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It's 2025 and I thought I'd try out a bit of a fun challenge for myself for the new year. Ive always enjoyed sitting down and putting things together for Pathfinder - conversions, homebrew, and adventure, but to be entirely honest, my time is stretched thin as a dad with two kids, full time job, running four PF groups, and being there for my family. So I decided to take what I love and turn it into a bite-sized challenge: one encounter a day!
The goal here is create one encounter (of a random level and difficulty) every single day for 2025, and it's been going well so far! I've put together a battle versus a very addled and confused dragon, a snipers' roost of hyrngar, and even an airship battle. Of course, that's just the start as we've had thirty-one days of encounters in January and more coming in February.
There's a link to the Google Drive collection here as well as the "Master List" of encounters created so far here. I hope that there's something here for everyone and that you can find something to pick up and use in your games, even if it's just an idea that you'd prefer to rewrite into something better and well-written ...more suited to your tastes!
And if anyone has any encounters they'd like to toss in, I'd love to make something like a "Community Folder" of encounters to share as well!
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Good to have some free 2025 daily Encounters stuff for PF2E+ out there, Ruzza. ;)
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Ooh. Just discovered this. Very cool!
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Another month down and another 28 encounters finished up! I went off-script and made a short dungeon out of level 1 encounters just so that anyone could pick up what I'm doing and take it to a table right away (and because sometimes it's just fun designing little dungeons. Speaking of level 1, though - I happened to roll up an Extreme 1 encounter which I'm usually pretty against! After some fineagling with story, however, I did come up with something pretty satisfying.
But if you're looking for more high level encounters, I ended up making quite a bit! A battle against the armies of Hell (Severe 20), the defense of a number of Irorian monks from quelaunt invaders (Low 17), and even a particularly nasty trap within a sekmin fortress (Moderate 15).
The Master List and Google Drive remain unchanged and slowly fill up by the day! As always, if anyone has any sort of encounter they would like to see - let me know! It's always good to have an idea to build off of when my own start to dry up.
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That's March in the bag! Like last month, I went with a bit of a longer project, this time creating a series of wave encounters within a siege set for a group of 5th level PCs.
Of course, that's not all! I put together a battle on the rooftops with a Daggermark assassin-mage (Moderate 8), a tricksie imp playing as a talking dog offering wishes (Low 2), and even a quest to snatch a phoenix feather while scaling the side of a volcano (Low 17)!
Next month, I'll be trying something a little different and might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out. It's something I've kicked around in my head for awhile, so I hope that the community likes it!
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Whew, little late on this update, but April is in the bag and it was quite the month of encounters. As promised, I went with a different idea in April and made a month of Proficiency Without Level encounters! This necessitated a small setting to place things in, of which I've made a quick and dirty introduction to.
What sorts of encounters await you? A murder investigation with a shapeshifting suspect! Once the PCs track the killer down, they'll have to contend with the murderer's partners-in-crime. A little too cloak and dagger? Perhaps a nighttime assault on sleeping civilians lead by sekmin infiltrators and their anaconda watchdog? We've got dungeons, too! As the PCs navigate the resting place of a Spawn of Rovagug, they'll have contend with a horde lich who seeks to stymie their advance.
And, as always, much more within! The encounters continue and we're well past the first 100 days. I look forward to seeing what else comes of this project!
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May finished up and it was a much less intense round of encounters than April! This month saw a ton of Extreme and Trivial encounters, which kept me on my feet as a looked to approach both ends of the spectrum with care.
Thinking of some level 20 content to finish off your campaign? Maybe a simple puzzle filled with Thassilonian traps? (Trivial 20) Let's go a bit more simple - a prison break for some reckless PCs. (Suitable for level 5 groups) Or hey, have you considered an encounter to throw a bone to all those darkvision-having PCs of yours? Well, now they may have to contend with jumping through the dark as they guide their allies blindly through an encounter (Low 5).
This was a really fun month for me and I was able to have some fun creating some special maps and homebrewing monsters to fit the concept best. I hope you all take a look as we're nearly halfway done this ridiculous concept.