As promised, here’s an example of an adventure structured as a story circuit from Ion Heart. We actually tried to record this for Unconventional GMs, but technical issues meant we couldn’t get it to work – so here I am recycling it here.

Nimble’s an excellent D&D-adjacent system with no roll-to-hit and some great GMing advice in it – the monsters and opponents here have been reskinned and/or designed using the advice in the core book, and as I often do I’ve just sketched out some possible encounters rather than tying them to a specific location or scene. Other than that, this is presented as a pretty raw example of Actual Prep, that gave a solid 2 hours of low-level D&D fun – enjoy!

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