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Free Module: The Plane of Water

A drought arises and the players must travel to the Plane of Water and battle sahuagin in order to direct a flow into the drying world.

Speed Up Combat

Combat can be one of the most time-consuming parts of your game, taking hours to resolve and eating up a large chunk of the session. It can be a little ridiculous to spend 2 hours on a combat which only amounted to 60 seconds passing in-game. If you're feeling like your combats are getting bogged down and you're having players tune out, then try these tips to speed things up and get people engaged again.

Downtime Activities and Events

A list of all downtime activities, with automatically calculated requirements, results, and complications. Building structures, lifestyle, buying / selling / crafting magic items, crime, gambling, carousing, research, training, businesses, and everything else a player could want to do.

Campaign Generator

Generates everything you need to start a new campaign from scratch. Including surrounding geography, local culture and experts, a structure and motivation for adventure, religion and gods, and additional lore to fill your world.

How To Choose Your Alignment Quiz

A simple breakdown of what alignment means, and includes a quiz to help determine yours.

Premium Module Now Available

To celebrate reaching our first milestone, I've released an expanded module as a bonus for all premium users! With maps, npc and environmental details, as well as a much bigger and involved storyline, it's a high-quality campaign with everything you need. Thanks again to all of you for making this possible.

Magic Item List

Quickly accessible list of magic items. Sort, filter, and read the full descriptions for each item. Also hooks into the magic item prices list for easy reference.

Premium-Exclusive Module Early Preview

Here's an early preview for early birds, The Beast of the Frozen Wastes. This premium-exclusive module is my thanks to you for helping us reach our first major milestone!

Second Grid Map Update

The second Grid Map update is here with a big list of new features and changes, available for everyone to celebrate hitting our first milestone! If you missed the first update, you can check out all those changes as well here: https://www.kassoon.com/dnd/grid-map-update/ 

Big thanks to all of you who made this possible. The premium module is going well and will hopefully be available next.

200 Patrons!

Wow, we've reached our first goal and milestone with 200 patrons! That means an exclusive and expanded module that's only for you. It has more details, maps, descriptions, characters, art, and a bigger story. Work has already begun, and it should be available soon. Hopefully within the next couple weeks once all the art is ready.

In the meantime you can check out some of the new features on the Grid Map, including real-time multiplayer. I'll have another big update post on that for you ...

Plot Twist Generator

Story stuck? Twist it up! Try injecting some of these plot twists into your story to shock your players and get things moving again.

Exploring Backstories

 Backstories are typically written before the game starts, then either  not touched again or referenced a few times with plot hooks. Some  characters might not have backstories at all, or didn't put much in them  when the game was still new and uncertain. Yet as your game progresses  these backstories can become more stagnant, outdated, or unused. 

Free Module: The School of Magic

The PCs are sent to deal with a raiding ogre that turns out to be a gnome illusionist.

Make Tactical, Memorable Combat

 Are those little demigods some call PCs running all over your encounters  without breaking a sweat? Maybe they've even had the audacity to call  the encounters “easy.” 5th edition has really ramped up the power levels  of the players, and as the DM you may find it difficult to meaningfully  challenge them. You can always spend more XP on your encounter budget  to increase the challenge, but giving all your combats the “Deadly”  difficulty also makes...

Vicious Mockery Insult Generator

Generate insults.

Dwarven Empire of the Deep

A dwarven stronghold goes quiet and stops all trade with the outside world. The party goes to find a greater threat coming from below.

Big Grid Map Update

There's been some big updates to the grid map  that you should know. This is one of the biggest updates I've done to the site, and the number of changes and feature additions to the grid map rival that of any other tool I've made on kassoon.com. I've been working on  this update for months, so I'm pretty excited to finally be able to release it for everyone. 

Make 3D Dungeon Tiles for $1

Upgrade from that plain beige battlemat to some nice looking dungeon  tiles that'll really make your dungeons pop up from the table. This is a  great starter project for crafting your own terrain, and it's easy to  move on from this to all sorts of different terrain, scatter, and even  your own models. Plus this is something you're going to use all the  time, so the effort-to-value you'll get from it is unmatched. 

Taking Notes Makes You Like Your Game More

Players and DMs alike take note: taking notes is important for everyone  at the table. That means every player and the DM should each be taking  their own notes. Why so much redundancy? Isn't one person taking notes  enough? The answer is simple: taking notes actually makes you have more  fun. Seriously. 

What To Do When Players Cancel

It's the situation everyone fears, you've spent all week looking forward and getting ready for D&D and someone cancels. You don't want them to miss out on the cool plot points you've planned out, so do you cancel?

The Underwater Cultists

There's rumor that a cult has some dragon eggs and is performing weird  magical experiments on them in a secluded part of the swamp. 

Free Module: Dueling Dragons

 A young copper dragon believed it to be funny to steal an object from  the hoard of a chromatic dragon and hide it in the another chromatic's  hoard, laughing as the two chromatic drakes do battle over the  landscape. Unfortunately, this causes heavy casualties amongst the poor  people that are helplessly stuck between them. 

Free Module: The Lost Tinkerer

The PCs are sent to find a wizard that has created a thriving business with golems. The mystery they uncover is a tangled web of automation, and a man that has been gone for 20 years.

How To Roleplay

Maybe you've never roleplayed before, or you've played a couple games and realized you weren't really contributing to the RP. In either case you're wondering how to get better, like that one guy who's really good and natural at it. What's his deal, anyway? The good news is that guy isn't doing anything particularly special, in fact it's probably less than you think.

Character Builds

Search, make, and share character builds by race and class, in a simple and easy to read format

Make a Roleplay Cheat Sheet

A roleplay cheat sheet can  be a single sheet of paper covered in a bunch of quick references for  roleplay, in a similar way to how a DM Screen is a bunch of quick  references for game mechanics. It contains a number of tables you can  glance at to quickly put together NPCs, locations, towns, motivations,  and plots.

This can help during game  time when you need to quickly create a character or place from scratch  that you weren't able to prep beforeh...

2p D&D Module - Wood Elf Rites

Deep within a great  forest, homes are built in and around the trees using magic to shape the  wood without harming the plant. A town full of wood elves lives here  with a deep and ceremonious respect for the woods. You've been living  here as an adult for about a year now in a home shaped for you by the  elders. After a long year of waiting it's finally time for your rites  ...

How To Overcome DM Anxiety

Does the thought of DMing and running a game make you feel anxious? It doesn't have to, just follow these steps.

4 Easy Ways to Speed Up Game Prep

DMing can seem like a daunting task because of all the work you have to do just to get ready before the game even starts. Here’s a few ideas to make it easier, faster, and just less work overall.

Library of Flying Books

Crowds are gathered around the gleaming new library, but there's  something odd and animated about the new books. It needs be under control before the ribbon cutting ceremony. An adventure for 4th-level  adventurers.