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Announcement: Clarification on Asset Pack Access

Hey everyone!

We have received some questions recently regarding access to asset packs and adventure PDFs and we wanted to clarify for all users, both new and veteran, what the timeline for access to content looks like:

Adventure PDFs:

Everyone, including non-patrons, will have access to new adventures for 30 days. After 30 days the adventure posts will become "legacy" adventures and will only be accessible to patrons Copper Tier and above. This means that...

One Word Prompt #31 - Mummy Lord's Pyramid

Hey all!

One of the big showstoppers this month will be a Dungeons & Lairs adventure module dedicated to possibly my single favorite monster in the Fifth Edition Monster Manual: mummy lords!

I've got a 30+ room area that I need to fill. So I need some word prompts.

If this is your first time playing, all you have to do is leave a comment down below with a one word prompt for a room. This word can be any word you want so long as it's:

• Not a pr...
  2021-06-02 01:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post

June 2021 Content Schedule

Happy June everyone!

Here's the current content schedule for this month. As always, this is subject to change and may not cover everything we put out.

Titles in bold mean that they've already been drafted.

Titles in italics and bold mean that they're through production and scheduled.

An asterisk means the product has been launched.

• Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 - Buckler May 2021*
• Fri...
  2021-06-01 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Free Class - How to Write Adventures for Fifth Edition

Exciting news today!

Back by popular demand, we are going to be hosting a brand new "How to Write Adventures for D&D 5e" class which will start Monday, June 7th, 2021 at 8:30pm CST.

There will be three classes in this series, each one is two hours long.

The classes will be held twice per week:

• Monday June 7th, 14th, and 21st 8:30pm to 10:30pm CST
• Saturday June 12th 19th, and 26th 10:00am to 12:00pm CST

These videos will be recorded *but* ...

Desert Themed Subclasses

Hey everyone!

Next month's big theme is going to be deserts as we premiere The Burning Borderlands, the theme for BroadSword Monthly #17. Burning Borderlands is an homage to the adventure classic, I3-I5 Desert of Desolation. 

We're going to need some subclasses to accompany the setting. Below I've given you a bevy of new options. Pick the four you like best. The top four get made and spread throughout the month of June.

Looking forward to your ...

One Word Prompts - Death Knight's Oubliette

Hey all!

So Death Knight is totally winning the next poll. It's at 43% with no hint of stopping. So I've already picked out a lovely map above (which conveniently connects to the beholder-themed map that'll come out a week before it). But this mofo has 56 locations!

So you know what to do: ONE WORD PROMPTS!

If this is your first time playing, all you have to do is leave a comment down below with a one word prompt for a room. This word can be any word you want so lon...

May Content Poll

Happy end of May, folks! BroadSword #15 will be our last major release this month. As usual, I'd like to get some feedback on what you liked best and what you'd like to see in future months.

Vote for your favorite stuff below. Voting ends next week.

[Gold+] Dungeons & Lairs: Banshee Tower | New 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF ADVENTURE BELOW!

Banshee Tower is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 1, 3, 5, or 8. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly. The adventure sees the party enter the ruins of an old, overgrown keep in the forest, from within which a spirit’s mournful wails can be heard for miles around. To stop the spirit’s incessant keening, th...

Banshee Tower Assets & Foundry VTT Pack

Update: 6/28/23 - FoundryVTT Link Fixed

Banshee Tower is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 1, 3, 5, or 8. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly. The adventure sees the party enter the ruins of an old, overgrown keep in the forest, from within which a spirit’s mournful wails can be heard for miles around. To stop the spirit’s incessant keening, t...

BroadSword Status

Hey all!

Quick update on BroadSword:

• #13 is currently in the mail and on your way.
• #14 has just been approved and is being printed (ETA 2 weeks)
• #15's PDF should be out tomorrow or Monday (it's in final proofing)
• #16 is finished and should be in PDF form in roughly 2 weeks
• #17 is just wrapping up being written now; my contributions should appear soon
• #18 is currently in development and we've started writing it.

So yeah...

Monster Lairs Week 7 Poll

Hey all!

