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Princes of the Apocalypse, sessions 24-27
Seeking revenge for the destruction of Westbridge, the adventurers returned to the Sacred Stone Monastery and made their way through the mines beneath into the Earth Temple. They were hampered by...
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5E Adventure Review: Depths of Felk Mor
Rod “Sacrosanct” Waibel’s Depths of Felk Mor is an ambitious product. 236 pages of adventure takes a lot of devotion to create. The adventure describes the caverns around Felk Mor, a subterranean...
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Entering the Death House
The newest season of D&D is upon us! Curse of Strahd, the first 5E adventure set in the land of Ravenloft, a dark gothic horror setting, will be released in select game stores on March 4th and more...
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5E Adventure Review: The Vault of Iptiz
The Vault of Iptiz is an adventure designed for 5th-level characters; the adventure is intended to be played in 4-6 hours, and consists of a 10-room dungeon with a new monster and four new magic items....
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Creating a Curse of Strahd Character
It’s time for the fourth season of the D&D Adventurers League to begin. It’s title? Curse of Strahd. As in previous seasons, this is my article about the guidelines for creating a legal character...
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Death House session 1: Report and DM Notes
Two tables at Guf Ballarat began playing through the new season of the D&D Adventurers League on Saturday – the other tables are yet to finish Princes of the Apocalypse, so we’re allowing them the...
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What to play after the D&D Starter Set (redux)
Just a note to all that I’ve revised an earlier post on the options available to you after you finish playing the D&D Starter Set, including more details on Out of the Abyss and adding the DMs...
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5E Adventure Review: The Unliving Light
What happens when an Archmage who reveres Kelemvor, the god of Death, starts experimenting with ways of prolonging life? To some in Kelemvor’s church, this was anathema – heresy that flirted too close...
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About the D&D Adventurers League adventures
With the advent of the DM’s Guild website, the D&D Adventurers League adventures (once known as D&D Expeditions adventures) have become available to everyone to play. It’s worth writing a word...
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Death House session 2: Report and DM Notes
Our second session of Death House saw my four players travel down the spiral stairs from the attic down into the basement. And with that simple trip, the character of the adventure changed. For one...
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5E Adventure Review: DDAL4-01 Suits of the Mists
The fourth season of the D&D Adventurers League adventures has been approached in a different manner to the first three. In previous seasons, each adventure (mostly) stood alone, with only light...
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A Half-Elf Bard for Curse of Strahd
During the last season of the D&D Adventurers League, I created a set of first-level characters that I could give out to new players at conventions and store sessions when we didn’t have enough...
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5E Adventure Review: Eyes on the Prize
Due to a gap in my regular playing schedule, I found myself in need of a short (one-session) 10th-level adventure. It’s for this reason I maintain my List of Adventures – It allows me to quickly find...
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OSR Adventure Review: The Mad God’s Jest
The Mad God’s Jest is an adventure by Shane Ward for four players of 6th level. It uses the Labyrinth Lord system, a retroclone of the B/X line of D&D, which makes it suitable for using with most...
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5E Supplement Review: Vampire Lord Abner
Vampire Lord Abner is a short 4-page pdf (not counting the cover and legal text) that details a single encounter: what is likely to be the final encounter of an adventure. In it, Jay Holden dispenses...
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5E Adventure Review: The Horns of War
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade...
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5E Adventure Review: The Mystery at Dreary’s Well
The Mystery at Dreary’s Well is a nicely-constructed adventure for 1st and 2nd level characters set in the Forgotten Realms. The player characters are sent to the small hamlet of Dreary’s Well in order...
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5E Adventure Review: The Ghost and the Peddler
The Ghost and the Peddler is a short adventure by Benoit de Bernady for three to five characters of levels 3 to 5. It’s a charming adventure, which sees the players travel with a young apothecary...
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5E Supplement Review – Ravenloft Archetypes: Nightmares of Barovia
Ravenloft Archetypes: Nightmares of Barovia is a supplement by Jeremy Forbing for players and Dungeon Masters who have their games set in the Ravenloft campaign setting. It contains new archetypes for...
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Death House, session 3: Report and DM Notes
There were a few character and personnel changes for this session. Dean’s Monk/Warlock couldn’t make it, Jesse’s Druid was dead, and Mel attended her first session of the season with a new Warlock....
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