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Dungeon Masters Guild – Jungle Treks by Teos Abadía & ...

I had the great pleasure of reading through a new offering on DMsGuild.com. It is written by Teos Abadía & Eric Menge and is six short adventures each of them being able to support player characters Level 1 to 10. ...
BackgroundsGM ResourcesPlanar Mysteries

Top Reasons Why Someone Might be Unlucky or Cursed

  Being cursed or just plain unlucky sucks, we get it. But what if there were more than simple luck or a reason behind the reason why we are? This is a list of some reasons why someone is cursed ...
Conjure BeyondD&D 5eDungeon World

Thieves’ Guilds

Rogues guilds can be more than a pack of thugs your heroes plough through on the way to the dungeon. They can provide social and intellectual challenges for the party to interact with. Guilds can vary in culture, from Ninja ...
Performance Check

Alternative Death and Resurrection Systems for 5e

Death in D&D tends to come in two flavors: the salty tang of a total party kill (sometimes called TPK or just a party wipe), and the bittersweet notes of one or several (but not all) fallen comrades. If a ...
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Making the most out of Bloodlines

In D&D there are a variety of bloodlines that a character can develop various powers, be they wizardly, warlock, or sorcerous in nature, but for the most part they are simply a background that isn’t explored more in depth. However, ...
Conjure Beyond

I am the night! – Batman RPG Campaign

You’ve read the comics or seen the movies, now let’s talk about how to do a Batman style campaign in RPG’s. Been Busy The area the heroes are in has been a haven for crime for some time. There is ...
Performance Check

D&D Edition Expansion as Told through the History of the ...

A look at how D&D editions parallel the history of the WWE, and what we can learn from it.
D&D 5ePlanar Mysteries

Alternate 5e Warlock

(Author’s note: to “give credit where credit is due” these ideas come from Rachael Arron’s Eli Monpress series in which wizards can control a variety of forces due to the consciousness that exists in all things and these consciousnesses are ...
Conjure BeyondD&D 5e

Mind Flayers – The Illithid

Illithids, or Mind Flayers, are alien or aberrations, so they can live a long time. So these long lived highly intelligent and psionic creatures are running around, they are going to have lots of minions. They could be a creator ...
Campaign TrailD&D 5e

Xanathar’s Expanded Backstories

Xanathar’s Guide to Everything has been selectively available since November 10th and is available everywhere on November 21st (previously covered with a preview and review). Over a third of the book focuses on character options, which includes 27 new subclasses that have ...