There are D&D adventures I am intimately familiar with. I3 Pharaoh is one of those. It’s an adventure I’ve read many, many times, and DMed on two separate occasions. Other adventures I have known only through their product code. X6 Quagmire is of that latter sort. I never owned it during my early days of D&D, nor did I play it or run it. So, … Continue reading D&D Basic Review: X6 Quagmire!
When I was younger, I wasn’t that impressed with The Isle of Dread. I purchased it as part of the Expert D&D set, and although the idea of going to an island inhabited with dinosaurs sounded pretty fun, the actual presentation did not inspire me very much. I was very young at the time. Many years later, during the 3E era, I took a party … Continue reading D&D Basic Review – X1 The Isle of Dread
The Temple of Qultar is the first release from Matt Jackson of Chubby Monster Games for the new edition of D&D. It’s a four-page pdf, consisting of an unkeyed map and three pages of description of the temple and the dungeon beneath it. No level is given for the adventure, but as there’s a Challenge Rating 5 monster in the adventure, I’m calling a 5th-level … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Temple of Qultar
Until February 22nd, 2015, there’s a sale of Wizards’ D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG. The discounts are variable – The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting (AD&D 1E) is $8.49, down from $9.99, while the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (D&D Basic) is $4.99, down from $9.99. Every title is at least 15% cheaper. Note that the “cover price” is the price the book was originally published with; a … Continue reading Sale of D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG!
Waterdeep. The City of Splendours. Again. The adventurers had returned from Oviggaton with one thing missing: no Draakhorn. Where was it? Unfortunately, it seemed that it was already in the hands of the Cult of the Dragon. Maccath the Crimson had described how men dressed in ornate robes had taken the horn from Arauthator, and the descriptions of the men sounded very much like those … Continue reading The Rise of Tiamat, session 3
G’day, all! I did a big update to the List of 5E Adventures today; added in a few thumbnails and tidied things up a little. But only a little – there’s a limit to what I can do with the technology at my disposal. (It’s a blog, Jim, not a database!) Not much in the way of new adventures were added – if you see … Continue reading List of adventures updated
Apologies for the delay in posting this. I’ve been very busy with another project over the last couple of months, which has eaten into my spare time to keep the blog updated. There are another two or three sessions to post over the next few days – along with the regular run of reviews and retrospectives. This session was two hours long, incidentally, and I … Continue reading The Rise of Tiamat, session 2
The fourth adventure by Dan Hass, And the Elf Prince Wept, is an adventure for 1-8 characters of level 2. It is the first part of the Red Blade War. The adventure consists of twelve encounters with a thirteenth, optional encounter with the Inquisition; a standard trope of these adventures. The adventure structure is quite interesting, as it contains a number of elements that go against … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: And the Elf Prince Wept
The fourth episode of Hoard of the Dragon Queen sends the group off on the quest that will continue for the rest of the adventure. It’s just a little bit important the players understand what they’re in for, and that’s the purpose of the initial meeting with Leosin and Onthar in Elturel. Both of these characters will be tremendously important in The Rise of Tiamat, … Continue reading Running Hoard of the Dragon Queen, episode 4
The third adventure by Dan Hass for D&D 5E is The Archaeologist, available either separately or as part of a package that includes three adventures and details of the Dimgaard campaign setting. Once again, we have a short, one-session adventure. This one consists of six encounters plus one optional encounter. The backstory for the adventure concerns a noble who is obsessed with finding a dragon … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review – The Archaeologist
