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D&D 5E, Review

5E Supplement Review: Jungle Goodies – The Treasures of Chult

Jungle Goodies is a collection of descriptions of the odd, the bizarre and the wonderful items, characters and locations you might find in Chult. Designed by Chris Bissette and Matt Sanders, it provides the harried Dungeon Master with a selection of material to help inspire games set in the jungle land. This is not a collection of magic items, despite the name. Instead, it just … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Jungle Goodies – The Treasures of Chult

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Decisions and Consequences

Why do you put a puzzle in a game of Dungeons & Dragons? The answer: To challenge the players. I feel it is a great mistake to believe that it’s there to challenge the characters. They’re imaginary. They’re not playing the game. It’s the players sitting around the table with you who the puzzle is for. And, if your players don’t like puzzles, it’ll be … Continue reading Decisions and Consequences

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5E Adventure Review: Murder at the Stop

The Stop is a small town on the Trade Way as it nears Hillsfar. Life has been tough for the people of the Stop after the overthrow of the previous ruler of Hillsfar, and they haven’t been helped by the hold the Hillsfar Merchant Guild holds over their town. What happens when the representative of the Guild gets murdered? That’s the focus of Murder at … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Murder at the Stop

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Running Tomb of Annihilation – Session 1

The memory cheats. It had been a week since our Session 0 where we created the characters for this session, and I’d ended the creation session with the description of the characters arriving in Chult. Except, now they weren’t. I described a new teleportation ritual started by their patron, and it went wrong, not sending them to Chult! Did anyone notice? No, not really. Instead, … Continue reading Running Tomb of Annihilation – Session 1

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5E Adventure Review – Bleeding Gate: Amalgamation

In the Forgotten Realms, there exists a secret society known as the Peacesmiths, with 47,417 members scattered over Faerun, which is run out of a small underground settlement no-one has heard of called Emudomier. What do they do? I don’t know. They’re apparently Emudomier’s champions and master negotiators, and they’re going missing. The characters are hired to investigate. Or rather, they’re hired to visit Raan, … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review – Bleeding Gate: Amalgamation

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Running Tomb of Annihilation – Session 0

We’ve started running Tomb of Annihilation! Well, sort of! The first session of the campaign was what is occasionally referred to as a “Session 0”. It’s a session where the players create their characters, and everyone works out how they know each other, why they’re on the adventure, and the DM gets to discover what plot hooks will work best with the party. With Tomb … Continue reading Running Tomb of Annihilation – Session 0

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Dungeon Master Tips: The Power of a Second Wave

As your players get more experienced, they get very good at destroying the monsters you set in front of them. Unless it’s a surprise attack, players are great at identifying the main targets and using their swords and spells to take them out with brutal efficiency. Had you an ettin as the main monster of the combat? Unfortunately, it didn’t get even one chance to … Continue reading Dungeon Master Tips: The Power of a Second Wave

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Preparing for Tomb of Annihilation

Tomb of Annihilation is a big book, isn’t it? It feels really heavy. I mean, it should weigh about the same as Storm King’s Thunder, but for some reason it feels heavier to me. Guess what I start running this Saturday? I tend not to overprepare published adventures; giving them an examination to understand the underlying structure and then examine various encounters with more detail … Continue reading Preparing for Tomb of Annihilation

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5E Adventure Review – Ruins of Matolo: Discovery

Ruins of Matolo: Discovery is a short adventure by Cindy Moore for 5th-level characters. It is one of the initial Guild Adept releases on the DMs Guild. The adventure sends the characters into the jungle of Chult to discover the fate of a recent expedition of Order of the Gauntlet troops. As one might expect, undead are involved, and the characters will need to track them … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review – Ruins of Matolo: Discovery

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