Jay Africa’s The River Lord is a short adventure for level 3 characters. The adventurers are hired by a noblewoman who wants to ransom her wayward son from some pirates, but things are unlikely to go so smoothly. The adventure mainly consists of the one confrontation with the pirates. The players have a lot of agency in how things unfold, whether through role-playing, infiltration or … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The River Lord
Do you think you understand the City? Its squalid humours rising from waste, from too many; its people, great and poor? The Old City, where the unwanted live – say not, unwanted, but uncherished. From there the workers, the cleaners, the servants come, crawling from their unlit dens when the great sun rises, and the good and great require their work. From those unwashed middens, … Continue reading Sunset over Greyhawk
After 20 three-hour sessions, we have finished Storm King’s Thunder. We started in February; we finished in the last week of June. It was an enjoyable experience. The final session consisted of the six adventurers accompanying five storm giants as they attacked the Ancient Blue Dragon responsible for the chaos in the Storm King’s demesne. The session could have been better. I should have excluded … Continue reading Ending Storm King’s Thunder
In A Lesson in Love, you need to discover a missing elf for her grieving father. However, the adventure doesn’t flow smoothly… Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: A Lesson in Love
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
Hatemaster is the second adventure of the second Phlan series from Baldman Games. It can be played as a stand-alone adventure, but works best as part of that series, where you need to rescue the three candidates for the rulership of Phlan from the clutches of the Black Lord, Bane. The adventure’s main conceit is to send the adventurers back in time, where they must … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Hatemaster
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
Today, I’ve scheduled the following games: Sunday 9:00 am THENT01-01 Beneath the Surface Levels 1-4 Steam has been rising from ruins east of the city of Thentia for almost two tendays. Scouts and adventurers have gone to investigate, but have not returned. What might be lurking in the depths of those dark places, and will it remain there? Sunday 12:30 pm THENT01-02 Those that Dwell … Continue reading Day 3 of Conquest awaits!
For the first time in almost 25 years, I’ve found myself at the Conquest gaming convention in Melbourne. It’s been held over the Easter weekend for as long as I remember, and for the first time I was going as an organiser of games. In particular, I was organising D&D Adventurers League games. Conquest is a small convention, which had an unfortunate hiatus a couple … Continue reading At the Conquest Convention
As I’ve done for previous PAX conventions in Australia, I made up a special set of pregenerated characters that could be used by people at the convention. As it was likely we’d get a lot of new players – and almost every player wouldn’t have a character sheet – I tried to create them so that they’d be easy to read and use. All the … Continue reading Pregenerated Characters at PAX Australia 2017
