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The Sanguine Dawn Inn | New Plug-and-Play Supplement for Fifth Edition

The Sanguine Dawn Inn is a plug-and-play add-on for Fifth Edition. The inn easily fits into any campaign setting of your choice and can work as both a tavern/inn in a village, town, or city, or as a stand-alone structure at an important crossroads. Although this location is chock full of ready-made details, feel free to add, change, or remove elements to function with your chosen campaign setting.

Get the Maps from Tom Cartos

Tom Cartos offers the maps for FREE on his Patreon. N...

Thrown to the Wolves Tier 1 Variant

Hey all!

It was pretty fun writing Thrown to the Wolves yesterday. I actually managed to run it with my Saturday group last night, too.

I'm probably going to do up to three variants with it, each tied to one of the four tiers; the original module is tier 2.

For the first tier, what type of threat would you like to see? I've suggested a few below that I'm itching to do, but I've also included an op...

Thrown to the Wolves | New 5th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

Thrown to the Wolves is a Fifth Edition adventure for three to five characters of 5th to 7th level. It’s optimized for a party of four characters with an average party level of 5. The adventure is campaign agnostic, but can just as easily be placed into any campaign setting which includes werewolves, particularly those with a gothic horror slant. Characters who successfully complete the adventure and defeat all the encounters should earn enough exp...

Thank You All!

Hey everyone!

Thanks so much for a fantastic month so far. I know I've been a bit behind on content as of late, but I'm finally getting out of the weeds. Currently, I'm about 50% done on this big inn release I'm doing with Tom Cartos which I hope to have up tonight or early tomorrow. 

Additionally, I've got the answers to the survey showing that folks want to see Hot8 part 9, so I hope to work on that next. I'm also trying to get caught up on Monsters, so expect more of those...

Blire Manor and Into Quabus Now on Roll20

Hey all!

Great news today as our two newest modules, Danger at Blire Manor and the entire Into Quabus series are now available for purchase on Roll20. The modules include all the tokens, dynamic lighting, colored maps, and everything else needed to turn the original PDFs into actionable content for your players. 

Everything's 100% set up, too. That means all you have to do is make a purchase and add it to an existing campaign. No muss, no fus...

What do you want first?

Hey all!

Following up on my last post explaining the pause on certain types of content, I figured I'd put it in your arena to see what comes out next. 

Pick one! Survey ends this afternoon.

"Hey Dave, where is [such and such] part [x]?"

Hey all!

I've had a couple people ask about certain pieces of content I've been working on in the past and why it may not have additional parts or appears abandoned. Popular examples include: Uncle Skeleton's Nightmare Tunnels, Hand of the Eight Part 9, Neverending Dungeon, etc.

There are three major reasons many of these projects got put on hold.

1. The Compendium. We started getting the Compendium together right after the Kickstarter in March but recognize...

[Neverending Mad Mage] 3.7 - The Old Man

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "The Old Man"

The party: Aaron, Sylvalor, Cedric, Four, Ug, and D.D.

• Aaron traveled back to the second level, Arcane Chambers, to learn more about Kalabash.
• In the Arcane Chambers, they learned that The Sorrowsworn were leaking into the level. Four nearly died but was saved by Aaron.
• Once th...
  2020-07-16 06:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post

[366 Days of Monsters] Days 152-155 - Monsters of Horror Continued

This set includes four new horror-themed monsters for you to enjoy, including:

• Death Spirit
• Ghoul Lord
• Maniac
• Vampyre

I've attached these new creatures to the previous Monsters of Horror release for your convenience. There are also a few fixes to the old document.

VTT Token Sets #004-005 - Minotaur (Female and Male)

I've been slow to post this one (d'oh), but here's the next set in our Greek Monsters Set, minotaurs, both in female and male versions.

Thanks again to the awesome Darryl T. Jones for supplying these awesome tokens.

Hope you enjoy!

Final 48 Hours to Get Legends of Omeria on Kickstarter

Hey all!

If you didn't know, we've been kicking ass on a Kickstarter this month for the Legends of Omeria starter set that comes with all sorts of fantastic goodies. It's now in its final moments with less than 48 hours to go. We're getting close to hitting out last bit of stretch goals, but need your help to back and/or promote it.

