Dan Hass’s seventh adventure, The Poison Works, sees the adventurers finally making their way into the territory of the Red Blades. As is typical with these adventures, the formatting is poor, the maps are adequate, it would be nice to see better editing, but there are some good encounter ideas. The formatting problems really hit the first encounter, which explains the details of the PC’s … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Poison Works
A Little Bit of Thievery is a short adventure for first-level characters in which the characters are hired to steal a magical object (a silver raven figurine) that is being displayed at a noble’s party. The adventure describes the grounds of the manor, its inhabitants, and a number of potential options for the players. The adventure doesn’t presume the characters will go it in a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: A Little Bit of Thievery
The sixth part of Dan Hass’s Dimgaard series, And the Dwarf Thane Slept, finds the party hired to acquire and transport a supply of gems so that the clerics of the land can cast raise dead again (they’ve run out!). Persuading the dwarves to help is likely to be easy, as their Thane has recently died and the clerics can raise him! This is an … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: And the Dwarf Thane Slept
The fifth adventure by Dan Hass (and the second in the Red Blade War series), And the Goblin Boss Wailed, has the characters dealing with a displaced goblin tribe, the Horned Skull. Written for 1-8 characters of level 2, the adventure is 25 pages long and is a significant amount of work. It is also available as part of a package that includes all four … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: And the Goblin Boss Wailed
I’m extremely late with this review of Legends of Baldur’s Gate #4 – which is mostly due to being very busy with The Book of Lost Spells – but it’s worth noting that this is a great issue. The story kicks into high gear with this instalment, getting ready for the Big Finale in issue #5. “Boo, if he does not help us, you must … Continue reading Comic Review: Legends of Baldur’s Gate #4
The Blacksmith’s Burden is a short, sidetrek adventure by John Rossomangno for characters of levels 2-4. The players must investigate why a blacksmith is working day and night – but has nothing to sell to his fellow villagers. When John describes this adventure as “short”, I immediately compared it to the other adventures that I’ve been reviewing recently. At 24 pages, this is quite a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Blacksmith’s Burden
A few months back, there was a kickstarter for a book of monsters, a book of adventures and a book of spells. Who ran the kickstarter? Necromancer Games, a company that rose to prominence in the earliest days of 3E as a provider of old-school inspired adventures (“Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel”). They went quiet during the 4E era, although part of the team … Continue reading Quests of Doom: The Noble Rot
The Temple of Qultar is the first release from Matt Jackson of Chubby Monster Games for the new edition of D&D. It’s a four-page pdf, consisting of an unkeyed map and three pages of description of the temple and the dungeon beneath it. No level is given for the adventure, but as there’s a Challenge Rating 5 monster in the adventure, I’m calling a 5th-level … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Temple of Qultar
Until February 22nd, 2015, there’s a sale of Wizards’ D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG. The discounts are variable – The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting (AD&D 1E) is $8.49, down from $9.99, while the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (D&D Basic) is $4.99, down from $9.99. Every title is at least 15% cheaper. Note that the “cover price” is the price the book was originally published with; a … Continue reading Sale of D&D pdfs at DriveThruRPG!
Waterdeep. The City of Splendours. Again. The adventurers had returned from Oviggaton with one thing missing: no Draakhorn. Where was it? Unfortunately, it seemed that it was already in the hands of the Cult of the Dragon. Maccath the Crimson had described how men dressed in ornate robes had taken the horn from Arauthator, and the descriptions of the men sounded very much like those … Continue reading The Rise of Tiamat, session 3
