Theo’s Focus is the latest of the Drop-In Dungeon series from Matt Evans of Mithgarthr Entertainment. It’s a short little dungeon of 7 areas. Although it’s a six-page PDF, only three of the pages contain the adventure. The remainder gives us the cover, the legal stuff, and one other page. The other page is pretty awesome: it contains a number of pictures of Matt’s group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Theo’s Focus
Erenoth: The Wayward Wanderer isn’t an adventure. Normally that means I wouldn’t review it, but it rather caught my eye. The Wayward Wanderer is a tavern, the starting place for many adventures. Matt Click of A Fistful of Dice designed it for his homebrew world Erenoth, and has now presented it to us as a PDF. It’s an attractive presentation with nice art, although the … Continue reading 5E Review – Erenoth: The Wayward Wanderer
G’day, folks! I’ve finally updated my Rage of Demons page with the complete list of D&D Expeditions being held this season. I hope it’s all correct – some of the values seem to have moved about. I’ve also uploaded a set of unofficial pregenerated characters designed for this season of D&D Expeditions. I’d appreciate it if you could cast an eye over them and check … Continue reading Updated Rage of Demons page
Many of my reviews are written as “capsule” reviews, which is to say, reviews where I’ve read the product but haven’t played through it. The sheer amount of product against the number of hours I have available to play games necessitates that. For products which I do have the chance to play, it’s something of a relief. My judgement as to whether it’s a good … Continue reading D&D Review: D&D Starter Set
Dellmon Ranch. The Dessarin Valley. 9th Flamerule. 591 DR. A small ranch. About thirty or forty people to defend. And a warband of 40 orcs is on their way. It’s time for the adventurers to be heroes! It’s fascinating watching a group of adventurers at work, especially when you’ve got seven of them all there at the same time. There’s a lot of damage they … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 14-15
Out of the Abyss, the new adventure from Wizards of the Coast, begins with the party as prisoners of the drow and needing to escape. Princes of the Apocalypse begins with the party sent to the region to discover a missing trade delegation. Hoard of the Dragon Queen begins with the adventurers reaching the village of Greenest to discover it under attack by the Cult … Continue reading Adventure Design Elements: Beginnings
It is fair to say that the D&D Starter Set adventure, “The Lost Mine of Phandelver”, is a good adventure. I’ve run it at least four times, and each time the players are do things the other groups haven’t done. It’s a really good introduction to the game, and it manages this by just being a fantastic adventure. There’s a lot in it for experienced … Continue reading What to play after finishing the D&D Starter Set
The third season of the D&D Adventurers League is just starting. The D&D Expeditions games this year are set around the city-state of Hillsfar, a port city on the Moonsea. The official DDAL page has a great article about the State of Hillsfar, but I thought I’d go into a little more detail about the gods that are worshipped in the city and the nearby … Continue reading An Introduction to the Forgotten Realms: Gods of Hillsfar and Elventree
It’s time for the next season of the D&D Adventurers League to begin. So, it’s a good time to review the guidelines for creating a legal character to play in the program. This character will be able to be played in any adventure of the D&D Epics, D&D Encounters or D&D Expeditions lines. All of these guidelines can be found in the D&D Adventurers League … Continue reading Creating a Rage of Demons character
The Stoneheart Monastery. The Sumber Hills. 24th Kythorn. 591 DR. The adventures had found a number of prisoners, one whom they recognised as the dwarf Bruldenthar. He was the delegate that the monks had demonstrated as being there of his own free will – he’d insisted that he was seeking enlightenment in the mines. This was certainly no longer the case, as he pleaded with … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, session 13
