Strangers on the road are quick & easy NPC encounters to surprise D&D players with while their adventurers are travelling from one place to the next. These easy printouts include a game statistics for the NPC, and a quick encounter description with a unique quandary for the players to engage with.
Cheers,
- Niels & Rose
Each month we run a Mini Request ...
2022-03-19 17:16:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello there, traveller!
For this month's Mini ReQuest Pack, we're going to create 2-3 paper-mini NPC and stat blocks for use in your tabletop games!
From mysterious merchants to travelling bards to shady bandits, we want to hear which strangers you'd meet on the road in your campaigns!
So for this month's mini request pack we'd like you to come up with:
🌳🚶️ A Travelling Strang...
Hello Secret Door Club!
Niels has been working on a "Continent Map" for Hemelin, exploring some areas of the world we haven't seen much of before.
DISCLAIMER: This map is a first draft, so anything you see outside of Dragon Springs, the Soddenweald, the Pridelands, Spiria and the Seasong Islands is subject to constant change.
With that out of the way, let's explore the map together, region-by-region, beginning at the sou...
2022-03-08 18:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
For this month's Quest Pack we asked you to submit content requests -- any requests! We compiled all of your suggestions into a poll, and everyone voted on which Quest Pack we should make. After multiple options tied for first place, we chose to make the Noticeboard Quests kit!
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Hey Secret Door Club!
We're hard at work on this month's ReQuest Pack, suggested and voted on by you. As we had a three way tie between the most popular options, we've decided to make the Noticeboard Side Quest Pack.
We're working on a collection of around 8 little zines that each contain a side quest that you can pin on any town's noticeboard for your player characters to find and explore. We're written them in a way that makes them generic enough to be at home on most fant...
2022-02-25 15:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons!
Thank you so much for all of your suggestions for what we should make for this months Request Pack. We’ve compiled your ideas into various options that you can vote on at the bottom of this post. Below is a brief description of each option - choose as many as you’d like - we’ll be making whichever one is the most popular.
This poll closes in TWO DAYS on the evening of Tuesda...
2022-02-13 14:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
We've spent the last four months working hard on the Traveller's Guide to the Seasong Islands, and now that it's almost complete, we think it'll be nice to ask you what you'd like us to make this coming month! Here's how it's going to work:
Step 1: Submissions
You can submit your content requests and ideas as comments on this thread. Your suggestions can be anything; from small suggestions like a paper mini set to fill something we'v...
2022-02-08 13:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
We've spent the last four months exploring everything there is to know about the Seasong Islands; we began with the Fauna, then added Flora & Fungi, then gave you 2022-02-07 10:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Each month we run a Mini Request Pack, where we ask patrons to submit 4-word suggestions that we use as inspiration to create something for a free download! This month we asked for Forgotten Familiar ideas. There were a lot of great suggestions, but these two were the two received the most votes:
❤️ 17 - "ADORABLY HUGGABLE LAND SHARK" from Chris Mangum
❤...
Hello Secret Door Club!
The next (and final?) instalment of the Traveller's Guide to the Seasong Islands is going to add an exploration of their culture, a number of NPC profiles & stat blocks, a few sample quests, and -- at last -- encounter tables.
Today we're previewing the sketches Niels made for the characters we're introducing in the next pack. These are still a work in progress, and some designs may still change before the final release!
2022-01-23 13:29:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
We are returning to a classic for the request pack this month, and are doing a round of....
🐾FORGOTTEN FAMILIARS! 🐾️
For those of you that are new: Forgotten Familiars is an animal sanctuary that takes in all kinds of lost, abandoned and injured magical creatures, rehabilitates them, and attempts to find them new homes with adventurers!
A forgotten familiar can be any kind of (non-humanoid) magical creature that...
Happy New Year everyone!!
We're kicking off 2022 with part 3 of our Traveller's Guide to the Seasong Islands!
This edition explores the geography of the archipelago with a series of colored maps for the island chain as a whole, and for each individual island. Accompanying the maps are guides to various places of interest that players (and their characters) can reference to prepare themselves for a trip to the islands.
Game Mast...
2022-01-09 15:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to suggest items found in a pirate treasure!
The winning suggestions:
(21❤️) Pirate's Booty Shorts by Himinoboi
(14❤️) Captain's Coat of Crustaceans by Smart...
Hello Secret Door Club!
We've just finished our proof of concept for the style we want to use for the Seasong Maps. They will be similar to the map we created for the Soddenweald Kickstarter, but we've added a clear legend, with distinct colors for different terrain types and icons for different types of features.
Here's the finished map for the archipelago:
The next Quest ...
2021-12-18 22:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
We are continuing the island theme this month with...
☠️ PIRATE'S TREASURE! ☠️
These items have all ended up in Junkin's Locker, a hidden pirate shop full of stolen goods, dangerous weapons and deadly swill.
