The “Power” of the Tiny Hut

One of the groups at my local gaming store had an interesting approach to the final encounter of Mike Shea’s The Innocent, which they played last week: they slept through it! It appears that upon reaching the final encounter, they were quite hurt and out of resources… although the bard had one casting of Leomund’s Tiny Hut left. So, they cast it and rested. Meanwhile, … Continue reading The “Power” of the Tiny Hut

5E Adventure Review: The Innocent

The Innocent is the seventh adventure in Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of adventures from the D&D Adventurers League. It’s properly the first adventure in the second part of the storyline, following on from the transitional adventure The Ghost. At the end of that last adventure, the hag Jeny Greenteeth gave the players a prophecy; the events of the Innocent are the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Innocent

D&D Adventurers League adventure checklist

I’ve done these before, but I’ve decided to put the newest version of my D&D Adventurers League adventure checklist up on the DMs Guild. It’s now updated to be form-fillable, meaning you can check the little boxes next to each adventure on your computer. The wonders of modern computing technology! I had a lot of fun with the blurb for this product. Witness: Adventures! Lots … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League adventure checklist

5E Adventure Review: The Ghost

DDAL04-06 The Ghost is the mid-season finale of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. Or, at least, it could be if you squint really hard. Honestly, it’s hard to know what to make of it. Somewhere in the writing process – either in initial conception, its writing, or the editing – something went badly wrong with the story. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ghost

5E Adventure Review: The Seer

The fifth adventure of the current D&D Adventurers League season is The Seer, a 2-hour adventure for 1st-4th level characters. It’s written assuming the party has five 4th-level characters, and contains the standard DDAL scaling notes. As always, DMs should treat the adventure with care and scale appropriately for their group. When writing adventures, it’s very hard to properly assess the strength of a group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Seer

5E Adventure Review: The Marionette

DDAL04-04 The Marionette continues the D&D Adventurers League storyline, “Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts”, with an adventure that draws together storylines begun in previous adventures. It might also have just a little too much content in it; not really a problem for home games, but certainly one for convention and in-store play. It has been reported that a DM whose group has a more leisurely … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Marionette

5E Adventure Review: The Executioner

DDAL04-03: The Executioner is the third of the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. (The program formerly known as Expeditions). It is also, I’m sorry to say, the worst adventure of them all, by a fair margin. Quite frankly, it’s shit. It’s an adventure without a beginning, without an end, and with a weak middle. A lot of the problems come down to the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Executioner

5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-02 The Beast

The Beast is the first adventure of the new D&D Adventurers League season set fully in Barovia. The adventure, a two-hour affair written by Alan Patrick, is a strong one. It tells the tale of the characters arriving in the village of Oraşnou, a village that relies primarily on trading furs with the Vistani to ensure it has the supplies it needs for the winter. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-02 The Beast

Running Curse of Strahd, part 1

After the TPK (Total Party Kill) in Death House, we started playing the full Curse of Strahd adventure. And, of course, things promptly got interesting. Curse in Strahd is an adventure where the players need to deal with a great threat – the vampire Strahd, ruler of Barovia – without initially having the tools to do so. There are a lot of people who think … Continue reading Running Curse of Strahd, part 1

A list of places to play D&D in the Asia-Pacific region

One of the things I occasionally get asked is “where can I play D&D?” The answer to that is “anywhere you can find players!” But, of course, finding players can be the tricky bit. To aid the answering of this question, I’ve started up a list of clubs and stores that run D&D events. I’m also trying to tag them (as I get more information) … Continue reading A list of places to play D&D in the Asia-Pacific region