Update: only had a few folks interested, so we canceled the tournament. However, we will be showing off tactics in the RPG Library. I'll have more details this week as we get closer to the event.
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Hey all!
I have some exciting news to share with you all today.
I will be attending Pax Unplugged 2022 in an official capacity, both as a vendor showcasing...
2022-10-27 19:34:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: I need five more one-word prompts to finish this up. You can post again even if you've already posted before.
Hey everyone!
In addition to all the other fun stuff I'm juggling, I'm getting ready for Pax Unplugged next month. It will feature a never-before-seen adventure written by me called Vaults of the Mythic Army, an old-school tournament module.
Here's the background:
Long thought to be only a legend told by elder elves, t... 2022-10-26 19:11:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Since the last poll ran away with wights and chain devils leading the pack, I decided to go ahead and start drafting up these selections. As usual, I'll need some one-word-prompts to get the gears turning.
In the comments below, leave a single word. I'll design an area based on your word.
Usual rules apply:
Hey all!
Normally, I'd release these at the start of the new month, but I figured I'd show you what's in store for November now, especially since I've already made my schedule. All dates, times, and content are subject to change.
Dungeons & Lairs Releases
Our buddy Tom Cartos has a new set of maps featuring a gothic cemetery. Check out the top layer:
I hope to place an adventure into both the top portion and bottom portions of the cemetery using the traditional Dungeons & Lairs format. The only trouble is—I'm not sure what yet!
Below, I've set up a poll with some monsters I'd love to take a stab at in the Dungeons & La...
2022-10-25 03:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
I just looked at the calendar and realized that Halloween is in little over a week. So I figured I'd put together a quickie Dungeons & Lairs adventure featuring some spooky gargoyles.
Of course, I'll need some one word prompts from all of you to make this happen.
In the comments below, leave a single word comment. I'll then incorporate that word into one of the map's areas.
Usual rules apply:
1) Nothing too anachronistic
2) Keep it clean
3) No ...
Hey all!
In the midst of everything else going on, we're preparing for PAX Unplugged in early December. At this convention, I plan to run an old-school-style tournament module in the vein of Tamachoan and Tomb of Horrors. It will probably be a 25-30 room dungeon that the players will only have four hours to navigate. Teams earn points based on the number of secrets they uncover, monsters they defeat, hazards they circumvent, and treasure they secure.
After we run this at the con, ...
2022-10-21 23:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
All right... the cat's out of the bag. Literally. After we finish up the Gamemaster's Survival Guide (currently on Kickstarter), I'll begin production on Kickstarter #6, which is tentatively titled Cats Vs. Evil. Basically, you play a cat. And you fight things. It's like the video game Strays meets Call of Cthulhu meets D&D. It should be fun.
Although I still have a lot to do on the current projects (and CVE won't be out until Ap...
2022-10-19 15:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Yazur Island is a 900-square-mile island off Omeria’s northeastern coast. It’s approximately 50 miles from Imfe Caan Asaari, the “capital” city of Vaskil Valley. Once the site of a few noteworthy Pressonian settlements, Yazur Island now serves as an arcane prison for Omeria’s most dangerous spellcasters; that’s because 20-foot-tall, mouthless, horned cyclopes that call the island home generate fields of antimagic that extend up to 15 miles off the island’s shores. And if that’...
2022-10-18 15:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This archive includes links to all the BroadSword Monthly PDF distribution files that have since entered the "archive." They are only available to gold and platinum patrons.
BroadSword Monthly
Ready to take your 5e games to the next level?
The Fifth Edition Gamemaster's Survival Guide offers everything you need to run better games for the Fifth Edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game.
The book includes:
For those just learning about Omeria, Yazur Island is a 900-square-mile island off Omeria's northeastern coast. It's approximately 50 miles from Imfe Caan Asaari, the "capital" city of Vaskil Valley. Once the site of a few noteworthy Pressonian settlements, Yazur Island now serves as an arcane prison for Omeria's most dangerous spellcasters; that's because 20-foot-tall, mouthless, horned cyclopes that call the island home generate fields of antimagic that exte...
2022-10-11 17:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The maps included in this post are featured in the new DMDave adventure, Yazur Island: The Whistling Monolith.
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Map created by DMDave using InkarnateRPG assets.
The map pack includes a GM version and a player version.
Size: 4096 x 3166 px
Dropbox Link: 2022-10-11 17:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Yazur Island: The Whistling Monolith is a Fifth Edition adventure supplement designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th. This document includes details for adjusting the adventure based on the party’s average level. The mage prison of Yazur Island contains many secrets and sites of interest, such as the Whistling Monolith. Scholars believe the colossal purple pillar keeps the Yazurian cyclopes tied to the island. As suc...
2022-10-11 17:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I return from vacation rested and "tanned" (kinda pink, but whatev).
If there's anything you need from me in the way of customer-service, hit me up in private message or in the Discord on the #customer-service channel and I'll get you squared away.
Thanks all! <3
2022-10-10 12:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I’ll be out from today until Sunday evening. I’ll have my laptop with me but I might be slow to respond.
Thanks!
2022-10-05 13:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Welcome to October... spooooky month! September threw us some curveballs, but we managed to get through it and came out with a renewed sense of direction.
