I’ve rarely been as disappointed with a series of releases as I have with the Dreams of the Red Wizards adventures. When first announced, they were meant to be an adjunct to the D&D Adventurers League new program of “Seasonality”; a series of adventures serving as a new storyline running in addition to the regular season-based play, aimed primarily at higher-level characters. Then Seasonality was … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Saving Silverbeard
Vormestrand’s Scroll is a DDAL-legal adventure for level 1-2 characters set in the Forgotten Realms. It’s an unusual adventure, allowing up to four tables to co-operate to solve the situation together, making it one of the few multi-table D&D experiences available to everyone. The basic set-up is that Vormestrand, a retired adventurer turned brewer, is kidnapped and his brewery is set on fire. The bands … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Vormestrand’s Scroll
Gate to the Unknown is the third in a Tier 1 trilogy set in the Moonshae Isles, but it feels and plays mostly as a stand-alone adventure, much to my delight. If you’ve followed my twitter account recently, you’ll know that I’ve become very disenchanted with tight trilogies of adventures as part of D&D Adventurers League play. I’m happiest when each adventure works as a … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Gate to the Unknown
This is a quick post. It’s very hot in my room, and it’ll be hotter tomorrow. (And I’ve been incredibly busy at work). What are the adventures I like the most in Dungeons & Dragons? Here they are… Tyranny of Dragons. Incredible story. Incredible scope. The early sections allow you to explore the threat of the Cult of the Dragon, and the later sections expand … Continue reading My Favourite D&D Adventures
One of the additions to the Dungeons & Dragons game during the 3E era was the prestige class of the Shadowdancer. They were pretty popular, and it was the goal of one of my players to become one. That led to some pretty amusing and entertaining game play. And, though the prestige class no longer exists, Monks who follow the Way of the Shadow can … Continue reading Shadow Dancers in the World of Greyhawk
Two major groups of foes that have been in Dungeons & Dragons since the very early days are Devils and Demons, beloved by Dungeon Masters because they provide actual danger for high-level characters that many, more mundane, foes do not. In the original version of D&D, only demons appeared. Why was that? Well, it has a lot to do with the original form of alignment, … Continue reading On Devils and Demons
This encounter can be used in any dungeon where you might find it amusing – probably level 5 or higher. I originally used it as part of a dungeon where the players were chasing a vampire. Unfortunately, the vampire had a couple of tricks up his sleeve… The Vampire Crypt Read or paraphrase the following to the players: A thirty-foot square stone chamber is behind … Continue reading D&D Encounter: The Vampire Crypt
Last weekend, I managed to panic members of my Call of Cthulhu table. During the Christmas period, we’re not running D&D Adventurers League games as normal, as people (and DMs) are away, but we’re instead running any old game that amuses the available DMs. Which means that I’m running Call of Cthulhu, Josh is running D&D: Acquisitions Incorporated, and Fynn is running Star Wars (the … Continue reading Panicked Players and Planning
My ongoing Greyhawk campaign has spent many weeks (months) running through Courts of the Shadow Fey, an adventure by Wolfgang Baur originally written for a previous edition of the system, and since then released for other rule sets. I’m using the 5E version, which follows Kobold Press’s strategy of making the monsters a bit more dangerous than you might expect from their Challenge Ratings. The … Continue reading Tales from the Courts of the Shadow Fey
