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Hey fellow DMs!
I've come up with a solution for when you run out of prepared material, the players go off the rails, or if you're running a fully "sandbox" world, and you end up improvising a session. Sometimes it's amazing, right? But sometimes the good ideas are slow to come. Rather than risk your game grinding to a halt, I've made these QuarterShots books as a sort of backup plan.
Each adventure is formatted so you don't need any prep. You can grab a book in the middle of a session, flip to the perfect two page adventure and seamlessly start running it after reading only the first few sentences.
Here's a PDF of a full adventure from the Roads & Ruins book, so you can see what I mean: https://deckanddicegames.com/wp-content/uploads/QuarterShots/QS-Roads_DecoyEscort.pdf
Feel free to print this out and keep it for the next time players go to leave town and you don't have anything planned for their trip.
They are super light on mechanics, so they work with any fantasy role-playing game. For instance it might say "Observant PCs may notice..." which the 5e DM can translate into a Perception check, or a Warhammer Fantasy GM will make it a Listen test.
If you like the idea, please check out my fully funded Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deckanddice/quartershots
They're not expensive. And I'm not trying to get rich doing this. But I am trying my hardest to make a living coming up with useful products for the games I love.
Thanks,
Marcus
