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 – …
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! To showcase what the tome can do – …
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 …
Haruman’s Hill – free Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Map Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
I’ll preface this post by making it clear that I thoroughly enjoy the D&D 5E campaign Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. I think it’s a good story in an awesome setting, that is both ambitious in its scope and simple in its execution. It’s a good campaign. You should run it! Now that we have …
Quick introduction – this post will be about our Enhanced Monster-compendiums, a series of supplements we’re currently publishing on the DM’s Guild. I’ll talk a bit about why we feel like the monsters in the Monster Manual need to be enhanced, as well as show an example of how we’ve enhanced the marilith, my all-time …
Enhanced demons – or ‘Making the Marilith Great Again’! Read More »
J. A. Valeur The rules for running combat and chases with infernal war machines, however, does have a bit of a learning curve. That became immediately apparent while we were playtesting Bitter Rivals, our newest adventure for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. So to make things a bit easier for DMs running the adventure (which …
We’re hard at work making additional content for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, including a larger blog-post about how to turn Chapter 3: Avernus into more of a sandbox, and a full-day adventure to add to our DM’s Resources for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus on the DM’s Guild. We didn’t want to keep you …