If you write your own homebrewed adventures (and who doesn’t), Guy Sclanders outlines some very simple but effective adventure design templates – nice and succinct.

A lot of odd ones.

Jarry, before heading off into the woods to console himself, conclusively identifies the creature we have slain as a Doppelganger, able to change into the shape of anything

From Dungeon magazine, November 2004. Judges included Keith Baker (invented Eberran), Wolfgaur Baur (ex-TSR, has done everything), Eric Boyd (wrote most of Forgotten Realms), Andy Collins (WotC editor,

We decide to head out to see Jaru, the druid, who we had been told was acting strangely. We arrive at his grove, finding a man dressed similarly

Reads a bit like a freshman history paper but not terrible, plus the site is interesting. “By the High Middle Ages, towns were growing again. One reason for

Possibly all the people who were involved with the first two have now been murdered and the curse is being visited upon a new generation.

“Every author has their own distinct writing process, but to me writing is like sculpting. I unleash a glut of ideas onto a page and slowly refine it

And finally there’s something to look at! I’m particularly tempted by this one.

by Tucker We had discovered nothing unusual in the millhouse, but were still yet to get out. It is mid-afternoon. Balyx continues out through the storeroom. Caela jumps