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We will use your four word suggestions to create up to 8 full-color item cards.
E...
2021-12-17 01:28:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
This month we're continuing our Traveller's Guide series on the Seasong Islands with part 2: Flora & Fungi! This part provides a deep dive into iconic plants and fungi that are found and cultivated on these magical musical islands, and some samples of the island cuisine and potent potions that you can make with them.
Part 3 (and 4...?)
The next instalment of the Traveller's Guide to the Seasong Islan...
2021-12-05 19:58:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello secret door club!
One of the creatures included in the Traveller's Guide to the Seasong Islands is the Worm Hunter. It's a quick and agile beast that hunts for worms hiding underwater in coral reefs. Seasong people have domesticated these creatures, and train them to flush those tasty worms out of their hiding spaces, and into the fishers' waiting nets!
What we wanted this creature to behave like was the easy part, but what it looked like took us on a bit o...
2021-11-23 14:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to suggest a tropical potion!
The winning suggestions:
(15❤️) Granny Gully’s Special Sunscreen by Erica W
(11❤️) Mangrove Grow Go by Charly
(10❤️) A...
Hello everyone!
We are continuing the tropical theme this month with...
🌴 TROPICAL POTIONS! 🌴
These potions should originate from tropical beaches, dense jungles or splendid coral reefs!
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We will use your four word suggestions to create up to four full-color potion designs that will be made available with game statistics....
2021-11-12 14:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Today, we are publishing the first part of our new Traveller's Guide series! After exploring the fey of Silver Spires and the magical swamp of the Soddenweald, we are excited to take you to the beautiful Seasong Islands.
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to suggest a tropical island creature!
The winning suggestion:
(14❤️) Tiny Goth Parrot by Matthew J-B
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Hello secret door club!
The next series of Quest Packs we're going to release on patreon will all be sections of the next Traveller's Guide book! We put a Patreon version of the Traveller's Guide to the Soddenweald together about a year ago, and we think the time is right to start work on the next one. This time we will explore...
A chain of tropical island blessed by the goddess of song, filled with music and color!<...
2021-10-25 18:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
This month, we are heading to the tropical Seasong Islands, and need your help coming up with...
🌴 TROPICAL FANTASY CREATURES 🌴
These creatures, beasts or monsters should be right at home living in a jungle or on a tropical island!
* suggestions that do not fit this description will be ignored, even if they gain the most support in ♥️
We will use your four word sug...
2021-10-20 20:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
After our summer requests bonanza, it's time to get back to our regularly quest packs, and we've got a real spectacular one for you this month! The Stars of the Sea campaign has started building towards its finale, and this quest pack turns up the threat as one of Silver Spires' councillors is transformed into a star mutant...
In this Quest Pack, famous bard O'Leyah is transformed into a star mutant. Under the thrall of the Monstrosity, she has gathered other star-...
2021-10-04 16:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Every month, we ask our patrons to submit four-word suggestions based on a specific theme. Patrons then vote on each-other's suggestions to see which ones are the best. We use the best suggestions to create a Mini ReQuest Pack with 5e content! This month we asked for...
The winning suggestions were:
❤️ 15 - "SUMMON BACKUP DANCERS" from Peri
❤️ 14 - "DRAMATIC...
Hello Secret Door Club fans!
In our next quest pack, O'Leyah has been transformed into a star mutant! 😱
Under control of the Monstrosity, she and a handful of mutated thespians are putting together a very special new performance: a night to remember! She has sent exclusive invitations to many important residents of Silver Spires... including the player characters!
O'Leya...
2021-09-10 14:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
First off, I want to thank everyone who participated in last week's request pack survey! It's always nice to learn more about which types of content you'd like to see from us. You won't see Mini ReQuest Packs for just paper minis anymore, and we'll look for more opportunities to do sets of item cards.
This month, however, we are looking for...
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2021-09-06 16:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Niels finished the second page of character sketches for the Secret Door Club! They're a real fun bunch of characters ~ that one-man skeleton band is so funky! 💀🎶
Due to popular request, I have cleaned up the sketches from this round and the previous one, and attached high resolution JPGs to this post, including paper-effect versions, and black & white ones!
I hope you enjoy them ❤️
A special thank-you to the secret door club, who provided...
2021-09-02 22:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons!
Every month we run a Mini ReQuest Pack with you all, which works like this:
Whatever we make is created in full-color (thank you for unlocking that milestone!! 2021-08-30 14:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we asked for your four-word suggestions so that we could create 2 Forgotten Familiars from the highest-voted submissions. The winning suggestions were:
❤️ 19 - "OPERATICALLY TRAINED FAE MAGPIE" from Erica W
❤️ 16 - "NORTHERN FEYMILLION TREE OCTOPUS" from Chris Mangum
About Forgotten Familiars
Forgotten Familiars is an animal sanctuary for lost monsters, abandoned familiars and misplace...
2021-08-16 15:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post