Deck of Endless Adventure Ideas

This is a deck of cards that offer hundreds of storytelling prompts for Game Masters, solo roleplayers, improvisers, and fiction writers. Mix and match them to create millions of unique adventure ideas!

This is a simple system that enables you to effortlessly generate unlimited ideas for locations, characters, and adventures.

• Locations deck contains location aspects (e.g. "Hidden") and locations (e.g. "Tower").
• Characters deck contains character aspects (e.g. "Untrustworthy") and characters (e.g. "Cultist").
• Adventure Recipes deck contains the objectives the heroes will pursue throughout the story (e.g.  "Perform a Heist"), and lists of challenges the heroes may encounter during the adventure.

How to use this system to create adventures

• Game Masters creating adventures: use the Adventure Brainstorming Template to turn these prompts into a complete adventure. Use Adventure Writers' Room to brainstorm and create adventures collaboratively with your friends.
• Solo Roleplayers: use the Solo Roleplay Made Simple system to improvise an adventure from scratch, with no preparation (using these prompts as an oracle).
• Come join our Discord community to collaboratively brainstorm and improvise adventures with other friendly and creative people!

How to use Adventure Recipes

Each adventure recipe can be used as the goal the heroes will pursue throughout the adventure, or an evil plan of the antagonist that the heroes must thwart:

Defeat The Monster might mean that the heroes must hunt down an evil vampire, or it might mean that an evil dragon hunter wants to kill a baby dragon, and the heroes must stop him.

You can draw multiple adventure recipe cards to combine them into more complex adventure ideas:

Defeat The Monster + Rescue The Captive = The heroes have to defeat the monster who has captured someone, and help the captive to safely escape.

You can use some recipes as a sub-goals for the other recipes in order to create a campaign (or a more challenging adventure):

To Defeat The Monster, the heroes must:

• Obtain an Artifact (the only weapon that can slay it).
• Destroy a Dangerous Target (the source of its power).
• Commandeer a Vehicle (the only way to reach the monster's lair).

Each recipe has a list of 12 challenges. Every time you create an adventure, you can randomly select 3-5 challenges the heroes will encounter on their journey, and combine them with randomly generated locations and characters, to make each adventure unique. That way, the number of adventures you can generate becomes truly limitless!

Printable Cards and Digital Prototype

This project includes the card images you can print out:

And a digital prototype you can play in your browser (use it by yourself or brainstorm adventures with your friends in a multiplayer mode!).

Check out my other projects

• Get free adventures for roleplaying games here.
• Mirage is a one-page roleplaying game for people who love collaborative storytelling, improvisation, and freeform roleplay.
• The Wayfarer - one-page Solo RPG about exploration and worldbuilding. It requires no prep - start playing immediately, journey through your world, and discover it as you play, one scene at a time.
• The Perfect Heist - one-page, storytelling-focused, Solo RPG about being the best thief in the world. Go on heists to steal things - for yourself, for hire, or to help those in need!
• Strangeville Files is a lighthearted, storytelling-focused game where you’ll improvise supernatural mysteries in the style of Gravity Falls, Scooby Doo, Inside Job, X-Files, Men in Black, SCP Foundation.
• Solo Roleplay Made Simple is a simple guide that will help you to dive into Solo Roleplaying and complete your first adventure.
• See my other TTRPG games, projects, and adventures here: https://rpgadventures.io/

If you have any feedback or ideas on how I could make this game better, please  reach out and let me know what you think!

• Discord: lumenwrites
• Email: lumenwrites@gmail.com

Come join our Discord community to play with us!