Thanks to all of you who've already supported it! This is going to be an amazing product that we're excited to get into everyone's hands.

2020-07-15 14:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Breaking Down Curse of Strahd (And How to Make Sandbox Campaigns)

This video I made on Facebook shows you exactly how all the information in a professionally produced module works together to create a "sandbox" campaign setting.

https://www.facebook.com/dungeonmasterdave/videos/207143977281367

[Call for Suggestions] DMDave Plug and Play Series

Hey all!

Hope you're having a great summer so far. I'm about to start a new series of resources for GMs that allows you to quickly set up stocked areas of interest in your games both as a resource on here and on Roll20.

These assets will make it so you can run stuff "out of the box" without having to do a lot of prep. 

Need an inn? No worries. Here's a fully mapped out inn with tokens, gossip, a drink menu, and even some quest ...

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.6 - The Calendar Stone

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Wyllow's Tower."

The party: Kilus, Granny, D.D., Knose Piccer, and Softy

• After they discovered that the werebats reentered Wyllowwood and took control of the stone tower and its Calendar Stone, the party left to confront whatever awaited them there.
• First, the party faced off against two zombified ettins, th...
  2020-07-14 20:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post

[366 Days of Monsters] Days 147-151 - Monsters of Horror

This set includes five new horror themed monsters (8 if you count the variants!) for you to enjoy, including:

• Dream eater
• Pyre elemental
• Hideous one
• Loup-garou
• Wolfwere

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.5 - Stuk

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Stuk."

The party: Samlas, Kilus, Granny, Four, Osstaer (new), and D.D. (new)

• The party headed north through Wyllowwood Forest to investigate the destruction caused by Valdemar (see episode 3.3) and find the bugbear, Stuk.
• Granny co...
  2020-07-12 16:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.4 - Phantasms

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Phantasms."

The party: Samlas, Jacobb, Knose, Softy, Sock, and Kilus.

• The party teamed up with the green dragon, Valdemar, and headed up river to confront the aboleth Iluun's minions.
• After convincing Valdemar to defeat the minions—despite Valdemar's hesitation—the party cleared out a series of ...
  2020-07-11 17:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post

[366 Days of Monsters] Day 146/366 - Brineling

Found mostly in deep subterranean caverns, brinelings are fish-ogre hybrids known for their horrific appearance, especially the thick mucus that drips from their tooth maws. Their naturally sour temperament makes them a vicious foe of any creature that dares enter their lairs.

Aboleth Thralls. Like many of the dull-witted species who live below the surface, brinelings frequently find themselves at the mercy of aboleths. Entire colonies of brinelings fall under ...

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.3 - Spiders

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Spiders."

The party: Jock McQuacken, Darien Ofensen, Kal'el, Walford "Softy" Lucifer, Kilus, and Sock McQuacker

• The party discovered that Aaron's disciple, Zarrut, was missing, likely captured by a chuul from upriver.
• To combat the aboleth menace up the river, the party set about searching for spider legs to help the 2020-07-10 14:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Content coming

Hey all!

Been working on a few commissions. But you can expect fresh content soon!

♥️

[366 Days of Monsters] Day 145/366 - Funny Bone

Bards who die without having accomplished what they set out to do in life rise from the grave like any other strong-willed creature. But in their case, they often return as funny bones—singing and joking skeletons. Unlike most of their animated brethren, funny bones have full sentience and memory of their former lives. And unless they are created by an arcane caster, they are fully autonomous. Regardless, funny bones are undead creatures, which means they are driven by a compulsion to sing ...

[WIP] The Vertex of Revelation - Ground Level (Bloody Bunch Spoilers!)

Hey all!

Wanted to give you a taste of the latest adventure that I've been working on, titled The Vertex of Revelation. This is still a work in progress, so there's bound to be typos, logic errors, etc. Also, there's no art, formatting, table of contents, or OGL yet, either. 

If you find any mistakes, be sure to share it in the Typos and Corrections channel on the DMDave Discord server.

Anyways, enjoy it! More coming!

Note: This contains MASSIVE spoilers for m...