Are you ready to level-up your Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition design?

Take your adventure creation to the next level by designing original classes and archetypes!

This is a great skill to have in your TRPG toolkit and will enhance your portfolio (which can lead to more opportunities in the industry!).


This course will help you...

  • Determine whether your idea suits a class, archetype, or prestige class (and what each of those mean!)

  • Understand the core mechanics and themes that make your class unique and worthwhile

  • Learn how to align your design with lore, themes, and mechanics

  • Refine your draft with art direction and polished mechanics to make your class ready for playtesting

  • Prepare your final product for publication, complete with illustrations and polished content

Register today to get started!

This is a self-paced, activity-based course

Here's an overview of the curriculum

    1. Welcome to Design an Original RPG Character Class!

    2. Get to Know the Storytelling Collective

    1. Lesson 1: Concepting

    2. Lesson 1: Activity | Devil’s Advocate!

    1. Lesson 2: Basic Chassis

    2. Lesson 2: Activity | Working Outline

    1. Lesson 3: Comparative Design

    2. Lesson 3: Activity | First Draft

    1. Lesson 4: Polishing and Art Direction

    2. Lesson 4: Activity | Second Draft and Art Sourcing

    1. Lesson 5: Playtesting, Refining, Publishing

    2. Congratulations! You've completed this course.

About this course

  • $14.99

Plus, your registration includes:

  • Weekly office hours with instructor Mike Myler

  • Access to a private Discord channel

  • Indefinite access to the course and any future course updates

  • Support, encouragement, and accountability from the RPG Writer Workshop community

Praise for Mike Myler's RPG courses at Storytelling Collective

An approachable course for beginners!

Azra Hawthorne

"The Publishing Your Campaign Setting: A Primer course is a great crash course into beginning to fit the pieces together for a campaign setting. Everything is broken up and done with the ease of access as well as made not to overwhelm you all at once. Taking the course has really set me on the path to building the foundation for the larger work of creating a campaign setting by giving people an introduction to it. I personally do not have much experience as a writer professionally and am a novice there. While I have played TTRPGs for over half my life actually building and running them is something new to me. I found the course extremely approachable and personable with great instruction highlighting my own level in the field. If you have something already brewed or are just starting to build up the foundation this course will set you on track to bring your setting to life and fruition."

About the Instructor

Instructor Mike Myler

Mike Myler is an award-winning game designer and editor of the EN5ider Patreon. He has in excess of 150 credits that include N.O.W. at EN Publishing, the opportunity to work on the Warhammer 40k RPG from Fantasy Flight games, and contributions to books from Paizo Publishing as well as scores of smaller publishers. Most importantly here are his campaign settings, all of which have been funded through Kickstarters.

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