It's fun how things line up with D&D campaigns, tending to wrap up and start again around the same times. Starting with June 2025 my line-up is going through a massive shuffle. Here's what's up:
Monday
I just finished running Forest Friends, based on the Humblewood sourcebook and the included Adventure in the Woods. My take on it was a lighthearted, self aware 80s cartoon based on one of the worlds we explored during my very first homebrew campaign. It was also my son's first time playing with the whole group.
It was fun, but thin on content. I purposefully kept it pretty low effort and just let the players have fun, sort of a palette cleanser after Curse of Strahd. With a group of six it was difficult to make combat challenging and while the premise gave an open invitation for in character shenanigans, it sometime fell flat. My original idea was to pivot from Humblewood to Spelljammer, cashing in on the idea of Forest Friends being rebooted, but I'm shelving that world for now.
Next, we're returning to the Domains of Dread in a campaign I'm calling Van Richten's Unfinished Business. It's a direct sequel to Curse of Strahd with some related cast branching out into various domains. I'm using Lairs of Etharis to pepper in monster lairs and combat, but the majority of the game will be character driven and theatre of the mind. I'm hoping for a highly engaged, roleplay focused table.
Tuesday
Regrettably I tend to have meetings on Tuesday evenings between Union work and political action. So stepping in we have a new DM at our table who's spinning up a game using the Dragonlance adventure. I'm looking forward to the stories that come out of it.
Wednesday
We finished the final dungeon of Tales From the Yawning Portal recently, and decided to use Wednesday for another anthology group effort. This time we're doing Keys to the Golden Vault in a round robin style with five DMs. These heists are quick and easy to run, and I have everything set up in Foundry for the others to pick up and play on their turns. Our first chapter took a single session and while there was no combat, there was a lot of skill checks and NPC interactions to pull off our open ended mission. This is going to be a fun night for us.
Thursday
My wife had a want to get back to running a classic fantasy campaign, and landed on Phandelver and Below as the book to pull from. Having prepped and run most of it more than once, I'm hopping in a sidecar to help with the heavy lifting while she can focus on story and characters.
Friday
My paid game, Sword Coast Ramblers, is entering a new chapter as they sit at the cusp of Storm King's Thunder. Their paths continue to crisscross the plot between multiple books but I'm itching to start throwing giants at them.
Saturday
Adventurer's League is on the back half of Season 3, after which we'll be pulling the whole cast together for Reclamation of Phlan, the epic that pays off the entire arc. The next season is also Curse of Strahd themed, and depending on the timing I'm curious about how I can tie it back into Monday's game.