Beholders (or something close to that) are the big winners for Week #6. Cockatrices earned over 20% so they'll move on. The rest are dropped.

Here's the current schedule of Dungeons & Lairs plus everything else that's come out.

• Skeletons
• Kobolds
• 2021-05-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Dark Carnival Debuts Early June 2021

Hey all!

Hope you're having an awesome Hump Day so far! 

Just a quick announcement. Dark Carnival is officially added to the calendar for releases in June 2021. I've been working through most of the content (while taking breaks on the Kickstarter stuff, of course) and have some pretty cool things to share.

This will also be the first official Dungeons & Lairs micro-campaign setting. The 30-40 some odd page document will include everything y...

Dark Carnival Poll - DMG or Not DMG?

Hey all,

As it looks like Dark Carnival will win the next poll (by like... a lot), I'm trying to think of the best way to do it. Because Ravenloft is not covered by the SRD, the guide which I must follow in order to create Fifth Edition content "legally", I'd have to make a non-Ravenloft version of it and just drop subtle "hints" that it can be used as such. But it'd be included with your normal Patreon account's benefits.

Alternatively, I can make a Ravenloft sup...

Monster Layers Poll 7 - Ravenloft-Inspired Lairs

Hey all!

As I'm working on beholders (it's at 39% as of this writing, so it'll likely win), I thought I might toss in a bonus lair since that'll get me pretty far ahead—I'm already a month out.

Inspired by the new Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, I thought I might create a lair that would work in one of the non-Barovia spots. Obviously, I can't brand it as Ravenloft, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it there.

Below are suggestions based on the ma...

One Word Prompt - Depth Watcher's Temple

Hey all!

It looks like a pretty sure bet that "beholder" will win the next Monster Lairs poll. Thus, I've already started working on it so I can free up my week for Hot8/Pexia writing.

I've got another Tim map (actually a series of five that I want to use, but I'm just using the first part for this) that I'm going to colorize and jam with monsters. I just need some prompts to fill the 35ish rooms that the dungeon provides.

Depth Watcher

Since I can't use beholders du...

Monster Lairs Week 6 Poll

Hey all!

Carrion crawlers (or something close to that) are the big winners for Week #5. Beholders earned over 20% so they'll move on. The rest are dropped.

Here's the current schedule of Dungeons & Lairs plus everything else that's come out.

• Skeletons 
• Kobolds  2021-05-21 22:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Preview: Hand of the Eight Storm of Mega Working Draft

DOWNLOAD THE PDF BELOW

Hey all!

Fun news today. Here is the official working draft for Hand of the Eight Chapter 1- Storm of Mega. 

Note that this is a working draft, so it's going to have some typos and logic errors. We've got our proofers working on the content, but if you see any errors, be sure to go to our Discord channel for typos and errors: https://discord.gg/DPfbw3...

[Gold+] Dungeons & Lairs: Animated Objects | New 1st, 3rd, 5th, or 8th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

DOWNLOAD THE ADVENTURE BELOW!

Animated Objects is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 1, 3, 5, or 8. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly. The adventure pits the characters against a plethora of new animated objects. Be sure to review their stat blocks in the Appendix before running this adventure.

Plug-in Adventure

As a plug-in adventu...

Animated Objects Asset & FoundryVTT Pack

Manifest URL and ZIP at the end of the post.

Animated Objects is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 1, 3, 5, or 8. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly.

Plug-in Adventure

As a plug-in adventure, the adventure content serves as drop-in material for game masters who wish to add a small dungeon to a preexisting campaign or need a side que...

Awaken Asset Pack and FoundryVTT Pack

DOWNLOAD THE PDF BELOW. Get Foundry VTT pack on the DMDave.com Store!

This Foundry module pack includes the adventure text for both versions of the adventure, as well as the scenes, actors, items, and art contained in it. Scenes come pre-set with walls, lighting, actor tokens linked to their respective sheets, and hidden number tiles. Installation ins...

