Next weekend is the session zero for a second D&D group starting up.

I’ve never met any of the players. Although one or two of them are friends.

So this session zero is going to be interesting.

Naturally I’m leaning towards running a homebrew campaign. Although I’m not averse to running a published adventure. Heck I’m bound to repurpose a map or two from a published adventure to my own needs.

However this session zero is going to be so important.

It’s a chance for me to find out what sort of campaign the players want, the tone of the campaign, setting (Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Realms of Dread, Avernus, Eberron or maybe Ravnica or Theros!).

Without knowing this stuff it’s not possible to write a one-page campaign document. I’ll write one up afterwards and share it with everyone afterwards. It’ll work more as a summary/reminder of what was decided.

But I’m hoping that a group discussion will hammer out those details, and allow the players to create characters whilst we are there.

I’m not planning on running a short adventure. I’m not sure how long all of the rest will take. I’m expecting a couple of hours. Which doesn’t leave much if any time for a short adventure.

Finally hoping that we can agree on the day a regular time for the session to happen.

This will be an interesting experience when it happens.