Building connected D&D storylines for Kids

Three Issue Arcs

Every month as we are designing DnD Adventure Club‘s latest issue we think a lot about the attention spans of our youngest audience members. Every kid is different, but, on average, we feel like kids have the ability to sit around a table and tell a story for about 90 minutes before they need to jump up and run screaming around the backyard (or the house)!

So each of our adventures is designed to be playable in a little more than an hour to maybe 90 minutes.

But because we love the narrative aspects of Dungeons & Dragons and the player’s ability to build and tell stories about their characters, we recognized the need to extend the story as well. So every three DnD Adventure Club adventures are connected into one narrative arc. A TRILOGY.

Each individual issue can easily be broken off and played as a standalone adventure. But they connect nicely into one grand story where the characters can build relationships, explore a unique setting and hopefully defeat some great evil.

A 3-issue Trilogy can play out over the course of two or three weekly D&D sessions. Or, played all at once, a perfect activity for a late-night sleepover.

And since all of the DnD Adventure Club adventures take place in and around the small Northern town of Tumbledowns, every single episode can connect into a larger storyline.