These are sessions I keep prepped to run as one-shots. Some of these are adventures I created; others are published adventures. All sessions should run in about 4 hours and (aside from RPGs with quick character creation) include pregenerated characters.
Dungeons & Dragons 5e
A Troubled Crossing
A party of 4th level adventurers is sent on a covert mission to investigate a mysterious disappearance, perhaps saving a beleaguered kingdom from an unnecessary war.
Run at: MTAC 2024
A Dark Flight
A party of 5th level adventurers takes a job to guard a small airship on a routine cargo flight. However, their journey takes an unexpected turn over a rustic mountain range.
Run at: MTAC 2025
Rescue in the Highlands
In this adventure, a party of 3rd level adventurers encounters a small goblin child on a mountain backroad, separated from his mother.
Run at: MTAC 2026
Ryuutama
Ryuutama is a Japanese honobono (“heartwarming”) fantasy RPG focused on stories about journeys. Available pregenerated characters: https://bit.ly/RyuutamaPregens
The Annual Delivery
As young adventurers from a quiet farming village, take your first journey into the wider world by leading a trade caravan into the city.
A Mysterious Tune
Investigate a strange, haunting music heard near some old druidic ruins just outside a small mountain town.
Run at: MTAC 2024, MomoCon 2024-2025
The Hungering Darkness
The winter days are dark and quiet in your little rural village in the frozen north, isolated from the larger world due to snow and ice. But strange raids on the food and livestock by beasts from the forest bring a grim unease to the town’s Winternight celebration, and possibly signal some larger trouble brewing in the wilderness.
Run at: MTAC 2026
Old Gods of Appalachia (Cypher System)
The Luthier’s Folly
Chaos breaks out in a small east Tennessee town when a dance at the community center is seemingly cursed. This adventure is a mix of investigation and wilderness exploration.
This is a modified version of one of the sample adventures in the Old Gods of Appalachia core book, prepped with pregenerated characters from the Player’s Guide.
Run at: MomoCon 2024
Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone
The funeral of a childhood friend prompts a bittersweet reunion in a small east Tennessee town for a group of friends. The scars of a strange supernatural experience twenty years ago still run deep, and some debts incurred that day are about to come due.
This is a modified version of the published “Best Leave Them Ghost Alone” one-shot designed to be run at conventions.
All’s Well
A published adventure, run as-is. It’s a tale as old as time itself: a good deed, a family heirloom, an ancient curse, and two friends bound by far more than they bargained for.
Run at: MomoCon 2025
Monster of the Week (PbtA)
Monster of the Week is a Powered by the Apocalypse game; you’ll roll up characters quickly by making selections out of playbooks representing various types of characters from paranormal TV shows.
Death in the Smokies
It’s 1983, and a team of paranormal investigators is tipped off about two strange deaths in the mountains of east Tennessee. Are they connected? Will it happen again? How soon?
Run at: MomoCon 2025
One-Page RPGs
A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula (Be Prepared)
It’s a lovely fall weekend in the 1990’s, and you are a pack of teenagers headed to a small scout camp in east Tennessee. But beware, for horror lurks out here in the wilderness.
Using Grant Howitt’s free one-page RPG Be Prepared, you’ll play a character, an NPC, and get to take control of how the story unfolds.
Run at: MomoCon 2023-2024, OSMquest! podcast series
Other Games Run
- Fabula Ultima: Press Start: MTAC 2025
- Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG: The Crystal Caper: MomoCon 2025
- Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG: Cold-Blooded FATE: MTAC 2026