Month: August 2015

D&D, D&D 5E, D&D Adventurers League, Play Advice, Rage of Demons, Uncategorized

An Introduction to the Forgotten Realms: Gods of Hillsfar and Elventree

The third season of the D&D Adventurers League is just starting. The D&D Expeditions games this year are set around the city-state of Hillsfar, a port city on the Moonsea. The official DDAL page has a great article about the State of Hillsfar, but I thought I’d go into a little more detail about the gods that are worshipped in the city and the nearby … Continue reading An Introduction to the Forgotten Realms: Gods of Hillsfar and Elventree

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Creating a Rage of Demons character

It’s time for the next season of the D&D Adventurers League to begin. So, it’s a good time to review the guidelines for creating a legal character to play in the program. This character will be able to be played in any adventure of the D&D Epics, D&D Encounters or D&D Expeditions lines. All of these guidelines can be found in the D&D Adventurers League … Continue reading Creating a Rage of Demons character

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Princes of the Apocalypse, session 13

The Stoneheart Monastery. The Sumber Hills. 24th Kythorn. 591 DR. The adventures had found a number of prisoners, one whom they recognised as the dwarf Bruldenthar. He was the delegate that the monks had demonstrated as being there of his own free will – he’d insisted that he was seeking enlightenment in the mines. This was certainly no longer the case, as he pleaded with … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, session 13

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5E Adventure Review: Night of the Mad Kobold

Night of the Mad Kobold is the first adventure in a short series that has been funded through Kickstarter. Written by “Weird Dave” Olson, this adventure evokes an old-school feel through its choice of layout and artwork, although the actual adventure style is more modern. It serves as an introduction to the Wrath of the Kobolds trilogy. As with many of the adventures I’ve reviewed, this one … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Night of the Mad Kobold

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Princes of the Apocalypse, session 12

The Stoneheart Monastery. The Sumber Hills. 24th Kythorn. 591 DR. The adventurers had been charged by the Feathergale Knights to discover the evil lurking in the Stoneheart Monastery, and so they delved once more into its depths, first making sure they’d explored all of the upper level before going into the dungeons. The kitchens, dining hall and guest chambers proved deserted with nothing of value … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, session 12

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5E Adventure Review: The Raven’s Call

There aren’t many people who have written more adventures or contributed more to adventure creation than Wolfgang Baur. His company, Kobold Press, was the one selected to write the two Tyranny of Dragons adventures, which Wolfgang co-wrote with Steve Winter. Now he has released The Raven’s Call, a conversion of a previously released Pathfinder adventure (conversion by Dan Dillon) for his company’s Midgard setting. The … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Raven’s Call

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5E Adventure Review: Friend of the Children

The latest adventure from EN5ider, Friend of the Children, has an absolutely brilliant idea behind it: The children of a small village have stopped aging. Of course, it is up to the adventurers to find both the cause and a cure! The adventure does not force the action, instead giving an overview of the village, its inhabitants and the local surroundings, with plenty of material … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Friend of the Children

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D&D Adventurers League “Elemental Evil” – unofficial Pregenerated Characters

These characters are certainly a bit late – for most of you, we’re moving out of Elemental Evil and into the Rage of Demons storyline, but we’re running a few 1st-level games set in Mulmaster at our local D&D Adventurers League games, and I wanted to make up a few characters that took advantage of the Mulmaster backgrounds for the potential use of the players. … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League “Elemental Evil” – unofficial Pregenerated Characters

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Fantasy Book Reviews

I’ve had a nice few days reading through a number of books that have mysteriously appeared on my kindle. (You just click buttons and they appear!) A few quick notes… Servant of the Crown (Melissa McShane): I bought this one on a whim. It turned up on a list of newly released books from Amazon and, seeing that the price wasn’t so high and the … Continue reading Fantasy Book Reviews

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5E Adventure Review: The Wererat Den

The Wererat Den is a short adventure for 5th level adventurers by James Introcaso, and is available for free on his website. It involves a group of militant lycanthropes who want to infect the world with lycanthropy, and have started their campaign at a forest inn. The characters may enter the action due to investigating previous activities of the villains, or through just happening to arrive … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Wererat Den

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