Adventure Design Blog

Hello, again.  As I had already established, I've been running role-playing games for about 35 years, now. And I've used all sorts of media (television, movies, books, etc.) as inspiration for my adventures. Today, we'll be covering the third paragraph of the adventure plot "Lost Highway" in the book "Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters" by the authors of GnomeStew.com.  It's a part of the "Recovery of a Lost One" dramatic situation located in the science fiction genre.  In this article, I'm going to be reskinning this sci-fi adventure plot to fit the D&D 5e fantasy gaming system. So far in this adventure design series, we focused on the first two paragraphs, reskinning them to fit a fantasy setting.  First, we transformed the discovery of a mysterious AI into the uncovering of a magical scroll guarded by a faceless demon-like being, accessed through an elven wizard named Almon Wildoak. In the second paragraph, we re...

Hello, again.  As I had already established, I've been running role-playing games for about 35 years, now. And I've used all sorts of media (television, movies, books, etc.) as inspiration for my adventures. Today, we'll be covering the second paragraph of the adventure plot "Lost Highway" in the book "Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters" by the authors of GnomeStew.com.  It's a part of the "Recovery of a Lost One" dramatic situation located in the science fiction genre.  In this article, I'm going to be reskinning this sci-fi adventure plot to fit the D&D 5e fantasy gaming system. If you recall last week, we focused on transforming the first paragraph, which involved a mysterious AI discovered on an old website. The fantasy reskin replaces the AI with a mysterious magical scroll, the website with a retired, starving elven wizard named Almon Wildoak, and the AI's security interface with a terrifying demon-like be...

Hello, again.  As I had already established in my previous article, I've been running role-playing games for a very long time now, almost 35 years. And I've used all sorts of media (television, movies, books, etc.) as inspiration for my adventures. Today, we'll be covering the first paragraph of "Lost Highway" in the book "Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters" by the authors of GnomeStew.com.  It's a part of the "Recovery of a Lost One" dramatic situation located in the science fiction genre.  In this article, I'm going to be reskinning this sci-fi adventure plot to fit the D&D 5e fantasy gaming system.  The plot has a total of six paragraphs, so, let's dive in and see what we can do. As the first paragraph states:  "Examining an old website, the PCs discover an odd process running. Upon closer inspection, it appears to be an incredibly complex AI. Inspecting it causes it to open an interface and start asking...