Our numbers were slightly down this week from our all-time high of last week, but – at 36 players – it was still the second highest turnout in our store! It wasn’t as simple as six people couldn’t make it, though, as a couple of players who missed last week were here for this session. The fluctuating player base is one of the reasons that … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 3
Our latest session of the Friday campaign saw us continuing through Lost Mine of Phandelver. We’d ended the previous session with the group starting their explorations of Cragmaw Castle; this session saw them conclude their explorations. Harbek, Martin’s dwarf fighter, could hear movement to the south through a small passage the goblins had made through the rubble. He set up guard near the doorway to … Continue reading Goblins of the Lost Mine (Friday session 4)
I’m writing this review thirty years after UK3: The Gauntlet came out. This adventure is part two of the two-part Alderweg series. I was not particularly kind in my review of the first part of the series, The Sentinel. I did not enjoy it when I first read it back in the 80s, and I don’t particularly enjoy it today. It’s not a terrible adventure, … Continue reading AD&D Review – UK3: The Gauntlet
DDEX1-1 Defiance in Phlan is the first adventure in the D&D Expeditions range from Wizards of the Coast. It is only available to organisers and DMs running games of the D&D Expeditions program, which is primarily in-store and convention play. While most of the D&D Expeditions adventures can be played in a single 4-hour session, Defiance in Phlan is written as five, short, one-hour sessions. … Continue reading Defiance in Phlan – Introducing the D&D Expeditions adventures
Payback is the second of a two-adventure series that began with Wrath of the Goblinoids. In it, the players play goblins or other evil humanoids fighting against the encroachment of humans into their lands. As with my previous review, I’m reviewing a pdf copy I bought from DriveThruRPG. The adventure begins with the characters attending a meeting of the various humanoid leaders at the great … Continue reading Adventure Review: Payback
Sacrosanct Games is another publisher who produces old-school style adventures that are now releasing adventures for D&D 5E; their initial release is a conversion of an adventure they’d previously released for both the AD&D and Altus Adventum system. At present, it is only available in pdf. Wrath of the Goblinoids is an adventure for first level characters. The primary hook of the adventure is that … Continue reading Adventure Review: Wrath of the Goblinoids
Mithgarthr Entertainment has already released two free adventures for 5E; The Mines of Valdhum is their first actual purchasable adventure. I bought mine from DriveThruRPG. The Mines of Valdhum has been released as a 37-page black-and-white PDF and is an adventure for 4-6 characters of levels 5-7. A previous version of the adventure was released for the Labyrinth Lords system, a variant of BECMI D&D. … Continue reading Adventure Review: The Mines of Valdhum
As it turns out, running two groups through Lost Mine of Phandelver, each fortnightly and each offset from the other by a week is not entirely conducive to me remembering everything that happened in a session. These reports, therefore, are terribly important for reminding myself of what occurred in the previous session! We had five players at this session of the Saturday group: Jesse, Tait, … Continue reading Lost Mine of Phandelver – Saturday session 4
The second session of Hoard of the Dragon Queen saw another seven players turn up, which gave us a group of 42 people. This was somewhat challenging, both in terms of space and finding enough Dungeon Master’s, and was complicated further with a few late arrivals. Eventually, we moved Ben onto a table of new players while Sarah took over the DMing at her table. … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Hoard of the Dragon Queen session 2
We’re almost at September, which is when the first adventures of the D&D Expeditions become legal to play. I was hoping to run a special session of them on September 1st, but the store is going to be a bit busy that day. Instead, we’ll have a couple of tables available to run on Tuesday, September 2nd and again on Monday September 8th. (I’ve got … Continue reading More information on choosing adventures to play in the D&D Adventurers League
