Limitless Encounters 2: A helping hand for the time challenged Game Master
Every now and then, as a Game Master you hit a speed bump. Either you hit writer’s block, or you have an off night where players couldn’t make it and you need a quick one shot. What do you do? You haven’t had any coffee in a while and you’re in a slump. No worries, the Limitless Adventures Team has you covered. Off the success of the original Limitless Encounters, the team has come back strong with Limitless Encounters 2.
The Kickstarter has been successful, and the backers have received their fantastic PDF copies, so I thought it a fantastic opportunity to look at the file for the books that are coming. So, we’ll look at the contents and what’s in the book and see what there.
Limitless insides of the book
The book is split into ten sections to help GMs find the encounters they need. The options for adventure fall under the following: Dungeon Encounters 2, Forest Encounters 3, Jungle Encounters, Lower Planar Encounters, Oriental Encounters, Planar City Encounters, Savage Lands Encounters, Subterranean Encounters 2, Urban Encounters 3, and finally Volcano Encounters.
This covers a significant variety of games and should cover most game situations. With that in mind, many of these encounters can be moved to other locations and circumstances with just a few quick shifts. The wonderful thing is that each of these sections runs about ten encounters. That’s roughly 100 encounters and adventure hooks. This is a great pool to pull a one shot or plot hook from.
The encounters themselves are broken down in a very easy to read format. It gives you a monster stat block for the creature featured in the encounter as well as a backstory for the encounter. Each section of the encounter is broken down to story, ways to change it, and what treasure is likely to be there. Under each of these sections it also tells you how you might turn this into a one shot, or tie it into an adventure hook, or just something to torment the players with because they aren’t paying attention. Normally I would go into details about the types of encounters, but I really don’t want to give away any spoilers. Now the one thing with these, is there are no challenge ratings written out, but the encounters do tend to go from weaker to stronger and give you room to adjust them.
Overall thoughts
I think the Limitless Team has done fantastic here. This can be used in any fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons game. I mean any game – whether it’s a homebrew game or a prewritten campaign. You can take any plot hook from here put it in your game and run with it when you need that quick tempo shift. The Limitless Adventures team still has the PDFs for the previous Limitless Encounters volume, as well as their monster supplement and Nonplayer Characters. These books are a great supplement, and I strongly recommend them to anyone running D&D.
Check out the Limitless Adventures website and keep an eye out for this book after the fulfillment. It is a fantastic asset to any GM. You can also watch the Kickstarter live chat from when the guys stopped in to chat with our own Nerdarchist Dave below.
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