The Session Zero Kit: Five Sheets to Start a Campaign

A campaign runs into trouble the table could have named on day one: a tone mismatch, a schedule no one agreed to, a line someone needed left alone. Session zero is the evening the table settles the game before the game.

Fill five sheets around one table in about ninety minutes, in a set order. The Table Charter settles the game, the tone dials, the schedule, and the customs, and gets signed. Then everyone fills a comfort slip alone, drops it in a pile, and the slips are shuffled and merged onto one sheet with no names, so no one has to claim a line out loud. Expectations, the world page, and the compact fill in the rest.

Five table-ready sheets plus an unnamed comfort slip for every seat, and a one-page running order that fits the whole session zero into about ninety minutes. The Table Charter, Comfort and Content, Player Expectations, the World Page, and the Party Compact. One expectations sheet per player, the rest one per campaign, and any single sheet reruns when the campaign changes shape.

The Character Speed-Sheet gets a new player from this evening to a playable character in twenty minutes. The Party Ledger keeps the campaign this kit starts.

System-agnostic: any edition, any system, any fantasy table. Prints clean on US Letter and on A4 with fit-to-page.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 5 table-ready sheets plus a per-seat comfort slip, with a one-page running order that fits the whole session zero in about ninety minutes.
• One expectations sheet per player, the rest one per campaign. Rerun any single sheet when the campaign changes shape.
• Screen edition plus a plain-white printer-friendly edition that photocopies cleanly. US Letter, prints clean on A4 with fit-to-page.
• System-agnostic: fits any fantasy table, any edition, any system.
• Unlocked, bookmarked PDF. Personal use.

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