On the Edge of Sanity
Horror and madness have always been part of the worlds of D&D. A mad king must be cured or removed. A magician’s mind is broken by forbidden knowledge. An evil artifact drives its wielder slowly but steadily insane.
These expanded rules for horror and madness can be used in most settings and made to fit most flavours of the game, such as dark, heroic or epic fantasy, sword & sorcery, intrigue, mystery or war.
Instead of taking an “all or nothing” approach, where a character often risks going mad at the roll of a single dice, these rules allow for gradual mental change. Characters must try to keep their sanity over time. Their descent through horror towards madness is tracked, with great opportunities for role-playing – and suspense guaranteed.
The material can be used for both PCs and NPCs and not least to create riveting stories.
This 22-page product for D&D 5e draws on earlier D&D material on the subject but introduces a new system linking horror and madness and expands greatly on the source material. It contains:
⦁ New rules for tracking a character’s mental state and the descent towards madness.
⦁ New, expanded and rebalanced short-term and long-term horror effects, as well as indefinite madness effects.
⦁ Expanded material for Sanity checks and saves, recovering from and curing madness, adapted class features and a new sanity-based feat.
⦁ DM game material to use right away, including draughts and other drinks, magical items that cause or protect from horror and madness, and a new horrifying version of a classic monster.
Beware: you are standing On the Edge of Sanity …
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Dragons Now
Adventure encounters with unique dragons…!
Do you like dragons?
Do you like dragons to be more than just monster stat blocks?
Dragons Now is a collection of unique dragons to be used right away in any adventure. Here are dragons for dungeon, wilderness and urban settings, evil dragons and good, ancients and wyrmlings, living and undead. All true dragon types in the Monster Manual are covered, including the shadow dragon and the dracolich.
Each dragon is presented in a detailed context, often a full-blown adventure encounter with NPCs, places or magical items described as well. Some of these encounters include a map of the dragon’s lair. Each dragon is described in detail as an NPC, with appearance, personality, background and special features. The dragons also come with suggested hooks for how to use them in a campaign. In difficulty, the encounters go from lower level challenges to beyond level 20.
These 55 pages include 17 colour illustrations and several colour maps to further bring these dragons to life.
Let there be dragons now!
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Dark Wish
Times are dire. The buried are rising from their graves and even the shadows are taking on a life of their own.
Lord Edgar Melenov should never have accepted that gift – the small granite statue. It was no statue, but a living fiend, with a power so potent and terrible that it is reshaping the whole realm – into a nightmare … Now someone must learn the truth and stop the fiend before it is too late.
Dark Wish is a D&D 5th edition adventure designed for 4-6 characters of level 3-4, fitting for the Ravenloft setting, but suitable for almost any campaign open to a touch of horror. It offers a balanced mix of combat, mystery solving and roleplaying.
In this adventure, you will find: 37 pages shock-full of horror, with all details needed to conjure a gaming experience your group will never forget, including 7 hand-drawn colour maps, detailed descriptions of all key adventure sites, a full NPC gallery, new magic items, and a number of monsters from the Ravenloft Bestiary by Leonaru (full monster stats and descriptions are included, so the Bestiary is not needed to run this adventure).
Are your PCs ready to challenge the power of the mightiest spell in D&D?
The fiend is waiting …
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Explorer’s Pack
Exploring unmapped territory, discovering ancient ruins holding alien artefacts, crossing deadly terrain, making first contact with an unknown civilisation …
Exploration is an element of many D&D campaigns, whether your PCs just explore the surroundings of their hometown or lead a major expedition to a new continent. But exploration is often somewhat overlooked.
The Explorer’s Pack provides 20 pages to take exploration to the next level. The Pack is not limited to land exploration – it covers exotic destinations such as the Underdark and the other planes of existence, for endless adventures of discovery.
The Explorer’s Pack features:
Explorer Background. Anyone, from a human barbarian to an elven wizard, can make use of this new background and its Traveller feature.
Darkrunner (Ranger Archetype): darkrunners travel the depths of the earth. Many offer their services as subterranean explorers and guides, spies and envoys.
Planerunner Background: planerunners travel between this world and another, acting as explorers, guides and envoys of their community. Rare and intriguing, a planerunner may take you to Hell or Elysium – and back again.
Table of 100 Discoveries: A goldmine for inspiration and quick in-game use. What do your PCs find next in the uncharted wilderness …?
Advice and Ideas for the Exploration Campaign: whether you run a one-off adventure or a full-blown campaign, these tips and ideas will come in handy and heighten the thrill of exploration in all your games.
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Seducer – Rogue Archetype
A new Rogue Archetype for D&D 5e: the seducer/seductress, also called rake.
This archetype plays a prominent role in many legends and stories. Who has not heard of Casanova, Cleopatra, Salome or Don Juan? Or enjoyed the countless seducers appearing on film and TV, from femmes fatales – think Basic Instinct – to James Bond or Firefly’s Inara … As long as there are humans (and similar races), there will be seducers and seductresses. No campaign world is complete without its own prominent examples.
Four pages detail the seducer archetype and how to build such a character – either as a PC or an NPC. Also included is a short discussion on how to run and handle seduction attempts in-game and, of course, a new set of unique features for the archetype.
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Outcast – Background
The outcast, or pariah, is a new background to D&D 5e. Rejected by society, mistreated and oppressed, the outcast has faced terrible hardships even before their adventuring career begins … But what does not kill you makes you stronger!
Four pages detail the Outcast background with tables of stigmas and types of persecution, the new Indomitable background Feature and suggested characteristics, from Personality Traits to Flaws.
Tragedy and drama make for great characters – be it for your PCs or NPCs. With these outcasts the game will never be the same!
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