Rats of Waterdeep is an adventure set in Waterdeep for first-level characters. Designed as part of the Guild Adept program by Lysa Chen and Will Doyle, it presents an investigative scenario sent in the poor quarter of Waterdeep, where a strange plague is turning people into rats! I love that the adventure’s resolution is open-ended. It sets the scene very well – the adventure’s background … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rats of Waterdeep
Red Thrall is an adventure for level 1-5 characters, designed to be used in conjunction with Storm King’s Thunder. It provides additional adventure opportunities during the opening chapter, “A Great Upheaval”, and works best when integrated with that chapter, although the material could be adapted for use elsewhere without much trouble. One of the benefits of using this material is to provide additional XP – … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Red Thrall
Pools of Cerulean is the second adventure of the Tier 4 D&D Adventurers League adventures for the Tomb of Annihilation season. The adventurers are tasked with recovering a shard of the Soulmonger before a party of Red Wizards recover it first. If this seems like the plot in Streams of Crimson, you would be correct. It is the same plot. What differs is the location … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Pools of Cerulean
The Laughing Horde of Ruin is a campaign adventure that takes the adventurers on the road from the city of Raven’s Bluff to the city of Tsurlagol, a haven for pirates. Designed by James MacMurray, this is a 99-page adventure that takes characters from level 1 to level 5. The adventure begins in Raven’s Bluff, where the adventurers are asked to find the son of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Laughing Horde of Ruin
In the Face of Fear is a two-hour adventure for level 1-4 characters written by Dave Zajac. It is the first part of the Tenets of Bane series and has been released as part of the D&D Adventurers League CCC programme. In it, the adventurers are sent to recover a relic of Bane, the god of Tyranny, which is hidden in the desolate wastelands of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: In the Face of Fear
There’s a fantastic idea powering Streams of Crimson, the first of four Tier 4 adventures for Season 7 of the D&D Adventurers League. The characters must recover a shard of the Soulmonger before the yuan-ti and Red Wizards do so, but they’ve got to navigate a ruined city in both the real and the ethereal plane. Having the adventure take place on two planes, with … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Streams of Crimson
A Fey’s Anger is a short side-trek adventure for level 4 characters written by Joe Raso. The adventure revolves around one encounter: A gnome tinkerer tries to hire the adventurers, only to be interrupted by a pixie and her banderhobb ally. Chaos erupts in the workshop as the adventurers attempt to stop the pixie from kidnapping the gnome. The most incredible thing about the adventure … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: A Fey’s Anger
So, You Want to be a Goblin is an adventure for first-level adventurers – goblins – by the GM Tim. It features goblins of the Gnaalbec tribe of Chult attempting to pass their rite of adulthood, which will enable them to wear the cool masks goblins wear in Chult. The goblins must complete four tasks to pass the rite: Defeat a cockatrice in a garbage … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: So, You Want to be a Goblin
Mortimer’s Monster Museum is a short, two-hour adventure for level 9-11 characters written by Sam Greene. The adventurers are hired by an eccentric wizard to test his interactive museum of monsters. As you might imagine, doing a quest for an eccentric wizard is likely to go in unexpected directions, and this is the case with this adventure! I enjoyed reading this adventure. It is very … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Mortimer’s Monster Museum
Fathomless Pits of Ill-Intent is the final Tier 3 adventure in Season 7 of the D&D Adventurers League adventures. Written by Eric Menge, it takes the characters into a trap- and puzzle-filled ziggurat where they must stop the Yuan-Ti from summoning Dendar, the Night Serpent. It pulls it off, too. After a run of adventures that have frustrated my players and me, Fathomless Pits of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Fathomless Pits of Ill-Intent
