Hopefully you’ll have some nice players who will be guided by the DM in the first session rather than immediately making things difficult for you! At this point in time, the adventure would be fairly ‘on rails’, in that, what the players would be trying to achieve could be predicted fairly accurately. So, given a play time of 1:30, maybe 2hrs, I started to guess where in the adventure the players would get to. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ~ Dwight D. First things firstĬheck out my other two articles on preparing things in general:
Warning: Even though I have tried my best not to, this will probably contain spoilers for Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure.