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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFey 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFinishing 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...
View ArticleTreasures of the Fey Market
If you’ve been following my series on the fey, you already know that I love goblin markets and their curios. In this article, I’m offering a combination of new magic items and reskinned magic items...
View ArticleDeath Is Not The End
This week I’m taking a break from the Campaign Trail, but the good news is that guest author Rabbit Stoddard is taking my place (and I think she did a great job). Rabbit provides a ton of ideas to...
View ArticleSwashbuckling Enemies and Allies from the Three Musketeers
It’s not surprising The Three Musketeers has been filmed so often. Alexandre Dumas’ novel has action, intrigue, romance, comedy, tragedy and colorful characters right out of history. Last week I built...
View ArticleStorm King’s Thunder is Next D&D Storyline
During an event this afternoon in Los Angeles, Wizards of the Coast announced Storm King’s Thunder, the new storyline for Dungeons & Dragons is coming Fall 2016. Giants are rampaging the land, the...
View ArticleD&D Supplement Volo’s Guide to Monsters Coming November 2016
Volo’s Guide to Monsters, a new hardcover book of monsters for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, is releasing Fall 2016. The book features new monsters for a Dungeon Master to unleash on his players,...
View ArticleFortune Teller Background (D&D 5e)
This week on the Campaign Trail I look at variant backgrounds again, this time with the Charlatan variant Fortune Teller background for D&D 5e. The Fortune Teller background could fit anywhere, but...
View ArticleGear Up! Steampunk Adventurers for D&D 5e
Steampunk Adventurers for 5e is now available on DriveThruRPG from Tribality Publishing! With STEAMPUNK ADVENTURERS you can provide your players with new player character options for 5th edition to...
View ArticleThe Naga: A History of Slithery Snakes in RPGs
This week we have a guest post by Clave Jones looking at the history of the Naga. Indiana Jones famously hated snakes. But no one hates snakes more than my dad. Luckily, my dad has never ran across a...
View ArticleWotC Sage Advice – Rules Answers: June 2016
In case you missed it yesterday, there is a new Sage Advice article on the Wizards of the Coast D&D website by Jeremy Crawford. The focus of this month’s Sage Advice is on rules answers regarding a...
View ArticleChrono Rogue Archetype for D&D 5e
In May 2016, Blizzard launched Overwatch, a game where players clash with colorful heroes on battlefields from around the globe. I have been playing far too much Overwatch and have played pretty much...
View ArticleGen Con 2016 – Syrinscape with Ben Loomes
I was fortunate enough to get a one-on-one demonstration from Ben Loomes with Syrinscape at Gen Con. The sounds were incredible, and there are so many new sound sets that are now available. It was a...
View ArticleExtra Life & First Two Storm King’s Thunder Previews
Wizards of the Coast has announced that it will be running its fourth Extra Life event with a goal of making $50,000 or more to add to the already $200,000 they have raised in support for Children’s...
View ArticleThe Schemes of the Archfey
In my last three articles on the fey, I presented a collection of fourteen Archfey. Today I’m going to talk a bit about how to make their schemes against one another, and against the other powers of...
View ArticleThe Problem of Ogre Power
Dating back to… I think it was the release of D&D Basic, I’ve been rankled by the design around ability-score-boosting items in D&D 5e. I got to thinking about ability-score-boosting magic...
View ArticleFree Download of A Great Upheaval (Storm King’s Thunder)
Like Curse of Strahd’s Appendix B: Death House before it, Wizards of the Coast has provided A Great Upheaval (Chapter 1 of Storm King’s Thunder) for free on the Dungeon Masters Guild. Like Death House...
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