Here is everything we plan to release this month:
Update 10/17: Still plenty of open spaces left for the remainder of the month. Grab them quick!
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Hey folks!
It's time for another month of games. If you aren't familiar with how we do the games, we have two DMs in the server who manage our games: our dear friend Charlie (UK) and RealMoeStachio.
If you've never played in a West Marches campaign before, here is how it works. Basically, a few different DMs tag team running adventures ...
2022-10-04 17:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Yazur Island: Forest of Faces is a Fifth Edition adventure supplement designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th. The full document includes details for adjusting the adventure based on the party’s average level.
The document included below only has the 1st-level version of the adventure.
The mage prison of Yazur Island contains many secrets and sites of interest. One area of particula...
2022-10-04 17:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Yazur Island: Forest of Faces is a Fifth Edition adventure supplement designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th. This document includes details for adjusting the adventure based on the party’s average level. The mage prison of Yazur Island contains many secrets and sites of interest. One area of particular interest is its Forest of Faces, a 12-square-mile patch of forest containing the corpses of treants and other dead...
2022-10-04 16:40:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I try not to advertise on here for anything more than our own stuff, but this is kind of a big deal!
Our dear friend Tom Cartos (and practically our resident cartographer) has just launched his very first Kickstarter, ‘Into the Wilds Battlemap Books.’
Into the Wilds is a collection of 6 fully customizable, biome and region-themed battlemap books for your favorite TTRPG. They are ideal for pre-set or random encounters out in the wilderness, ...
2022-10-04 14:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Cemetary of Steel is not a cemetery in the traditional sense but a massive junkyard of Deadrunner rigs. Many of these rigs were recovered from the ruins of Karnione and purchased by the early Yazurian-Pressonian researchers stationed on the island. When the Pressonians evacuated the island in the late 9th century, they left the vehicles here. Now, it is home to Yazurian gremlins, pesky prolific pests which only love two things: apples and causing mischief.
However, I don't know what...
2022-10-04 02:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostFor those just learning about Omeria, Yazur Island is a 900-square-mile island off Omeria's northeastern coast. It's approximately 50 miles from Imfe Caan Asaari, the "capital" city of Vaskil Valley. Once the site of a few noteworthy Pressonian settlements, Yazur Island now serves as an arcane prison for Omeria's most dangerous spellcasters; that's because 20-foot-tall, mouthless, horned cyclopes that call the island home generate fields of antimagic that exte...
2022-10-03 22:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: the original image above was a placeholder. It's not really submerged. Whoops! I've since replaced it with a correct representation.
Feel free to change your entries. Otherwise, I'll find another way to work your suggestions in.
Tageas was one of the three villages that once supported Fort Arges. While little remains of the other two villages, some of Tageas’ structures still stand.
However, I don't know what's in there. In the comments belo...
2022-10-02 18:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Yazur Island: Forest of Faces is a Fifth Edition adventure supplement designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th. This document includes details for adjusting the adventure based on the party’s average level. The mage prison of Yazur Island contains many secrets and sites of interest. One area of particular interest is its Forest of Faces, a 12-square-mile patch of forest containing the corpses of treants and other dead...
2022-09-30 16:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
As you read in my middle-of-the-month update to tiers, I'm going to start making videos that will be available to Gold and Platinum tiers. I hope to publish as many as I can, recording myself while I work.
What would you like me to cover in these videos?
Let me know down below.
2022-09-29 21:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The Fifth Edition Gamemaster's Survival Guide by DMDave is coming to Kickstarter in less than two weeks.
We will be launching on Tuesday October 12th at 10:00 am EST (that's 7:00 am PST/2:00 pm GMT/4:00 pm CET), so set your calendars and alarms. If you want to make sure not to miss out, you can follow the Kickstarte...
2022-09-29 17:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
For those just learning about Omeria, Yazur Island is a 900-square-mile island off Omeria's northeastern coast. It's approximately 50 miles from Imfe Caan Asaari, the "capital" city of Vaskil Valley. Once the site of a few noteworthy Pressonian settlements, Yazur Island now serves as an arcane prison for Omeria's most dangerous spellcasters; that's because 20-foot-tall, mouthless, horned cyclopes that call the island home generate fields of antimagic that exte...
2022-09-27 15:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post
For those just learning about Omeria, Yazur Island is a 900-square-mile island off Omeria's northeastern coast. It's approximately 50 miles from Imfe Caan Asaari, the "capital" city of Vaskil Valley. Once the site of a few noteworthy Pressonian settlements, Yazur Island now serves as an arcane prison for Omeria's most dangerous spellcasters; that's beca...
2022-09-27 13:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Forest of Faces is done and now it's on to Fort Arges as part of The Whistling Monolith pack.
Here's a description of Fort Arges:
Half a mile from the Whistling Monolith stands Fort Arges, a ruined Pressonian keep occupied by Blood of the Cyclopes, a militant faction devoted to toppling the monolith. An Anorian gun mage named Dezecratia leads the Blood. Dezecratia burns with an intense hatred for all spellcasters. She believes that if the monolith fal... 2022-09-26 16:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post