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Unearthed Arcana: Into the Wild Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:41:40 +0000

This month’s Unearthed Arcana takes us on a journey. That’s the, um, topic. Journeys? Anyway, this is a rules module for when hour-by-hour wandering through a wilderness region isn’t right for the situation. As Mearls explains in the intro, this is for when you have a destination in mind and a decent general idea of how to get there. As a sideline to this, I’ve done a breakdown of overland-travel rules in D&D, The One Ring, and Dungeon World, over […]

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Using Factions in Your Campaign

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 05:37:24 +0000

This week on the Campaign Trail I’m looking at factions and how to use them in your game. This article will look at how Forgotten Realms factions are used for D&D’s organized play, how I use factions in my game, example factions in settings and tips on how to establish factions in your own game. Whether you’ve created your own campaign setting or if you are playing in an official setting, establishing factions can help the world live and breath. […]

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Deities of Pathfinder’s Golarion for D&D 5th Edition

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:00:13 +0000

Last week on the Campaign Trail I looked at running Pathfinder’s Golarion as a campaign setting for D&D 5th edition. The Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Player’s Handbook provides listings of deities for running your game in the multiverse worlds and also provides pantheons of antiquity. This can be a big help since creating a religion for your world can be lots of work. This week I’m busy reading Out of the Abyss for my review, but I thought some […]

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Deities of the Nentir Vale (4e) for D&D 5th Edition

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:00:44 +0000

The Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Player’s Handbook includes the awesome Appendix B that provides deities for running your game in the multiverse worlds of the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance and Eberron. It also provides the Celtic, Greek, Egyptian and Norse pantheons of antiquity. This can be a big help since creating a religion for your world can be lots of work. While not included in the 5th edition Player’s Handbook, the default pantheon from 4th edition was provided as […]

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Run a Nentir Vale Campaign for D&D 5th Edition

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:00:24 +0000

Earlier this week, I was surprised to see the Nentir Vale on the list of settings in the latest D&D poll alongside Greyhawk, Eberron and other big settings. Seeing Nentir Vale on the poll gave me hope D&D’s 4th default setting may get official support in the future (but I wouldn’t bet on it). One of the biggest strengths of the Nentir Vale as a setting is the fact that there’s less material written about it than other settings such […]

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Final Session – Farewell to the Vale

Shawn Ellsworth — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:21:27 +0000

Thanks to Joseph for writing most of this final farewell to our 4th edition campaign in the Nentir Vale. A great recap of the finale I was DM for. Trade Ward, Hammerfast The sounds of battle were almost deafening, as Naivara and Leoric landed. The crackle of fire, and the clashing of steel rang out through the smoke and rubble of the city. Before they landed, Naivara saw countless city guards doing battle with Orcs, Ogres and Humans. Thar had […]

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Goodbye to 4e & The Nentir Vale

Shawn Ellsworth — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 01:41:15 +0000

I am officially done with Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition as both a player and a Dungeon Master. I’m happy and a little sad about boxing up my 4e collection to make room for my growing collection of 5e books. I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I will miss and won’t miss about the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons in the Nentir Vale. A LITTLE HISTORY… My Friday night group on Roll20 has been playing a D&D […]

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Adventures in the Nentir Vale

Shawn Ellsworth — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:16:26 +0000

The Nentir Vale is the default “Points of Light” setting for Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. This setting is composed of isolated pockets of civilization surrounded by dark areas of untamed wild. The small communities and even largest cities’ inhabitants are mostly cut off from the world outside their walls. Travel between cities and villages is dangerous, and most people are ignorant about the rest of the world aside from rumor. Bandits, vicious humanoids, and monsters of all kinds inhabit […]

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Ballad of the Silver Six

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:09:50 +0000

Here is a fun little ballad I wrote with one of my players for the adventurers to start to hear about themselves after winning a huge battle and gaining fame early on (level 4 and 5). We’re not poets, but anything that helps show the impact the PCs are having on a world is good in my books. The Silver Six met in Fallcrest from afar With a dragonborn’s missed punch in a bar Big Nadarr missed by a whole […]

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