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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

These entries are overviews, reviews and notes on official D&D 5th edition products.

How to Play Dungeons & Dragons

D&D Basic Rules 

D&D Essentials Kit 

D&D Player's Handbook

• Arcana Checks and Spell Use

D&D Monster Manual Part 1
D&D Monster Manual Part 2

• The Best 5e Monsters not in the Monster Manual 
  

D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Part 1
D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Part 2
D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Part 3
D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Part 4

• A Guide to Downtime 
• The Forgotten Rules Index
• Traps in 5th Edition  
• Building Encounters in 5th Edition
• What Happens When You Die in Dungeons & Dragons 

Hoard of the Dragon Queen Review

The Rise of Tiamat Review

• A Guide to Running Tyranny of Dragons
• Frozen Castle Review
• The Adventurer's League
• The Best and Worst of Hoard of the Dragon Queen
• A Look at How Other Groups Did in Hoard of the Dragon Queen 

Princes of the Apocalypse Review

• A Guide to Running Princes of the Apocalypse
• The History of Elemental Evil
• A Guide to Imix - Prince of Elemental Evil 

Out of the Abyss Review

• A Guide to Out of the Abyss

Curse of Strahd Review

• A Guide to Curse of Strahd 
• How to Run Curse of Strahd
• Running the Final Battle with Strahd
• The "Prequel" Adventures  
• Curse of Strahd Revamped Review
  

Storm King's Thunder Review

• A Guide to Storm King's Thunder
• How to Run Storm King's Thunder
• Cloud Giant's Bargain Review 

Dungeonology Review

Monsters and Heroes of the Realms Review

Volo's Guide to Monsters Review

• Volo's Guide to Monsters Preview  

Tales From the Yawning Portal Review

• A Guide to Tales From the Yawning Portal 
• How to Run Tales From the Yawning Portal

Tomb of Annihilation Review

• A Guide to Tomb of Annihilation
• How to Run Tomb of Annihilation
• Tomb of Annihilation Companion 

Xanathar's Guide to Everything Review

Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes Review

A Guide to Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus Review

• A Guide to Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus 

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount Review

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden Review

• A Guide to Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
• How to Run Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything Review

Dungeon Master's Screen Wilderness Kit Review  

Curse of Strahd Revamped Review

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Review

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons Review  

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight Review

• The Witchlight Carnival Dice Set Review
  

Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos Review

Dungeon Master's Screen Dungeon Kit Review

 

Planescape Articles

Guide to the City of Sigil

Guide to the Factions of Planescape

• A Guide to the Incanterium
  

Guide to the Lady of Pain

Guide to the Infinite Staircase

Planescape Cutters: The Lost Adventure 

Monsters

These entries contain overviews of monster books and comprehensive looks at monsters, collecting the material from every edition in one place. 

Bodak

Devils

Pit Fiend 

The Tarrasque 

Baatorians - The race that lived in Hell before the devils

Beholder   

Cambion

Displacer Beast

Drow 

Githyanki   

Githzerai

Half-Orcs

Hook Horror

Lich  

Medusa

Mind Flayer

Modron 

Nightmare

Oozes, Slimes and Jellies 

Rainbow Dragon

Sibriex   

Slaad

Solamith

Spellweaver

Succubus
 
Vampire

• List of my Favorite Monsters by Edition
• Monsters from the Basic D&D Creature Catalogue
• The Teratic Tome Part 1
• The Teratic Tome Part 2
• Planescape Monstrous Compendium
• A Tribute to the Succubus
• The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 1
• The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 2
• The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 3

Magic Items, Equipment and Spells

These entries contain detailed overviews of magic items and other stuff, collecting material from official products and the internet.

The Great List of Food and Drinks

Poison 

Bag of Holding

Book of Vile Darkness

Chaos Ships

Codex of the Infinite Planes  

Deck of Many Things 

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Infernal Contracts
 
Ioun Stones

Rod of Seven Parts

Wand of Wonder

• The Best Spelljammer Magic Items

NPCs

These are overviews and details on some of my favorite D&D entities.

Archdevils

• Pathfinder's Archdevils 

Baphomet - Demon Lord of Minotaurs  

Corellon - God of the Elves

Demogorgon 

Emirikol the Chaotic  

Graz'zt

Gruumsh - God of the Orcs

Iggwilv - The Witch-Queen  

Juiblex - Demon Lord of Slimes and Oozes 

The Lady of Pain

Mordenkainen

Nocticula - Demon Lord of Assassins, Shadows and Lust 

The Queen of Chaos - The first Demon Lord? 

