The Panopticon – Everdown Part 5
The adventurers get their first glimpse of the where they really are, Carceri, prison of the Outer Planes A lonely Gynosphinx guards beings in their prison cells in the panopticon. The prisoners, the Gunslinger, the Priest, the Beholderkin, and the Gulthias, each know a secret about the Carceri. They’ve been placed in solitary confinement here…
Of Bureaucrats and Brimstone – Everdown Part 4
Bureaucrats and brimstone await adventurers who make it this far Everdown. An officious gnome solider who guards the way out of the palace won’t allow anyone to pass during lock-down without the permission of the queen. The Chain Devil they’ve been tailing has found this palace to be a suitable residence for himself, and something…
The Gnomish Hobbler: More Nuisance Monsters
The Gnomish Hobbler is not the most elegant work of gnomish artificers, but it’s may be their most hated. Little more than a bear trap equipped with tremorsense and a simple means of locomotion, they are deployed to immobilize intruders. They are incapable of discerning friend from foe, and so are rarely used in situations…
Everdown Part 3 – A D&D 5e Maze for Your Consideration: Darkness and No Light
This is the third part of the Everdown campaign. Particularly, on this map I wanted to work with the lighting mechanics in D&D 5e. With this in mind, I’ve created a new monster to help keep the players in the dark. Items and creatures that can be found in D&D source-books are bolded. Flavor text…
Bold Text on Roll20? Markdown! and a Few Other Tricks.
Using Markdown to Bold Text in Roll20 I see a lot of people trying to understand how to bold text on Roll20. The trick is using markdown, a markup language used by Roll20 and others. You can find their explanation of the topic here, but in brief, it’s all about the asterisks: *One asterisk one…
Nuisance Monsters: The Lichtfresser
It’s unlikely that any adventurer was ever killed by a lichtfresser. They do present a significant danger though, as their fixation on light makes complicates the use of any light source. Having your driftglobe carried off in the belly of a giant bug to dungeon parts unknown is a real downer too. Watch the video…
A D&D 5e Maze for Your Consideration: Part 2 – My Enemy’s Enemy’s Enemy
The last installment in this series found our heroes (or maybe villains?) climbing down either a well or pit to escape a labyrinthine temple. We resume here having reached the bottom of one of these shafts to find an underground river running through a cavern. The PCs are now level 2, and this module assumes…
The TV Show Style Intro
One of my favorite ways to start out pickup games or other one shots is by creating a TV show style intro with the players. If the players have trouble understanding what I’m asking for, I describe the beginning of anime, which typically feature the characters in a scene that helps define them. Getting Started I…