Roots Run Deep is an urban and wilderness adventure for level 1-4 characters, playable in about three to five hours. A corrupted knight has entered a town and killed a lot of the small creatures there, and the players must track him back to the dark forest that corrupted him and end the threat. This adventure, while not a D&D Adventurers League-legal adventure, is written … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Roots Run Deep
The Fog of Solhaven is a gothic-themed adventure for 4th or 5th level characters. It’s got a great concept, but it feels like it needs a little more development and certainly better editing. The plot is as follows: the characters arrive in Solhaven, a cursed town enshrouded in fog, in which strange monsters prowl. The characters meet two sisters who have an idea of how … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Fog of Solhaven
How the Kami Stole Snowtide is an adventure for level 6-8 characters. It uses a generic setting, although the title should give you a clue that a Japan-themed setting would work best. It’s an utterly charming adventure, and one I would recommend wholeheartedly, except it’s also frustratingly incomplete. It’s in the process of releasing under an instalment plan. Three of the parts are available as … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: How the Kami Stole Snowtide
I’ve rarely been as disappointed with a series of releases as I have with the Dreams of the Red Wizards adventures. When first announced, they were meant to be an adjunct to the D&D Adventurers League new program of “Seasonality”; a series of adventures serving as a new storyline running in addition to the regular season-based play, aimed primarily at higher-level characters. Then Seasonality was … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Saving Silverbeard
Vormestrand’s Scroll is a DDAL-legal adventure for level 1-2 characters set in the Forgotten Realms. It’s an unusual adventure, allowing up to four tables to co-operate to solve the situation together, making it one of the few multi-table D&D experiences available to everyone. The basic set-up is that Vormestrand, a retired adventurer turned brewer, is kidnapped and his brewery is set on fire. The bands … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Vormestrand’s Scroll
Gate to the Unknown is the third in a Tier 1 trilogy set in the Moonshae Isles, but it feels and plays mostly as a stand-alone adventure, much to my delight. If you’ve followed my twitter account recently, you’ll know that I’ve become very disenchanted with tight trilogies of adventures as part of D&D Adventurers League play. I’m happiest when each adventure works as a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Gate to the Unknown
This is a quick post. It’s very hot in my room, and it’ll be hotter tomorrow. (And I’ve been incredibly busy at work). What are the adventures I like the most in Dungeons & Dragons? Here they are… Tyranny of Dragons. Incredible story. Incredible scope. The early sections allow you to explore the threat of the Cult of the Dragon, and the later sections expand … Continue reading My Favourite D&D Adventures
One of the additions to the Dungeons & Dragons game during the 3E era was the prestige class of the Shadowdancer. They were pretty popular, and it was the goal of one of my players to become one. That led to some pretty amusing and entertaining game play. And, though the prestige class no longer exists, Monks who follow the Way of the Shadow can … Continue reading Shadow Dancers in the World of Greyhawk
Two major groups of foes that have been in Dungeons & Dragons since the very early days are Devils and Demons, beloved by Dungeon Masters because they provide actual danger for high-level characters that many, more mundane, foes do not. In the original version of D&D, only demons appeared. Why was that? Well, it has a lot to do with the original form of alignment, … Continue reading On Devils and Demons
This encounter can be used in any dungeon where you might find it amusing – probably level 5 or higher. I originally used it as part of a dungeon where the players were chasing a vampire. Unfortunately, the vampire had a couple of tricks up his sleeve… The Vampire Crypt Read or paraphrase the following to the players: A thirty-foot square stone chamber is behind … Continue reading D&D Encounter: The Vampire Crypt
