To celebrate the holiday season we've thrown up a glorious illumination and plowed a furrow in the snow, but there is no sleigh and the light is neither from candles nor lanterns—it's from something that travels across the stars!
This issue doesn't have just one crashed spaceship—there's a trio of vessels from beyond that can land in whatever campaign setting you might be playing in. The first isn’t fit to fly again though as Krurcain the Star Conqueror ...
2025-12-22 14:22:51 +0000 UTC
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Launching on Kickstarter today Enchanted Trinkets Complete Collection contains 500+ enchanted trinkets to add spice and color to a magical world without overpowering it.
The magic items in this book were published over nearly a decade here on the EN5ider patreon, and are collected here for the first time all in one place. As patreon backers you alread...
2025-12-16 16:00:23 +0000 UTC
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Take a dip into society's underworld with this month's issue of EN5ider Magazine. A party of 4–5 adventurers of 3rd level can make a real change in a city’s fate with just a little bit of subterfuge by Planting Evidence, but any rogue can acquire some insurance for their next heist by paying a tithe to the Knaves’ Alliance, get the most out of death by throwing in with the Skull Diggers, be assailed by ne’er-do-wells aplenty ...
2025-11-24 14:49:38 +0000 UTC
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Heroes have fallen. Valiant armies are defeated. The world as mortals have known it has ceased to be or will soon. But there may be reason to harbor hope beyond the death throes of civilization, for in the shadows of villainous triumphs souls brave enough to fight against the inevitable could yet snatch a worthy victory from the jaws of certain doom.
The End Has Come for 4–6 PCs of 8th level as they bear witness to the failure of champions and try to salvage...
2025-10-20 16:56:42 +0000 UTC
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Take arcana itself in your hands with this issue about sorcerers, sorcerers, and more sorcerers!
As always a juicy adventure awaits, this time helping a young woman with great arcane potential choose her fate and navigate the intrigues waiting to befall her because of Magic In The Blood (for 4–5 PCs of 3rd level). A trio of Sword and Sorcery subclasses brings options to the table for innate magic wielders: the disturbing Devouring Hunger, powerfully c...
2025-09-22 14:22:07 +0000 UTC
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You may have more dragons than you'll ever need but it's unlikely your GM toolbox has the curious content in this issue of EN5ider Magazine!
Support your villainous dragon boss with Kallivandra, Dracontine Attendant and fill up the hoard with more than a dozen Draconic Finds tailored for great winged serpents (from the grisly Eye of the Dragon to a Wyrm Prophet's Divining Rod). If a less fearsome foe is called for instead, pop...
2025-08-19 21:47:25 +0000 UTC
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Stay up to date on the latest goings on in the fair city of Falkenburg and its environs with the Falkenburg Times, the only news sheet in Allesund that’s worth the coin spent to print it!
Crack open this issue to discover an adventurous mystery (for 4–5 PCs of 8th level) in the Sundered Towers of Nacthwiese in the nearby Westwatch Mountains, treatises on both the militant Baron’s Bushwackers and commercial doings of the...
2025-07-21 14:41:36 +0000 UTC
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Get the party a proper taste of soldiering in the Fight the Good Fight adventure for 4–6 PCs of 3rd level. Then increase the repertoire of martial-minded adventurers with battling techniques contained in a dozen new feats like the foe-unsettling Daunting, steed-focused Jouster, juggling Lobber, or exhausting but powerful Unstoppable. Finally there's 10 original NPCs perfect for pitting against a skilled combatant armed only with th...
2025-06-16 20:24:57 +0000 UTC
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We are following up strong from last month's launch with an extra-large issue for a brand new class!
Become a Protomancer. Identify and manipulate the patterns of reality around you to cast bespoke spells, turning the attacks and remarkable abilities of your foes into the very magic that you wield!
Dip your toes into the arts of protomancy with the Blue Mage wizard archetype, Circle of the Primordial
2025-05-26 18:58:45 +0000 UTC
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The first issue of the monthly EN5ider Magazine has everything a DM could want to turn a party of ragtag adventurers into legendary heroes. This all-new relaunch of EN5ider is compatible with the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D, and contains rules articles and adventures for your 5E games.
This month, EN5ider Magazine will be relaunching with a brand new format! We've been teasing this relaunch for a while now, and it's finally here!
