Dave Zajac’s Hand of the Wychlaren is an adventure for 3rd-level characters set in the Rashemen area of the Forgotten Realms, although it is easily adaptable to other settings. The adventure is primarily a dungeon delve, as the party undertakes a mission for one of the famous Witches of Rashemen. The Witches (also known as the Wychlaren) have a problem: goblins are leaving their homes … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Hand of the Wychlaren
Gale Force 9 have been producing a range of accessories for D&D for a while now. Their early 5E releases weren’t always well received, but, with their two main Curse of Strahd accessories – the Tarokka deck and the Curse of Strahd DM Screen – they’ve managed to put out a couple of products I really like. The player’s side of the DM Screen features … Continue reading 5E Accessory Review: Curse of Strahd DM Screen
I’ve done these before, but I’ve decided to put the newest version of my D&D Adventurers League adventure checklist up on the DMs Guild. It’s now updated to be form-fillable, meaning you can check the little boxes next to each adventure on your computer. The wonders of modern computing technology! I had a lot of fun with the blurb for this product. Witness: Adventures! Lots … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League adventure checklist
Designing a basic adventure for Dungeons & Dragons isn’t hard. Just draw a map, put some monsters and treasure in it, and you’ve got an adventure! It’s one of the reasons that D&D remains the most dominant role-playing game on the market: it isn’t hard to create an adventure for your players. However, just going into a dungeon and killing monsters proves – after a … Continue reading Designing Adventures: Objectives
DDAL04-06 The Ghost is the mid-season finale of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. Or, at least, it could be if you squint really hard. Honestly, it’s hard to know what to make of it. Somewhere in the writing process – either in initial conception, its writing, or the editing – something went badly wrong with the story. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ghost
If you’re new to Dungeon Mastering D&D, the task of designing an adventure can be pretty daunting. After all, you’ve picked up Curse of Strahd or Lost Mine of Phandelver and there are lots and lots of words there. How is a beginner even going to get close to that? Well, you’re not. But then, neither am I. I’ve been doing this Dungeon-mastering gig for … Continue reading D&D for Beginners: Writing Adventure Notes
Aaron “Quickleaf” Infante-Levy’s adventure The Beast of Graenseskov is a grand investigative adventure set in eastern Barovia. A large wolf-like creature has begun to terrorise the lands around the Graenseskov forest, and it is the player characters who need to discover what the creature is and how to stop it. The 80-page adventure describes the inhabitants of the land, the locations, and the events that … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Beast of Graenseskov
The fifth adventure of the current D&D Adventurers League season is The Seer, a 2-hour adventure for 1st-4th level characters. It’s written assuming the party has five 4th-level characters, and contains the standard DDAL scaling notes. As always, DMs should treat the adventure with care and scale appropriately for their group. When writing adventures, it’s very hard to properly assess the strength of a group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Seer
DDAL04-04 The Marionette continues the D&D Adventurers League storyline, “Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts”, with an adventure that draws together storylines begun in previous adventures. It might also have just a little too much content in it; not really a problem for home games, but certainly one for convention and in-store play. It has been reported that a DM whose group has a more leisurely … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Marionette
These days, I’m tending towards not backing Kickstarter projects. Although it can be a great platform, I’ve seen too many projects fall over and die, or take entirely too long to be fulfilled. There are a few that I do still think are really interesting, though. Like this one: 13th Age Campaign Coins and Icon Tokens Campaign Coins is a Melbourne-based company that do a … Continue reading An Interesting Kickstarter: 13th Age Campaign Coins and Icon Tokens
