This session, my players followed the tunnel they’d discovered during the last session through to the Mere of Dead Men, a large salt-water marsh that sits between Waterdeep and Neverwinter, created when a wizard caused the land to become flooded to win a battle many centuries ago. I let the players know of its origins as they made their way through its stinking surrounds. After … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 12
When people talk about the best Adventure Paths, they generally mention Kingmaker. It’s easy to see why. In a lot of ways, Kingmaker goes back to the mythical high-level play that Gary Gygax implied occurred in the original D&D and AD&D books, and saw fruition in Mike Mentzer’s Companion and Master boxed set for the D&D game. A party of adventurers found a kingdom and … Continue reading Kingmaker Adventure Path review
The adventures (or possibly misadventures) of Delina, Minsc and Boo continue in this issue in fine style. We get a couple of new characters being introduced – a pair of rogues – who being to help our heroes (although possibly for more mercenary reasons than they’re letting Delina and Minsc know about), and we also get to see some of the powers of the city … Continue reading Comic Review: Legends of Baldur’s Gate #2
Rise of Tiamat finally arrived here in Ballarat, and my initial impressions are very favourable. It requires even more of the DM than Hoard of the Dragon Queen, as the adventure opens up and permits a lot of expansion in addition to what is on the page. Some DMs are going to love it, others are going to hate it. The other new arrival is … Continue reading New Stuff
I read a lot of books. My reading speed for novels is in the order of 200 pages an hour, which is coupled with the ability to happily sit reading for four or more hours uninterrupted. This accounts for a lot of my evenings and weekends. As a result, I tend to look for either longer books or for series of books to read. When … Continue reading Days of Angels – The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh
The final session of my Friday campaign playing through Lost Mine of Phandelver was missing Adam’s wizard, but with everyone else present. It was also over a month ago; I’ve discovered I’m pretty good at writing session reports when the campaign is still ongoing, but the final reports of a campaign? Those I’m hopeless at. However, better late than never, so here’s an abbreviated description … Continue reading Secrets of the Lost Mine (Friday session 5)
Alea Publishing Group have released two multi-system adventures that are compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 5E. The Gift of the Gnarled One is one of those adventures and is available for free download from their website. It is designed by Joshua Raynack and is six pages long, including one page for the OGL. The adventure contains no game statistics, but does include suggestions on what … Continue reading Adventure Reviews: The Gift of the Gnarled One and The Cry of a Daughter
We had a couple of DMs missing for this session, but thankfully we were able to cover every table, even though it meant that Paul was DMing Lee’s group rather than playing on my table. Josh also did superb work DMing his regular 7.30pm table as well as filling in for our other Josh at 5.30pm. My own table was full, except for Paul, but … Continue reading Hoard of the Dragon Queen, session 11
After running the first episode of Hoard of the Dragon Queen, you may be forgiven for thinking the second episode of the adventure, Raiders’ Camp is a lot simpler. After all, it’s not like the players are at risk of certain death at every moment of the game, are they? Well, not exactly. The camp section is a far more dangerous beast; an episode where … Continue reading Running Hoard of the Dragon Queen – Episode 2
Legendary Games have continued their release of adventures for Dungeons & Dragons 5E with Road to Destiny, a 36-page PDF that is a conversion of a previous Pathfinder adventure. This is a longer adventure than their first two releases (The Murmuring Fountain and The Fiddler’s Lament), although it is also an adventure designed to be used as part of one of Paizo’s Adventure Paths. In … Continue reading Adventure Review: Road to Destiny
