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Tripping on the World Tree: Reading the Warlock Guide to the Planes

By Lou Anders / April 28, 2021 / Articles

Next, the guide specifically details seven separate planes, specifically the Infinite Halls (Seven Heavens of Celestial Light), Silendora (Summer Lands of the Elves), Valhalla (including the Storm Court and Geirrhöth), Klingedesh (the Marketplace), Ravatet (Plane of Gears), the Evermaw (Plane of the Undead), and finally Ginnungagap (the Yawning Void). Each section describes locations of interest […]

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Tome Unbound: Keyhole Dragonette

By Mike Welham / April 26, 2021 / Articles, Tome Unbound

At will: friends, mage hand 3/day: expeditious retreat, knock The keyhole dragonette loses its Leaping Withdraw trait. Limited Flight. The keyhole dragonette has a membrane granting it short bursts of flight. It can use a bonus action to gain a flying speed of 20 feet until the end of its turn. The keyhole dragonette loses

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Warlock’s Apprentice: An Ode to Randomness

By Steve Winter / April 23, 2021 / Articles, Warlock's Apprentice

Creating material for roleplaying games isn’t the same as engineering a new smartphone or finding ways to speed up an assembly line. Those tasks are tethered to the real world. The most revolutionary manufacturing idea ever conceived is in fact worthless if it depends on technology that can’t be built. RPGs, on the other hand,

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The Ratatosk: Spells of the Squirrel-Folk

By Brian Suskind / April 21, 2021 / Articles, Ratatosk

For the squirrel-folk, spells are spells. They do not bother limiting them to one class or another. The following spells are special to the ratatosk, and they only share them with those they trust, but anyone can learn from the squirrel-folk. Spellcasters who learn a ratatosk spell must meet any level requirement. A ratatosk spell

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Rogue’s Gallery: Victrolis Hapenny

By Kelly Pawlik / April 19, 2021 / Articles, Rogue's Gallery

Tower of Riches and Grief. When Victrolis visited her father for the last time, passing through his hometown on her own travels, a minstrel in her own right, he told her about his brother. He talked for hours, delivering a tale he swore was true. He told Victrolis of the adventures he and his brother

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Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 2

By Jeff Lee / April 16, 2021 / Articles, Demon Cults & Secret Societies

LEVELS 10–12 A major metropolis is in turmoil. The city-state is on the verge of total anarchy. A disease has broken out in the poorer sections and threatens to become a full-borne plague, even though those quarters have been locked under quarantine under threat of death. Doomsayers walk the streets, prophesying the end times. Suicides

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Dungeon Tables: Travel Challenges and Complications, Part 3

By Sarah Madsen / April 14, 2021 / Articles, Dungeon Tables

Jungle 1d10 Challenge/Encounter 1 A giant ape, watching the party from the canopy. 2 Two awakened shrubs and an awakened tree, or one shambling mound, unhappy at the intrusion. 3 Overgrown Path. The vines and vegetation have overtaken the path. The PCs must succeed a DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check in order to continue in

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Trapmaster: Ups and Downs

By Greg Marks / April 12, 2021 / Articles, Trapmaster

Pits with Friends Simple Trap (level 1–4, dangerous threat) This 10-foot-deep pit is covered in branches and dirt, making it appear the same as the rest of the ground. The branches are embedded in the dirt sides of the pit, such that when they fall away, so does a significant amount of the support for

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One-on-One Roleplaying: Adapting Published Campaigns

By Beth Ball and Jonathan Ball / April 9, 2021 / Articles, One-on-One Roleplaying

Adaptation Principles As we said earlier in this series, one of the best things about one-on-one play is the focus on the player and the PC. They’re the main character around whom the entire storyline revolves. This is a double-edged sword when it comes to adapting a published campaign though. Both the narrative arc and

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Zobeck Gazetteer Wallpapers

By Kobold Staff / April 7, 2021 / Articles, Wallpapers

It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a city-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got. This month, we’ve got a piece from Zobeck Gazetteer (artist Ralph Horsley). Let’s go shopping for gear, adventurers! Please, click on the image you want to download to expand it into a

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Midgard Icons: The Ghoul Emperor

By Wade Rockett / April 6, 2021 / 13th Age, Articles

The Ghoul Emperor Nicoforus the Pale is the undisputed ruler of the Dread and Endless Imperium of the Darakhul, a civilization of ghouls deep within the Realms Subterranean. Through cunning and relentless cruelty, he’s led his legions to repeated victories over the other races in the underworld. Quote “I heard your beating hearts the moment

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Tome Unbound: Dancing Foliage

By Mike Welham / April 5, 2021 / Articles, Tome Unbound

Innate Spellcasting. The dancing foliage’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12). The foliage can cast the following spells, requiring no material components: 3/day: entangle 1/day: plant growth The dancing foliage loses its Shower of Petals reaction. Poison-Tipped Leaves. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 slashing

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Warlock’s Apprentice: Weird Fantasy Items

By Jeff Lee / April 2, 2021 / Articles, Warlock's Apprentice

Binding Oath Scroll, very rare (requires attunement by a cleric or paladin) This lengthy scroll is the testimony of a pious individual’s adherence to their faith. The author has emphatically rewritten these claims many times, and its two slim, metal rollers are wrapped in yards of parchment. When you attune to the item, you rewrite

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The Ratatosk: Magical Items and Equipment of the Squirrel-Folk

By Brian Suskind / March 31, 2021 / Articles, Ratatosk

Chaos Acorn Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) This acorn was harvested from a branch of the World Tree growing in a chaotic area of the void. A sheen of ever-changing colors decorates its smooth surface. You can use an action to eat the acorn. Doing so triggers a chaos magic surge. Roll percentile dice

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Rogue’s Gallery: Tam Waltzing

By Kelly Pawlik / March 29, 2021 / Articles, Rogue's Gallery

Freedom or Death. Once he established a home for himself beneath the city, Tam sought out others of his kind to join the revolution he convinced himself was needed to free the courtfolk from those who held them in the yoke of servitude. He now has a small cadre, mostly of young courtfolk halflings and

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Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks

By Jeff Lee / March 26, 2021 / Articles, Demon Cults & Secret Societies

LEVELS 1–3 Outbreaks of seemingly senseless and motiveless violence are causing unrest in the city. Young people are coming home bruised and bloody, refusing to tell their parents how they received their injuries. Overseers puzzle over laborers arriving late to work with black eyes and limping gaits. Soon after, a series of seemingly random attacks

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