100 Skeletons in the Closet - Softcover Edition

Greetings, adventurer. Come closer to the door that everyone swears is harmless. The one with the friendly faces nearby. The polite neighbors. The “respectable” patrons. The helpful cleric.

Here, secrets aren’t buried. They’re hidden in plain sight - in inheritances, vows, missing ledgers, and quiet little favors that never get repaid. And when someone finally opens the wrong door… the truth doesn’t just come out. It changes everything.

Whether you’re building a campaign from scratch or prepping a session on short notice, this book is designed to save you time and inspire your storytelling.

The supplement is designed for 5th Edition, but it can be used with any TTRPG system since it doesn’t rely heavily on specific rules.

100 Skeletons in the Closet lets you drop secret-driven quests into your 5e game with almost no prep - mysteries built for real tables, where every clue has teeth and every reveal has consequences.

Whether you’re a long-time DM who needs punchy side content, a busy DM who wants fast prep, or a group that loves intrigue, paranoia, and “wait… WHAT?” twists - this book gives you everything you need.

Inside 100 Skeletons in the Closet you’ll find:

• 🧩 100+ pages of ready-to-use quests and mysteries: skim them quick, drop a hook to your players and you're ready to go.
• 🔍Fully developed secrets: each entry built around a clear, table-ready overview of what’s really going on.
• 💀The actual buried truth: a concrete “skeleton in the closet” that explains who’s hiding what, and why.
• 🎲Rollable clues & rumors: d6 lists your players can discover in play to slowly unravel the secret.
• 🕵️Key NPC profiles: focused writeups for the central schemers, victims, and liars driving each situation.
• ⚖️Adventure hooks & consequences: prompts that show how to drop the secret into your campaign, and what changes in the world when your players drag it into the light.

The book is divided into six distinct categories, each offering a different flavor of secrets to suit a variety of storytelling needs. You’ll find everything from quiet family scandals to eldritch conspiracies - each designed to drop into any corner of your world.

• Nobles & Courts – Palace intrigues, bloodline bargains and forged titles. These secrets warp the gears of power.
• Clergy & Sanctuaries – Miracle-mongers, relic forgers, schisms, heresies, and doomsday sermons. These sanctified secrets explore faith under pressure.
• Scholars & Towers – Academies and wizard-towers where research goes too far. Expect sinister cults, living spells and erased memories that turn libraries into battlegrounds of knowledge and control.
• Merchants & Guilds – Trade cabals, craft halls, and market monopolies built on secrets. These secrets put a price on human conscience.
• Underworld & Militia – Thieves’ circles, smuggling routes, and the “lawful” forces who bend the rules. These entries test justice, loyalty, and survival.
• Wilderness & Monsters – Haunted frontiers, beast-clan pacts, druidic circles with buried bargains, and ruins that bite back.

Want a sneak peek? We’ve put together a free sample you can download right now, so you can start dropping dark secrets into your campaign right now! Inside you’ll find several complete entries from 100 Skeletons in the Closet you can plug into almost any fantasy game.

CLICK HERE to download your sample playtest PDF!