Paizo’s “The Emerald Spire” for 5th Edition, Part 5
Late last year, Paizo Kickstarted a superdungeon called “The Emerald Spire“. Along with the characteristicly beautiful production value and stunning art, each of the 16 levels of this detailed module has its own fold-out map in the style of Paizo’s other ...
Adventure Building: Part 5 – Filling in the Details
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After looking at Creating a Threat, developing Backstory, Setting and Hooks and writing our adventure outline it’s time to provide some details for the adventure. I’ll ...
Tribal Knowledge: The Thrill of Horror
Welcome to the first in my new column, Tribal Knowledge, in which I answer questions from readers and friends about gaming, and especially about GMing. Precipitating a Panic among Players asks: I, and others I know, are working on horror ...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Skills
Skills are the things that allow adventurers to succeed where others might fail. The ordinary person might not be able to fling a fireball or swing a sword as well as an adventurer, but the rigors of the road and ...
Ultimate Adaptability: Variant Humans for 5th edition
In the early editions of D&D, humans were the foundation on which other races were compared. In other words, they were bland. Humans had no advantages or penalties (with the exception of being able to rise to any level in ...
Adventure Building: Part 4 – Creating an Adventure
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After looking at Creating a Threat and developing Backstory, Setting and Hooks, its time to write an adventure outline. There are two excellent tools for creating ...
Lord of the Deep: Dire Stomatopods for 5th edition
Life has been crazy over the past two weeks around the Howard household, so please excuse any delays in posting. I’ll be returning to the Enemies & Encounters series next week because I want to give it the time and ...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Treasure
Glistening piles of coin, an enchanted sword shining with elvish runes, a trinket stolen from a dragon’s hoard, all of these things are treasure to your players, and they are vitally important to making a storyline set in a fantasy ...
It’s Hammer Time! New Giantslayer Adventure Path Available
The latest volume (3 of 6) of the Giantslayer Adventure Path includes: “Forge of the Giant God,” a Pathfinder adventure for 7th-level characters, by Tim Hitchcock. A gazetteer of the Mindspin Mountains, one of Avistan’s largest mountain ranges, by Mark ...
Adventure Building: Part 3 – Backstory, Setting and Hooks
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In the first article in this series I looked at what you should consider when getting started creating your own adventure. This second article in the ...