Sidequest Decks: Arcane Academy

Need adventure ideas for a wizard away at school or a group of wizards? Use our Sidequest Decks: Arcane Academy. Each card is a dynamic adventure!

This is part of our Sidequest Decks series with sidequests for many genres & settings.

Whether you have a campaign of youngsters studying at the world's premiere mage school, or a wizard or two in your party needs to visit a library or mentor for advice, or a mage must pass a sorcery test before progressing, this sidequest deck has multiple mini adventures that fit your needs!

How to use them: Draw a card for an adventure outline. It includes backstory, ways to get the PCs involved, encounter possibilities, and follow-up ideas. The other side is the most important map for that adventure. Use maps from other cards as needed.

Sidequest Decks are perfect for stocking a hex crawl or developing a side trek on the fly. You may even chain several together for an entire campaign!

Note: The PDF is set up to be printed duplex (two-sided), 4 cards per page.  So the upper right card on the front side of each page matches up to the upper left card on the back side. There are also white marks near the corners of each card which are guides to use when cutting the cards.  This extra area (1/8") on the edge of each card is called a "bleed" which is intended to be cut away. It allows a card to still look good even if the cut isn't perfect or if the front and back prints aren't perfectly aligned.

This is just one of several Sidequest Decks we've created based on different genres & settings. Here is the full list:

• Sidequest Decks: After the TPK - 50+ ideas for how to re-boot a campaign after a Total Pary Kill.
• Sidequest Decks: Arcane Academy - 50+ quests set in a magical school, whether the characters are kids, teens, or adults.
• Sidequest Decks: Coastal Town Quests - nearly 70 mini-adventures, includes 2 sets of 9 that are loosely connected.
• Sidequest Decks: Dungeons, Caves, & Ruins Fantasy - 50+ classic fantasy quest ideas set in dungeons, caves, & ruins.
• Sidequest Decks: Frontier Town Quests - nearly 70 quests, including 2 sets of 9 that are loosely connected.
• Sidequest Decks: High Seas, Pirates, & Ports - 50+ quests for sea voyages & port cities.
• Sidequest Decks: Horror Fantasy - 50+ necromancy & undead focused quests.
• Sidequest Decks: Lovecraftian/Paranormal - 50+ quest outlines for investigators of the paranormal.
• Sidequest Decks: Modern Crime, Spies, & Supers - 50+ mini-adventures set in the modern day or 20th century perfect for spy, mob, and super-hero campaigns.
• Sidequest Decks: Monster Hunts - nearly 70 quests, plus two bonus cards with lists of the monsters used in each quest.  Use them to create a mini-campaign gathering ingredients to make a magic item or arcane ritual.
• Sidequest Decks: Political and Urban Fantasy - 50+ fantasy mini-adventures set in cities or that have political themes.
• Sidequest Decks: Pulp Adventures! - nearly 70+ quests based on real world mysteries & lost artifacts. Perfect for any campaign set almost anywhere in the 1900s, but most can also be used today/near future any many can be set in the past.
• Sidequest Decks: Science Fantasy - 50+ mini-adventure outlines with a Thundarr the Barbarian or Dying Earth feel where civilization has fallen and magic is back!
• Sidequest Decks: Science Fiction - 50+ quests set in the far future on space ships, colonies, and space stations.
• Sidequest Decks: Wilderness & Frontier Fantasy - 50+ fantasy mini-adventures set in the wilderness or small villages.

Inkwell Ideas makes many useful tabletop RPG accessories, including the following:

Sidequest Decks

Almost every card is a mini adventure.  One side has an outline (background GM info, story hooks, several encounter ideas, & a couple follow-ups) and the other side is the main map:

NPC Portraits Decks

A character on almost every card. The front is a full color portrait, the back has system neutral personality & background information:

VTT Tokens

Map Icons for our Worldographer software (PNG images, usable with most image/map editors)

Worldographer is version 2 of our prior Hexographer, Cityographer, & Dungeonographer programs. All have free versions downloadable from each program's website.

There are simply too many to show!  See the full range on the category page.