Something odd happened in the city of Ling’hurak one day: reapers started dying. The hive never reacted to the metatons’ destructions, at least not in any way visible to the squatters living there, but a reaper’s unmoving shell is a bizarre and unforgettable sight in the city.
The culprit is a peculiar reaper designated 12-8-x, though […]
It sits like a massive red boil on the landscape; a huge, red dome visible from miles away. Malus Mundi, commonly known as The City of Devils.
Malus Mundi is quite literally a little bit of hell on Earth. At its heart lies a gate to hell, and infernal creatures come and go freely, allowing them […]
While cleaning out his attic, a clerk named Arnett Quimby finds a large mirror. He decides to donate it to the city hall, placing it in the reception area. What he doesn’t know is that the mirror is home to a fae trickster which feeds on jealousy and love. It randomly chooses people who look […]
The PCs are invited to a birthday party for the mayor of a large town. It’s a great feast with lots of good food and merriment. At the end of the night, a huge cake is hauled out into the town square. Just as the mayor is about to cut into the cake, two eyes […]
Have the local authority offering bounties. For example, if the PCs are going to run into kobolds in their upcoming adventure, let them find posters offering a 5 gold bounty for each kobold ear delivered to the local magistrates office. Offer some more bounties, too. For example, if the kobold shamans all wear necklaces of […]
A rash of murders with no common link is traced back to a slave trader with a magical amulet capable of creating an exact copy of someone’s body. The trader kidnaps the person, copies their body, and then makes it look like they were murdered so that no one will think to search for them.
Marcus Aneidas, the wealthy head of the thieves’ guild in Masonport, has received a sizable contract. He’s being offered several million gold pieces for a single ruby kept in the palace treasury. In order to get it, he’s decided that he needs a distraction.
A young street urchin, having heard of the good deeds the PCs […]
One of the PCs enters his room at the inn to find a man sitting on his bed. The man is holding one of the PC’s daggers, but is completely at ease. As soon as the PC enters, the man screams, “HELP! HELP!” and then slits his own throat with the PC’s dagger. On the […]
The simply-named Messengers’ Guild is a conglomerate of merchants, couriers, caravan operators, and others who work together to create a rudimentary postal system. Identified by their stylized nightingale emblem, Messengers’ Guild offices are located all over the land. Large cities often have several, and even smaller towns usually have at least one. Smaller villages and […]
The PCs are hired by some upper-class merchants to get rid of a neighbor of theirs who they’ve just learned is a witch, and responsible for a string of disappearances stretching back generations. She’s lived in the house for a long time, longer even than most of the people hiring the PCs, and they claim […]
