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"Eye on Cormyr #1: Coastal Adventuring Parties" is the latest offering from Commonplace Publishing on the DMs Guild. “Eye on Cormyr #1: Coastal Adventuring Parties” describes 16 groups of adventurers that ply their trade on the northern coast of the Dragonmere, in Cormyr. This article is...

Encounter Location Ideas: Tethered Spells 1. Suppose there are places where spells have been cast and the spells themselves never quite dissipated. 2. That is, the spells are no longer visible. They went off and they seemed to go away. Maybe they lingered a bit longer than one might expect...

Science journalist and novelist Annalee Newits wrote an opinion piece for NYT about D&D. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/dungeons-and-dragons.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The longest campaign I have run lasted about a decade. We were playing 3.0/3.5 D&D in the Forgotten Realms. I have participated in 6 month Battletech and Mechwarrior campaigns—really fun and memorable, too.

Looking to the future... Work has started on the third article in the Dragon Dreams series. The working title for this article is "Trinket Horrors." Who would've thought Cormyreans were so much cattle to be slaughtered? Or that beholders took such an interest in breeding humans for their...

The January update to Current Clack: Neverwinter is here. This month's update for "Current Clack: Neverwinter" has been uploaded to the DMs Guild website. The update includes: • A new adventuring company: Darrambur's Devils. • A new NPC: Embrelle of the Cold. Remember: It’s never too late...

Dragon Dreams of the Forest Kingdom: Death In The Last Drop I'm happy to announce the second free article in the Dragon Dreams series has been released to the DMs Guild: Dragon Dreams of the Forest Kingdom: Death In The Last Drop. This article tells the story of the battle between the red...

These look fun and useful. It’s work like yours that makes me want to build a virtual tabletop. Thank you for sharing and please keep making stuff!

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I was talking in terms of WotC's practice of looking at the content of DMs Guild to add to the Guild Adept program. Likewise for Adventurer's League content. There are plenty of "do this/don't do that" posts and tweets that tell creatives what mistakes not to make and what things to look out...

It means "Hammer" to me. For about 32 years now. ******** With any change to a campaign setting or rules system, you can look at different levels of interaction with the change to see what effect it might have. At the campaign level, if all the players and DM are new to the Realms and...

In the Forgotten Realms Style Guide (available for download on the DMs Guild), Wizards of the Coast appears to have shifted the months of the year in the Realms's calendar. Hammer has always been equivalent to January, but now... According to Brian Cortijo (posting as Garen Thal) on the...

January Preview for Dragon Dreams of the Forest Kingdom The Dragon Dreams article slated for December is delayed. Bummed about that. But the work continues. The goal is a release in January. Here's a work-in-progress taste of what's to come. As always, Dragon Dreams articles are free to...

Happy New Year, Dear Reader. Our inaugural post for 2019 is a description for adventuring company #13 on this list. 13. The Bluestars A roaming band of half-orcs and humans. Each member of the Bluestars was born into savagery and tribal life in the shadow of the Great Glacier. The eight...

The Wandering Cloaks of Wyvernshape Oh boy, the Wandering Cloaks of Wyvernshape sound fun. (See the post above this one.) Ideas follow: 1. Maybe they're cloaks that fly about like birds. Better, like large birds of prey. 2. I suppose they could move about like Helmed Horrors. That is...

A handy list of hidden magic, all to be found in Cormyr, from the novel "Swords of Dragonfire", by Ed Greenwood, p.68 of the hardcover edition: Darlock's six tasked spirits The Crown of the Slayer The Hunting Blade The Door Into Nowhere The wandering cloaks of wyvernshape The flying swords...

January Preview for Current Clack: Neverwinter Seasons greetings! The new year is just around the corner, but the first half of the January update for Current Clack: Neverwinter is pretty much done. As some of you may know, I like to create lists of adventuring company names and then flesh...