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https://i.imgur.com/msn7gI7.jpg DM’s Guild Page It hasn’t been a full week since the DM’s Guild gave Dragonlance homebrew the go-ahead, but already we have several strong contenders. While there is the inevitable shovelware that looks hastily put-together at the last minute and titles tagged to the...

Today WotC put out a digital version of the poster map with locations added. It's very high resolution so won't directly post here, but here it is!

How obvious is it made that the PCs have to go after the citadel's power source? Cause as soon as I read about infiltrating it, I was reminding on that bet in Test of the Twins, in which a totally different way of dealing with a flying citadel is used, and there's also mention of another flying cit...

https://i.imgur.com/vyfy2FA.jpg Chapter 7: Siege of Kalaman The final chapter of the book has a climactic showdown with the Dragon Army’s flying citadel as it moves across the horizon to besiege the city of Kalaman! Unlike prior chapters this one has a time limit when they enter the final dungeon. ...

If the party has a prospective member of an Order of High Sorcery, it is at this point they’ll be contacted by Wyhan that they can’t take the Test. But they’re given a brooch of red, black, and white stones marking them as a provisional member from the Conclave’s blessing. Is it ever specified how ...

https://i.imgur.com/yT08dUP.jpg Chapter 6: City of Lost Names The entirety of this chapter takes place among the ruins of the same name. It was once known as Onyari, the City Without Sin, a project by the Kingpriest to reward his most loyal (and wealthiest) followers with a heavenly paradise where ...

https://i.imgur.com/McRwQ7l.jpg Chapter 5: the Northern Wastes This desolate stretch of Solamnia is a no-man’s land of dry canyons which get regularly flooded by seawater in a phenomenon known as the Wash. It is here that Istar’s floating city crashed into the surface, and the bones of dead dragons...

https://i.imgur.com/jwDqUi9.jpg Chapter 4: Shadow of War I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something off about this image. The art style is noticeably different from the rest of the book in that it has that “screenshot from a video game” vibe. This is another 2-level chapter: the PCs reach 5...

https://i.imgur.com/FbVmDGQ.png Chapter 3: When Home Burns This is the first real chapter where the PCs all meet up, they and are now 2nd level after beating their respective Preludes. It starts out slow, with some fun and games in your stereotypical Starting RPG Village of Vogler…only to see it al...

Playable minotaurs are like the one cool player option that the Dragonlance books gave us, so a real shame they didn’t include them. Centaurs and ogres would also be fun options. Also seems like a wasted opportunity to not include Draconian subraces for Dragonborn, even if they’re not player option...

Before I continue, my last post received some good-faith criticism from dave2008, a poster on one of the forums I placed this review. They’re definitely worth covering so I’m including the quote as well as my own explanation and likely errors on my end: @Libertad , I always enjoy your reviews and I ...

https://i.imgur.com/PmgUDiI.jpg It’s been over a decade since the last Dragonlance gaming book was published. On the tabletop front we had Dragons of Spring in 2008, while for novels we saw the revised version of the Dragonlance Trilogy in 2011. After that was an utter dearth of content, resulting ...

https://i.imgur.com/ceuvAlJ.png Drive-Thru RPG Link. There’s quite a bit of weapons in 5th Edition, but in practical play most gamers stick to a few, with some being suboptimal choices clearly outclassed by others. The authors of Choose Your Weapon sought to remake how weapons work by tying them di...

https://i.imgur.com/9lXot7D.jpg Drive-Thru RPG Page Talking animals are a very popular staple in fiction, especially in fantasy worlds and fairy tales. While they do exist in Dungeons & Dragons, in gaming groups they’re often consigned to being sidekicks via a class feature or products the Awak...

On another site, someone suggested that I add a table of contents of reviewed works with post links in the OP for easier navigation. This is a good idea, so I did it just now.

While I did my best to showcase the lesser-known products on the Dungeon Master’s Guild, my reviews have just barely scratched the surface. Below are other sourcebooks I figured that people will find interesting but which I currently don’t have the time to review. Barring expectations that put up th...

Why is 5e allergic to making psionic classes in general? (To my knowledge there are just a couple of psychic flavored subclasses in splatbooks.) Because it seems like the kind of legacy stuff that WotC loves to crow about “bringing back” for 5e. Is it just Mearls and friends’ inability to write new...

Realm of the Blood Queen, Part 4 The last fourth of this adventure sees a remarkably faster level-up process spread between 4 smaller chapters. While we had some pretty expansive sandboxes in Leshehoff and Reinwald, going forward the chapters are smaller and more self-contained with more direct and...

Realm of the Blood Queen, Part 3 https://i.imgur.com/0q11iQf.png In Chapter 4: the Blood Queen Awakens, the party will meet the Dark Lady and primary antagonist of this adventure face to face. Once the PCs are teleported to the Cairn, Beleorth will either lead them to the guest rooms or if they try...

Realm of the Blood Queen, Part 2 https://i.imgur.com/wJByjoc.png Chapter 2: the Drowned Dead marks the beginning of this adventure path, taking 1st level PCs to 3rd level by the end. This, and all the other adventures in Realm of the Blood Queen, use milestone progression. The adventure begins in P...

https://i.imgur.com/KTg8Flf.png Product Link Product Type: Adventure, Location Cos-Required? No Realm of the Blood Queen is a 1st to 12th level adventure path set in a new Domain of Dread by the name of Wreythau (pronounced Ray-thauw). Ruled over by the slumbering vampire queen Czerina Gavranova, W...

Heorot Part 2: Friends & Foes Making up half of the rest of Heorot, Friends and Foes provides us with 48 NPC and monster stat blocks which adventurers can encounter in this Domain of Dread. Quite a few of them have been reprinted from other 5th Edition sourcebooks, notably Rime of the Frostmaid...

https://i.imgur.com/soIX0TV.jpg Product Link Product Type: Location, Bestiary CoS-Required? No A year and a half ago I reviewed a 5e historical fantasy setting inspired by the saga of Beowulf, so upon seeing this book up on the DM’s Guild I knew that I had to review it. Named after the famed mead f...

It should take the better part of a week, but I'm approaching the end of my Ravenloft sourcebook reviews. I will probably take a well-deserved break for November, but figured to share my next potential reviews to gauge reader interest. None of these are set in stone, and some are books I'm still rea...

https://i.imgur.com/dceZEzu.png Tsolenka Pass focuses on using the expanded map scale to turn the journey to the Amber Temple into a perilous wilderness adventure. This section references Curse of Strahd Reloaded for various environmental hazards. Things the Gazetteer itself provides is a 2d6 rando...