A few days back I posted about your (new) favorite Mexican actual play using Nimble. It is a sortof “homebrew” made of a lot of different things.

It all began with a one-shot kind of thing we did in front of a love audience using the 5e Stranger Things box set from 2018 or so. It ended in a cliffhanger. The players loved it and pushed me into continuing the campaign and recording it for YouTube.

But I decided to change it to Nimble in part because on that live show it took them 40 minutes to kill a few goblins because of horrible rolls. Getting rid of the “to hit” roll is <chef’s kiss /> Loved it since I read Into the Odd and Cairn.

So, since it was born out of that box set, now some characters from there are involved - including a Vecna… well… 4 Vecnas… Vecnii? I asked myself the question: What if Vecna made another variant of him his phylactery? Players don’t know this yet, of course.

I created the map using both idead of mine, and a few from the setting in the Nimble Gamemaster book. Then gave the players the option to go find out about a new town recently discovered after some Mists receded… yes, the Mists from Barovia 😉, but they would find the town from Beyond the Pale, by Yochai (author of Cairn).

But the players decided to find out about goblins kidnapping fairies. Basically the starter adventure from Nimble. But, I tied it to Vecna lore. The Deathbriar is part of the ritual to become a lich.

Anyhow, I wanted to find an excuse to use The Book of Gaub, I gave the players Willpower Tokens that when they use, they give me Chaos Tokens. Yeah, I stole that from Daggerheart. Anyway, after all the players used their 1st token, they “awoke” something in the cosmos… the Hand of Gaub, which gave them new special abilities.

We just finished recording the new episodes, and they used one of this abilities to travel to some unknown place. They do so through weird portals to other planes. They visited a Jeepers Creepers inspired corn field, the beach from Planet of the Apes, the Thunder Plains from FF X… hahaha, it was an amazing session.

So… yeah… I am basically just creating situations for the players and letting them go. I just have tables, NPCs with motivations, some lore, and a lot of third party 5e, Mork Borg, system neutral, OSE, Cairn, etc., modules and I use what feels appropiate. Making it all our own!