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3 Different Browsers and Still No Luck >:(

Just a status update, folks. I've tried uploading EVIL no less than 4 different ways: Chrome, Chrome Incognito, Safari, and IE and still no lucky. In fact, I can't even upload files that I uploaded previously on here.

So the issue isn't on my end. Hopefully, they'll have the problem fixed (as I'm sure it's creating a CS nightmare for them right). Until then, I'll be creating some fresh content on the blog. Also, I plan on announcing February's theme today, too.

Thanks for being pa...

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EVIL is done... but I can't upload it >:(

Hey all! Sorry if you're getting spammed with messages. Patreon is being a butthole right now. I've put in a ticket to support to see if they can figure out what's up. Sorry for the delay, but I SWEAR it's done haha!

I might take the opportunity to fix a few glaring typos I noticed.

In the meantime, thanks for being patient.

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Fire Elemental Unit (Mass Combat Rules)

 Here is an additional unit for you to use with the new mass combat rules, fire elementals!

Fire Elemental Unit

Gargantuan unit of Large elementals, neutral

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Armor Class 13

Unit Hit Points 20

Speed  50 ft.

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Abilities Str 10 (+0), Dex 17 (+3), ...

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Adventures probably coming in February!

Looks like I'm going to hit my next Patron goal in a matter of one or two weeks. Which, honestly, just blows my mind! Thanks so much for everyone supporting me! I love you guys and I look forward to all of your nutty requests.

As part of the goal for hitting 100 Patrons, I'm going to start creating interconnected adventures. Basically, a new adventure each month that rolls into the next one. The mini-campaigns will probably run for 10-12 months and then get a new story for the year. In ...

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EVIL tomorrow evening or Friday morning!

I've got a little extra bandwidth this evening and tomorrow, so I'll be working on putting EVIL into PDF form. Here is everything that I expect to be in it:


New Character Options

Weretiger Playable Race

Vampir Playable Race

Barbarian Primal Path of the Void

Bard Bardic College of Death

Cleric Space Divine Domain

Druid Circle of Blight

Fighter Weapon Expert Martial Archetype

Monk Fighting Stances

Monk Way o...

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Harpy Unit (Mass Combat Rules)

Here is an additional unit for you to use with the new mass combat rules, harpies!

Harpy Unit

Large unit of Medium monstrosities, chaotic evil

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Armor Class 11

Unit Hit Points 7

Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft.

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Abilities Str 12 (+1), Dex 13 (+1), Con 12 (+1), I...

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Skeleton Unit (Mass Combat Rules)

 Here is an additional unit for you to use with the new mass combat rules, skeletons! 

Skeleton Unit

Large unit of Medium undead, lawful evil

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Armor Class 13 (armor scraps)

Unit Hit Points 2

Speed 30 ft.

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Abilities Str 10 (+0), Dex 14 (+2), Co...

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Bandit Unit (Mass Combat Rules)

Here is an additional unit for you to use with the new mass combat rules, bandits!

Bandit Unit

Large unit of Medium humanoids (any race), any non-lawful alignment

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Armor Class 12 (leather armor)

Unit Hit Points 2

Speed 30 ft.

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Abilities Str 11 (+0), Dex...

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New Poll: February's Theme

Hey hey!

January is almost over and with it comes the release of EVIL.

With February hitting us this weekend, I'll need a new theme for a PDF.

What should the theme be? Let me know by voting in the poll!

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Improved Mass Combat Rules v1.2 PDF

Hey all! Here's the mass combat rules I created a couple days ago in PDF form. Enjoy!

More units coming soon, plus, I may potentially create a boxed set with these rules and chits available to Platinum level patrons.

Stay tuned!

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How would you like your PDFs?

As you know, I create a ton of content. However, sometimes I'm slow to put it out into PDF form. What way would you like for PDF to come out? Let me know below!

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Acolyte Unit (Mass Combat Rules)

Hey folks, as promised, here's the first entry for mass combat units. The mass combat rules themselves will be a part of the EVIL book release this weekend (if not sooner). In the meantime, here is a new unit to whet your appetite, based on the Acolyte stat block from the MM.

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EVIL next week!

Next week, the first collected edition of 2019 will make its debut, titled EVIL. EVIL will incorporate a number of articles from this month's content and put it into PDF form. This will include all adjustments, as well, so it will all be the most up to date information.

Here is what you can expect to see in EVIL:

  • Barbarian Path of the Void
  • Bard College of Death
  • Cleric Space Domain
  • Vahrek
  • Cleric Demon Domain
  • Druid Circle of Blight<...

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Puppet Master Upgrades Preview

Hey gang!

You may have noticed that I've been a little quiet today. Been hard at work on the second half of the Puppet Master class, the upgrades. Naturally, this part is going to take a while. But I thought I might show you a little bit of what I've already done.

If you haven't already seen the first part of the Puppet Master Class, check it out on the blog: Puppet Master Class O...

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Lost some sleep, made some changes.

I'm a habitual tweaker. I wasn't crazy about the changes that I made to the tiers, so I went back and made them better.

Will it make me busy AF? Hell yes. But I want to provide as much value as I can. So instead of limiting the rewards, I'd rather just work harder and get more organized.

Also, I wasn't crazy about making tiers for content. So all tiers get access to the PDFs. The only thing that's limited will be the campaign book since that takes a lot of effort on my part. Chanc...

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Tiers have been updated!

If you're already a patron, don't worry, you're grandfathered in to the old tiers.

There are now 5 tiers here:

Copper Club - Gets full access to the PDF versions of all of the contest content and Dave stuff that gets made on DMDave.com. Plus, it comes with voting rights and DMDave swag!

