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Great Starter Adventures – The Scourge of Triton

This month, I revisit mythological Greece with The Scourge of Triton, an adventure designed for newer players. (This must be a theme this month, as I recently posted a video on the best starter adventures for Call of Cthulhu!). There’s lots of debate about what makes a great starter adventure. Veteran roleplayers like myself probably […]

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Rebooting Pirate Horror – A Crown of Fetters

Regular readers of this blog will know that I occasionally go back through old adventures, look for ones that don’t quite work, but have a good soul, and reboot them into something new. Rebooting an adventure is a very different creative process from writing a new one — by adapting someone else’s older work, you’re […]

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Squandered Settings – Shadows of the Old Subway

At Gen Con this year, I played Night Mother’s Moon, a modern Call of Cthulhu scenario which sends the investigators on the hunt for a crazed man who is hiding from occult-obsessed gang members. While I had some problems with the adventure, there was an an exciting section where we had to plunge into abandoned […]

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Some Adventures Don’t Work… My Failed Starts

This adventures blog now has over thirty free adventures for my fellow GMs to use, steal, or draw inspiration from! But just for fun, I took a look at how many adventures I started… and then never finished for a variety of reasons. Often, writer’s block comes from a lack of inspiration, a game design […]

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Savage Fantasy Sandbox – Roar of the Terrorghorger

In previous posts, I’ve said how much I enjoy savage fantasy — fantasy adventures set on the primeval edges of the world, where life is cheap and magic is weird and dangerous. Conan’s Hyboria, Warhammer’s Old World, and Dark Sun are rife with savage potential. Sandbox adventures are especially appropriate for savage fantasy. A sandbox […]

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Learnings from Other GMs – Writing Horror

Over the last few years, I’ve written over a dozen free horror adventures that you can find on this website. They range from horror adventures that span unusual historical settings, to takes on rare genres (at least in RPGS) like 80s slasher films and 1950s retro cheese. In that time span, I’ve also discovered new […]

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Hacking Cyberpunk Adventures – Amethyst Reign

In our modern era of generative AI, cybercriminals, and tech company failings, and the metaverse as far away as ever, I thought it would be a good time to dive into the genre that has been one of the most requested since I started this blog — cyberpunk! Not having played a cyberpunk game for […]

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