A long, long time ago (1988), the Greyhawk Adventures book from TSR presented a set of rules for adventuring with level 0 characters in the AD&D system. Every so often, an adventure designer returns to that idea, and creates an adventure for characters that haven’t quite settled into their character class. The idea is that through the actions you take on your first adventure, you … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rise of Heroes
The Mystery of Malvern Manor is a short, free adventure by Dan Head, which he posted on his website. It’s taken from his home campaign for his family. Unusually, the first encounter has the party acting as mobsters – they’re sent to break someone’s legs for not paying the local dwarf leader what he is owed! “Fortunately, there’s a pack of worthless adventurers in town.” … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Mystery of Malvern Manor
Adventure Shorts Volume 1 is a 20-page PDF released by R&D D&D Adventures for the new edition of D&D. It contains five short adventures for the game, each designed for 4-5 level one characters. In practice, it contains five two-page adventure, reproductions of the maps suitable for handouts or reproduction as a battle grid, and an introduction and title page. The whole is very nicely … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Adventure Shorts volume 1
Waterdeep, City of Splendours. The city’s citizens had been worried by the appearance of a flying castle in the sky nearby, but the castle had moved off northwards, ignoring the city. The five travellers who came into the city’s gates, accompanying a wagon full of goods, were unaware of the panic their transport had sent the city into, but were glad to be getting back … Continue reading The Rise of Tiamat, session 1
“I want to pat you!” That was what Ice told the surprised White Dragon, who suddenly was confronting a halfling sorcerer who really, really like dragons. As Ice was especially charming – aided by having advantage on Charisma checks against dragons – the white dragon, whose name was Glazrael, acquiesced and discovered it was rather nice. Then he took Ice for a ride outside the … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 18
Having thoroughly scouted most of the castle last session, the group now prepared to cause as much trouble for the cult as they did. Between sessions, I allowed some retooling of the characters, in particular with their spell lists, as the group was finding that some of their spells were proving far less effective than they needed to be. The most relevant change was that … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 17
Secrets in the Dark is an adventure written by Dan Hass and available on DriveThruRPG both separately and as part of a low-level adventure package. The adventure is designed for 1-6 first level characters, although I’d be quite wary of running it with a single PC without modification. A party of characters is generally better at recovering from bad luck; running single character adventures has … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Secrets in the Dark
This is the third-last session report on Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Yes, my group has actually finished the adventure, but I’m a few weeks behind in writing session reports. I’ll catch up this week, so I’m all ready to report on The Rise of Tiamat when we begin that in the very near future. The last session had seen the group gain as an … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen – session 16
The latest adventure from Sacrosanct Games takes as its basis one of the earliest and distinctive of TSR’s adventure releases, the Keep on the Borderlands, Gary Gygax’s introductory adventure for D&D. Reclaiming the Caves on the Borderlands has a rather neat concept: About a year ago, the monsters in the caves were defeated by a band of adventurers, and now a group of humans and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Reclaiming the Caves on the Borderlands
We did a reconfiguration of the tables this session to account for players who have dropped out. There is one fewer table now; our numbers are generally stable around 30 players each week, which seems more sustainable into the future. My own table is nominally at six players, although Lewis couldn’t make this session so we only had five players this session. My table is … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 15
