The newest D&D sourcebook, Mythic Odysseys of Theros dropped on DNDBeyond.com this week. Greek mythology has always fascinated me, so while I haven't done sourcebook reviews before, I felt like this would be a good time to start. Because I have no interest in running a game in a Magic the Gathering-setting, I'll focus on… Continue reading Mythic Odysseys of Theros – Races and Subclasses Review
Free Avernus Dungeondraft map!
If you ever frequent Reddit's various D&D-subreddits, you've probably heard about Dungeondraft. It's a really cool piece of mapmaking software with a very affordable pricetag (19.95$). Anyway, I downloaded it, played around with it a little, and came up with an additional Avernus encounter map. It's nothing fancy, but it was quick to make –… Continue reading Free Avernus Dungeondraft map!
Underrated D&D YouTube Channels!
If you're anything like me, you can never get enough D&D-content. So, I thought I'd let you know about some of my favorite, underrated YouTube-channels. There's a tonne of great content creators for D&D out there, and I won't pretend to know all of them. Of course, there's some that most of you probably know.… Continue reading Underrated D&D YouTube Channels!
Mystra’s Secret – free adventure!
As a little weekend project, I went back and took a look at the very first adventure I published to the DM's Guild: Mystra's Secret. I was happy to find that the general idea and the adventure's structure still seemed solid, but I wasn't too pleased with the execution – from editing to formatting and… Continue reading Mystra’s Secret – free adventure!
Free Infernal Weapons!
So, we recently published Nybor's Tome of Enchanted Weapons to dmsguild.com. We've just spent some extra time going over it, and just today we actually pushed out a new, major overhaul, adding another 15 pages to the PDF – and doubling the amount of magic weapons within! infernal-weaponsDownload To showcase what the tome can do… Continue reading Free Infernal Weapons!
Haruman’s Hill – free Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Map
Dead knights hanging from iron trees, surrounded by buzzing stirges, writing and screaming in eternal torment. Haruman's Hill is a cool location – but there's no map for it! So, we decided to put together a quick map for Haruman's Hill, so you have somewhere to place your players when you run the inevitable encounter… Continue reading Haruman’s Hill – free Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Map
Avernus as a Sandbox – PDF (+ update on COVID-19 donation)
In the start of March, we wrote a series of blogpost on turning Avernus into a Sandbox, by changing the structure in Chapter 3: Avernus. Since then, we have taken the three posts and stuck them in a PDF that's quite a bit easier to bring to your table. You can get it in both… Continue reading Avernus as a Sandbox – PDF (+ update on COVID-19 donation)
New release – Nybor’s Tome of Magic weapons
There's an issue with magic weapon in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. It's not that they're bad or poorly designed, but simply that there's not enough of them – especially at the first tiers of play (character levels 1-10), where we have less than a handful unique uncommon and about a dozen rare magic weapons.… Continue reading New release – Nybor’s Tome of Magic weapons
Avernus as a Sandbox – Part 3
In this post we’ll talk a bit about how to implement the structure for making Avernus into a sandbox that we’ve covered in part 1 and part 2 of this series (if you haven’t already, you really should read those before jumping into this one!). This includes both general and specific advice about running an… Continue reading Avernus as a Sandbox – Part 3
Avernus as a Sandbox – Part 2
In Avernus as a Sandbox – Part 1 we talked about how to turn Chapter 3: Avernus of Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus into a sandbox. The goal was to create a structure that offered multiple different ways to go from Fort Knucklebone at the start of the chapter to the Bleeding Citadel, where the… Continue reading Avernus as a Sandbox – Part 2