The Raven Queen

Strahd - The Dark Lord of Castle Ravenloft

Tiamat

Verenestra - Goddess of Dryads, Nymphs, and Sylkies 

Warduke

Yeenoghu


Places

Elemental Plane of Earth

Ethereal Plane

Infinite Staircase

Plane of Positive Energy 

Nine Hells
 
Sigil - The core of the Planescape setting  

River Styx 

Thanatos - The abyssal realm of Orcus  

Triple Realm of Azzagrat

 

Miscellaneous D&D Topics

Factions of Planescape

Famous D&D Dragon Lairs - Dragotha, Flame, Infyrana, Utreshimon, & Farcluun  

Gods of D&D 1st Edition

War Between Law and Chaos - The Conflict that created the Rod of Seven Parts    

Adventures

These entries are lists, overviews, actual play reports and reviews of published adventures that I have run.

D&D 5th Edition - Lost Mine of Phandelver
Lamentations of the Flame Princess - Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG - The Sea Queen Escapes
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG - The Balance Blade
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG - The 13th Skull
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG - Blades Against Death
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG - The Croaking Fane
SlaughterGrid
Shadowrun - Queen Euphoria

• The Best D&D Adventures of All Time Part 1
• The Best D&D Adventures of All Time Part 2
• The Top 5 D&D Encounters Adventures

Actual Play Reports

These are the main focus of my blog. Actual play reports are detailed accounts of each game session I experienced while running published adventures. I focus on how the encounters went as well as all the weird stuff that happens when you play RPGs.

D&D Next - Scourge of the Sword Coast

Preamble
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10

D&D Next - Dead in Thay

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
Session 13

D&D Next/AD&D 1st Edition - White Plume Mountain

Session 14
Session 15
Session 16
Session 17

D&D 5th Edition - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Tyranny of Dragons Notes
Session 1        
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
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Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
Session 13
Session 14
Session 15
Session 16
Session 17
Session 18

D&D 5th Edition - The Rise of Tiamat

Session 19
Session 20
Session 21
Session 22
Session 23
Session 24
Session 25
Session 26
Session 27
Session 28
Session 29
Session 30

D&D 5th Edition - Princes of the Apocalypse

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
Session 13
Session 14
Why this Ended

DCC RPG/AD&D 1st Edition - Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3

D&D 5th Edition/2e Planescape - The Great Modron March

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
Session 13
Session 14 

D&D 5th Edition/2e Planescape - Umbra (Dungeon Magazine #55)

Session 15
Session 16

D&D 5th Edition/2e Planescape - Dead Gods

Session 17
Session 18
Session 19
Session 20
Session 21
Session 22
Session 23
Session 24
Session 25
Session 26
Session 27
Session 28
Session 29
Session 30

D&D 5th Edition/2e Planescape - Nemesis (Dungeon Magazine #60)

Session 31
Session 32

Various 5e/2e Planescape Adventure Sessions

Session 33 - Well of Worlds: The Mazes
Session 34 - UnderSigil
Session 35 - The Slags
Session 36 - Bechard, Demon Lord of Tempests
Session 37 - Tales From the Infinite Staircase: Landings & Doors
Session 38 - Tales From the Infinite Staircase: Planewalkers
Session 39 - Tales From the Infinite Staircase: The Dream Well
Session 40 - Enemies of my Enemy
Session 41 - For Duty & Deity
Session 42 - The Argent Palace
Session 43 - The Mercykillers
Session 44 - The Cage
Session 45 - Coirosis, the Rust Dragon
Session 46 - The Contract Devil
Session 47 - The Cathedral Thelemic
Session 48 - A Devil's Dream
Session 49 - The Dream Diver
Session 50 - In Disarray
Session 51 - The Great Dismal Delve
Session 52 - The Castle at the Edge of Time
Session 53 - The Jinkskirts
Session 54 - The Abyssal Undersump
Session 55 - The Whispering Library
Session 56 - Lord Stillborn
Session 57 - Planar Breach
Session 58 - The Fortress of Life
Session 59 - Swallowed by the Abyss
Session 60 - Sphere of Annihilation
Session 61 - Who Framed Master Vulgarid?
Session 62 - Preparing for the Blood War

