dungeons & dragons

EN5ider's latest article is for a devious villain easily included in your campaign: the seemingly sweet and kind Granny Buccus. Everyone in the town of Cridhe Briste holds a spot in their heart for Granny Buccus—and until her lies are revealed they'll die for her too! Recently on EN5ider...

Today's entry on EN5ider addresses an oft-overlooked aspect of the typical campaign: how an adventuring group's reputation can have a nuanced impact on them and the world at large. The Marks of Renown optional rules introduce several different kinds of marks—Evil, Honor, Ingenuity, Magic...

As we usher in a new year EN5ider is adding a new type of article to the mix: Intriguing Organizations. These cadres of villains, heroes, or monstrous misfits bring a variety of different themes to your gaming table starting off with an enigmatic cult of superlative mathematician-inventors, The...

My dear GMs and players, powergamers and roleplay enthusiasts, knickers, murder hobos, dice masters, magicians, guilty survivors, and rich adventurers. Today marks EN5ider’s 250th article! Alas, two hundred and fifty articles is too short a run to purvey goodies among such excellent and...

This week on EN5ider we have a new plug-in location: Deirdre's Ghost, a large vessel sunk long ago that has recently appeared on a nearby rocky shore. This plug-in location includes a description and plot hooks which range from sinister academics to a rusted golem, a ghost, a sea hag, and some...

I realized we have a thread for most of the happening OSR designers (LotFP, DCC, Necrotic Gnome) but nothing yet for Johnstone Metzger's Red Box Vancouver and his excellent setting The Nightmares Underneath. First discovered Metzger's stuff with Evil Wizards in a Cave but it is especially his...

A new adventure is up on EN5ider! The critically-acclaimed ZEITGEIST Adventure Path continues with the third installment of Cauldron-Born (31 pages of content for PCs of 7th-8th level). The party reacts to the surprise attacks by Zubov’s group. Zubov’s plan is to sow panic amongst the citizens...

A new article over on EN5ider! Rolling a natural 20 or a natural 1 has never been so much fun! With these ability check critical effects for your 5E game, there are positive and negative tables for physical, social, medicine, knowledge, and arcane style checks. By Jeff Gomez; illustrated by...

EN5ider's newest wave of classes continues with the BLOODWEAVER, powerful individuals that do not inherit magic but grasp at the blood flowing through their veins to do the impossible--and the impossibly gruesome. Check out the Bloodweaver: Basic article for a rundown of what they are about...

So taking this topic from another thread: many, many kids were introduced to D&D in the 80s via the ubiquitous 'Red Box' by Frank Mentzer for BECMI. I've also read many nostalgic stories of others getting their start with Holmes, B/X or The Black Box. If today there was going to be another 'Red...

WotC is doing a big survey on D&D. Interesting to see what they ask about. It asks a lot of questions about what edition you started on, how you were introduced to D&D, what edition you've played recently, how often you play and of course how many of the 5e books you've bought and how much...

A new blog series is up on my website and has another week or so of daily updates before it's done: MORTAL KOMBAT D&D 5E! These are all RAW character builds using the core rules and the published material in Mists of Akuma (not unlike the Streetfighter D&D 5E series).

Ben Riggs presented this seminar on the failure of TSR at Gencon. Starts at 7:48. Riggs is working on a book on the same subject. Seems to be taking a serious, fact-based approach that helps avoid the ‘gamer rumour-mill treated as truth syndrome’ that Peterson also admirably avoids with his...

There are some (many?) who feel having both an ability score and an ability modifier is kinda redundant in D&D and its variants. What I have seen is a lot of games who dropped the ability score and instead used only the modifier. Problem is, I have always seen the ability score as the more...

Blogger DM David has done a series of retrospective blog posts on 4e D&D that avoid being too virulent or negative while still being critical. Having missed the entire online 4e edition wars (thank god) I found this well written and insightful and refreshingly free of OTT venom.

This fellow Marshall Short has uploaded a lot of nicely designed paper minis to his site for free. You can also become a Pateron to support his work and get fancier backgrounds and other bonus content. He also has some of his stuff up on DMsguild for PWYW. I wish he didn't use Tumblr which I...

The cover blurbs here are dead-on clever I think. Too big to post here but give The Necromantic Halfbreed blog some deserved traffic.

So the latest 5e adventure hardback has been announced. It looks to be a sandboxy urban adventure in Waterdeep. “WELCOME TO WATERDEEP! A fantastic treasure trove is yours for the taking in this adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game. Famed explorer Volothamp Geddarm needs you to...

Yesterday I came across the incredible artwork of Dan LuVisi, specifically the The Streets and I’ve been positively inspired. A quick google search already turned up a Muppet race (see below) which I’m shamelessly pilfering to build off of with feats, class archetypes, and the like that involve...

So, as some of you already know, I occasionally write fanfiction and I have written RPG fics in the past on other Fanfiction accounts (haven't completed them yet, but I will), but I decided to make a new Fanfiction.Net account for the sole purpose of campaign journals and RPG fanfics with an...