Villages and cities are being razed over night with no warning. The few survivors speak of an entire army appearing from nowhere, blind-siding the city’s defenders.
The army in question could be traveling through the underdark, emerging from caves near their intended targets.
A great enchantment creates a field of invisibility, preventing anyone from outside the field [...]
The next time your PCs find themselves captured, whether being held for ransom or awaiting their doom in a James Bond-esque death trap, consider taking a quick break from the main campaign.
Let the players each play a character from a nearby town where the PCs made a good impression, preferably characters previously introduced as NPCs. [...]
When some strange new creatures appear on the fringes of civilization, the kingdom is at a loss for what to do. At first the bizarre, serpentine creatures are easily repelled, but they quickly start putting up more resistance and becoming more aggressive. While once content to feed on forest creatures and the occasional livestock, recently [...]
The PCs are scientists working for the US government in the years building up to World War II. Hitler has just come into power, and is not quite yet seen as the threat he truly is. The US government discovers strange radio signals coming from deep in the Amazon rainforest, and sends the PCs along [...]
Newly-crowned King Thornwald III spent the first month or so of his reign abroad, making allies and learning the political landscape. He’s come to the conclusion that many feel his kingdom is weak, and so Thornwald decides to do something about it.
He’s begun bolstering his army, and on top of that has decided to complete [...]
An American spy was in Russia, investigating a suspected terrorist cell. He had retrieved two new weapons developed by the cell, a microwave gun capable of stopping a man’s heart and a powerful airborne biological weapon.
Some teenagers on the train, seeing the American man and thinking he looked like he’d have some valuables on him, [...]
The skies are cloudy and threatening rain as the PCs find themselves traveling along a road through a fairly secluded wood. The sound of a child singing and laughing draws their attention. Miles from the nearest village, a little half-elven girl is dancing around and playing with her ragdoll. The doll has what appears to [...]