Silver Club - All the benefits of copper club, plus silver club only stuff. These will be select items from the other tiers as well as stuff I make just for ...

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I apologize if requests have been pokey! :(

Hey all!

Man, I did NOT expect this Patreon to take off so fast, but it has.

I'm going to be changing the structure of the Patreon account soon, meaning that Patrons at the $3 level will no longer be able to make requests. Furthermore, the higher tiers will get reoganized as well. Turns out that subclasses eat up HUGE swaths of my bandwidth, so I know those will probably get a bump.

 For those of you that are reading this that are already members, don't worry. You're gr...

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Puppet Master Near Completion

I just wrapped up the majority fo the new Puppet Master class that's coming. I still have to create the upgrades, but that should be fairly quick since they'll all be based on spells that have long durations (mage armor, barkskin, enhance ability, etc).

Let me know what you think:

 

Class Features

As a puppet master, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Points: 1d6 per puppet master level

Hit Points a...

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Yew Lane Estate | New Adventure for Dungeons & Dragons (Scalable)

 

A modest estate within the city, the Yew Lane Estate is a small walled estate with three buildings. The main building is the estate house proper – two-storied stone construction with a small (unmapped) attic and servant’s basement, topped with a gently sloped slate roof. Attached to the estate wall is a small gardener’s house (lower left) and the carriage house (upper right) also made of local stone although with a lot more wood than in the main house.

When the church...

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Puppet Master Sneak Peak

Hey all!

Just letting you know that I've been hard at work on the new class option, Puppet Master, which came in as a request here on Patreon.

It's a HUGE build requiring a ton of work. But I thought I might share it with you all before the normal folks on the blog get to check it out.

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Class Features

As a puppet master, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Points: 1d6 per puppet master level

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Ghoul Fever - A New Disease for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

 This came in as a request and was a lot of fun to create. In fact, it was so much fun, I'm creating a few more over on the blog right now. Once I'm done, all of these will be put into the book I'll be releasing at the end of this month.

Ghoul Fever

Ghouls are well-known for their paralyzing touch, but some ghouls also carry a horrible disease in their bite. As an optional rule, any creature bitten by a ghoul or ghast must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or con...

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Requests (Help Remind Me Because Patreon is a UX Nightmare)

Hey folks! There's two requests that I know about that are rattling around in my head but I can't seem to find the source of them. If you've put in this request, please drop me a message:

  • Necrotic disease (remake form 3rd edition)
  • Tactician class/subclass

 Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience! For whatever reason, Patreon makes it a pain to search for stuff in the messenger.

Also, if you haven't made a request yet, please hit me up in the comment...

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So y'all are getting a book tentatively titled "EVIL"

I've been working on crushing out a bunch of new subclasses for that big promo I did on Instagram. So far, I've made about half of them with more to come. Plus, there's going to be a few options on there not available to the "regular folk."

Interestingly, the theme has shaped up to be somewhat "EVIL" style subclasses. So I'm thinking about turning it all into a book.

HERE'S THE ASK: what other sort of stuff would you like to see in this? Preferably feats, magic items, spells, etc ...

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Of Subclasses and Classes

Not sure if you guys have been paying attention to the DMDave blog, but I've been hard at work at creating those subclasses, using it to weave in some of the requests on here, too.

1) Under the Weapon Expert Fighter, the request for three-part staff is there. Plus, you know, like 4,000 more words of content LOL

2) The puppet master class is coming but it's a HUGE build. I wanted to really make it worth while. So if you've been eagerly waiting it, trust me... it's worth the wait. View Post

January Requests!

Hey folks!

Let me know what you'd like me to cook up for you in January. I've updated the request list, so there's plenty of room near the top.

Looking forward to it! Plus, I'm handing out a bonus of 500 words.

Thanks again and happy new year!

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End of Year Patreon Push!

I'm just cutting/pasting from the blog, but here's the details of the big End of Year Patreon Push I'm doing: 


Howdy, folks! Big news!

If you didn't already know, I'm on Patreon (duh, who isn't). Not only do you get nearly everything I make into cool PDFs that are free for you to download, but you get to make REQUESTS that are a top priority for me. I won't even EAT or SHOWER un...

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Patron Christmas Races

Hey everyone!

Here is the PDF for the races. Enjoy and let me know if there's any errors on anything.

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More Races!

Today I'll be creating the races suggested you guys in PDF format. Here is what was asked for:

  • Anthro-pandas
  • Qunari
  • Dragonborn Tarrasques

Look forward to those!

Also, January is also here, so if you haven't already, be sure to get in your requests for the new month.

Thanks! See you soon!

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Merry Christmas! Tell Santa Dave whatcha want (read more)...

If y'all are paying attention to Instagram, you probably know that I'm currently out promoting a great creative named @trayedandtested to boost her followers. She's a hard working creative that deserves the attention.

In exchange for every 200 followers she gets I'm creating a NEW PLAYABLE RACE in a PDF.

I thought I might also throw this out to all of you since you're my loyal Patrons, but I'll let each of you throw a new playable race into the pile as well!

That's right! To...

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Cool stuff coming this weekend!

Hey folks! Been a busy week since I've been off. As many of you know, I've been hard at work on the new book that Justin David Russell and I are working on. Plus, I got sick (it was the worst) for a couple days, which took me out of the picture a little bit.

Anyways, I should have some new PDFs up this weekend, including a new how to guide on building Roguish Archetypes, some cool monsters, and maybe some more stuff for my ZACs 5e campaign setting.

Anywho, if you haven't put in a ...

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