EncounterSmith

Adventure packs

Made slowly, for the nights that matter.

Deeper material than a generator can give you: full kits, adventures and reference packs, each one written, edited and laid out by hand.

None of these are finished yet. Each card says exactly where it has got to, and there is no checkout on this site until there is genuinely something to send you.

On the workbench

The Emergency Session Kit

For the week the prep never happened

A print-and-play kit for running a whole evening from a standing start. Encounters with objectives already attached, a cast who each want something, locations that drop onto any road, and the tracking sheets that keep it all straight while you improvise.

What is inside

  • 30 encounters, each with an objective and a complication
  • 40 NPCs with a want, a pressure and a secret apiece
  • 20 locations that fit almost any road or settlement
  • 50 rumours and overheard fragments
  • Printable session and improv sheets

Compatibility: System-friendly fantasy

A$14.95 planned price

Coming soon

Not on sale yet. The launch list is the only way to be told when it is.

On the workbench

100 NPC Secrets

Turn a shopkeeper into a storyline

One hundred original secrets, each written to give a forgettable NPC a reason to matter. Every entry carries the pressure that created it and a suggestion for how the truth finally surfaces at the table.

What is inside

  • 100 original NPC secrets
  • The pressure behind each one
  • A suggested reveal for every entry
  • Indexed by tone, from warm to grim

Compatibility: System-friendly fantasy

A$7.95 planned price

Coming soon

Not on sale yet. The launch list is the only way to be told when it is.

Planned

The Bell Beneath Wickhollow

An original dark-fairytale one-shot

A village with no church, and a bell that rings under it anyway. A single evening of play with a mapped location, a cast who all want something from the party, a clue trail that survives being solved out of order, and three endings that each cost something.

What is inside

  • A complete one-shot for one evening
  • A hand-drawn style village map
  • Seven NPCs with connected motives
  • A clue trail that tolerates any order of play
  • Three endings with real consequences

Compatibility: System-friendly fantasy

A$11.95 planned price

Coming soon

Not on sale yet. The launch list is the only way to be told when it is.

Launch list

Hear when the first pack is ready.

One email when a pack goes on sale, and one when a new free tool lands. Nothing else, and nothing passed to anybody.

The list is not open yet. No email provider is connected to this site, so nothing can be collected and nothing would be sent. Until it is, write to hello@encountersmith.com and you will be added by hand.

What to expect

How these packs are put together.

Everything is original. No pack draws on another publisher’s setting, characters, monsters or text, and nothing is generated and shipped unread. The material is system-friendly fantasy: people, places, problems and consequences, with the numbers left to whichever game is on your table.

Every pack will be a plain PDF you download and keep, with a print-friendly version in the same file. No reader app, no account, and no requirement to stay subscribed to keep what you bought.

Prices shown are the planned prices and may change before release. Commercial reuse of pack contents is not licensed yet; the FAQ says where that has got to.