To celebrate 10 years of EN5ider, and the new 2024 edition of D&D, EN5ider is going monthly--and will be available in both PDF and print formats. EN5ider is compatible with both the 2014 and new 2024 editions of D&D.
If you are already an EN5ider patron, you'll hear more from Patreon about th...
2025-04-16 11:28:51 +0000 UTC
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After working hard to save the lives of countless war refugees like herself, Tracy Vandieu founded the communication network that would later become the Walking News—keeping the common people informed of dangerous events across the countryside. Now after only a few short years of expansion hundreds of far-flung Correspondents (CR 5) and Interviewers (CR 3) are hard at work covering not just the critical news like monster sightings, but al...
2025-03-26 17:42:49 +0000 UTC
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Chryssa De Antoni—or the Coiled Sculptress (CR 11) as she’s now known—is a talented medusa that burrowed her way into the criminal underground. She turns her customers to stone and resculpts their faces, carefully chiseling away their old identities before using her unique magical gifts to restore them, turning her artistry into flesh and blood. Hers is not a profession of kindness however, and the foolish customers that don’t say the right passwords or pay the r...
2025-03-21 19:42:42 +0000 UTC
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The secrets of a grand hidden treasure have been taken to the grave after a fiery death, but the bereaved aren’t ready to give up on their inheritance yet. Clever adventurers that pursue these riches will find both glory and fortune in the town of Enkrend—and the bizarre source of its woes, for an evil buzzes in the idyllic settlement. What begins with a conflagration spins out of control, people turning against one another as they lose their senses and are driven to bloodlust. The puppet...
2025-03-16 19:46:54 +0000 UTC
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The ritual of Myunlar is approaching and must be completed for the cycles of day and night to continue properly; if it fails none know fully what will happen. This practice has traditionally been handled by the Order of Ranul which holds the history of the rites and makes all the preparations. Tragically, during a meeting in a tavern a terrible inferno overtook the building and its ferocity left no survivors. While undeniably a tragedy, the PCs are called upon to complete the ritual. Divinely...
2025-03-11 00:35:51 +0000 UTC
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This selection of monsters by Joseph McCleave is all moth-themed! The CR 6 Lightward Visionary, the CR 10 Luminous Matriarch, the CR 5 Puppeteer, and the CR 1 Swarm of Silksingers make up a small family of matriarchal moth-like monsters. Their adoration of light and flame is one that has claimed the lives of countless adventurers, but the clever know how to use this to their advantage.
EN5ider Goes Monthly Soon!
This year EN5ider celebrates a decade of publishing some of 5E...
2025-03-06 14:37:28 +0000 UTC
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If the Academy of Responsible Magic is to be believed the House of Malfeasance is a common fiction only shared between fools. Regardless of their veracity, rumors of the clandestine cadre keep new students and young magicians in line—misuse your abilities, the warning goes, and the Malfeasis will send the Librarians after you.
EN5ider Goes Monthly Soon!
This year EN5ider celebrates a decade of publishing some of 5E’s most creative and engaging articles. We've published ov...
2025-02-28 09:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Pirates raided the ship of Skybeard shortly after his birth and he was kept on in the wake of the bloody aftermath—since then he’s spent nearly his entire life upon the waves. When the captain he was working under happened to accidentally slip overboard during a raid, Captain Skybeard took the opportunity to seize control and rename the ship Tempest. He sailed the seas for years, relishing in the havoc of a buccaneer’s lifestyle. A brand new villain spotlight!
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2025-02-25 09:20:52 +0000 UTC
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When Toby Hardwallah hires the guards to protect his caravan it sounds like a straightforward job, but strange events and unsettling apparitions make it clear that more sinister forces are at work. A traitorous legacy of revenge is unraveled to unveil a curse that stretches back generations. A Dickensian adventure for 12th level characters!
EN5ider Goes Monthly Soon!
This year EN5ider celebrates a decade of publishing some of 5E’s most creative and engaging articles. We've pu...
2025-02-17 12:05:59 +0000 UTC
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The life of a courtier is one of navigating the intricacies of court. Trading in favors and secrets, seeking any social edge, and staying in the good graces of your betters. Since these tend to be various nobles who have more money than the average commoner, a brisk trade has developed around small trinkets that help in just these kinds of activities. These 11 new magic items help you do just that!
