The finale of the Olma trilogy, What Lies Beneath Ylraphon is a Tier 1 adventure by Lysa Chen, which sees the characters defending the settlement of Ylraphon from an attack by a horde of undead. The adventure has a brilliant structure, where the players can choose which threats to deal with before fighting the Big Bad at the end, with the choice of threats (and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: What Lies Beneath Ylraphon
Blood in the Water is the second of the Dreams of the Red Wizards series, written by Ashley Warren as a D&D Adventurers League adventure for level 5-10 characters. The characters attempt to aid the folk of Turmish in their preparations for a war against the nation of Thay. Unfortunately, after a promising start, the path for the characters becomes somewhat confused. The adventure begins … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Blood in the Water
Breaking Umberlee’s Resolve is the first adventure in the Dreams of the Red Wizards series, a season-independent storyline for the D&D Adventurers League. This first adventure, designed by Ashley Warren, is set in Turmish and the Sea of Fallen Stars, and sees the characters on a quest to save the missing daughter of local merchants, who has run off to sea and likely been kidnapped … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Breaking Umberlee’s Resolve
It’s tremendously important when writing an adventure to have a sense of its audience. When writing a D&D Adventurers League adventure, doubly so. For a CCC adventure, it’s easy to think you know the answer: it’s the audience at the convention. Unfortunately, if you write it only for them, anyone buying it from the DMs Guild is likely to be confused; the intended audience isn’t … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Ill Met in Ylraphon
The warning bells went off when I read the hook for The Secrets of Imaginary Friends, a Tier 1 CCC adventure for the D&D Adventurers League. It stated that the adventurers are hired as labourers. This was the only hook presented. Oh boy. The stuff of exciting adventures this wasn’t. Look, there are plenty of perfectly fine hooks for adventures. They may not be inspired … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Secrets of Imaginary Friends
It’s the end of May, Ghosts of Saltmarsh was released this week, and we’ve started a new campaign that will play through the first five adventures (at least)! Hooray! This will be, as most of my book campaigns are, a D&D Adventurers League campaign. As you may expect, spoilers abound in this recap of the session. We began our adventures in Saltmarsh with the last … Continue reading Ghosts of Saltmarsh – The Adventure Begins!
Legacy and Virtue is a D&D Adventurers League-legal adventure for level 1-4 characters by Alan Patrick that premiered at GameHoleCon 2018. This is an adventure that makes me very happy. It’s a dungeon crawl, but one with enough attention to detail to allow the players to find interesting features in each room, provide opportunities for combat and a little role-playing as well. The adventurers are … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Legacy and Virtue
This is the first of a series of articles on D&D Adventurers League play, looking at the opportunities it provides and the challenges it faces. All of this is my opinion and may vary from other people’s perceptions! Dungeons & Dragons is a game played by millions of players around the world. A significant number of those players play under the aegis of the D&D … Continue reading D&D Adventures League Play – Conventions, Stores, Home, Online
My happiest experience writing adventures for play in the D&D Adventurers League came courtesy of Robert Alaniz in 2017. He asked me to be one of a team (along with himself and Richard Jansen Parkes) to write the fourth (and final) trilogy of adventures set in Phlan for Baldman Games. On Good Friday, 2019, I finally had the chance to run the entire trilogy of … Continue reading Good Lord, Deliver Us! – Adventures in Phlan
Into the Border Kingdoms is a two-hour adventure for level 1-2 characters by Dave Zajac, and the first of the DDAL-adventures produced by GameHole Con in the Border Kingdoms region of the Forgotten Realms. The plot is relatively simple: the adventurers are in a tavern interacting with locals when it’s attacked by undead, then they go to the source of the undead and deal with … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Into the Border Kingdoms
