Recent content by Merifluous

I've been converting and running parts of the Great Modron March + Dead Gods in high level (10-20) 5e. They are fantastic adventures, but incredibly difficult to run, especially if you convert to 5e. One of the advantages of Modron is you can cut the weaker adventures out easily. You cant do...

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Hi all...I've been publishing to the DM's Guild for a bit now, but I am very bad about doing promotion, so I thought I would drop a quick post here about my latest. I've been slowly working on a a Sea of Fallen Stars pirate campaign built around Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and had created a number of...

Phandelver is both a better story and much harder to run as written. It also has early 5e issues with deadly encounters at low levels. That's why I prefer Icespire peak for new players.

I ran Dragon of Icespire Keep for a totally new group online when the pandemic started. Its pretty beginner friendly, though I ended up writing a guide to it to make super easy for new DMs and put it on dms guild. its pay what you want. With my guide, I think it is super easy for a new DM. Its a...

Great thread. In the realms, there was a Netherese floating city dedicated to Selune called Selûnarra, which Selune saved by pulling into her divine realm when Karsus cast his spell to become the god of magic. I've always wanted to run a campaign about bringing the city back. I started one a...

I also picked up some books and was pleased with my purchase.

Plain English with Derek Thompson - good data driven current events podcast My Marvelous Year - Marvel comics reading club going through the top storylines in each year of marvel comics (currently late 90s) This week in Technology - good tech news round up, long running pod with Leo Laporte...

I just finished a conversion of return to white plume mountain to publish on the DM's Guild, and have also been converting a bunch of old planescape adventures for my current game too. I really second taking existing monsters and just feature swapping them - I do it all via homebrew in dndbeyond...

I meant to add that I also get most of the critiques of it that I see here too. I just love the planar setting enough that I can see past all those.

I've always loved sigil and just recently started running it for the first time, using it as a hub world once my PCs reached level 10. It is very complicated to run and remotely hit the flavor b/c there are so many factions, the cant, the different planes, etc etc. My group is mostly relatively...

We have done mixed mode for years, even before the pandemic. DM and 3-4 players in person, 2 players remote over zoom. Usually have a surface with zoom up, and an external webcam and speaker/mic mostly pointed at the battlemap. Its not perfect, and we have 15+ years of gaming together, but it...

I would agree its one of the weakest. I ran it when it was the only one out at the start of 5th. We still really enjoyed it. Personally I have ran or played all or parts of ToD, CoS, OotA, SKT and DotMM and enjoyed them all. They all have their issues, but I think there is plenty of material in...

As far as how deadly the adventure is, I knew going in there were some tough parts and probably adjusted some (I know I did in Greenest), but I don't remember it being that dangerous. My group has been playing together for 20 years, so they tend to make intelligent decisions and be conservative...

As far as how deadly the adventure is, I knew going in there were some tough parts and probably adjusted some (I know I did in Greenest), but I don't remember it being that dangerous. My group has been playing together for 20 years, so they tend to make intelligent decisions and be conservative...