D&D 5E, Review

5E Adventure Review: Pride and Prejudice

The Mother Haggle’s Notice Board series on the DMs Guild aren’t typical adventures. Rather, they’re a collection of one-page scenarios which have an unusual format. Each scenario uses the following sections to describe the situation: The Quest The Core Problem Plausible Complications Unlikely Disasters Each section has very little detail. Instead of a fully detailed adventure, you get a framework and inspirational elements; monsters are … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Pride and Prejudice

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Curse of Strahd, D&D 5E, D&D Adventurers League, Review

5E Adventure Review: The Horseman

The Horseman is the penultimate adventure of the Curse of Strahd season of the Adventurers League. It is a two-hour adventure, and it is a relief to return to the main storyline after the diversion of the last two adventures. The story begins with the adventurers learning from Ixusaxa what is going on in the series. They learn that Esmae, the chief villain, is obsessed … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Horseman

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Fantasy and Science Fiction, LCG, Review

LCG Report: Legend of the Five Rings

One collectable card game that I was always interested in, but never managed to find players to play with, was Legends of the Five Rings, a card game that concentrated heavily on storytelling through its organised play events. Now, the game has been redesigned and released in a Living Card Game format by Fantasy Flight Games. As I had a couple of people also interested … Continue reading LCG Report: Legend of the Five Rings

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D&D, D&D 5E, Review

5E Adventure Review: Temple of the Opal Goddess

Temple of the Opal Goddess is an adventure for 4-6 characters of levels 5-8. It is presented in a 44-page PDF and sets the adventurers the task of rescuing a noble who has been captured by orcs. Unfortunately for the adventurers, the orcs are holding him in a temple dedicated to the “Opal Goddess”, who is far more demonic than godlike, and it she who … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Temple of the Opal Goddess

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D&D, D&D 5E, Greyhawk, Session Report

Greyhawk: To Mitrik!

My home World of Greyhawk campaign has resumed for the new year of 2018. I’ve run campaigns in the World of Greyhawk for twenty years or so, and this current one has been going for about six months. When I last wrote about the heroes of the tale, they’d recovered the sword of Prince Thrommel, presented it to the new King of Furyondy, and, as … Continue reading Greyhawk: To Mitrik!

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D&D, D&D 3E, Design

Hit Points Through the Editions, part 3

Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd Edition was a major change to how Dungeons & Dragons worked. Over the years, AD&D 2E had become a sprawling beast that had a lot of very good ideas, but no unifying mechanics. Every supplement presented new ways of doing things and the resulting system had turned into rather a mess. So, 3E (which dropped the “Advanced”, though being the direct … Continue reading Hit Points Through the Editions, part 3

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Curse of Strahd, D&D 5E, D&D Adventurers League, Review

5E Adventure Review: The Raven

The Raven is the twelfth part of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of the D&D Adventurers League adventures. By this stage in the campaign, we’re getting towards the end. The Big Bad is getting ready to implement her plan, and the adventurers need all the help they can get, because – at this stage – they don’t know where she is! The … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Raven

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D&D, D&D Basic, Review

Basic D&D Adventure Review: The Treasure of the Hideous One

TSR released the D&D game supplement AC2: Combat Shield and Mini-adventure in 1984. It contains a DM screen for the D&D Basic and Expert games, and a short, one-session adventure by David Cook for character levels 4-7. I do not own a printed copy of this adventure; I was only able to read the adventure after it was released on the DMs Guild website. In … Continue reading Basic D&D Adventure Review: The Treasure of the Hideous One

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Board Games, Session Report

Board Game Report: Descent – Road to Legend

My main love is Dungeons & Dragons. It’s the game I return to again and again. However, I also play a lot of board games. Some of them are a tiny bit like D&D. Descent: Journeys in the Dark is one of those. Descent suffers from being a game in a similar space to D&D: It requires a referee (Overlord) and players. The good thing … Continue reading Board Game Report: Descent – Road to Legend

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D&D, D&D 5E, Review

5E Adventure Review: Reign of Ruin

Reign of Ruin is an adventure for levels 7-8 characters by Richard Moore published by Jon Brazer Enterprises, who have done a lot of work releasing supplements for the Pathfinder system and are also now releasing 5E adventures. Reign of Ruin is a 46-page PDF and describes an adventure where the players must stop a black dragon from establishing her rulership over the land. It … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Reign of Ruin

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