We have just put out our second set of DM’s resources for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, covering Chapter 2: Icewind Dale. Let’s celebrate with a free map! The DM’s resources contain troubleshooting, advice on encounter difficulty, encounter tables & sheets, an Icewind Dale cheatsheet, and much more – including a handful of battlemaps …
We have just released our DM’s Resources for Chapter 1 of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, must-have resources for anyone who would like to cut down on preparation time and make their game easier to run!
There’s exciting stuff on the horizon. We are set to release Nybor’s Tome of Enchanted Armor, the sequel to the gold-selling and top-rated Nybor’s Tome of Enchanted Weapons. That’s not all, though – the official 5E D&D adventure Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is also releasing next week. To celebrate this happy coincidence we …
Frosty armor – free magic items for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden Read More »
Knowing D&D-players, the question “could I become a lich?” will invariably come up at some point. The instinctual answer may be “eh… I don’t know?” or “of course not! Are you insane?”, but it doesn’t have to be that way….
I stumbled across a post on Reddit a while back. It was a simple, one-sentence question, somewhere along the lines of: Can anyone become a lich? Pretty innocuous question, but it got me thinking. And thinking. And thinking so much I decided to write a whole damn book about it, which is being publishing today: …
The Lich in Dungeons & Dragons – excerpt from Larloch’s Lexicon of Lichdom Read More »
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 …
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. …
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 …