teamed up with the Sensational She-Hulk and
members of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four to stop the impending Cyberman
invasion orchestrated by the wielder of the Cosmic Control Rod, Annihilus, and
do battle against the Brood in a giant Space Whale (believe us…. It made way
more sense at the table!)
We then discuss our 7 best tips to help you build your own
Very Special One-Shot for Birthdays or any other day!

2:20 Finding the right type of setting and property to
showcase the gift of the Birthday Game. DM Tony revisits his love of the
classic AD&D adventure, Castle Greyhawk.

4:30 Tip #1: Have a Solid Theme.

5:30 DM Dave gives a brief overview of the impetus for the “Lost
Episode of Doctor Who” that birthed this episode.

8:25 Tip #2: Use Existing Properties: How we’ve built
existing properties like Masters of the Universe into existing games, like our Curse
of Strahd campaign. Shout-out to the team over at Nerdarchy!

16:20 Tip #3: Choose the Best System for the Setting AND the
Players.

18:00 Tip #4: Go All Out. Terrain, minis, costumes… really
stretch your limits.

19:00 We revisit DM Tony’s Murder Mystery One-Shot that he
based off Clue.

20:19 Tip #5: Use the Players Favorite Character/Campaign as
the Focus.

22:28 Tip #6: Tie It into Your Existing Campaigns… and our overarching
Multiverse.

24:50 Tip #7: The most obvious… Focus on the Special Player.

30:45 DM Chris brainstorms planning a Birthday One-Shot in
real time.

36:45 Final Thoughts.