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Category: Adventures

Encounter: The Memory Eaters

April 29, 2025 mstanton Adventures

An idea meant to evoke emotional impact from psychic damage.

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Curse of Strahd Campaign Notes

February 24, 2025 mstanton Adventures

This time I get to be a player character for once!

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Otherwhere (Summer 2024)

October 1, 2024 mstanton Adventures, Settings

A brief recap of the D&D5e game played on Roll20 during summer 2024.

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Magic Item Shopping In Ank’Harel

June 23, 2022 mstanton Adventures

Quick rules on shopping for specific magical items sought on the streets of Ank’Harel.

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Call Of The Netherdeep: Game Notes

March 21, 2022 mstanton Adventures

A crash course in Matt Mercer’s campaign setting ahead of playing the module released in March 2022.

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Otherwhere: Game Session Notes

September 9, 2021 mstanton Adventures

SESSION 0: A SUMMONS TO OLYA’S (9/8/2021) The mage-merchant Olya summons a group of adventurers in service to him to gather at his shop within

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Rime Of The Frostmaiden Log

March 31, 2021 mstanton Adventures

Campaign session notes for playing Icewide Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, with two major changes: The setting has been moved to Blackmoor in the World

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Valerie Valusek’s City Of Greyhawk Map Annotated

June 29, 2020 mstanton Adventures, Settings

Links to view a version of the City Of Greyhawk map with key locations labeled.

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My Campaigns’ Metaplot

May 20, 2020 mstanton Adventures, Settings

What I’ve noticed as a consistent theme in campaigns I’ve run, and how they can be made to fit together into an ongoing cosmic mystery.

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Sample Riddles

December 13, 2019 mstanton Adventures

Riddles stolen from a bunch of different sources.

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About This Site

November 23, 2016 mstanton Adventures, Settings

A brief introduction to this hodgepodge online dump of RPG ideas and notes.

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Seed: Omniscient Killer AI

November 20, 2016 mstanton Adventures

What if characters pissed off an artificial intelligence that has full access to hack the internet of things?

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Seed: Kill Me, I Beg You

November 20, 2016 mstanton Adventures

Here’s an encounter during which a powerful NPC attacks the characters for apparently no reason, all part of a hidden plot.

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And Then, Things Got Worse

November 25, 2012 mstanton Adventures, Homebrews

Adventure details on making the worst out of anyplace the characters might go.

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Seeds: Ideas From ‘Who’

June 14, 2012 mstanton Adventures

Three brief summaries of Traveller adventure ideas stolen from episodes of Doctor Who.

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Adventure 1: The Kinunir

October 7, 2006 mstanton Adventures

Four adventures based around the 1,200-ton Kinunir-class battle cruiser, set in the Spinward Marches 001-1105.

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Adventure 2: Research Station Gamma

October 1, 2006 mstanton Adventures

Set in the Vanejen/Rhylanor/Spinward Marches: 300-1006.

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Adventure 3: Twilight’s Peak

October 1, 2006 mstanton Adventures

Set in the Spinward main in Rhylanor, sometime after 300-1106 but before the start of the Fifth Frontier War.

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Seed: Dead Letter Office

August 10, 2006 mstanton Adventures

What ends up in the postmaster’s dead letter office? And what happens when the player characters get their hands on “it,” whatever “it” is?

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You All Meet In A Tavern…

August 27, 2003 mstanton Adventures

Six tropes to get a fantasy adventure started with new (or not-so-new) players.

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