The second adventure release from Assassin Games, Bloodfang Caves, is a short dungeon-crawl for low-level characters. The background for the adventure relates how once Graknor Bloodfang was a feared orc warlord until he was deposed by a lieutenant. Now he lives as the head of a band of puny goblins. Four potential adventure hooks are given for the characters; interestingly, two of them involve working … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Bloodfang Caves
The second adventure from Save vs Boredom is a horror/mystery adventure for second tier (levels 5-10) characters. Entitled The Tiger’s Song, it has the adventurers being forced to help a hag who has stolen the soul of one of their number, and being transported to a distant city to do so. Some players and DMs might balk at the unavoidable nature of the hook, and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Tiger’s Song
It is a delight to read the adventures of new writers, especially when they write adventures as well-constructed as this one. The Leviathan’s Tomb is an adventure for five level 3 characters, although it provides notes for scaling the adventure for 3-5 characters of levels 1-4, in the manner of the D&D Expeditions adventures. A nearby lord needs help clearing out an ancient, island castle … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Leviathan’s Tomb
Dale C. McCoy Jr has been producing material for the Pathfinder game for several years, and with Rescue from Tyrkaven he has turned his attention to the 5E game. Rescue consists of a single dungeon of 15 areas. A short but effective introduction gives the DM the background and synopsis of the adventure, but it wastes no time in giving you the meat of the adventure. In … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rescue from Tyrkaven
Campaigns in Cairnvarthi is a big product – 145 pages in total – which its author, Matthew Evans, has made available through DriveThruRPG in pdf or print-on-demand format. Part campaign setting, part adventure, it’s something he’s been working on for some time. I’m not going to review the campaign setting here in detail. It contains a short history of the world and details on the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Campaigns in Cairnvarthi
I own a lot of board games – at last count, over 500 of them – but I’m always looking for good new games. Dungeons & Dragons-themed board game are something I always want to try, and yesterday I had my first chance to play the new instalment in the Adventure System: Temple of Elemental Evil. The box is heavy, thanks primarily to the large … Continue reading A first look at the Temple of Elemental Evil board game
The Breaking of Forstor Nagar is a 46-page adventure from Rite Publishing for 8th-level characters. It’s a real curiosity: it has absolutely fantastic imagery, good backstory, and enthralling situations, wrapped up in a package of major set-pieces that looks like it’d work best in 4E! This doesn’t mean that it won’t be fun to play, but it does mean that it stands aside from the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Breaking of Forstor Nagar
The Black Ruins is a short adventure written for old-school D&D (that is, AD&D 2E and before). It contains no monster statistics, only including the number and names of those encountered. In theory, it could be used for 5E play, although the suggested monsters would have to be modified to fit the level of the 5E party – a berserker means a very different thing … Continue reading OSR Adventure Review: The Black Ruins
The Tomb of Gardag the Strange is a short adventure written for the Labyrinth Lord system (a variant of the 1981 Basic & Expert D&D set edited by Tom Moldvay and Dave Cook). The adventure contains seven first-level pregenerated characters, so I presume that it’s a first-level adventure. The adventurers are hired to discover the remains of an assassin from the tomb of the warlord … Continue reading OSR Adventure Review: The Tomb of Gardag the Strange
Winterheart is the second adventure to be produced as part of EN5ider, a patreon-backed magazine produced by EN Publishing. The adventure is designed for a party of 4th-level characters, and is written by Esper. The adventure takes inspiration from the film Frozen and sets the party the challenge of rescuing a kidnapped girl with the mystical power to unleash winter on the land. At that … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Winterheart
