35 RPG Campaign Ideas


RPG Campaign Ideas

Get your creative juices flowing with some ideas for your next RPG campaign.

Constructing a role-playing game campaign is a huge task. Sometimes Gamemasters get stuck in their ways and can’t think outside of the prepackaged box.

Here are 35 ideas that would be great role-playing games. Take them, use them. Mix and match.

35 Campaign Ideas for Role-Playing Games

1. North America, pre-Columbus. Indians flourish in large mound cities. Magic is real.
2. Werewolves and vampires war… in space.
3. A US Special OPs unit’s helicopter is shot down over Afghanistan. When the team awakes up they are in Atlantis.
4. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table awake in the 21st century.
5. The Year 2200. The oceans are colonized. One by one the colonies declare independence. Nations fight to keep their property
6. The Road Warrior with mutated humanoid animals…
7. While circumnavigating the earth, Francis Drake’s flagship sails through a cloud of mist to emerge on another world.
8. Villains from the earth are taken into the far future by aliens. They are “conditioned” to serve as ambassadors to earth.
9. John Dee conjures heroes from the past to help him build a British Empire.
10. Apollo-era astronauts splashdown. They are rescued from the capsule by the Nina, the Pinta, and Santa Maria in 1492.
11. Fantasy Africa, the iron-age Congolese empire. Oh, and magic…
12. The Crusades with magic. Religions collide in exotic lands. Fame will be won, vows will be fulfilled, and blood will be shed
13. Gas lights and zeppelins. Spys, royal agents, and rogues. Europe, but not Europe. 1899, but not 1899
14. Mercantile Italy, Da Vinci’s ahead-of-their-time inventions are realized. Court intrigue, business, and warring cities
15. Orcs and goblins return to the vale after 500 years. The peaceful villages must learn to defend their homes again.
16. In Ancient Rome, the gods are real, and Caesar has just been assassinated… The characters must rise to rule the empire.
17. Post-apocalyptic samurai with magic…
18. Present-day earth is thrown into a galactic war with alien powers. Earth governments send representatives to fight.
19. The 1920s and 30s pulp heroes are sent to the 21st century to save the world from a threat only they can fight.
20. Video game characters come to life in the real world. Stop them, help them or be them…
21. Famous people who disappeared throughout history awake on a far-flung planet. They must free the enslaved population.
22. World War One, magic, steampunk… Plus fantasy races: elves, dwarves, orcs, giants, trolls, and more
23. Robot Viking hordes sweep across the galaxy. Who will stop them or help them?
24. The Roman Empire in the 21st century. Warriors go to the frontier for adventure and fortune: North and South America
25. A group of LARPers is transported to a fantasy world. They must survive.
26. Artifacts are disappearing from museums all over the world. A group of investigators must find out why.
27. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World…
28. A group of criminals is offered redemption. They only have to travel to another world to defeat a threat to earth.
29. Space travelers lost on earth must find the only thing that will power their ship – diamonds, lots of diamonds.
30. The ancient city of the Elves is now an Orc stronghold. Reclaim it and rid it of the foul beasts to win eternal fame.
31. Ships sail oceans of dust. Water comes from the mammoth creatures they hunt. What else lies beneath the waves of dust?
32. The Moon is alive. She transports a group of people to a far-off galaxy. They must save the alien world to save the earth.
33. Dinosaurs rule the earth… So do robots…
34. Panama Canal Zone 1908, American engineers discover a portal to a Burroughs-style Mars. Teddy sends a group to explore.
35. A group of conquistadors is taken into the future to teach a passive population to fight against their evil overlords.

3000 RPG Campaign Ideas

The King’s Road: An Epic Fantasy RPG Campaign

“I’ve only read the first chapter, but I’m HOOKED. I love the way you’ve laid out the information, and I love this world!” – magnificent_hat, Reddit

ADVENTURERS WANTED

Five hundred years ago, the Grand Kingdom fell… Now, who will restore it?

The party is given an ivory sphere about the size of a baseball that they are to take to the former capital of the Grand Kingdom. To reach the city they simply need to follow the King’s Road, which of course, is easier said than done.

The King’s Road: An Epic Fantasy RPG Campaign – CLICK HERE

This campaign is designed to take characters from level 1 to level 20. It can be used with any fantasy RPG. The PDF contains descriptions of the world and possible encounters along the road as well as maps to help the gamemaster create compelling sessions.


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