The Innocent is the seventh adventure in Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of adventures from the D&D Adventurers League. It’s properly the first adventure in the second part of the storyline, following on from the transitional adventure The Ghost. At the end of that last adventure, the hag Jeny Greenteeth gave the players a prophecy; the events of the Innocent are the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Innocent
Gale Force 9 have been producing a range of accessories for D&D for a while now. Their early 5E releases weren’t always well received, but, with their two main Curse of Strahd accessories – the Tarokka deck and the Curse of Strahd DM Screen – they’ve managed to put out a couple of products I really like. The player’s side of the DM Screen features … Continue reading 5E Accessory Review: Curse of Strahd DM Screen
DDAL04-06 The Ghost is the mid-season finale of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. Or, at least, it could be if you squint really hard. Honestly, it’s hard to know what to make of it. Somewhere in the writing process – either in initial conception, its writing, or the editing – something went badly wrong with the story. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ghost
Beware! Spoilers for Curse of Strahd and Death House within!
The fifth adventure of the current D&D Adventurers League season is The Seer, a 2-hour adventure for 1st-4th level characters. It’s written assuming the party has five 4th-level characters, and contains the standard DDAL scaling notes. As always, DMs should treat the adventure with care and scale appropriately for their group. When writing adventures, it’s very hard to properly assess the strength of a group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Seer
DDAL04-04 The Marionette continues the D&D Adventurers League storyline, “Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts”, with an adventure that draws together storylines begun in previous adventures. It might also have just a little too much content in it; not really a problem for home games, but certainly one for convention and in-store play. It has been reported that a DM whose group has a more leisurely … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Marionette
High Deck The Artifact The Executioner (was The Hangman) The Beast The Horseman The Broken One The Innocent The Darklord The Marionette The Donjon The Mists The Seer (was The Esper) The Raven The Ghost The Tempter (was The Temptress) Swords Master: The Warrior 1. The Avenger 2. The Paladin 3. The Soldier 4. The Mercenary 5. The Myrmidon 6. The Berserker 7. The Hooded … Continue reading List of Tarokka Cards by Suit
DDAL04-03: The Executioner is the third of the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. (The program formerly known as Expeditions). It is also, I’m sorry to say, the worst adventure of them all, by a fair margin. Quite frankly, it’s shit. It’s an adventure without a beginning, without an end, and with a weak middle. A lot of the problems come down to the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Executioner
Vallaki, the fortified town to which the adventurers took Ireena, is an important place in the progression of running Curse of Strahd. It provides a place where the players can rest between expeditions and also provides a number of NPCs who can guide the players towards quests. The Blue Water Inn is the hub of this. We tend to think of adventurers being given quests … Continue reading Running Curse of Strahd, part 2
The Beast is the first adventure of the new D&D Adventurers League season set fully in Barovia. The adventure, a two-hour affair written by Alan Patrick, is a strong one. It tells the tale of the characters arriving in the village of Oraşnou, a village that relies primarily on trading furs with the Vistani to ensure it has the supplies it needs for the winter. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-02 The Beast
