Adaptable Encounters – Forgotten Ruins

Description

Welcome to Adaptable Encounters: Forgotten Ruins, a collection of drop-in challenges designed to bring ancient mystery and high tension into your tabletop adventures. Each encounter within these pages can be placed into any dungeon, temple, or lost city, offering your players puzzles, hazards, and trials that feel rooted in the crumbling remains of forgotten civilizations. Whether used to guard a treasure, test a hero’s resolve, or add depth to your world’s history, these encounters are written to be flexible, easy to run, and ready to adapt to the story you are already telling.

Encounters in this volume:

• Emerald Dragon
• Evasive Tactics
• Gate of the Twin Bearers
• Serpent of the Candles
• The Curse of Tlahuanquicoatl
• The Devil’s Skull
• The Light Marks the Place
• The Serpent-Witch of Shessarak
• The Temple of Sand
• Walking Stones

What is Adaptable Encounters?

Adaptable Encounters for D&D 5E offers Dungeon Masters material to enrich their current campaigns by focusing on unique situations that add variety and originality to the game.

Adaptable Encounters for D&D 5E is a selection of 10 encounters that can be inserted into any D&D 5E campaign. This selection contains everything from simple single scenario encounters solved by a single exciting battle, to short and quick to setup adventures. Some of these encounters include new monsters.

Each encounter presents a situation involving the players' characters, and suggests how the adventure should end. Then it describes the settings in which the story takes place.

Each document contains:

• 10 adaptable encounters (1 or two pages long each).
• Monster statblocks for each monster included in the encounters.