Category: Adventure Design
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I love the Hounds of Hendenburgh by Liam Pádraig Ó Cuilleanáin. In fact, I love it so much that I gave it a mid-century coat of paint and ran it using Electric Bastionland (there’s even a nod to it in my first adventure, the Fading Coast). One of the things that makes the adventure an…
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Judging and rating for the Appendix N Jam was extended to mid-October, but I already feel like I have the feedback I need to deliver the definitive version of my adventure, Warriors of the Bleached Basin. So today, I’ve released the Director’s Cut–a version that exists outside the boundaries of the competition. The Director’s Cut…
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I’ve added a new room to my adventure, Night Garden of the Dream Wyrm. In the original adventure, the Dream Wyrm was meant to appear in any random chamber at the heart of the Night Garden. If I’d had the page count, I would have included a custom lair, so I wanted to share the…
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It’s been about a year since I visited Montreal and got inspired to make a borough for Electric Bastionland. This was my original map, but after I wrote and released two adventures for the Deep Country and Deep Water respectively, I want to zoom in a little bit and think smaller for my borough. Dare…
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Woof. I’m tired. I’ve been rating entries for the Appendix N Jam like a dog. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of my favorites so far: When the Earth Sang Fire by catsumu Nadir of the Cold Caldera by EveVsEvil The Anvil of Winter by Seba, Rackhir_rpg, SimiOfDoom The Byzantine Cataclysm by Noble Gnoll Whispers…
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My submission to the Appx. N Jam 2026 is now live on itch.io, you can check it out right here. The adventure turned out differently from my initial thoughts once I got to the art phase of the project. I thought it could be a fun exercise to compare how my ideas translated to the…
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Old House. The Byron family refused to move, even when the Lab came. No one knows what happened to them, or their infamous collection of antique coins. I wrote previously about how my adventure was inspired by Kelsey Dionne’s Cursed Scroll #1 for Shadowdark RPG. Kelsey described the Gloaming with a couple of terse, evocative…
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1. Greenhaus Flimsy wood, ceramic pots, the blue glow of humming, human grow-lights. An insular village of 500 mice, powered by scavenged tech and wary of outsiders. Open only on weekly Market Days (the Broken Pot Tavern serves a great fish-steak). Mayor Sorrel tithes vegetables weekly to the Plateau (2) for the Vixen Queen’s protection.…
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There may be times when you want to zoom in on Dredging and make it a full scene. You can use the site generation rules from Mythic Bastionland to create a unique location tied to a specific treasure. In the example below, the dredging site is the shipwreck of the Belmont—a sailboat that crashed into…
