Ninety-six pages, beautiful artwork, good layout, and an epic plot. The Shadowed Eye of Halagar is an ambitious adventure from the Alea Publishing Group. It is designed to take a party from level 13 to 16, and with the plot revolving around a dwarven king who has become an evil dragon, it manages to do a good job of providing something worth playing. Is it, … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Shadowed Eye of Halagar
Huh! Kobold Press’s latest 5E adventure, Cat and Mouse – which I reviewed recently – is now available on Amazon. It also shows just how expensive printed adventures can be – at $17.99 for a 24-page adventure, it’s one of the more expensive adventures I’ve seen in printed form. Here’s the advertising text: Who Do You Trust? In the cool streets and blazing bazaars, the … Continue reading Cat and Mouse adventure on Amazon
The adventurers were now deep in the depth of the Temple of Elemental Evil, in that mysterious area known as the Fane of the Eye, although not, admittedly, to them. In the previous sessions they’d explored those areas accessible from the Air Temple and the Water Temple, now they headed north to that area under the Earth Temple. They didn’t actually stay that long there … Continue reading Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 22-23
I don’t know if this will interest anyone, but I’ve created a D&D Expeditions checklist so you can easily track which adventures your characters have played in. The log sheets are great for keeping track of XP and other rewards, but it’s not always obvious which adventures you’ve played, especially if you have several characters. So, this sheet: download it, print it out, and keep … Continue reading D&D Expeditions checklist
A few people in my area (Australia) have been asking about running D&D Adventurers League games. I’ve pulled out a few of the answers I’ve given for this article. Where can I play D&D Adventurers League games? The short answer is “anywhere”. The longer answer depends on the type of adventures. Adventures of the D&D Expeditions series must be played in public places, except for a couple that … Continue reading D&D Adventurers League Q&A
I’m currently writing an adventure. I’ve no idea if I’ll eventually finish it and publish it or if inspiration will fail and I’ll throw it into the pile of incomplete blog entries I’ve written over the years. Anyway, I rather liked this encounter, so I thought I’d share it with you. This is for you, James Introcaso! The passage breaks apart here into a web … Continue reading 5E Encounter: The Stone Spider
The Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide is the first non-adventure book published by Wizards of the Coast for D&D 5th Edition since the core rulebooks. It’s an unusual book, as – unlike most of the campaign books released in the past – it is aimed primarily at players, not Dungeon Masters. This isn’t to say that Dungeon Masters won’t find it a useful book, but that it’s … Continue reading On the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Chris Perkins gave a seminar at GameHole 2015 about Wizards’ future plans for D&D adventures and products. The Gaming and BS Podcast recorded the seminar and posted it. I’m very grateful to them! There were a lot of interesting topics covered in the seminar. I’ve written a summary of some of the key points below, although I may have misinterpreted some of what he said. … Continue reading Chris Perkins on upcoming D&D storylines and products
As a break from my busy RPG and work schedule, I spent a bit of today playing through the default Sword Coast Legends campaign. I haven’t really gotten that far yet – I’m in Luskan, uncovering the plot against the guild at present – but I now have the experience of several hours playing the game. And I’m enjoying it. A lot more than I … Continue reading An Afternoon with Sword Coast Legends
Cat & Mouse is an adventure by Richard Pett set in Kobold Press’s Southlands setting. It’s written as an introductory adventure for that setting, for 4-6 first level characters. Players unfamiliar with the setting will likely be surprised by a few of the plot points, one of which involves a gnoll proposing marriage to a catfolk. I know I was! The adventure has an urban … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Cat & Mouse
