The tenth adventure of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts is The Artifact by Teos “Alphastream” Abadia. This is a fascinating adventure, which rewards players who like role-playing and investigation as opposed to straight combat. It’s also based on the classic game of Clue. (Did you know they once produced a D&D version of Clue? They did! Really!) This is not to say that The Artifact … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Artifact
The ninth adventure in the fourth D&D Adventurers League season, The Tempter, has a lot to recommend it. It makes use of a number of gothic horror tropes that I adore, and it ends with the players having to make a decision that properly evokes the major theme of the adventure: Temptation. The characters might be sent to a Lady’s manor to bargain for supplies, … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Tempter
There has been an ongoing debate over the effectiveness of the Beast Master ranger archetype, with its supporters pointing to the excellent beasts available in the Monster Manual and how they function with the class. Meanwhile, its critics point to the problems the beasts have at surviving and their limitations. A recent episode of The Round Table saw Dan Dillon and Schuyler Esau discussing why … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: The Beast Master Companion
Kobold Press’s Unlikely Heroes offers the discerning 5E player a selection of eight new character races and four backgrounds in a 27-page document (available in pdf and print versions from their webstore; the print version is also available from Amazon). Written by Dan Dillon, with addition design by Wolfgang Baur, several of the races are normally evil in alignment, although this is not true of … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Unlikely Heroes
Andrew Cawood’s The Travellers’ Handbook is a grab-bag of various tables and charts that may offer some inspiration or aid during a session. As the product’s title states, the overarching theme is things that can be useful while travelling. Thus, it begins with a summary of the general travel rules – detailing the rates of travel, the costs of hiring mounts and vehicles, what activities … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: The Travellers’ Handbook
There’s an excellent concept inside The Broken One, the eighth adventure of the current D&D Adventurers League season. It’s got some fantastic imagery, a moral dilemma and an exciting conclusion. It’s also an adventure I found very difficult to run. A large part of the reason for this is how dependent the adventure is on interacting with NPCs. This adventure begins with a meeting with … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Broken One
Tony Petrecca’s The Darklake Strikes Back is the second of his Journey Through the Centre of the Underdark adventures. Designed for four to six 4th-6th level characters, the product presents a set of encounters to use during play of Out of the Abyss or any campaign set on an underground water system. There are four short encounters and one longer encounter setting (an island of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Darklake Strikes Back
The Innocent is the seventh adventure in Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of adventures from the D&D Adventurers League. It’s properly the first adventure in the second part of the storyline, following on from the transitional adventure The Ghost. At the end of that last adventure, the hag Jeny Greenteeth gave the players a prophecy; the events of the Innocent are the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Innocent
Winghorn Press’s The Low Crater is a 16-page adventure for 6th-level characters. It involves a lot of kobolds. For those new to D&D, kobolds are well-known as a low-level foe that are typically slain in great numbers. Well, most of the time. Some kobold tribes become masters of making traps, and become very well-organised and able to take on even high-level parties of adventurers. The … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Low Crater
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
