Dungeons & Dragons 5e
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D&D/Mork Borg Mashup: Charnel Bridge
Show of hands: Who loves (or has played) Mork Borg? If you’re not familiar with the game, Mork Borg is a “rules-light”, Old School Renaissance
Tier 2 D&D Modron Adventure: Time is a Construct
We’re back with another Side Quest! This time I’m showing some love to the misunderstood mechanical minions of Mecanus: Modrons! I wanted to try something
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Tier 2 D&D Adventure: Beware the Crimelock
Woah look out, Side Quests are back, baby! As a quick primer, I started a new job with WizKids earlier this year, and while I
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Ten Planar D&D Encounters
Hey everyone! It’s been a hectic few weeks for us: the holidays kept us busy, I turned my focus towards finishing the third Wild Beyond
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Ten Festive D&D Encounters
‘Tis the season to play tons of TTRPGS! The weather outside might be frightful, but at least inside we have dice and good company (and
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Quickie Map: Dungeon of Doubt
Things are quite busy in our neck of the woods! We just released the 2nd Chapter of our Wild Beyond the Witchlight map pack (more
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Free Fizban’s Dragon Adventure: The Dragonmaw Altar
Dragons are so hot right now thanks to the release of the newest D&D book “Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons”. It’s surprising to see how much
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10 Spooky D&D encounters
It’s been a bit, but I’m back! I’ve been hard at work on the newest map pack for Wild Beyond the Witchlight! I’ll talk a
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Design-A-Dungeon Challenge: Forbidden Knowledge
I’m back with another simple random dungeon for September’s Design-A-Dungeon Challenge! The rules are basically the same – consult the random dungeon generator in the
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D&D Hit Point Homebrew Rules
I’m always of two minds about homebrew rules for D&D. On the one hand, the designers had a specific playstyle in mind to showcase 5E’s
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Free Level 9 D&D Encounter: Grim Tidings
Goblinoids get a bad rap in most D&D games. Goblins mostly exist as fodder for low-level dungeons or expendable minions for more powerful creatures. Bugbears
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Ten Random D&D Encounter Ideas
There’s always a chance that a party makes a decision so unexpected that even experienced DMs need to stop to figure out what’ll happen next.
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Free D&D Underdark Adventure: Abbey of the Reflecting Mind
Like most burgeoning D&D fans, I read a lot of R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt series growing up. His evocative descriptions of the alien environments composing the
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Dodge sneaky snakes and snake-y people in our free yuan-ti adventure: The Ophidian Lord!
I like to consider myself pretty well versed in Dungeons & Dragons lore, but there’s definitely a few blind spots for me. I can’t begin
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How to use tools in D&D crafting recipes
I tend to forget about tools and tool proficiencies whenever I play D&D, both as a player and as a DM. Rarely does a
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Add some horror to your D&D session with these three free Gothic Lineage NPCs
As a DM, I often spend time writing up NPC “catalogues” that I can insert into just about any situation. Need a spoiled aristocrat?
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Survive a haunted windmill in our free Spooky D&D one-shot: The Riven Windmill
I’ve been in a bit of a spooky mood recently, thanks to Resident Evil 8 and Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft coming out, not to
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Enter an interdimensional D&D magic shop with this week’s Side Quest: The Sanctum Emporium
How many times has locating a store become an encounter of its own? In this week’s free D&D Magic shop Side Quest, adventurers can stumble
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Three free D&D NPCs: Dragonborn
Of all the races in the Player’s Handbook, I think I was most dissatisfied with the Dragonborn. While playing as humanoid dragons is pretty
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Explore collapsed tunnels with this week’s free dungeon encounter: Buried Archives
I want to try something a little different with today’s free dungeon encounter. Normally, I write up a little narrative to explain the “why’s” and
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Rime of the Frostmaiden Map Pack
It’s been a little while since I released anything on DM’s Guild, but with the recent publication of Icewind Dale – Rime of the
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Quick D&D Dungeon Encounter: The Baffling Basement of Bertie Bigglesby
It’s the first Side Quest of the new year! What better way to spend it than by taking a rat-clearing job from an elderly
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Get delving with this free D&D mini Dungeon: Spellzog’s Danger Emporium!
Do you keep a dream journal? I tend to keep my note app ready for the random chance I’m struck by inspiration past midnight.
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Want to give your players a challenge? Use Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything for D&D 5e Hard Mode
Are you wanting to change things up for your party and make things a little more challenging? Maybe you want to take a break from
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Short D&D One-shot: Presti-sanitation
Hi-diddly-ho, adventurinos! I felt inspired this week to do a short d&d one-shot Side Quest focusing on oozes and alternate dimensions that can be