Awaken | New 5th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

Awaken is a Fifth Edition adventure for three to five characters of 5th to 7th level and is optimized for a party of four characters with an average party level (APL) of 5. Although the adventure sees a fair amount of combat, it also requires critical thinking and roleplaying. Players who only wish to fight their way out of situations may not enjoy this adventure.

The adventure takes place as part of the Mystery Island adventure series but is o...

One Word Prompts - Haunted Mansion

Hey everyone,

I've got a fun little map I put together last night in celebration of the release of Ravenloft.  I plan on doing some "House of Dracula" type stuff to go in here. Only trouble is I've got 69 rooms to fill. Having said that, I need some one word prompts.

Here's how it works:

• Give me a single word in the comments below
• Keep it clean
• No proper nouns
• One word per patron

Looking forward to see what you come up with!<...

Quick Poll! Dungeons & Lairs: Bonus Horror Map

Happy Ravenloft day everyone!

I got my book earlier today an already I want to start making some GAWTHICC stuff. I've got a Tim Hartin map I've been sitting on a while that I want to do something with. I just want to know what to put into it.

Using my new book, I'll let you pick the featured bad guy for the adventure.

Sunday Stat Anything - Aquaman

Original art by Luciano Vecchio.

Aquaman is a trademark of DC Comics. This document is fan content and for educational/editorial purposes only and is not available for resale or print.

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For this design, I based it heavily on the DCEU version versus the comic books, hence the more chaotic, "punch before you think" version that's here. 

Aquaman isn't...

Call for Suggestions- Return of Stat Anything

Back when I got started doing this I used to do a series called “Stat Anything” where I’d give stats to well... anything! I made a lot of monsters, superheroes, etc. it was fun.

So I thought I’d bring it back for fun.

What do you want to see me make? Let me know in the comments.

Just a few rules:

• Nothing political/controversial
• I don’t watch anime or play video games so I probably won’t get those references
• I can’t feature these th...
  2021-05-16 18:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post

One Word Prompts

Hey everyone!

I'm working on the next Dungeons & Lairs (actually, this is the one for June 11, but I digress), and I need some prompty-poos.

If you've never done this before, here are the rules:

• 1 word per patron
• keep it clean
• no proper nouns

You drop a word in the comments and I theme a room in the dungeon based on your suggestion. I've got about 25 spots to fill!

Let's see what you got.

Monster Lairs Poll 5

Hey all!

I went ahead and ended the last poll a little prematurely so I can get to work on it this weekend and focus most of my time on Hand of the Eight (1/5 done with the revisions) and Pexia's (about 1/3 done on that). That means that aboleths are the big winner from the last poll. 

As before, the monsters that got 20% from the last competition get to make it into the new one. Unfortunately, our dear bugbears missed by a lousy 1%! Womp womp.

Even sti...

Castlegrasp Blitz Goal for the Kickstarter

Hey all!

This weekend, I want to hit $100,000 on the Kickstarter by 10:00 am CST on Monday. We're just $12,000'ish away, which means we're only about 142 backers from hitting that goal. Considering we get 40-50 per day, I think that's pretty. 

So here's the pitch:

If we can get $100k by Monday, we'll add a Castlegrasp supplement to the document. PLUS we'll share it on Patreon, too. So even if you don't back the Kickstarter, you'll want to share...

2021-05-14 19:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Archmage Stronghold Asset & FoundryVTT Pack

Download the files at the end of the post.

Archmage Stronghold is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 11, 14, 17, or 20. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly.

Plug-in Adventure

As a plug-in adventure, the adventure content serves as add-on material for game masters who wish to add a small dungeon to a preexisting campaign or need a side...

[Gold+] Dungeons & Lairs: Archmage Stronghold | New 11th, 14th, 17th, or 20th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

DOWNLOAD THE FREE ADVENTURE PDF BELOW

Archmage Stronghold is a Fifth Edition plug-in adventure for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 11, 14, 17, or 20. This document offers details for each level and makes adjustments accordingly.

Plug-in Adventure

As a plug-in adventure, the adventure content serves as add-on material for game masters who wish to add a small dungeon to a preexisting campaign or need a side ques...