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Happy holidays! ‘Tis the season to bring your friends together, tell them how much you appreciate them in your lives, and – if you’re feeling particularly nice – to give them gifts.

In my campaigns, I make it a yearly tradition to give gifts to my players’ characters. These often involve partaking in some light-hearted, low-stakes adventure, alongside a kindly old man with white hair and a flair for subtle, peaceful magic. Regardless of the details of the adventure, though, at its end, the Heroes of my games receive gifts. Not just random tchotchkies, either – things that are really ‘picked out’ for that particular Hero.

Below, I’ll talk a bit about the kinds of gifts you can give your Heroes in your Reclaim the Wild campaign.

We’ve long had stories of people from our mundane, humdrum world being sucked into fantastical realms of fiction. Even within the space of games, 80’s cartoons like Captain N: The Game Master and Dungeons & Dragons have featured people being ‘sucked into the game’, and using their knowledge and skills to save a world they once believed was simple fantasy.

These works are sometimes known as “Portal Fantasy”, a term which also includes classic works like The Wizard of Oz. These days, though, you might know them by a specific Japanese term: “Isekai”. Isekai has become a whole genre of anime and manga unto itself, inundating bookstores and magazines to the point where it seems ubiquitous.

Reclaim the Wild, by virtue of being based directly on a popular video game, is well-suited to running a tabletop Isekai campaign. After all, part of the appeal of an Isekai work is applying the heroes’ knowledge of ‘how the game works’ to solving problems great and small in their new home! But how should you go about running a proper Isekai campaign?

Below, we discuss some ideas for doing just that. Check it out below!