Real-life 1d4 damage - especially the extra pointy ones my players seem to love

Awesome sweater! Merry Christmas to you

Oh that looks fantastic - like a dragon from pure ice

Ooooh that is a neat design! Like Gallifreyan, but as a map

Like a 180° head turn - and they'll say something ominous or just a "flee" or "run", before snapping out of it.
There must be some sentient entity orchestrating all of it. A magician, creating a "normal" town as a hiding spot. Or maybe a Sims-like pocket dimension? Or it's a beholders nightmare?

And the closer the players get to figuring out what's going on in that town, the more they glitch. They will forcefully respawn, forget past interactions or stop all speech and movement

Ooof an entire town of Henry would be so eerie... And they'd only repeat the same three NPC dialog options? They'd stand in one place for hours...
I gotta do that!

Depends if it's a oneshot or longish campaign. I need 3x more prep time for a oneshot. Can't have them break out of the scenario but they should still be able to make choices.
For long, open campaigns, session one is well-planned. From there on it's chaos. Can't anticipate my table-goblins ideas

The moment you calculate the total damage, notice you misjudged the difficulty of the encounter by a lot and it's either fudging the roll or tpk... 🥲

I doubled down and decided on a generic, unimportant NPC name. Henry. Henry Bartender. Henry Guard. Henry Bystander.

But it became a challenge for my players to make the Henry's plot relevant in any way.
So back to "proper" names.
And the butchering these names.

Hi John, this is not a full campaign, only a battlemap that can be used by dnd groups for their own games. But yes, I made this map myself

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