The first DDAL module for Season 7, "A City on the Edge" attempts to provide a pathway to the Tomb of Annihilation storyline at tier 1. It starts off a bit rough, though. As usual, this review contains SPOILERS, so the TL;DR version is "not bad". The introduction doesn't really tell us much about the actual adventure: … Continue reading DDAL07-01: A City on the Edge (review)
Right now feels like a good time to look back at my gaming for the last few months and then ahead to what comes next. Weyward Scions (homebrew) My alternating Sundays campaign with friends has almost wrapped up. The DM and one of the other players are law students, and thus they don't have nearly … Continue reading Campaign planning: Autumn 2017
The "Rage of Demons" tier 1 storyline wraps up with "Six Knives for Torin Nomerthal". This mini-storyline actually consists of DDEX03-12 and -14 together. I found them somewhat different, though, so I'll separate them out a bit as I review them here. As normal, these reviews include spoilers after the jump. So for this portion, players should … Continue reading Six Knives for Torin Nomerthal
Dungeons and Dragons Adventurers League Season 7 has begun! Already we have two individual adventures, DDAL07-01 City on the Edge and DDAL07-02 Over the Edge. Both of these resemble introductory adventures from earlier seasons in that they consist of five 1-hour scenarios. OtE differs a little in that it provides this type of introduction for Tier 2 … Continue reading Adventurers League Season 7: Kickoff
Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League Season 6 (Tales from the Yawning Portal) only contains three DDAL adventures and the hardcover. All of the former are supposed to provide a hook to a particular dungeon in the book. This one introduces White Plume Mountain. Warning: this review includes spoilers. If you’re going to play through the … Continue reading DDAL06-02: The Redemption of Kelvan (Review)
Adventurers League has a lot going for it, but it can easily lead to railroading. As DMs, we pick some adventures to run, probably within a given storyline like Rage of Demons or Tyranny of Dragons. Then we tell players which adventure we'll play that session and they get to experience it. This doesn't have to … Continue reading Sandbox concept for Adventurers League
Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League Season 6 (Tales from the Yawning Portal) mostly consists of the hardcover by that name plus three DDAL adventures. All of these serve as lead-ins to one of the dungeons in the book (Forge of Fury, White Plume Mountain, and Against the Giants). In effect, they provide expanded hooks. DDAL06-01 A Thousand Tiny … Continue reading DDAL06-01: A Thousand Tiny Deaths (Review)
The seventh season of Adventurers League will start soon - and wow, has it caused some uproar! Time to get those dice warmed up... Death Curse Season 7, also known as Tomb of Annihilation, centers on the Death Curse: The talk of the streets and taverns has all been about the so-called death curse: a wasting … Continue reading Adventurers League Season 7: Death Curse and Scheduling
I really hate how downtime and renown work differently in hardcovers than modules. For renown, I can kind of understand: Unless otherwise specified, renown is awarded at the rate of 1 renown point per adventure (or 1 renown point for every 4 cumulative hours of play for Hardcover adventures). But downtime is particularly annoying. Downtime … Continue reading Downtime and renown in Adventurers League
The Quest of the Week schedule for Adventurers League got an update today, and it has something special in it... Tomb of Annihilation modules! They'll start running in September, and some of them have some particularly evocative names: DDAL07-01 City on the Edge - Tier 1 (lvls 1-4) DDAL07-02 Over the Edge - Tier 2 (lvls … Continue reading Tomb of Annihilation: AL campaign planning
Technoskald's Forge 