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
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
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
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
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
Our second session of Death House changed the nature of the horror the players faced: from somewhat disturbing to life-threatening! Continue reading Death House session 2: Report and DM Notes
With the advent of the DM’s Guild website, the D&D Adventurers League adventures (once known as D&D Expeditions adventures) have become available to everyone to play. It’s worth writing a word or two about what they are and how they can be used. Each adventure is a complete adventure typically lasting 2 or 4 hours (a few are 1 hour or 8 hours in length), … Continue reading About the D&D Adventurers League adventures
What happens when an Archmage who reveres Kelemvor, the god of Death, starts experimenting with ways of prolonging life? To some in Kelemvor’s church, this was anathema – heresy that flirted too close to the necromantic arts of undeath. However, the scorn of her fellows didn’t stop Elean Mera, the archmage in question, from continuing with her efforts. A small cult formed around her, and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Unliving Light
Just a note to all that I’ve revised an earlier post on the options available to you after you finish playing the D&D Starter Set, including more details on Out of the Abyss and adding the DMs Guild and Curse of Strahd to the article. Find it here: What to play after the D&D Starter Set Continue reading What to play after the D&D Starter Set (redux)
Two tables at Guf Ballarat began playing through the new season of the D&D Adventurers League on Saturday – the other tables are yet to finish Princes of the Apocalypse, so we’re allowing them the time to do so. I was able to move people around a little bit, so for the first time in two years I don’t have Josh F and Danielle at … Continue reading Death House session 1: Report and DM Notes
