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D&D, D&D 5E, Review

5E Adventure Review: How the Kami Stole Snowtide

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

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5E Adventure Review: Saving Silverbeard

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

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5E Adventure Review: Vormestrand’s Scroll

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

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5E Adventure Review: Gate to the Unknown

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

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My Favourite D&D Adventures

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

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Greyhawk, Play Advice

Shadow Dancers in the World of Greyhawk

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

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On Devils and Demons

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

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D&D Encounter: The Vampire Crypt

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

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History and Dungeons & Dragons

Almost everything you think you know about history is probably wrong (or at least staggeringly incomplete). At least, that’s the impression I’m getting as I spend more time learning about aspects of our history. Even if you know some of the bigger points – that there was a American Civil War, that there was a battle at Bull Run, and so forth – you’re probably … Continue reading History and Dungeons & Dragons

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5E Adventure Review: The Day of the Devil

The Tier 1 adventures of Season 9 of the D&D Adventurers League conclude with M.T. Black’s The Day of the Devil, a little romp in Baldur’s Gate about cultists, murders and – gasp! – devils! The adventure has a 2+2 structure, that is, a two-hour adventure with two one-hour bonus objectives, and comes as close as any adventure I’ve run to presenting this satisfactorily. It … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Day of the Devil

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