EN5ider Magazine #1: Folk Heroes
Added 2025-04-26 18:57:45 +0000 UTCThe first issue of the monthly EN5ider Magazine has everything a DM could want to turn a party of ragtag adventurers into legendary heroes. This all-new relaunch of EN5ider is compatible with the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D, and contains rules articles and adventures for your 5E games.
Get them the enchanted rustic gear they need with 9 new magic items from the Folk Hero's Armory.
Introduce a questionable vigilante against the crown in the form of the "folk hero" John Sleece.
Take on the full Thief of Princes adventure (4–6 PCs of 4th level) to recover the Horn of Matild.
Consider the Bounty Hunter Guilds that try to organize adventuring (sometimes forcefully).
And bust out some player handouts with a Bounty Board filled with encounters and scenarios hyperlinked to previous EN5ider articles.
So, without further ado… please do enjoy this first issue of EN5ider Magazine!
EN5ider Magazine #1: Folk Heroes Errata located here.
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Comments
You could substitute barony or the nearest local equivalent. I think it really matters on the scope of geopolitics in a game. If for example all the kingdoms on the island of Marykos in an ancient Greece-style campaign are relatively small I'd probably let one of those count as the home county. Also good catches, thank you, added to the errata. 🙏
Mike Myler
2025-06-01 13:27:31 +0000 UTCNo, but there are a couple of tools for looking through the archive to narrow things down —Another patron did put together a great indexed sheet using icons to identify what's in each article https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rMBOtAURKbl-KB7pt3Eq2KLC6Oj-d2zOF7YFti6cpPM/edit?usp=sharing —The EN5ider website has descriptions of all the articles and for more than half the archive there's a lot of organizing in the titles (Monstrous Menagerie: , Enchanted Trinkets: , etc.) https://www.en5ider.com/index —Then there's also Patreon's built-in tags too
Mike Myler
2025-06-01 13:18:07 +0000 UTCI also really like the Bounty Board, and appreciate the individual job handbills. I really want a Good Ol' Shield! I am curious about constitutes a home county, as opposed to country, for use with Grandpa's Sword. I gues that can be DM's discretion, but I so rarely county used as a home description in the U.S. By the way, there's a double comma in the Inquisitive Eyes for Deceiving Appearances description after "mundane and magical,, [sic]" on both pages 25 & 27.
Allan West
2025-05-27 14:18:07 +0000 UTCIs there an easy way to download the previous issues all at once for easy offline access?
Gabriel Lencioni Lovate
2025-05-27 13:45:17 +0000 UTCIt's a Gilliam reference too ^_^
Mike Myler
2025-04-27 11:11:33 +0000 UTCJohn Sleece sounds like a fun name.
Erik Larson
2025-04-26 21:42:15 +0000 UTC
