Owlbear's Nest One-Pager

Owlbears are a staple of low-level adventures. There is little as frightening for neophyte adventurers than facing down this mad mixture of bear and owl.

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Mining Town Dressing One-Pager

A mining town is a busy place full of sights and sounds both mundane and exciting. Here can be experienced the harsh reality of a borderland town.

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GM's Resource, Free DownloadCreighton BroadhurstJune 7, 2022One-Pager, Urban DressingComment

Vampire's Crypt One-Pager

Scions of the night, vampires live among the prey they feed on; the presence of a vampire often causes chaos and panic. A vampire’s lair is not for the weak-hearted.

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Failed Thievish Doings One-Pager

Sometimes the thief finds the trap, picks the lock or fits the hidden treasure. Sometimes they fail, and when they do it is fun to describe the failure; “You find nothing” is a pretty boring result.

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Port Town Dressing One-Pager

A port town is a busy place full of sights and sounds both exotic and mundane. Here can be sampled the delights of many different lands.

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Ogre Cave Dressing One-Pager

Ogres are generally stupid and brutish creatures. When encountered in their lairs, ogres react violently to the intrusion.

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Cultist's Hidden Fane One-Pager

Hidden in plain sight amongst the houses and shops of local neighbourhoods, cultists worship ancient beings and profane gods. Hidden cellars and secret rooms are the locales for their foul dens of worship and sacrifice.

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Slum Dressing One-Pager

The crooked alleyways and seedy taverns of the slums are frequent destinations for urban adventurers.

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Ghoul Nest Dressing One-Pager

The ghoul is a creature of nightmare. From the packs of mindless, carrion-eating undead to the ancient civilisations deep underground, screaming adulation to their sheep-headed god Orcus, all ghouls have one thing in common: an eternal, gnawing hunger that no amount of flesh can sate.

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Swamp Dressing One-Pager

Many secrets and dangers lurk in the world’s noisome, fetid swamps. Sunken civilisations, primitive lizard folk tribes and more all await adventurers brave enough to dare the sucking mire.

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Marsh Town Dressing One-Pager

Adventurers are drawn to marshland towns like flies to dung. Opportunities for wealth and glory lurk in deep, remote swamps and such towns are welcome places to rest, recuperate and resupply.

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The Crypt & Catacombs One-Pager

Crypts, catacombs and sepulchres are common adventuring locales. Therein lurk the undead and glimmering treasures long lost to the world.

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The Urban Oddities One-Pager

Every village, town or city has its own laws, traditions and customs. Others have notable buildings and features. Some are normal. Some are decidedly odd.

The Red Dragon Lair One-Pager

The most ferocious of all the chromatic dragons, red dragons are terrifying enemies. Their lairs are unique places full of danger.

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The Woodland Dressing One-Pager

Woodlands are ripe locales for adventure. Under their boughs old ruins moulder, bandits lair and evil humanoids plot their next raids. Almost every adventurer will one day sally forth into a woodland in search of gold and glory.

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12 Wilderness Ruins

Civilisations rise and fall. Peoples come and go. Whether it be crumbling walls, moss-wreathed burial cairns or sunken lanes these earlier people leave their mark upon the landscape.

GM's ResourceCreighton BroadhurstApril 21, 202220 Things, Wilderness Dressing Comment

The Pit of Unquiet Souls

Saare’s Pit has another, more lurid, name—and for good reason. The Pit of Unquiet Souls squats at the centre of a nest of macabre tales of madness, horror and death. It is said, those who spend too much time in the abandoned mine often go mad or disappear entirely, and old miners’ tales tell of the pit’s very rocks whispering horrible secrets to those toiling in its bowels. Still, there are those who think treasure yet lurks in the mine and will brave its terrors to retrieve them.

GM's ResourceCreighton BroadhurstApril 19, 2022Dungeon Backdrop, AshlarComment

Dress Up Your Woodlands

Woodlands are ripe locales for adventure. Under their boughs old ruins moulder, bandits lair and evil humanoids plot their next raids. Almost every adventurer will one day sally forth into a woodland in search of gold and glory.

GM's ResourceCreighton BroadhurstApril 14, 2022Wilderness DressingComment