Encounter-a-Day

For hundreds of years, the city of Rastonia has been under the de facto rule of three guilds of varying legitimacy: The Moneylenders, the Shadow Guild, and the Crafters’ Guild. Each of the guilds is headed by a vampire, the three of which make no attempts to hide their nature. The Moneylenders is headed by [...]

Minaerva Lenesticles is the latest artist to dominate the cutthroat high-art scene of Shentreau. Minaerva goes by the sobriquet “M,” and was once just another of the self-important sycophants which litter the city’s courts. She longed to break through and join the cognoscenti, but it seemed she could never follow the tastes of the moment– [...]

The Coriander Spice started life as a merchant vessel transporting spices (including, of course, coriander) from the east to the west. It was taken over, however, by the ruthless pirate Ma Bartley nearly fifteen years ago, and today its sails are a scourge on the horizon. Ma Bartley herself is a grizzled pirate on the [...]

Pushing back the end of the world, one day at a time. The Chronastic Assembly is a secret society comprising some of the most powerful individuals in the world. They possess an artifact, a book from the end of time itself, which details how the world ends, and what lead up to it. Armed with [...]

One night, while gathered around the camp fire, off in the distance the players spot a little girl walking towards them. The girl says nothing to them, but walks up to the fire and kneels down to warm her hands. She sits there for a few minutes, taking respite from the cold night, before leaving. [...]

Off in the distance, the players hear dogs barking. There’s also another sound, somewhat harder to make out… a high-pitched voice with a bit of a growl to it yelping out “Help! Help!” If the PCs investigate, they discover a lone kobold clinging for dear life from a root poking out of a rocky wall. [...]

While traveling through a sparse forest, the players see a donkey standing in front of an apple tree, looking up at the succulent red jewels dangling above its head. The donkey rears up on its hind legs and puts it forelegs up on the trunk of the tree, reaching up but still unable to get [...]

In the beginning, there was harmony, and then chaos broke that harmony and the world was born. So teach the disciples of the Dissonant Chorus, a religion devoted to The Voice of Creation. Those devoted to the Dissonant Chorus come from all walks of life, but it is especially popular amongst the poor, the wretched [...]

One morning, a shriek from the center of the town awakens the PCs slumbering in a nearby inn. A young maiden, running out to perform some errands in the early morning, has fainted after seeing a new structure apparently erected overnight: A simple gallows, with a body hanging from it! The gallows’s current occupant, a [...]

Matikoi is a numerically-obsessed religion. Its adherents are known as great logicians and advisers, as they spend much of their time in introspection and working out proofs of various mathematical theories and constructing persuasive arguments based on the proofs. The Matiks, as they are known, worship irrational numbers as gods, believing that the fact that [...]