Orchard Episode 11: What We Think Is Best
Last Monday we played some more Orchard on the Greyhawk channel.Here's the group:(Tommy) Ciaran: He's a barbarian, a pretty dark character. So far in the campaign, he turned into a wendigo and lost an...
View ArticleMordenkainen's Path of the Planes 24 - Clashes & Questions
The character art in the above image is by my dude turtlestance. On Wednesday, we played some more of our plane-hopping campaign! Currently, we are in Barovia, stuck in the middle of a struggle between...
View ArticleLaughing Dragon Inn: Strike Force Beta 7
On every other Wednesday, I play in a game on the Laughing Dragon Inn channel. It is run by Andy Hatton, who has helped me write a few of my DMs Guild products, including some that will be out soon....
View ArticleThe Descent: Day One
Details are out on the new adventure, which is called Baldur’s Gate: Descent into AvernusThe DescentThis is the yearly event where they announce the new D&D products. This year's show is bigger...
View ArticleThe Descent: Day Two
On this day, fans at the live event were able to play in an epic event centered around a massive war machine battle.The power went out in the building for a short time during the Chris Perkins game.The...
View ArticleThe Descent: Day Three
There is a big announcement at the very, very end of the stream. There will indeed be a fourth book, but I don't think it is what anyone was expecting.Death RaceDM: Adam Lee(Clint McElroy) Merle -...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
This thing is a work in progress, and it will be ugly until it is done. Right now, this guide is a pile of loose notes that will slowly be organized as I read through the whole book and sort out what...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - The War Between Law and Chaos
This is a sort of companion article to my Guide to the Rod of Seven Parts. I'm running a campaign called Dungeon Academy, where the heroes are trying to assemble the legendary Rod of Seven Parts. Each...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Verenestra, Goddess of Dryads, Nymphs, and...
I am running a campaign called Hell's Rebels. It is a Pathfinder adventure path that I am converting to 5th edition. We are right now in book 5 out of 6.One character, Fio, is linked to a fey entity...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus Review
Today I’m going to try to review the newest D&D adventure, Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus. I read the whole thing, I wrote a guide to it, I ran a bit of it, and I’ll be running more of it in...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Tyranny of Dragons Special Edition
When 5th edition officially got underway, two adventures where released: Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat. The first scenario led right into the second, and pitted your players against a...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Encounters in Avernus Review
Now that I have gone through Descent into Avernus in great detail, I'm going to look at some of the products linked to it on the DMs Guild. Let's see if we can find some stuff worth adding into our...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - Hellturel Review
Today I'm going to take a look at another DMs Guild product. It's Hellturel, an expansion on the Elturel section in Baldur's Gate, Descent into Avernus.This one is a bit of a tougher sell on me, as I...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Infernal Contracts
Devils make contracts with mortals. It's what they do. In D&D, this has always been a pretty vague thing in terms of how the rules work. But now, in 5th edition, we have some pretty concrete rules...
View ArticleOnline Campaigns
Art by Nelson VieiraI have been running a bunch of games - all online - for quite a while now. Each campaign has its own challenges, and it is an eternal struggle to keep each one "afloat" and...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - 5MWD Rod of Seven Parts
While I was putting together something else, I noticed this product on the DMs Guild. I am right now running a Rod of Seven Parts campaign and this seems like it could be real handy. It's only 50...
View ArticleShould a Group Keep Abyssal Chickens?
This has Descent into Avernus spoilers, so bail out now if you might play this at some point in the future! Preparing AvernusIn my Dungeon Academy campaign, my group has entered Avernus in search of...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons - A Guide to Mordenkainen
This guide is my attempt to grab all of the lore about Mordenkainen and collect it in one place. That should make it easier for you if you decide to use Mordenkainen in your campaign. 5th edition has...
View ArticleUsing the Tower of Urm
I ran a couple of games over the weekend, both went OK. This was one of those times where I felt a little run down, so I let the players "carry the burden" of making the game entertaining, if that...
View ArticleChaos Ships in the Nine Hells
We played some more of my version of Descent into Avernus on Sunday. When I was putting the session together, I had this feeling I knew how far we would get. My outline involved three things:Wrapping...
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