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Young Dragonslayers: A Resource for Child and Teen D&D Players

Dave Goff — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:17:16 +0000

How to find an online social club for geek-minded kids and teens.

Adventure Review: The Goblin Bathwater Incident

Dave Goff — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:00:38 +0000

The Goblin Bathwater Incident It’s time for another DMsGuild D&D 5E adventure review! Synopsis from the Author: Goblin Bathwater, a magical drug, has taken hold in a sleepy coastal town at the edge of the Empire. As the characters investigate the origin of the drug, they uncover an international criminal conspiracy, wild and ancient magic, and…

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One-Shot Adventure Review: The End of the Line

Dave Goff — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:09:27 +0000

Recently, someone told me that one-shots were mostly railroads. By their nature, it’s best if the basics of the story and the characters move quickly because if players wander from the storyline there’s almost no chance they’ll be able to complete it. Maybe this is why nearly every “one-off” I’ve played in ended up becoming…

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Want to add some SERIOUS flavor to your Wizard spells?

Dave Goff — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:58:52 +0000

If you want to give your Wizards the experience of really learning a magical system within the confines of D&D play, check out this pack of Wizardly Goodies.

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Gray Man, Inspired by Myth, for D&D 5E

Dave Goff — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:05:28 +0000

The Grey Man is a creature from Irish and Nordic myth with only vague descriptions, vague to the point of being often known as just a ‘presence in the fog’. The Grey Man included in my monster collection, Creepy, Crawly and Crazy, is inspired by several diverse descriptions, and blended with some D&D rules to…

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Resources for DMs and Homebrew 5th Edition D&D

Dave Goff — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:39:49 +0000

There are some great resources out there for helping DMs online and for making homebrew titles that actually look pretty good. I’m making a short list here, feel free to add to let me know of any good additions. Dungeon Master’s Vault – This page is actually got a lot of great tools for D&D.…

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Ghost Herder: Possibly the Most Evil Creature I’ve Created

Dave Goff — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 02:41:40 +0000

Imagine the players come into a town where a mysterious plague has taken a number of the children. The children get sick and within a few days they become spiteful and mean, and then finally they just die. Fortunately, a kindly herbalist was in town and has been helping as many of the children as he…

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Cacklers – Dry Bone Mound, or Scary Pile of Bones!

Dave Goff — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:56:48 +0000

CACKLERS! I really enjoyed making this creature for Creepy, Crawly & Crazy. I would say it falls under the “creepy” category, though it does crawl in a way. Imagine a group of people, and possibly animals or other creatures, who starve to death and the area they died in becomes possessed by a sheer Hunger. The…

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Creepy, Crawly & Crazy – 6 Homebrew Monsters

Dave Goff — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:23:22 +0000

Discover 6 Creepy, Crawly & Crazy creatures to add some real flavor to your 5E campaign. Meet the Ghost Herder who steals the souls of children and uses them as weapons. A brother to Night Hags and just as evil. Perhaps you might do better to start off with the Boneless Man, a fey prankster…

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5th Edition D&D Paladin Character Sheet

Dave Goff — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:53:20 +0000

D&D has seemed to go back and forth on the whole class-specific character sheet idea. I remember having a “Magic-User” character sheet at one time back in the old days, but mostly they’ve been very generic. It makes sense, you can photocopy one sheet and hand it out to everybody before they’ve even decided what…

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