A shared world of D&D one-shots

We had such great feedback from our first D&D session we have two separate games now booked in for our December Monthly Meet - both full within minutes! As a games club we only meet once a month and the demand for D&D is clearly very high. It's a lot of responsibility to have one or two DM's shoulder all the work and miss out on playing themselves. Likewise we know that players like to develop and grow their characters - one-shots are fun but you don't want to be rolling new characters each and every month.

SO.. Tales from the TrollSkull Tavern is our initiative to let you the player enjoy taking your character through the levels but at the same time let the DM's sit on the other side of the games masters screen and play as well. We have assembled a crack-team of five Dungeon Masters who will take turns running one-shots each month...with a difference. Instead of players making new characters for each DM's game they will keep their characters and each month level them up. DM's will rotate and get the opportunity to play themselves. 

More often than not the adventure will start in The TrollSkull Tavern - an adventurers favourite in the North Ward of Waterdeep on the Sword Coast in the land of Faerûn (Forgotten Realms). But make no mistake - adventure could take our players literally anywhere!

We're developing a framework of locations and NPCs so whilst each game is unique, there are familiar threads running across all game session regardless of the DM running the game.  

A big thanks to Rich, Beth, Sam, Sven and Chris for volunteering their time as DMs. More soon.