# Let's Build Some Locations with the Tome of Adventure Design!

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**Category:** Hexcrawls & Sandboxes\
**Tags:** hexcrawl, osr, dnd5e\
**Created:** [November 8, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/lets-build-some-locations-with-the-tome-of-adventure-design/324 "2022-11-08T18:03:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/lets-build-some-locations-with-the-tome-of-adventure-design/324/1 "2022-11-08T18:03:17Z")

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[![](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/5900f709682b28c390e97847ba155b9ef09a7e28.jpeg "Let's Build Some Locations with the Tome of Adventure Design!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4FX9ZscAWM)

Show Notes:

- [Buy The Tome of Adventure Design at DTPRG](https://geni.us/JJg1)

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> **Starts:** November 8, 2022, 1:30pm (America/New\_York)\
> **Ends:** November 8, 2022, 2:30pm (America/New\_York)\
> **Link:** <https://youtu.be/o4FX9ZscAWM>

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**Author:** ![Perkins](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/perkins/32/36_2.png) [@Perkins](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Perkins)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/lets-build-some-locations-with-the-tome-of-adventure-design/324/2 "2022-11-09T00:52:03Z")

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Good stream.  
ToAD was originally published as separate books. In the revised edition, these are now chapters:  
Chapter One: Principles and Starting Points  
Chapter Two: Monsters  
Chapter Three: Dungeon Design  
Chapper Four: Non-Dungeon Adventure Design

I start by thinking about what I need/want to create. Then, I only go to the tables that seem related to what I want to create. Finally, I only use the results to stimilate and inspire. Once something clicks, I will run with it.

For example, I wanted a dungeon adventure for run my daughter’s character through with a few NPC henchmen. It was last Halloween so I wanted something a bit spooky. I rolled up a necrotic spawning engine. And a hag as a guardian. After a few more rolls, I had a hook, a basic 5-room dungeon design with an undead theme. We played for a few sessions.

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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/lets-build-some-locations-with-the-tome-of-adventure-design/324/3 "2022-11-09T16:17:16Z")

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> [@Perkins](#):
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> I start by thinking about what I need/want to create. Then, I only go to the tables that seem related to what I want to create. Finally, I only use the results to stimilate and inspire. Once something clicks, I will run with it.

I think that, depending on your process, the book either is going to match your flow or, maybe as when I used it on stream, it was a bit clunky at times when I was fighting against its flow to do what I wanted it to do. Also, being that I was in it blind for the first time, I didn’t clearly know how to use it.

> [@Perkins](#):
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> I wanted a dungeon adventure for run my daughter’s character through with a few NPC henchmen. It was last Halloween so I wanted something a bit spooky. I rolled up a necrotic spawning engine. And a hag as a guardian. After a few more rolls, I had a hook, a basic 5-room dungeon design with an undead theme.

That sounds like a fun romp!