Last week, one of Stuffer Shack’s premier writers, Dixon Trimline, asked for a list of encounters that take place On the Road. I was instantly inspired – recalling several of my most memorable gaming sessions that featured interesting events taking place while the heroes were en route between locations. So, without further ado, here’s this week’s Gamecraft 25. The heroes pass through a (seemingly) abandoned [Read the article]
Wolf’s Run actually involves a Skills Challenge and a Combat Encounter. As the PCs are traveling across the land to another town, they start to notice wolves in and about the surrounding uninhabited hills. Any Nature-oriented character will easily be able to discern that the PCs have entered wolf territory, and that the wolves are just keeping an eye on them. They will later notice [Read the article]
Jaskryn has been undead for over 900 years, though he has spent much of that time imprisoned to his chair. You see, one of his sirelings had aspirations of power, and attempted to defy his master (Jaskryn). Jaskryn responded by attempting to beat down the sireling, but was unsuccessful. The sireling (still slightly dominated by his master), could not attempt the killing blow. Instead, he [Read the article]
As the adventures are traveling, they are startled to see a female figure in flowing white robes being chased by a Dire Wolf. The chase takes place about a hundred yards away, and both are moving quickly. The female is running as fast as she can, getting scraped up by thorns and/or branches along the way, not to mention getting her robes snagged and ripped. [Read the article]