It has been a rough time for the Tier 3 D&D Adventurers League adventures from season 7. I approached DDAL07-13 Old Tomes and Older Bones with some trepidation. My one consolation was that it was written by Robert Alaniz, who has designed some excellent adventures in the past. The basic story of the adventure is that you accompany two sages from Candlekeep as they search … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Old Tomes and Older Bones
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes has been released in some game stores and on D&D Beyond! Hooray! This is a book that, like Volo’s Guide to Monsters, presents much information about the inhabitants of the D&D world. Its primary focus is on the conflicts between various factions: Demons and Devils – the Blood War Elves and Drow, and all the other elven subraces Dwarves and Duergar … Continue reading A First Look at Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
In Search of Secrets (DDAL07-12) by Christopher Sniezak is an adventure for level 11-16 characters set in Chult. The adventurers travel to a yuan-ti tomb full of traps to stop a yuan-ti priest and his undead servant from fulfilling the wishes of Dendar, the Night Serpent, the evil god of the snake-people. It’s not a great adventure. This isn’t to say it doesn’t have some … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: In Search of Secrets
My Greyhawk campaign continued this week with an adventure from The Mines of Chult. One of the things I try to do with my Greyhawk game is to run it in semi-sandbox mode. That is, every so often I ask my players what they want to do next. We’d finished the last session with the adventurers saving the town of Brusington from an undead monstrosity, … Continue reading The Mines of Greyhawk
Richard Pett’s Grimalkin is an adventure for 3rd-5th level adventurers set in the Southlands of Kobold Press’s Midgard setting. It is a sequel to Cat and Mouse, but you don’t need to know that adventure to appreciate this one. The basic plot revolves around a hidden tomb that several factions wish to find and loot. Unfortunately, the factions don’t know where the tomb is and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Grimalkin
RPG Day – Singapore – June 9th & 10th RPG Day will take place 9-10 June, and will be premiering Singapore’s first ever Convention-Created Content (CCC) adventure as well as running the second iteration of an official epic (DDEP07-02, Dues for the Dead) during the gathering. LFG – Sydney – Bankstown Sports Club – July 13th-15th LFG Sydney will again feature D&D Adventurers League content. … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League News – Asia Pacific – May 8, 2018
If you’ve ever played an old-school dungeon-delve, or a new-school death trap (see Tomb of Annihilation), you’ve likely needed a variety of spells to save you from a horrible fate. Or rather, your horrible fate would have been avoided if you’d had these spells. The current edition of D&D doesn’t require these spells to the same extent as previous editions (notably 3E), but you’re likely … Continue reading The Essential Spells for Dungeon-Delving
In my last post, I described the initial concept of an adventure. The next stage of this adventure is to get into a little more detail as to what the PCs will face. Let’s start with the tomb encounter. This is where the players meet the “recovery specialists” who are trying to loot the tomb before the PCs. I’m building this encounter for 5 PCs … Continue reading Designing an Adventure: Choosing the Monsters
I’ve decided I need to design a new adventure. The “announcement” that the next adventure season of D&D will be in Undermountain has fired my imagination. I’d very much like to design a series of short dungeon adventures detailing undiscovered corners of the megadungeon. So, why not? Okay, the “announcement” didn’t actually say “it’s Undermountain”. It just hinted, very heavily, that Undermountain is next. It’s … Continue reading Designing an Adventure: First Steps
I may no longer be the Regional Co-ordinator for the APAC region, but I still remain fascinated by what’s going on in the D&D Adventurers League in the Asia-Pacific. Two items caught my attention this week: Save the Children of Mulmaster Michael Balin recently organised a charity event where 165 players from eight stores in Australia played through the D&D Epic, Mulmaster Undone. Over $3,000 was … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League – Asia Pacific – News
