Happy Halloween: 11 Horror-Themed Supplements & Adventures For 5E

There's a Halloween Sale going on over at RPGNow. EN Publishing is participating with 11 horror-themed products (four adventures, and seven rules articles) for your Fifth Edition games, all at a special 31% Halloween discount. The sale ends in 8 days.

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A Paladin's Dark Vows. Not all paladins are good; some may stray from the true path, while others are pure evil. Josh Gentry presents new flaws and class features for dark paladins. When a paladin turns from the light, flaws of aggression, blind loyalty, and naïveté provide corruptions of the virtues of bravery, loyalty, and wisdom. Additionally, paladins may take oaths of the Purge or Supremacy, or use the new Bloody Hands class feature. Illustrated by Scott Harshbringer.

Don't Wake Dretchlor. A forgotten mansion. A sadistic demon. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Can the heroes outwit the demon and escape the mansion, or will they fall prey to Dretchlor's evil machinations? An adventure for characters of 5th-7th level by Kiel Chienier; illustrated by Rick Hershey and Sexualtyranosarus.

Get Sick: Six New Diseases. Bottle fever, demonic plague, itching insides, ooze decay, aberrant touch, and walking rot. What do these all have in common? They're all new diseases for your game - some mundane, and some supernatural. Not only that, this article contains guidelines for creating your own diseases! By James Introcaso.

Heroes of the Night. A selection of horrific new archetypes for barbarians, fighters, and warlocks! Barbarian lycanthropes can master the Wolfsblood path; The Haunted are fighters with spectral companions; and The Evil Eye is a pact for warlocks. By Brandes Stoddard; illustrated by Dan Nokes.

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost: Subclasses for Hunting Evil. A range of spooky options for player intent on fighting the ghosts and ghouls! Kiel Chenier brings us Spirit, a Clerical Domain; Courage, a Paladin's Oath; and the Witch Hunter, a Roguish Archetype.

It's Alive! Does your victim wish to inflict a plague via an obscure ritual at the start of a solar eclipse on the grounds of an accursed cemetary using the blood of an innocent demon? Build rituals to achieve your villain's dark goals. Animate a golem, summon a god, open the Gates of Hell, or banish the sun. Seven tables describe the ritual's purpose, time, location, components, side-effects, price of failure, and - of course - how to foil the dastardly deed! By Mark A. Hart; illustrated by Jacob Blackmon.

Template of Horrors. Four horrific templates which can be applied to any creature! Use the zombie, wight, skeleton, and banshee templates to create horrors such as a Wailing Hermit (a banshee ettin), a Rust Monster Skeleton, a Crypt Stalker (a minotaur wight), or a Basilisk Zombie! By Cedar Collins; illustrated by Jacob Blackmon.

The Haunting of Calrow Ruins. "You can hear them at night when the mist creeps in off the lakeshore, jibber-jabbering like madmen trying to form words. For years they’ve haunted me, but still I can’t fathom what it means, as if some half-formed mind yearns for the power to speak for itself…" Complete with character hooks, this 14 page adventure by Aaron Infante-Levy is suitable for 2nd-4th level characters. Illustrated by Sade.

The Mystery of Mordecai's Monster. From Dan Head comes this adventure of mystery and horror! Who is Mordecai, and what has become of his latest creation? Can the PCs solve the mystery of Mordecai's monster before it's too late? An adventure for 3rd level characters. Illustrated by Nick Cramp and Rick Hershey.

Treasures Dark & Terrible. A whole host of new magical items to help you combat or embrace the terrors of the night. Nine new items, from the Collar of Cerberus to the Crown of the Devourer; from the Ghost Ward Lantern to Skull Liqueur. Illustrated by ShenFei.

You're All Doomed! An abandoned wizard's tower resting atop a hill. A peaceful village threatened by the undead. Rumors of vast treasure buried in forgotten crypts. Sounds like the perfect start to an adventure! A little too perfect... An unrepentantly deadly 5E adventure for characters of 3rd-5th level (or a fairly challenging 5E adventure for characters of 8th-19th level).
 

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Has anyone run "You're All Doomed!" yet? That one looks interesting, and I'm considering running something Halloween-ish for my Friday group. The PCs are 8th level at the moment, so it could work without being terribly deadly.
 

Has anyone run "You're All Doomed!" yet? That one looks interesting, and I'm considering running something Halloween-ish for my Friday group. The PCs are 8th level at the moment, so it could work without being terribly deadly.

Think "Cabin in the Woods". You can only run this adventure at Halloween. Your players would never forgive you otherwise!
 



Haunting of Carlow ruins is very good just finished it. Paladin's Dark vows looks good as well have not looked at the others that much.
 

Haunting of Carlow ruins is very good just finished it. Paladin's Dark vows looks good as well have not looked at the others that much.

My only issue with Paladin's Dark Vows is that one of the two new oaths for Paladins is essentially a slightly darker-themed version of the Oath of the Crown Paladin from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide – not that En5ider could have known that that was what they were going to do in that book (the article predates the book). Because I don't want multiple options that essentially cover the same flavor, I allow the other option in the article, but not this one (while allowing Oath of the Crown).
 


My only issue with Paladin's Dark Vows is that one of the two new oaths for Paladins is essentially a slightly darker-themed version of the Oath of the Crown Paladin from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide – not that En5ider could have known that that was what they were going to do in that book (the article predates the book). Because I don't want multiple options that essentially cover the same flavor, I allow the other option in the article, but not this one (while allowing Oath of the Crown).


Is either option that much better than the other one?

And I think EN5ider landed 1st I do not recall the SCAG one being very good.

Template of Horrors was also a good article.

Just had a look at the prices on the link you would be better off buying an EN5ider account.

I printed most of the EN5ider player options and added it to some of the Kobold press stuff got them spiral bound.
 

Yes, that's what I said – the EN5ider article "A Paladin's Dark Vows" landed first. However, since SCAG came out, I've retired usage of the similar subclass option from EN5ider.

I would always suggest doing an EN5ider account, partially because you get back issues. But EN5ider is only really sustainable if most of us subscribers are really monthly supporters, rather than joining for a month, downloading everything in the backlog, and then quitting (and then repeating a few months down the road).
 

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