Rrakkma is an adventure for 9th-level characters that features a band of gith attempting to stop a plot by the mind flayers. The players get to play the gith, and their characters must explore a stronghold on the plane of Pandemonium before entering the Far Realm for the final confrontation. Written by Christopher Lindsay of Wizards of the Coast and released to WPN stores for … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rrakkma
It has been a rough time for the Tier 3 D&D Adventurers League adventures from season 7. I approached DDAL07-13 Old Tomes and Older Bones with some trepidation. My one consolation was that it was written by Robert Alaniz, who has designed some excellent adventures in the past. The basic story of the adventure is that you accompany two sages from Candlekeep as they search … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Old Tomes and Older Bones
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes has been released in some game stores and on D&D Beyond! Hooray! This is a book that, like Volo’s Guide to Monsters, presents much information about the inhabitants of the D&D world. Its primary focus is on the conflicts between various factions: Demons and Devils – the Blood War Elves and Drow, and all the other elven subraces Dwarves and Duergar … Continue reading A First Look at Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
In Search of Secrets (DDAL07-12) by Christopher Sniezak is an adventure for level 11-16 characters set in Chult. The adventurers travel to a yuan-ti tomb full of traps to stop a yuan-ti priest and his undead servant from fulfilling the wishes of Dendar, the Night Serpent, the evil god of the snake-people. It’s not a great adventure. This isn’t to say it doesn’t have some … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: In Search of Secrets
Richard Pett’s Grimalkin is an adventure for 3rd-5th level adventurers set in the Southlands of Kobold Press’s Midgard setting. It is a sequel to Cat and Mouse, but you don’t need to know that adventure to appreciate this one. The basic plot revolves around a hidden tomb that several factions wish to find and loot. Unfortunately, the factions don’t know where the tomb is and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Grimalkin
A Magic: the Gathering pre-release event meant that we couldn’t play D&D Adventurers League games on Saturday. So, instead, I played a few board-games with one of my friends. Great Western Trail This is one of my favourite games at present. We played two games on Saturday, each lasting a little under an hour. It plays very well with two to four players. With four … Continue reading Boardgaming Saturday: Great Western Trail, A Feast for Odin and Through the Ages
One of the tricky things to do with high-tier adventures, particularly ones for the D&D Adventurers League, is to make them feel significant enough. Demagogue, the first of the Sovereignty trilogy from Baldman Games, succeeds at this brilliantly. Bane, the God of Tyranny, has kidnapped the candidates for rulership of Phlan and has begun to indoctrinate them in his way of ruling. As this would … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Demagogue
The Mines of Chult is a collection of nine short adventures set in – wait for it – Chult! Written by three of my favourite D&D designers, Shawn Merwin, Tony Petrecca and Jeff C. Stevens, the nine adventures provide challenges for your adventurers to face when they discover one of the mines hidden away in the jungle. As these mines are not described in the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Mines of Chult
A Lake Full of Mystery is a short, two-hour adventure for 2nd-level characters. It is full of misspellings, strange capitalisations and poor grammar. I want to mention that first, as they are prominently featured throughout the product. In the adventure, the adventurers are hired to deal with a “Small pest problem”. The person who hires the adventurers is a shady person, so he won’t tell … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: A Lake Full of Mystery
Hunter is an adventure for level 1-4 characters by Will Doyle and James Introcaso. It sets the adventurers the task of surviving the night in the jungles of Chult while a dangerous plant-based predator stalks them. The adventure first presents a description of the valley the adventurers are trapped in, then describes various NPCs – mainly members of the Flaming Fist – they can interact … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Hunter
