Stop Prepping Towns.
Start Running Games.
It's 6 PM. Session starts at 7. The party just decided to head east — into a town you haven't built yet. Sound familiar?
Marchforge generates complete, drop-in 5e town packs — maps, NPCs, shops, and adventure hooks — so you can stop scrambling and start storytelling.
3+ hours
average time DMs spend prepping a single town from scratch
~10 min
to customize a Marchforge pack for your world
∞
more hours to spend actually running the game
Everything Your Town Needs.
Nothing You Don't.
No 40-page lore documents. No “read this novel before session zero.” Each Marchforge town pack is a self-contained, drop-in location with exactly what you need to run it tonight.
Town Maps
Clean, printable maps with key locations marked — taverns, temples, the weird tower nobody talks about. Each one matches the town's vibe: a cliffside mining camp doesn't look like a lakefront trading post.
NPC Backstories
3-5 NPCs per pack with motivations, secrets, and connections to each other. The innkeeper is hiding something. The blacksmith knows about it. Your players will figure it out — and they'll love it.
Shop Inventories
Forget generic gear lists. Each shop has personality — the apothecary sells a ‘headache cure’ that's suspiciously strong, and the armorer has a shield that glows near fiends. She says it's decorative.
Adventure Hooks
Real hooks with moral weight, faction tension, and consequences that ripple through your world. Not ‘go kill goblins’ — more like ‘the missing patrol found something underground. Something old.’
Three Steps. Zero Headaches.
We handle the worldbuilding grunt work. You handle the storytelling.
Grab a Pack
Buy a one-time starter kit or subscribe for weekly deliveries. Either way, you'll have a complete town in your inbox before your next session.
Make It Yours
Swap names, tweak items, adjust hooks to fit your world's lore. It's your campaign — we just did the boring part so you can do the fun part.
Run the Game
Drop the town into your session and watch what happens. Players talk to NPCs with actual depth. They browse shops with personality. They bite on hooks that matter.
“I run a West Marches game with 14 players across 3 tables. I used to dread the ‘we go somewhere new’ moment. Now I just grab a Marchforge pack, spend 10 minutes tweaking it, and I'm ready. Honestly, the NPCs are better than what I was writing at 2 AM.”
— A DM WHO FINALLY GETS TO SLEEP
See For Yourself.
Grab Thornhaven — Free.
Thornhaven is a frontier trading post at the edge of the Ashwild. The pack includes a full town map, 5 fleshed-out NPCs with secrets and quest hooks, 3 shops with unique inventories, and 2 branching adventure hooks tied to player choices.
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WHAT'S INSIDE THE THORNHAVEN PACK
Simple Pricing. No Mimics.
What you see is what you get. Less than the cost of a coffee — and it'll save you way more than an hour.
Town Starter Kit
One complete town. No subscription, no commitment.
A full town pack ready to drop into your campaign tonight. Perfect for kicking the tires before committing to more.
- Full town map with key locations
- 4 NPCs with secrets & motivations
- 2 shops with unique inventories
- 1 adventure hook with faction ties
- 5e-compatible stat references
Marchforge Starter
Fresh content every week. Cancel anytime — no blood pacts.
Never show up to session unprepared again. A new town pack hits your inbox every week, tuned for West Marches play.
- Weekly town packs delivered to you
- Full map + 3-5 NPCs per pack
- Shop inventories with unique items
- Adventure hooks tied to factions
- Growing library of past packs
Not sure? Preview the free Thornhaven pack and see if it fits your table.
Your Players Deserve
a Living World.
West Marches campaigns thrive on discovery. When the party heads into uncharted territory, they should find towns that feel real — not something you improvised in a panic five minutes before game time.
Give them NPCs who remember them. Shops worth browsing. Hooks that pull them deeper. You built this world — let us help you fill it.