Setting the Stage Episode 37 – Adam and Halfway to Heroes

Adam is the main DM for the Majestic Goose Network, a collection of actual play podcasts that grew out of Adam’s home games with his family. The network started with One Shot Onslaught, a series of one shot D&D adventures from DM’s Guild. It grew from there to around a dozen shows on various TTRPG topics. This episode focuses on Adam’s homebrew campaign dubbed Halfway to Heroes. The campaign was conceived of as a subversion of the typical “kids in school” story for young adults by instead focusing on the characters’ lives after school.

Halfway to Heroes takes place in Modras, a world that previously saw many attacks by mindflayers. The PCs start off taking their final practical exam for graduating as the last class from Scrimore Academy, a school dedicated to training mindflayer hunters. The school is closing down as the threat of mindflayer invasion has passed. After the exam the PCs are tasked with recovering four weather controlling orbs that have gone missing from Scrimore’s magical item vault. The adventures feature lots of puzzles and comedy banter alongside old-fashioned D&D combat.

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Adam talked about a world creating game he’d used for his second Halfway to Heroes campaign called The Quiet Year. You can check it out here: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year
I mentioned a similar game called Dawn of Worlds. You can check out the PDF for that game for free from the creator’s website here: http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Dawn_of_Worlds_game_1_0Final.pdf
I detailed my group’s use of Dawn of Worlds on this blog ten years ago. You can take a look at those posts here and here, and the final product, Gurutama.

And of course a link to Nathan’s Kickstarter for The Amethyst Dragon’s Hoard of Everything – a 5e Supplement: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theamethystdragon/the-amethyst-dragons-hoard-of-everything-a-5e-supplement

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