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Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No You Have to Go is a 1 on 1 oneshot designed for a single 3rd-level PC. The adventure starts out with the PC minding their own business somewhere as they excuse themselves to the loo, which would be the absolute worst moment for the Mists of...

Chapter 4, Frontier Characters focuses on new options for players: subclasses, backgrounds, species, feats, and spells. I should note that this book uses 2024 5e as the baseline, and I don’t own the Player’s Handbook for that, so I can only make judgments and inferences based on classic 5e...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No Optimized for 4 4th-level PCs, this short adventure borrows strongly from the folkloric horror side of things, although I hesitate to even apply the horror label to it. The involved characters in the module don’t even have proper names...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools/Bestiary CoS-Required? No You might remember earlier in this thread that I reviewed an overpowered CR 27 stat block for Strahd Von Zarovich. Suffice to say, this version of Strahd is strong enough to wipe the floor with a CR 12 Archmage. Shortly after...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No While most Ravenloft material on the DM’s Guild tends to be domain-neutral, Barovia-specific, or homebrewed, every so often we get a product seeking to flesh out the setting’s other iconic realms. In this case, the God Engine is a 1st level...

Chapter 3, Quickstone is the primary hub settlement of the Western Frontier. While not the largest settlement in the region (that honor goes to Ardev), its position places it geographically within reasonable distance of other population centers and interesting locations. The city began as a...

Here's my choices. I even reviewed a few of them! These are just the ones I've read; I may include more as I continue combing through my library. Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Cosmic horror sandbox in a ruined capital city. Is well playtested, has interesting and atmospheric locations, various...

Product Link Product Type: Character Options CoS-Required? Yes First introduced as an Unearthed Arcana playtest and later officialized in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the concept of Sidekick classes have been a popular addition to many campaigns. Oftentimes serving to represent low-powered...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No This one-shot adventure takes place in a homebrewed Domain of Dread strongly inspired by Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp, along with some video games such as Dead by Daylight. The author did this due to a lack of “slasher horror” style...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes You know what time it is: another October, another batch of fanmade Ravenloft books to review! For our first one, we’ll cover DMing advice on running Curse of Strahd for 8 to 12 year old players. Many people got their start playing...

Frontiers of Eberron uses an onmniscient narrator vs a more subjective one, and the second quote I made appears to push hard against the idea that the Khaar'paal live a nomadic lifestyle by asserting that they're workers who came in to help with a job as opposed to living that way as a...

Chapter 2, The Western Frontier is also the longest one in the book. It comes with a gorgeous full-page map, some sample random encounters, and is broken up into several sections: Towns, Distant Cities, Landmarks, Famous and Infamous People, and Faiths of the Western Frontier. Towns cover the...

So I recently completed reading Frontiers of Eberron, and wanted to share my thoughts. This won’t be in-depth like a proper review, but instead a general collection of thoughts and initial impressions. Chapter 1, Life on the Edge does a good job of outlining the general vibe of the campaign...

Protip: the songs of a bard character (Scanlan, I believe) are muted in the playlist of the linked YT channel. Amazon Prime UK & Ireland has the uncensored songs. I linked their playlist below.

Cimbrine The capital city of Gnolune sits at a fork in the Vernwine and Yltou Rivers, and is home to the most prominent Silvered Nobles and Conclave mystagogues in the Valley of Flowers. Split into three major Districts, Cimbrine is also a very vertical city, home to a Hundred Splendid Towers...

Just got this book, reading it right now. Will share my thoughts as I dive into it more.

Ylgotha Our last major region for Gnolune is a dark, foreboding place. Dominated by dusty hills, sickness-carrying winds, and ruins from the days of Once, all tell a story of how victory against the Selenian invaders was a Pyrrhic one. Some interesting locations include a community of...

You're no hero. You're a knight of death, a prophet of ruin, a skulker of dungeons. You seek gold and glory in the sunlit lands of Law, Caked in the blood and filth of valiant paladins and the soldiers of darkness who fell beside you You are the Demon King's Grunts, and one day, when the last...

The Gnarl This heavily forested region is bisected by a river, and a constant aura of decay can be found throughout. Some interesting locations include a smuggler’s hideout filled with skeletons (at least one of which can talk) and cursed weapons that frequently break upon use; an illusory...

In New School news, Frontiers of Eberron is coming out tomorrow. Given that it takes place on the borderlands of that setting’s monstrous nation of Droaam, that product’s been on my mind. I started thinking of how to go about making an OSR campaign where all of the classes are monstrous, but...