5E Supplement Review – Ravenloft Archetypes: Nightmares of Barovia

Ravenloft Archetypes: Nightmares of Barovia is a supplement by Jeremy Forbing for players and Dungeon Masters who have their games set in the Ravenloft campaign setting. It contains new archetypes for several character classes, a selection of new races and spells, and a number of new monsters that the DM can employ against the characters. It’s hard writing good rules material. It’s even harder writing … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review – Ravenloft Archetypes: Nightmares of Barovia

5E Adventure Review: The Ghost and the Peddler

The Ghost and the Peddler is a short adventure by Benoit de Bernady for three to five characters of levels 3 to 5. It’s a charming adventure, which sees the players travel with a young apothecary through orc-infested lands, whilst a mysterious “ghost” plagues the travellers. I very much appreciate adventures that have good characters, and The Ghost and the Peddler has several of them. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ghost and the Peddler

5E Adventure Review: The Mystery at Dreary’s Well

The Mystery at Dreary’s Well is a nicely-constructed adventure for 1st and 2nd level characters set in the Forgotten Realms. The player characters are sent to the small hamlet of Dreary’s Well in order to discover what has happened to a diamond that was stolen from a courier passing through the place a few nights ago. However, with a few additional opportunities for adventure (and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Mystery at Dreary’s Well

5E Adventure Review: The Horns of War

A plan by a trading coster to blockade the dwarven strongholds with an orc army so they can make a killing on all the iron ore they’ve stockpiled seem to be a story inspired by The Phantom Menace. I’m not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. It’s a lunatic plan, but our history is filled with lunatic plans to make money or gain power. Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Horns of War

5E Supplement Review: Vampire Lord Abner

Vampire Lord Abner is a short 4-page pdf (not counting the cover and legal text) that details a single encounter: what is likely to be the final encounter of an adventure. In it, Jay Holden dispenses with all the preparatory encounters and just goes for the main event: a fight against a vampire lord, leaving it to the DM to fill in the rest. This … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Vampire Lord Abner

5E Adventure Review: Eyes on the Prize

Due to a gap in my regular playing schedule, I found myself in need of a short (one-session) 10th-level adventure. It’s for this reason I maintain my List of Adventures – It allows me to quickly find potential adventures to run. However, I didn’t need to look at it to determine that what I wanted to run was one of Dan Coleman’s Dungeons on Demand … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Eyes on the Prize

A Half-Elf Bard for Curse of Strahd

During the last season of the D&D Adventurers League, I created a set of first-level characters that I could give out to new players at conventions and store sessions when we didn’t have enough time to create a character for them. So, now it’s time to start creating another set of characters! This set will be slightly more advanced than the first set, and will be … Continue reading A Half-Elf Bard for Curse of Strahd

5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-01 Suits of the Mists

The fourth season of the D&D Adventurers League adventures has been approached in a different manner to the first three. In previous seasons, each adventure (mostly) stood alone, with only light links to previous instalments. This season, set in the Ravenloft setting, will be different. The intention is to tell one story over fourteen adventures. Each adventure could be played as a stand-alone, but they … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-01 Suits of the Mists