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It is! Plus, it's an entirely modular, sandboxy campaign. It's like one huge bundle of optional quests and there are guidelines for doing a 1-off session or a full-blown campaign. No railroads. And the box comes with the physical Deck of Many Things! It's the exact same deck that is featured in...

Zero mention of Madness at Gardmore Abbey, probably the best 4e module and the best one of the many I've run. The amount of variety in the module was staggering. One session you're going through a standard dungeon crawl, the next you're exploring a patch of feywild, next you're trapped in a...

So far I find wizards to be weaker than I'd like from levels 1 to 4. I love that you have a ton of different things that you can do, but in combat in particular I feel they under perform. You've got like three useful spells to choose from and the rest feel subpar compared to most other classes'...

Many signs are pointing to me towards Ravenloft. I'll take a look for ideas, but generally I avoid fully developed campaign setting if only because it's too much of a time commitment to read up on. Gods, the amount of research I did on the FR setting just to develop my jungles of chult...

I love it. I love this too. Will have to think about what relic she'd be holding. Might be the reason why she was killed. Probably not, I'm thinking about a place cut off from the rest of the world, getting outsiders to taste things is probably out of the question. I LOVE THIS! Vampire...

I'm planning a homebrew campaign set in an area heavily influenced by magic: the gathering's "innistrad" setting. It has mad scientists, frankenstein monster, zombies, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and aristocratic vampires. Also a romanticized romania vibe. The province is dominated by the...

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I'm looking for visual inspiration on these classic horror icons. Movies or tv shows would be best. I like having them in the background while I work. I want to write up a module that is a mashup of classic gothic horror, with aristocratic vampires...

I played a ton of 3.5 and ran (but never played) 4e for about a year, so 4e I'm no guru. Based on that: Likes: 1) Attack bonus and AC increase steadily, instead of getting boosted super high, aka "bounded accuracy." This keeps monsters threatening even after the adventurers surpass them in...

From what I understand from the wiki, it contributed somehow to the Plaguelands, alters, and can grant spellscars. It doesn't burn? Hmm. I was considering using blue flame that crystallized somehow during the Spellplague and is being extracted in the current Sundering timeline, but not sure...

What exactly was the blue fire? Does it have any properties other than incinerating anything it touched? Is there any blue fire left during the Sundering?

I agree with you, NPCs are monsters that mimic PCs rather well, except they're simplified. Probably to make life easier for the DM. My only point of disagreement is that Faridah was built as a PC, not using monster/NPC guidelines. Yes, warlock is a d8.

The mage in the MM follows the monster guidelines. A true wizard would have d6 health, since this mage is a medium-sized monster, it uses d8. It has no wizard class abilities outside of its spellcasting trait -- no ritual casting, no arcane recovery, no arcane tradition. That's fitting for a...

No, I want to see if I can make the BBEG specifically good-aligned and carrying out a plan that, while terrible to the PCs and their loved ones, would not push the BBEG from good to neutral. This is exactly what I want. How far a beacon of goodness can go in terms of "evil" acts without...

I was thinking about having a final boss be a symbol of good, like a paladin or an angel (not fallen). I'm brainstorming ideas, but I don't know at what point does the good alignment shift to neutral. For example, what if this good-aligned boss was trying to save the world, but the only way to...

She's not built like a monster. She's straight-up a level 12 tiefling warlock PC. Definitely lower than CR 12, probably CR 9 or 10, but since she's a PC and not a monster it's hard to tell.

I'm building a homebrew in the jungles of Chult for my PCs of level 4-5. I found this interesting nugget of info in the 4E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting: "Junglemotes are common in Chult. Some are populated with creatures alien and awful in aspect—entities not native to Chult, or at least...

Hmm. I agree to an extent. I think this patrol would have worked out an optimal hiding location and appropriate times to surface, so I like the DC 20. I don't think it's something you'd passively notice unless your perception is supernaturally keen. A cautious group of PCs would make an active...

I plan on having the lizardfolk shaman keeping watch in croc form amongst reeds and plant debris on the other side of the river bank. His eyes and a bit of snout poke above the murky brown water's surface. The other lizardfolk are underwater, coming up only once every 15min for a breath of air...

I'm going to ambush my 4 PCs (level 4 each) when they're crossing a river. 3 Lizardfolk (CR 1/2 each) and 1 Lizardfolk Shaman (CR 2) will be chilling underwater. According to the encounter calculator, it's a Hard (1,500xp) encounter. Lizardfolk Shaman have Conjure Animals and so he'll bust out...