2025-02-11 11:22:58 +0000 UTC
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A supplemental adventure for 4–5 PCs spanning 1st to 8th level
Just as the adventurers are leaving town for their first real quest, a newsboy offers them a free copy of “The Darkspan Delver '' and some field rations, a special only for the adventuring type. The news rag contains tantalizing exposés on famous dungeon delvers and daring doos, and the ration jerky ain’t half bad. As time passes, picking up the “Delver” becomes a regular comfort when ret...
2025-02-04 13:30:16 +0000 UTC
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The same sinister wizard who callously saps life energy away from innocents has fought monsters that stalk the wild and donated great sums of treasure to those in need. Some think that Ferreth the Necromancer (CR 7) is losing his mind—certainly not that his body has a second unexpected occupant. Dually designed by Charlie Brooks, illustrated by Leonardo Sa.
2025-01-28 14:11:50 +0000 UTC
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Sovereign got you down? Oligarchy is on your back? There's something in here to help scratch that anti-tyrannical itch! Get a Counting Crow to keep tabs on the necessary comings and goings for your rebellion, hang up an Invisible Cat Bell to warn of intruders trespassing in your hideout, or acquire Rings of Recognition to make organizing a breeze. Out of the ten relics here you're sure to find some help throwing off the shackles of unfit rule! Defiant...
2025-01-24 21:04:19 +0000 UTC
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Big Willie Cormack (CR 3), a prize fighter of some renown, is rendered unable to take part in tomorrow’s much-touted fight night. With the star attraction out of action promoter Kathy Kinhorn needs to fill the spot, and she has her eye on one of the adventurers to face off against Vassily 'The Beard' Gregorin (CR 3). By fair means or foul she persuades the party to fill in, but it quickly becomes apparent that the life of a prize fighter is anythi...
2025-01-16 00:49:15 +0000 UTC
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The miniature bestiary from #543 Monstrous Menagerie: Dragonettes continues with five new little draconic creatures to scale up your game! This batch includes the voracious Swarm of Dracomites (CR 1), fruit-loving Gardenwyrm (CR 2), trash-dwelling Opossum Dragonette (CR 1), loyal Shepherd's Dragonette (CR 2), and the arboreal <...
2025-01-11 18:43:49 +0000 UTC
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Any person of virtue will try to return a bit of missing mail or errant package—but when wizards are involved the mailbag comes directly to the adventurers! Will they take the bait from the misplaced Dagilon (CR 1/2), and if they do who are they ultimately taking the side of? This mini-adventure for 4–6 PCs of 6th–8th level was dauntingly designed by Mell Black, illustrated by Leonardo Sa, and features the cartography of 2025-01-05 21:55:16 +0000 UTC
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This isolated medical facility high in the mountains has many facets to its controversial reputation. Some say it is a bastion of hope for folks who’ve fallen victim to vile curses, malevolent spirits, and forcefully induced magical transformations. Others swear it’s a front for wicked sorcerers and alchemists to perform tortuous experiments or build an army of monsters and freaks guided by their Healing Hand (CR 4) servants. Maybe Saint Maledict’s Repose really is...
2024-12-28 16:37:02 +0000 UTC
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After attaining some glory the adventurers hit a run of bad luck and it is at their lowest point they come across an unlikely source of salvation: a fairy godfather. No whimsical fellow trailing sparkles in his wake, despite his size he is of a serious demeanor and clearly not to be trifled with. This is Francis, and he's gonna make them an offer they can't refuse. Domineeringly designed by Michael McCarthy, illustrated by Leonardo Sa.
2024-12-21 15:26:47 +0000 UTC
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After barely an hour in the Laughing Fox inn a large group of guards enter, drawing weapons as they claim the adventurers are part of a conspiracy against the King. Can the party uncover the truth behind the sudden persecution of foreigners in time to save themselves and hundreds of others—or will the demon have his due? Diabolically designed for 4–5 PCs of 8th level by Marc Kenobi, incredible illustrati...
2024-12-16 00:27:08 +0000 UTC
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However they are caught—whether for false accusations or true transgressions—the party are left to fend for themselves in the infamous Felspike. There may be no bars stopping them from leaving this underground prison and the river flowing down to them offers the promise of escape, but many have failed this climb to freedom before. Daringly designed for 4–5 PCs of 4th level by Tyler Omichinski, illustrated by Rafael Benjamin, and featuring the cartography of 2024-12-11 23:11:39 +0000 UTC
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