Deck of Endless Adventure Ideas

This is a simple system that helps game masters, solo roleplayers, improvisers, and fiction writers to effortlessly generate unlimited ideas for adventures, worlds, characters, locations, stories, and scenes. It also guides you through the entire process of creating a complete and satisfying adventure.

• Game Masters: use this system to develop adventures you can run for your players. You can use it to guide you through the process of developing an adventure on your own, or to collaboratively brainstorm ideas and create an adventure with other people (to make it easier and much more fun).
• Solo Roleplayers: use it in place of random tables in your solo adventures, generate your world, characters, story premise, and use the prompts to inspire the scenes.
• Improvisers: Collaboratively brainstorm and improvise stories with your friends! You can use this system to improvise and roleplay through an entire adventure in 30-40 minutes, completely from scratch, with no preparation or a Game Master!
• Fiction writers: Use this system to develop stories for novels and screenplays.

It contains 4 decks of cards that offer hundreds of storytelling prompts. 

Rotate the cards to change the prompts. Mix and match the prompts to create millions of unique adventure ideas!

• Use location prompts to inspire settings for your adventures and locations for your scenes. 
• Use character prompts to inspire your heroes, villains, and NPCs. Combine character prompts with location prompts to develop more interesting settings ("Ancient Desert" + "Wealthy Shaman" = an ancient desert inhabited by a prosperous community of shamans who commune with the desert spirits).
• Use target prompts as McGuffins your adventure revolves around - things the heroes may strive to obtain, steal, smuggle, trade, deliver, or destroy. Use them as clues to improvise mystery adventures. Combine them with settings to add an interesting feature the setting contains ("Forbidden Forest" + "Ancient Technology" = a forest where an ancient mech battle took place, now filled with remnants of battlebots). Use them as the sources of problems your heroes need to solve on their quests ("Occult Swamp" + "Feared Chest" = destroy the cursed chest containing the soul of an ancient swamp witch, which causes hauntings in the local forest).
• Use action prompts as the hero objectives or antagonist evil plans to inspire quests. Use them as motivations to flesh out and develop your characters. Use them to create random encounters, events, and challenges to come up with scene ideas.

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).
• Improvisers: use the included rules for a short, simple, but very fun game where you improvise an entire adventure together with your friends in 20-40 minutes.
• Come join our Discord community to collaboratively brainstorm and improvise adventures with other friendly and creative people!

Adventure Template

The adventure template will guide you through the process of creating an adventure - whether you're collaboratively brainstorming it with other people, or developing it on your own.

You can use just the first page to take notes as you improvise a quick adventure, or use both pages to brainstorm and develop everything you need to create a complete adventure that you can run for other players or publish.

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

• Deck of Endless Adventure Ideas 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!
• Solo Roleplay Made Simple is a simple guide that will help you to dive into Solo Roleplaying and complete your first adventure.
• 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.
• The Wayfarer - novice-friendly 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.
• Mirage is a one-page roleplaying game for people who love collaborative storytelling, improvisation, and freeform roleplay.
• Worlds Weird and Wonderful is a worldbuilding game about exploring the multiverse and creating weird ideas and worlds that defy our expectations (the style of “Rick and Morty” and “Gravity Falls”). Use it as a starting point for your adventures, and a great way to brainstorm interesting settings.
• Get free adventures for roleplaying games here.
• 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!