Category: D&D 5E

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Entering the Wilderness: Exploration and Castles

Dungeons & Dragons play is traditionally divided into three environments: Dungeon, Urban and Wilderness. Of those three, the Dungeon is by far the easiest to prepare and run. The Wilderness, on the other hand, is something I find particularly challenging to DM. The early D&D booklets suggested using the map of Outdoor Survival (an Avalon Hill boardgame) to represent the wilderness just around the dungeon, … Continue reading Entering the Wilderness: Exploration and Castles

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Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 20-21

With the prophet of the air cult now slain, the group were able to return to the Air Temple and explore mostly unmolested. A few kenku remained in the ruined underground city, but they scattered and fled from the adventurers – the few that did not quickly learnt the error of their ways, probably from a fireball spell exploding nearby! It was certain that the … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 20-21

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Rebuilding your D&D Adventurers League Character

With the recent release of the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, the D&D Adventurers League has allowed everyone to rebuild their characters. Although this is intended primarily so you can include material from the new book, the option to rebuild is open to all players even if their rebuild doesn’t use material from the Adventurer’s Guide. Normally, you can rebuild your character any number of times … Continue reading Rebuilding your D&D Adventurers League Character

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PAX Australia 2015 thoughts

Well, it’s been a fun (and exhausting) three days. We ran a LOT of D&D at PAX Australia. Yes, only four tables, but that’s four tables by THIRTY HOURS! Two of the tables were running 1-hour games, all the better to introduce players to D&D. And we had a lot of new players. (We also had players returning to play more. And we had to … Continue reading PAX Australia 2015 thoughts

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Thoughts on the missing Open Gaming License

One of the stranger things missing so far from the D&D 5E releases from Wizards of the Coast is an “Open Gaming” License directly applicable to D&D 5E. There have been hints of it going back before the release of the game, but – as of this writing – no license has materialised. (I just want to make clear that it’s not really the lack of … Continue reading Thoughts on the missing Open Gaming License

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Character Sheets!

I use Microsoft Word to create most of my characters. Calculations? Form-fillable sheets? Nah. Good old word-processing. I’m not really much of a stylist. Anyway, one or two people asked about the templates I used to create the pregenerated characters I’ve been posting. I don’t really have templates, but I can share with you the basic word files if you want to fiddle with them. … Continue reading Character Sheets!

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5E Adventure Review: Along Came a Spider

Along Came a Spider is an adventure for first-level characters by Joel Flank released by Jon Brazer Enterprises as part of their “Dangerous Delves” series. The adventure has been released in both 5E and Pathfinder formats. This review is of the 5E version. The idea for the adventure is simple: A creature from the Deep Ethereal has possessed the mind of a spider and its … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Along Came a Spider

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Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 18-19

Two of the adventurers had died in an ambush by the air cult as they had returned from the dwarven city below, and so the group had become indebted to the Zhentarim. This mean that they were obligated to travel down to Bargewright Inn to meet the local Zhentarim contact, Nalaskur Thaelond. The amount of money they owed wasn’t too large, so the job they … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 18-19

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Rogues in Remballo and the Borderland Provinces

Once upon a time, there was a dungeon called Rappan Athuk… Necromancer Games (and/or Frog God Games) have been publishing adventures for a while now. The original incarnation of the company was publishing adventures back in 2000, when Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition came out. One of their products was a little dungeon known as Rappan Athuk. Or the Dungeon of Graves. It’s actually one … Continue reading Rogues in Remballo and the Borderland Provinces

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5E Adventure Review: The Rising Knight

Troll Lord Games is one of the venerable companies of the Open Gaming License – which means they’re about fifteen years old. That’s a significant age for a RPG company. They rose to prominence through the publication of many of Gary Gygax’s last projects, especially Castle Zagyg, and through their publication of their Castles & Crusades game, a game inspired by earlier forms of D&D … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Rising Knight

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