Nothing Is What It Seems Volume 1: 5 Layered 5.5E Adventures

The Job Sounds Simple. It Rarely Is.

Kill the wolf. Retrieve the chest. Assassinate the goblin king. Cure the plague. Eliminate the bandits.

Every adventure begins with a clear problem, but the obvious answer is rarely the whole truth. Follow the clues and another layer appears, then sometimes another beneath that.

Nothing Is What It Seems: Volume I is a collection of 5 complete, ready-to-run 5E adventures for characters from levels 3–6.

Every Adventure Has Layers

These are not adventures where the party receives a quest, follows a path, and fights the obvious villain.
Each begins with a problem that seems clear. Then the players investigate, talk, explore, and discover that the first explanation is only part of the truth. Sometimes the second one is wrong too.

What's inside?

A complete collection of ready-to-run material designed to save prep time and give you plenty to use at the table.

5 Adventures. 5 Different Problems.

From infected laboratories and family feuds to goblin politics, cursed ruins and impossible murder requests, each adventure starts somewhere different.

What they share is the same principle: the job you are given is rarely the whole story.

13 Battlemaps, Ready for the Table

Every adventure comes with detailed battlemaps built around the encounters, locations, and choices inside the module.
These are not generic maps added afterwards. The locations are part of the adventure itself, with rooms, terrain, obstacles, secrets, and points of interest written around them.

Every map is provided in high resolution, with grid and gridless versions.

UNIQUE MAPS
GRID + GRIDLESS
UP TO 8K RESOLUTION
PRINT & VTT READY

Built for adventure, not decoration.

MONSTERS & CREATURES

Expect roughly 2–5 creatures per adventure, ranging from familiar enemies to original monsters built around the story. Bosses and important creatures are designed to interact with their locations rather than simply standing in a room and trading attacks.

MAGIC ITEMS & TREASURE

Adventures include homebrew rewards, useful treasure, and items connected to the locations and stories where they are found. The goal is not to fill pages with loot tables, but to give players rewards they will actually remember and use.

Ready for Foundry VTT

Prefer to run your games online? Nothing Is What It Seems will also be available as a complete Foundry VTT module. The aim is to remove as much setup as possible. Open the adventure, load the scene, and start preparing your session.

The Foundry version will include:
Maps & Scenes
All adventure maps prepared with walls, doors, lighting, and points of interest.
Actors & Items
Monsters, NPCs, magic items, and other relevant game elements prepared for use.
Journals & Handouts
Adventure text, locations, clues, and player-facing material organised inside Foundry.
Encounters
Creatures and encounters prepared around the locations where they appear.

Add-ons

Underworld Legends

Underworld Legends is a comprehensive codex of almost 300 pages, filled with detailed bandit groups that you can seamlessly integrate as either enemies or allies within your campaign.

Each group is designed with a rich backstory explaining their formation or purpose, complete with group loot, a clear hierarchy, group fighting strategies, and a variety of quest seeds to enhance your storytelling.
5E 2014.

Welcome to Ingstead, the city of art!

In this adventure bundle, we've written narrative-driven read-aloud sections for every part of the campaign. With all the homebrew monsters, maps, NPCs, and tokens, you can significantly reduce your prep time for each session.

You'll get a digital copy of the adventure, which includes:

104 pages of homebrew adventure (in total)
17 maps (grid/gridless/day/night/GM versions 80++ in total)
76 unique tokens
Many NPCs
5 side quests, 5 main quests
6 magic items
Homebrew monsters

5E 2014

Battle maps: Bundle for Any Type of Encounters or Quests

A collection of 40 handcrafted, digital (no AI used in the process) maps, each serving as a lifeline in those moments of uncertainty. Spanning a range of biomes, seasons, and locales, you'll find everything from wilderness landscapes to detailed house interiors and regional maps.