This weekend is the Stream of Many Eyes (hashtag #SOMEDND ), where the new adventure for Dungeons & Dragons is revealed. Which means Wizards has officially confirmed the new adventure is Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. I’m writing this as they talk about it – I had no foreknowledge of its content. It functions as an urban toolbox, which means that it’s going to be useful for … Continue reading Delving into Waterdeep
Rrakkma is an adventure for 9th-level characters that features a band of gith attempting to stop a plot by the mind flayers. The players get to play the gith, and their characters must explore a stronghold on the plane of Pandemonium before entering the Far Realm for the final confrontation. Written by Christopher Lindsay of Wizards of the Coast and released to WPN stores for … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rrakkma
Over the past few weeks, the adventurers have recovered all the giant relics from the Uthgardt spirit mounds. This probably took us a week or two longer than I wanted, because it delays the story and a few of the mounds aren’t that interesting. In a lot of ways, this is like recovering the puzzle cubes from Omu in Tomb of Annihilation. Each spirit mound … Continue reading Running Storm King’s Thunder: The Spirit Mounds
It has been a rough time for the Tier 3 D&D Adventurers League adventures from season 7. I approached DDAL07-13 Old Tomes and Older Bones with some trepidation. My one consolation was that it was written by Robert Alaniz, who has designed some excellent adventures in the past. The basic story of the adventure is that you accompany two sages from Candlekeep as they search … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Old Tomes and Older Bones
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes has been released in some game stores and on D&D Beyond! Hooray! This is a book that, like Volo’s Guide to Monsters, presents much information about the inhabitants of the D&D world. Its primary focus is on the conflicts between various factions: Demons and Devils – the Blood War Elves and Drow, and all the other elven subraces Dwarves and Duergar … Continue reading A First Look at Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
In Search of Secrets (DDAL07-12) by Christopher Sniezak is an adventure for level 11-16 characters set in Chult. The adventurers travel to a yuan-ti tomb full of traps to stop a yuan-ti priest and his undead servant from fulfilling the wishes of Dendar, the Night Serpent, the evil god of the snake-people. It’s not a great adventure. This isn’t to say it doesn’t have some … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: In Search of Secrets
There are times in your life when you want to use a monster one of your friends has written. Well, perhaps it’s never happened to you, but it’s happened to me. So, here’s the result: Buried Temple of the Death God. Which demonstrates that I wanted to use as clichéd a title for the adventure as possible. As the monster was released as OGL (that … Continue reading Buried Temple of the Death God – Fight or Flight?
My Greyhawk campaign continued this week with an adventure from The Mines of Chult. One of the things I try to do with my Greyhawk game is to run it in semi-sandbox mode. That is, every so often I ask my players what they want to do next. We’d finished the last session with the adventurers saving the town of Brusington from an undead monstrosity, … Continue reading The Mines of Greyhawk
Richard Pett’s Grimalkin is an adventure for 3rd-5th level adventurers set in the Southlands of Kobold Press’s Midgard setting. It is a sequel to Cat and Mouse, but you don’t need to know that adventure to appreciate this one. The basic plot revolves around a hidden tomb that several factions wish to find and loot. Unfortunately, the factions don’t know where the tomb is and … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Grimalkin
RPG Day – Singapore – June 9th & 10th RPG Day will take place 9-10 June, and will be premiering Singapore’s first ever Convention-Created Content (CCC) adventure as well as running the second iteration of an official epic (DDEP07-02, Dues for the Dead) during the gathering. LFG – Sydney – Bankstown Sports Club – July 13th-15th LFG Sydney will again feature D&D Adventurers League content. … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League News – Asia Pacific – May 8, 2018
