There has been an ongoing debate over the effectiveness of the Beast Master ranger archetype, with its supporters pointing to the excellent beasts available in the Monster Manual and how they function with the class. Meanwhile, its critics point to the problems the beasts have at surviving and their limitations. A recent episode of The Round Table saw Dan Dillon and Schuyler Esau discussing why … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: The Beast Master Companion

Kobold Press’s Unlikely Heroes offers the discerning 5E player a selection of eight new character races and four backgrounds in a 27-page document (available in pdf and print versions from their webstore; the print version is also available from Amazon). Written by Dan Dillon, with addition design by Wolfgang Baur, several of the races are normally evil in alignment, although this is not true of … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Unlikely Heroes

Tony Petrecca’s The Darklake Strikes Back is the second of his Journey Through the Centre of the Underdark adventures. Designed for four to six 4th-6th level characters, the product presents a set of encounters to use during play of Out of the Abyss or any campaign set on an underground water system. There are four short encounters and one longer encounter setting (an island of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Darklake Strikes Back

Winghorn Press’s The Low Crater is a 16-page adventure for 6th-level characters. It involves a lot of kobolds. For those new to D&D, kobolds are well-known as a low-level foe that are typically slain in great numbers. Well, most of the time. Some kobold tribes become masters of making traps, and become very well-organised and able to take on even high-level parties of adventurers. The … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Low Crater