The Blood War

Session 63 - Blood War I. The Battle of Birthing Hills
Session 64 - Blood War II. The Taking of the Infinite Staircase
Session 65 - Blood War III. The Siege of Lamashtu's Castle
Session 66 - Blood War IV. Sailing the River Styx
Session 67 - Blood War VI. The Taking of Onstrakkar's Nest
Session 68 - Blood War VII. The Shadow Sanctuary
Session 69 - Blood War VIII. The Blood Storm
Session 70 - Blood War  IX. The Dark Angel of the Four Winds
Session 71 - Blood War X. The Samoran Slave Care Act
Session 72 - Blood War XI. The Slick of Foulest Humours
Session 73 - Blood War XII. Golmin Thur, City of Liches
Session 74 - Blood War XIII. The Bonds of Hell
Session 75 - Blood War XIV. The Charnel God
Session 76 - Blood War XV. The Endless Maze
Session 77 - Blood War XVI. The Prince of Beasts
Session 78 - Blood War XVII. The Battle of the Abyssal Undersump
Session 79 - Blood War XVIII. Bzallin's Blacksphere
Session 80 - Blood War XIX. The Iron Flask
Session 81 - Blood War XX. The Chastity Bodice
Session 82 - Blood War XXI. The Wells of Darkness
Session 83 - Blood War XXII. Divided's Ire
Session 84 - Blood War XXIII. Prismatic Croaker
Session 85 - Blood War XXIV. Fearforge
Session 86 - Blood War XXVI. The Lord of Rippling Waves
Session 87 - Blood War XXVII. Baphomet's Revenge
Session 88 - Blood War XXVIII. Theran's Soul 

Adventures in Eberron
This is a campaign that I play in.

The Bag of Beans
The Heist
The Medusa
The Golden Eggs
The Underwater Dungeon
Assembling the Deck of Many Things
The Mark of Prophecy
Soul of the Warforged
Using Google Hangouts
Shadow Castle
The Shadow Dragon 
Nine Draws From the Deck of Many Things
Thelanis, the Faerie Court
Return to Kobold Hall
Strahd in the Shadowfell
The Elder Brain 

Dungeon Master Advice

Every so often I vomit up a bunch of ideas and collect them into an article on being a DM.

How to Start a Campaign
How to Prepare an Adventure
How to Create and Manage Ongoing Storylines
Pacing Your Game
The Difficulties of Being a Dungeon Master
Being a Good Dungeon Master
Why Do So Many Campaigns Fail?
Running City Adventures
Why You Must Keep a Campaign Journal
Narrative Combat
The Key to a Good RPG Campaign
How to Recover From a Bad Game of Dungeons & Dragons
Finding Your Style as a Dungeon Master
How to Get the Most out of Your NPCs

The Greatest DMs of All Time

Ed Greenwood
Dave Arneson
Chris Perkins
Monte Cook
Gary Gygax

• Gary Gygax Castle Greyhawk Encounters

Shadowrun

These articles contain my thoughts and research as I prepared to run a home campaign of Shadowrun.

Bladerunner, Philip K. Dick & Shadowrun
Learning Shadowrun 5th Edition
What you Need to Know to Run Shadowrun

Spelljammer Campaign Stuff

I have always loved this setting, which is "D&D in Space". These articles were made in preparation for a campaign that I may never run.

Let's Read Some Spelljammer
Let's Read Some More Spelljammer
Spelljamming to Greyhawk
Spelljammer Playtest Report
The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 1
The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 2
The Best Spelljammer Monsters Part 3
The Best Spelljammer Magic Items

Hell in Dungeons & Dragons

The heroes of my home campaign went to Hell. These columns represent what material I was able to dig up from published TSR products.

Hell in Dungeons & Dragons
A Paladin in Hell
Fires of Dis
The Pillar of Skulls

Dungeons & Dragons: The Animated Series

I decided to watch and review every episode of this old 80's cartoon.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

D&D Video Games

Neverwinter MMO - Tyranny of Dragons

Miscellaneous

These entries contain blog post about various topics.

How to Get an Art Commission
Critical Misses in D&D
Knights of the Dinner Table - The Best Gaming Comic of All Time 
6 People I want to Play D&D With
Why I Hate Being a Player
Optimizing the D&D Adventurer's League
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG 
Wishes in Dungeons & Dragons
10 Awesome Things About 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons
The Top 5 Player's Handbook D&D Covers
The Top 5 Dungeon Master's Guide D&D Covers
Fun Facts About Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms
More Fun Facts About Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms
Rambling about Shadowrun and DCC RPG
10 Awesome Wizard Familiars
Wild Magic
Dungeons & Dragons the TV Series
The Painful Truth About Published Adventures
New Adventures Can Be Classic Too

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