What happens when science meets magic? Machines possessed by demons? That’s science fantasy, which is the topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, as hosted by Daemons & Deathrays. What separates science fantasy from science fiction is the introduction of
Category: RPG Adventure Ideas
War Faeries
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about the Fey and is hosted by Pitfalls and Pixies. Fey folk are found on most of the mortal planes, known as fickle tricksters and troublemakers. Mischievous but mostly harmless the onward march of
Lost Ruins Beneath a City
The city of Redfort is an ever growing metropolis at the forefront of the magical industrial revolution. Expanding not just up and out but down as well. The city has commissioned a new metro line to connect the old city
Circus of Traveling Heroes and Adventure
As circuses move from place to place, they can make a great framework for long campaigns that use episodes. The party could comprise characters from the cast and crew. The owner or ringleader would be best as left as an
The Lost Adventuring Gear of Lady Sophietta
Complete and combined sets of armour are well known. Much less well known is the set of magic items that the bard queen Sophietta collected during her days as a thrill seeking adventurer. Sophietta became famous for her matching red
Currency Dragon
Cunning and obsessed with wealth, the elder dragon Ambylen became determined to defeat even death. She attacked libraries and mage colleges in pursuit of necromancy. From her captured tomes Ambylen learnt how to syphon the souls of powerful mortals to
Five Perfectly Paranoid Plots
They are out to get you. Make your players paranoid with these RPG plots and conspiracies from 6d6. Fungus Government When two aides came back from a charity journey in the deepest rainforest, they brought back a fungus in their
Magical Shops
That last smuggling run netted a vast haul of treasure and the characters need somewhere to spend it. Or the game leader has a plot need to give the players an important item. Commercial establishments are ideal for this. The
The God Who Fell to Earth
All across the southern continent there is fear, anger and confusion. A god has fallen from the sky. Faith in the goddess Adoundra is a minority believe, with at most one in twenty a follower of her tenants. Her priests
Gates and Portals
In the spirit of this transitioning time of year, this month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Gates and Portals. The Ley Gates Looking like simple wooden farm gates, they’re nothing out of the ordinary. It’s only if you look hard and
Choir of Sorcerers
It has always been known that songs have power. This is exceptionally true for the magical choirs of Estral. Individually their mages have limited magical prowess, but when their voices sing together with the right harmony and rhythm they can
Four Unusual Haunted RPG Locations
It’s the season for spooky things, the colour orange and pumpkin spice flavoured everything. Haunted houses are a staple of the terror genre, maybe even a cliche. As homes are meant to be safe places, their subversion into a place