The Judge is a mechanic that you could use a lot or a little. With his flexibility and strange ability to appear – as poet laureate Shakira once said, “whenever, wherever” – you can toss the judge into an encounter when combat has become a bit too boring, or your players attack in the same way every time.

Farms are having their poultry stolen by a shadowy turkey monster they have named “Turkey Lurkey.” Players are faced with an ethical dilemma: destroy the creature or join him. Party levels 1-3.

A city needs help getting rid of a hulking abandoned ship, left rotting in the dock. However, the ship is not as abandoned as previously thought: cultists are using it to summon their aboleth lord. Party levels 12+.

Two encounters in one! A coastal town that is losing 10% of its boats, and a city in terror with a She-wolf on the loose. Party levels 4-7.