Session Zero in a Box

Most campaigns don't die from bad rules or bad rolls. They die in the second month, when someone realises the game they thought they were playing isn't the game everyone else signed up for.

Session Zero in a Box is a workbook for the conversation that prevents this.
It's twenty-four pages of structured worksheets, group exercises, and quiet design choices, made for any tabletop roleplaying game, for any group, new or old. Use it for your next D&D campaign, your next Call of Cthulhu run, your next Wanderhome table, your next anything.

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Inside:

• The GM's Pitch. The page the Game Master fills out before session zero so the group knows what they're showing up for. 
• The Schedule. Organise your play times and places and set up conditions for them.
• The Tone Dial. A short group exercise that aligns the table on the feel of the game - grim or heroic, gritty or cinematic, fast or slow. 
•  The World Agreement. Six questions the group answers together to settle the basic rules of reality. 
  
• Character Creation and Introductions. A system-agnostic character concept sheet for each player, and a structured way for everyone to meet each other's characters at the table. 
• The Character Connection Web. The exercise that turns five strangers into a party with shared history before session one. 
• The Comfort Card. A separate, anonymous handout each player fills out and returns to the GM without discussion. No debate, no performance, no terminology - just a quiet way for players to tell the GM what they need. 
• The Session One Bridge. A five-minute closing exercise that turns the outputs of session zero into the opening scene of your first real session. 
• The GM's Prep Checklist. Everything the GM should walk away from session zero with, written down and ready.

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What you get: 

• A 27-page print-and-write PDF, designed to be filled out at the table. 
• Four versions: A4 in colour, Letter in colour, and a version of each that is print-friendly. 

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System-agnostic. Works for D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark, Mothership, Wanderhome, Brindlewood Bay, Vampire the Masquerade , anything with a session zero -  which amounts to any TTRPG really. 

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Pay what you want. Including nothing. If the workbook helps your campaign, the best thing you can do is tell another group about it. 

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Made by Night Coven Games. The first of more.

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