The latest adventure from EN5ider, Friend of the Children, has an absolutely brilliant idea behind it: The children of a small village have stopped aging. Of course, it is up to the adventurers to find both the cause and a cure! The adventure does not force the action, instead giving an overview of the village, its inhabitants and the local surroundings, with plenty of material … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Friend of the Children
These characters are certainly a bit late – for most of you, we’re moving out of Elemental Evil and into the Rage of Demons storyline, but we’re running a few 1st-level games set in Mulmaster at our local D&D Adventurers League games, and I wanted to make up a few characters that took advantage of the Mulmaster backgrounds for the potential use of the players. … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League “Elemental Evil” – unofficial Pregenerated Characters
I’ve had a nice few days reading through a number of books that have mysteriously appeared on my kindle. (You just click buttons and they appear!) A few quick notes… Servant of the Crown (Melissa McShane): I bought this one on a whim. It turned up on a list of newly released books from Amazon and, seeing that the price wasn’t so high and the … Continue reading Fantasy Book Reviews
The Wererat Den is a short adventure for 5th level adventurers by James Introcaso, and is available for free on his website. It involves a group of militant lycanthropes who want to infect the world with lycanthropy, and have started their campaign at a forest inn. The characters may enter the action due to investigating previous activities of the villains, or through just happening to arrive … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Wererat Den
Dan Head’s latest 5e adventure, The Fall of Cahokiantep, begins with the characters in a dungeon. The adventure doesn’t really care about why they’re there: the point is that they’re in a dungeon when some Really Bad Things happen, and they have to get out and deal with them because they’re heroes. If this sounds a lot like a movie plotline to you, well it … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Fall of Cahokiantep
The Tome Show has a fascinating interview with Mike Mearls at GenCon. My interpretation of the highlights follows, although I may have misinterpreted some things: * The release of two full levels 1-15 adventure paths within the first year of the new edition is very new for Wizards. (Previously, only a few adventures would be released in the first year). * Sword Coast Legends is … Continue reading Mike Mearls speaks! (Tome Show interview)
The finale of Hoard of the Dragon Queen is exceptionally challenging to run. You’ve got competing factions, a big sprawling castle to explore, and a dragon! All of which means that things can go very well or very badly indeed. Each of the episodes in Hoard is really an adventure unto itself, changing up the challenges and providing different ways for the players to be … Continue reading Running Hoard of the Dragon Queen, episode 8
No Laughing Matter is an adventure for fifth level characters by Dan Coleman, available now through DriveThruRPG after being funded through Kickstarter. The adventure describes a gorge where divine magic has infected its inhabitants with a laughing disease, making them vulnerable to mind-magic. With the disease beginning to spread to outsiders, the adventurers need to venture into the gorge, discover what’s going on, and stop the … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: No Laughing Matter
It’s an interesting tactic to announce to your host that you were sent to kill him, but that’s what Thumbalina did upon meeting the head of the Feathergale Knights. She followed this up with the pronouncements that she’d changed her mind, they were all really cool, and could she ride a griffon please. Yes, you’ve got to enjoy the antics of the dwarf who thinks … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, session 11
The latest adventure available to subscribers of EN5ider is The Mystery of Mordecai’s Monster, an adventure allegedly for 3-5 characters of level 3, written by Dan Head, who previously wrote The Mystery of Malvern Manor. It’s an excellent little adventure. I’m rather fond of the schemes of insane wizards, and there’s a good one here that offers several challenges for the players. The author understands … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Mystery of Mordecai’s Monster
