For playing through the adventures of Candlekeep Mysteries I created a character for every class based on a fictional detective type character. Detective Pikachu became a Storm Sorcerer, John Constantine became a Fiend Pact Warlock. Good times. These adventures are pretty damn good, especially as we get past level 5 and get into the Goldilocks…
Candlekeep Mysteries – Price of Beauty
Our group is continuing to do adventures from Candlekeep Mysteries. The next one up for me to DM is “Price of Beauty” by Mark Hulmes. Coming off ‘Book of the Raven’ I see some big picture similarities. This adventure is a place to explore more than a plot. The idea here is that the PCs…
Leviathan Falls – Spoilers Within
I have finished the Expanse novels. I started reading the series in the fall of 2019. The 8th book, Tiamat’s Wrath, was released in January 2020. Going by my tweets I tore through the first three books in about a month and a half during the busiest season of the year for me. I fell…
Potential Candlekeep PCs
Our group is planning to run some Candlekeep and trade off DMing duties between adventures. I think that short 2-5 session adventures with frequent DM change is the sweet spot for me in D&D. I normally prefer to DM but man is the long campaign a tough thing to pull off. The current thinking right…
Potential Eberron PCs
I have Eberron on the brain lately. My home game is reaching that nice cruising altitude where it feels like it has its own momentum and I’m uncovering the story rather than pushing it up a hill. I got into a hyperfixation last week trying to read more about Aerenal, where the majority of Eberron’s…
Dragon Age: Dark Fortress, Issue 2 – Spoilers
….. This issue is…frustrating. We ended the first issue with the Qunari planning to break into Castellum Tenebris. Protagonist Crew is trying to prevent the Bad Guys from doing their ritual. The Bad Guys are trying to do their ritual. We end this issue with the Qunari just barely breaking into the fortress and the…
Dragon Age: Dark Fortress – CONTAINS SPOILERS
WARNING. THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD. There actually isn’t that much to spoil in Dark Fortress, issue number 1. This is part 1 of 3 comics in this series and it feels like a part 1. There isn’t much plot that happens and there’s very little in the way of new lore. But there…
Book of the Raven
After a long hiatus I returned to my formerly in-person group for Curse of Strahd. Very fun, having a great time playing my tortured former wereraven ranger. It really is the best of the 5e hardcovers to date. I’d play it again, I would for sure DM it again. But all good things come to…
Queercoded
Queercoded is a new product on the DM’s Guild by Oliver Darkshire. It costs $9.95 and as of this writing is the #1 product there. I had no idea what this was going to be. Slash fic with Jarlaxle? Heartwarming romance with Tiamat? An art book? I liked the author’s other work on the DM’s…
The Song of Aracos
Curse of Strahd is one of my fondest D&D memories. Who am I kidding, it’s my favorite. But that was also years ago. It’s seductive to drink from the fountain of “Remember When?” So I felt a nice little nostalgia jolt when our Curse of Strahd DM needed a break and I got to run…