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Finishing Touches for Your Dungeon

Over the last little while here on the Campaign Trail I’ve looked at the 4 Types of Dungeons, 5 Room Dungeon and Mapping and Stocking Your Dungeon Using Randomly Generated Dungeons. Dungeons come in various forms such as lost temples, ...
ClassesD&D 5ePerformance Check

The Strange Case of the Half-Orc Champion

It turns out that having a bone surgically re-broken, getting some bone graft shoved inside you, and then having a bunch of plates and screws put in you doesn’t lend itself to quick recovery. What I am saying is, I’m ...
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Fey Enchanters and Their Lairs

Two weeks ago in this series on the fey, I shot the moon for the Challenge Rating with the Eldest. This time I’m dialing it back a bit, and looking at the velvet glove of the Feywild: fey enchanters. They ...
ClassesD&D 5eThoughts & Things

The Shaman Class for D&D 5th Edition Preview

Ever since I put together a Western themed D&D game, I’ve been focused mainly on the guns of the Wild West. Movies have inspired me like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Lone Ranger, Once Upon a Time in ...
AdventuresCampaign Trail

Mapping and Stocking Your Dungeon Using Randomly Generated Dungeons

Over the last little while here on the Campaign Trail I’ve looked at the 4 Types of Dungeons and the 5 Room Dungeon. Dungeons come in various forms such as lost temples, haunted houses, natural caverns, or even the lower ...
Crowd FundingFrom the DepthsGM Resources

Noisy Person Cards (aka NPC) from Paracosm Press

“Noisy Person Cards”, aka: NPC, is a “Cards Against Humanity”/”Apples to Apples” style game that offers a fun and funny game for everyone, while allowing improv actors, gamers, and just about any parent who reads to their child a place to ...
AdventuresCampaign Trail

5 Room Dungeons & Filling Your Dungeon with Adventure

A couple of weeks ago on the Campaign Trail I looked at the 4 Types of Dungeons. This week, I wanted to continue my look at building dungeons using a tool called the 5 Room Dungeon. Dungeons come in various ...
D&D 5eGM ResourcesMonsters & NPCsTribal Knowledge

Fey of the Elder Starlight

Last time in my series on the fey, I looked at goblin markets and ways that DMs can present them in-game. This time, I’m going to an upper end of the fey power-scale. The goal of this series from the ...
Campaign TrailClassesD&D 5eUnearthed Arcana

Sherlock Holmes – Unearthed Arcana Inquisitive Rogue Archetype Build Test ...

This month’s Unearthed Arcana: Gothic Heroes provides us with 3 new playtest ready player options, which include the Revenant subrace, Monster Hunter archetype for fighters and the Inquisitive archetype for rogues. A month ago I ran an investigation one-shot and ...
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Curse of Strahd (D&D 5e) – 6 Optional Backgrounds from ...

Today we get a collection of six optional backgrounds for Season 4 of Adventurers League (or your own home game too) to go along with the Haunted One background. Surviving the Mists takes guts, courage, and a bit of luck. ...