DDAL04-06 The Ghost is the mid-season finale of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the fourth season of D&D Adventurers League adventures. Or, at least, it could be if you squint really hard. Honestly, it’s hard to know what to make of it. Somewhere in the writing process – either in initial conception, its writing, or the editing – something went badly wrong with the story. … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Ghost
If you’re new to Dungeon Mastering D&D, the task of designing an adventure can be pretty daunting. After all, you’ve picked up Curse of Strahd or Lost Mine of Phandelver and there are lots and lots of words there. How is a beginner even going to get close to that? Well, you’re not. But then, neither am I. I’ve been doing this Dungeon-mastering gig for … Continue reading D&D for Beginners: Writing Adventure Notes
Beware! Spoilers for Curse of Strahd and Death House within!
Aaron “Quickleaf” Infante-Levy’s adventure The Beast of Graenseskov is a grand investigative adventure set in eastern Barovia. A large wolf-like creature has begun to terrorise the lands around the Graenseskov forest, and it is the player characters who need to discover what the creature is and how to stop it. The 80-page adventure describes the inhabitants of the land, the locations, and the events that … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Beast of Graenseskov
The fifth adventure of the current D&D Adventurers League season is The Seer, a 2-hour adventure for 1st-4th level characters. It’s written assuming the party has five 4th-level characters, and contains the standard DDAL scaling notes. As always, DMs should treat the adventure with care and scale appropriately for their group. When writing adventures, it’s very hard to properly assess the strength of a group … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Seer
DDAL04-04 The Marionette continues the D&D Adventurers League storyline, “Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts”, with an adventure that draws together storylines begun in previous adventures. It might also have just a little too much content in it; not really a problem for home games, but certainly one for convention and in-store play. It has been reported that a DM whose group has a more leisurely … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Marionette
These days, I’m tending towards not backing Kickstarter projects. Although it can be a great platform, I’ve seen too many projects fall over and die, or take entirely too long to be fulfilled. There are a few that I do still think are really interesting, though. Like this one: 13th Age Campaign Coins and Icon Tokens Campaign Coins is a Melbourne-based company that do a … Continue reading An Interesting Kickstarter: 13th Age Campaign Coins and Icon Tokens
Backgrounds, volume 1 is a short pdf of 10 pages that presents four new backgrounds for the D&D game: Animal Trainer, Flying Cavalry, Innkeeper and Teamster. One of the attractions of designing new backgrounds is that they’re light on rules material; they’re not as intensive to design as (say) spells or monsters. However, the focus becomes much more on your writing skills. Thankfully, the supplement … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Backgrounds, volume 1
B Simon Smith’s Plants and Fungi of the Realms is an unusual supplement. Over its 31 pages, it presents a very large number of plants and fungi that can be used to distinguish the vegetation of a Forgotten Realms game – or any other fantasy game – from the real world. Some of the descriptions are just that – descriptive, with a little bit of … Continue reading 5E Supplement Review: Plants and Fungi of the Realms
High Deck The Artifact The Executioner (was The Hangman) The Beast The Horseman The Broken One The Innocent The Darklord The Marionette The Donjon The Mists The Seer (was The Esper) The Raven The Ghost The Tempter (was The Temptress) Swords Master: The Warrior 1. The Avenger 2. The Paladin 3. The Soldier 4. The Mercenary 5. The Myrmidon 6. The Berserker 7. The Hooded … Continue reading List of Tarokka Cards by Suit
