Goodman Games has leapt into the D&D 5E adventure market with their OGL adventure Glitterdoom by Michael Curtis. The adventure is available in print and pdf forms; this review is of the PDF. Glitterdoom is a short adventure for 4-6 3rd level adventurers that the author suggests can be completed in a single session. It is set in an abandoned dwarven mine, lost to a … Continue reading Adventure Review: Glitterdoom
I’m a bit late on writing this, so the details of the session are a bit fuzzy in my mind. However, I’ve now run two sessions of Lost Mine of Phandelver for my experienced Friday-night group. In the first session, they rescued Sildar and dealt with the goblins. This session, they ran into the Redbrand Ruffians. They didn’t like the Ruffians, and the Ruffians didn’t … Continue reading Ruffians of the Lost Mine – (Friday session 2)
In just a couple of days, our players in Ballarat are going to begin on the Tyranny of Dragons campaign through the D&D Encounters program. It’s going to be a fascinating journey, made more so by the fact that most of the players are likely to continue past Encounters as we continue running through to 15th level. This could be a journey of about a … Continue reading Tyranny of Dragons
I was joined by seven players for this session of the Starter Set adventure. Djoran, Ben and Brian joined Tait, Jesse, Josh and Josh to make up the group for the adventure. This gave the group a combination of level 1 and 2 characters as they spent the majority of the session further investigating and fighting the Redbrand Ruffians. The last session had ended with … Continue reading The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 3
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I’ve found the rules for Stealth in the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons rather hard to follow. It doesn’t help that I haven’t seen the Player’s Handbook yet, but it seems that it basically just is the rules from the Basic D&D game, so there is little further clarity there. I rather hope Stealth gets a section in the Dungeon Master’s Guide! It doesn’t … Continue reading Being Stealthy in Dungeons & Dragons 5E
I’m currently fighting a cold that was creeping up on me through the past few days, so my ability to write is somewhat curtailed by my need for sleep. It’s been a pretty hectic last few days, though. On Thursday, I played Power Grid and Strasbourg with my friends at Goodgames Ballarat – I won neither game, but both were very enjoyable. Then my car’s … Continue reading A busy few days
I’m currently running two groups through Lost Mine of Phandelver, the adventure included in the D&D Starter Set. The first group are people from my FLGS who play D&D Encounters with me every Saturday evening. I’m running it as an Adventurers League adventure, so characters are keeping track of their XP and treasure on the log sheets, using point-buy for creating their characters, and working … Continue reading Sneaking through the Lost Mine (Friday session 1)
Seven players were at the table for our second session of Lost Mine: Rich (wizard), Josh (fighter), Jesse (thief), Tait (thief), Dave (cleric), Josh (fighter) and Sam (wizard). In their last session, they’d failed to pursue the goblins and instead ended up with a little Redbrand Ruffian trouble in town, after Milo (Tait) the thief had made them believe the ruffians had beat him up … Continue reading The Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 2
The final session of this season of D&D Encounters attracted 27 participants to Goodgames Ballarat, the equal highest (with the penultimate session) attendance we’ve had in the history of the Encounters program at our store. A few of our regulars were missing, but they were made up for by a number of new players. Admittedly, fighting a demi-lich would probably not be my choice of … Continue reading D&D Encounters – Dead in Thay finale
