How the Lich Stole Christmas! is a Fifth Edition adventure for four to six characters of 18th to 20th level, and it is optimized for a party of four characters with an average party level...
2020-12-18 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The archfey gift-giver Santa Claus has used a bevvy of different creatures to serve as his "elves" over the course of his long career. Some of those creatures include gnomes, halflings, pixies, and even kobolds (briefly). Eventually, he brokered a deal with Azore the Queen of Leaves to create a n...
2020-12-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Doomspider was created by gnomish artificers and funded by a coalition of eight Mydon Princes. It was used during the siege of Colddark Cliff to reach the top of the facility's airship landing and breach its thick blast doors.
The Doomspider's hull is laced with nigh impenetrable adaman...
2020-12-17 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Trash Gremlins is a Fifth Edition adventure for three to seven characters of 1st to 2nd level, and is optimized for 4 characters with an average party level (APL) of 1. Characters who survive this adventure should earn half of the XP required to reach the 2nd lev...
2020-12-16 18:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Lyric Atomcodta created various machines to help automate The Good Father's research facility once he and his staff departed. These machines fulfill a variety of tasks for the facility. Arm-arms are designed for detailed maintenance and medical procedures. See-sees act as the eyes and security of...
2020-12-16 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
The perfect storm is upon us!
It's the holidays here in the US, the vaccines are starting to ship, and to top it off, USPS exited the postal union a couple months ago.
As such, BroadSword 11 may be slower to ship. We ordered just a couple days ago and our printers...
2020-12-15 21:43:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In the beginning, there was only darkness and cold. This was the time of Vapul, a powerful elemental whose origins trace as far back as the creation of the demiplane of ice itself. When the dulons came to Casar, they brought life to the frozen wasteland that was Casar. Simultaneously, the fire el...
2020-12-15 16:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This creature resembles a dessicated corpse covered in frost. It moves faster than a zombie, and has remarkable intelligence despite its deathly nature.
Although the natural inclination for most who come upon the frozen would be to "kill it with fire" (as the old saying goes), the frozen ac...
2020-12-15 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks!
Kobold Alone's been a hit. I've got two more Christmas themed adventures coming soon—one about a grumpy green guy and another one about one guy versus a group of armed terrorists in a very tall building.
After those, though, what would you like to see get made?
Thes...
2020-12-15 04:16:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Weeping spirits look like corporeal undead—not unlike mummies or zombies—whose eyes are missing. Black, poisonous ichor constantly flows from their empty eye sockets. Wailing and blubbering uncontrollably, they are true to their name.
Weeping spirits were created by greater undead to se...
2020-12-14 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Battle Chess! Battle Chess is a variant of chess that incorporates the combat rules from the Fifth Edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game (you know the one). This document includes rules for playing traditional chess as well as rules for Battle Chess.
In order to ...
2020-12-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
It’s always fun taking movie or TV concepts and making them into 5e modules. What’s another one you’d like to see get made?
Let me know in the comments below!
2020-12-12 19:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobold Alone is a Fifth Edition adventure designed for three to six characters of 1st to 4th level. The adventure is set in a large, nameless estate or mansion that can easily be placed into any setting. It also works perfectly as a one-shot or as a side quest in a larger campaign. The adventure ...
2020-12-11 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Omerian titan of predators, Brar'enaath—considered by many to be a god in its own right—has created its own collection of malicious creatures during its time on Omeria. Perhaps most demonic of all its creations are its Beasts.
A Beast of Brar'enaath looks like a muscular, black and ...
2020-12-11 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I'm toying with the idea of adding a Foundry VTT tier. This would grant those who sign up access to my content which would be set up on Foundry VTT and ready to go. Right now we do Roll20 which we have to sell separately, but with Foundry, you'd get it just as a Patron. Of course, ...
2020-12-10 18:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps the name mage is deceptive. After all, the Vaskil Warriorbrood are hardly mages. Certainly, magic flows through their veins, along their arm, into their trigger fingers, and through their fire arms. But this magic is not the magic of the cloistered wizards of Odonburg or the stalwart abju...
2020-12-10 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Woohoo!
BroadSword Monthly #11 is out and ready for viewing for those of you who have digital subscriptions.
This is the first BSM that's got more writers than DMDave writing, so we hope you enjoy the efforts of our myriad collaborators.
Enjoy!
Snakes in a Baris a Fifth Edition adventure for 3 to 7 characters of 3rd to 4th level, and is optimized for4 characters with an average party level (APL) of 3. Characters who survive this adventure should earn half of the XP required to reach the 4th lev...
2020-12-09 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes referred to as "lake harpies", rusalkas are deadly fey creatures whose intoxicating voices are known to lure sailors and fishermen to their watery doom. Despite their proclivity for drowning humanoids, rusalkas are not outwardly malicious. They are driven by their own passion which driv...
2020-12-09 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Awesome ideas from you all. In the end, only three could win. I've also picked the fourth place runner up to have it turned into a stat block (sans Nacho's art, unfortunately), since it seems like a pretty easy one to do.
Here's your monsters:
Jerod F...
2020-12-08 23:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
If you weren't already aware, I'm a huge Metallica fan. While I'm working on fresh content, I listen to almost exclusively Metallica these days. I started listening to Metallica as far back as the late '80s and early '90s, first grabbing a copy of ... And Justice for All (on cassette, of...
2020-12-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps best known for giving gifts to children all over the world, Santa Claus is a magical creature whose presence is felt throughout most of the realms of The Real. However, what many don't realize is that Santa Claus is actually a powerful Archfey who lives in the farthest reaches of the cold...
2020-12-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Attack! the Warehouse is a Fifth Edition adventure designed for three to six 2nd-to-4th-level characters, and is optimized for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 3. This side quest adventure pits the characters against a group of bandit...
2020-12-07 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Orcs worship at the altar of strength and endurance. Thus, orc bruisers—powerfully built orcs who choose to use their fists and raw strength to overcome their opponents—are the most celebrated among their kind.
2020-12-07 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Link *should* work now.
Hey all!
If you didn't know, our Discord channel has a volunteer proofing team made up of some of our most awesome patrons. This team not only gets first look at all the content, but they also get full Platinum benefits for doing it. This includes physi...
2020-12-06 20:32:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Lost Dungeon of the Demon Cutlists is a Fifth Edition adventure for three to six 2nd-to-4th-level characters. The adventure is optimized for a party of four characters with an average party level (APL) of 3. This adventure is designed setting-independent...
2020-12-05 23:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Did you know that if you're on the Discord and you've been a Patron of the Copper Tier or higher for at least a year, that you get Legendary Member status on the Discord?
That means you get to join us in the Legendary Lounge and have myself, DMDave, run games for you (if ya w...
2020-12-04 17:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy December!
Here is the collected works for November 2020. It includes the following goodies:
Henceforth: Zombie Apocalypse Setting for Fifth Edition
New Player Options
LAST CALL! Vote now! Ends tomorrow at 10:00am CST.
Hey all!
Last month, I think we had a lot of fun having everyone suggest monsters, voting on which ones were the coolest, and then having Nacho Lazaro draw them up while I stat them. So let's do it again!
Here's...
2020-12-03 17:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking to the skies of Vaskil Valley like a plague, The Wyvern Kings of Darkmire appear to be wyvern-mounted knights wearing dark suits of plate mail armor. Large helmets cover their heads, revealing little of their physiology, leading some to believe that they might be constructs, undead, or per...
2020-12-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post