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[Patreon Exclusive] Neverending Dungeon Room 2 - Bone Nap

Welcome to the Neverending Dungeon! The adventure starts when characters wake in a dungeon with no recollection of how they got there. Each room of the dungeon is loaded with traps, monsters, puzzles, treasure, and more. As time goes on, I'll crea...

[Patreon Exclusive] Scalable Air Elementals | 19 New Monsters for Fifth Edition

Elementals are some of my favorite creatures to use in D&D. They're like a cross between a fiend, construct, and monstrosity, with tons of powerful attacks, defenses, and sneaky features. For this special edition of Scalable Monsters, I'll be ...

[Patreon Exclusive] Dump Stat Traps Part 4 - Fear Run! (Wisdom)

Looking for ways to trip up those pesky, over-powered characters that are stomping through your campaign? The traps detailed in this series focus on effects that require specific saving throws.

The fourth entry is called Fear Run! It's a pre...

[Sneak Peek] Dump Stat Traps Part 4 - Fear Run! (Wisdom)

Little sneak peak into today's dump stat trap. While I'm still working on this huge adventure (the thing is clocking in around 40 pages already with a little bit more to go), I thought I'd put out this Wisdom based trap—upon writing this, I real...

[Sneak Peek] Late night doodling...

Just got back from my D&D session where I witnessed a character death at the hands of an instadeath trap.

I spent the majority of today writing the collaboration adventure debuting next week. So I wanted a little mental break. I rather e...

[Follow-up Poll] Schedule Changes

Hey all!

Thanks so much for answering the last poll (and giving me a day off). Here's a follow-up poll using the feedback given. I've added in a day off for myself (thanks for that) and removed player option Tuesday since no one seemed as in...

[Poll] Mid-October Schedule Adjustment

Hey all!

I'm potentially making an adjustment to the regular content schedule as follows. I've included a poll below to see what you think.

Monster Monday. New monsters on Monday. There will be at least one, but potent...

Overslept like whoa...

Hey all!

I overslept like crazy today, cashing in on like... 11 hours of sleep. D'oh. So I'm a little behind on the Saturday adventure module which I believe was supposed to be a Wizard of Oz adventure. I'm probably going to hold off on that...

[Patreon Exclusive PDF] Neverending Dungeon - Room 1 - "Good Morning'

Welcome to the Neverending Dungeon! The adventure starts when characters awaken in a dungeon with no recollection of how they got there. Each room of the dungeon is loaded with traps, monsters, puzzles, treasure, and more. 

As time goes...

[Sneak Peek] Tunnels of the Lich Prince - Room 1

It looks like the poll is a runaway for the classic "wake up with no memory" trope. So I started working on that. I outlined the room created by donjon's Dungeon Creator, then started adding in traps, puzzles, and other goodies.

Once we hit ...

[Poll] Tunnels of the Lich Prince - Room 1 Unlocked!

We did it! We unlocked the first room for the Tunnels of the Lich Prince.

While I'm probably going to change most of the numbers on the rooms (they're kinda all over the place), I decided to keep #1 right where it is.

2019-10-18 16:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post

[Patreon Exclusive] Possomfolk | New Race for Fifth Edition

Humanoid possums are known simply as possomfolk by the other races or waba-animoosh by in the opossum tongue. Possomfolk are rarely seen in major humanoid cities, preferring to live far from humans and elves. However, they do intermingle with gnom...

[Stretch Goal] 1 Room per 10 Patrons (Starting at 315)

At 315 and every 10 patrons thereafter, I’ll create a fully realized room for Tunnels of the Lich Prince (the above map).

The rooms will laid out in the same manner as Dump Stat Traps with detailed notes on the environments. It’ll also i...

[Patreon Exclusive] Dump Stat Traps Part 3 - Underwater Maze (Constitution)

Looking for ways to trip up those pesky, over-powered characters that are stomping through your campaign? The traps detailed in this series focus on effects that require specific saving throws and ability checks.

This is the third article an...

[Patreon Exclusive] The Traveller's Caves - New Adventure for 1st Level Characters

I am a big fan of Dyson Logos' awesome maps. If you're not familiar with Dyson yet, he's an old-school cartographer who has done official Fifth Edition maps. He's also got a site where he churns out, like, 2-3 awesome maps per week. This is an adv...

[Sneak Peek] Behold: Tunnels of the Lich Prince

Looks like our survey is guiding us towards an uber-dungeon. Originally, I'd planned on borrowing one of Dyson's or Tim Hartin's. But then I got the nutty idea to just craft one using donjon.bin.sh. 

This is what came back. The dungeon ...

[Sneak Peek] Dump Strat Traps 3

Of all the traps I've created so far, this is perhaps the most devious of them all. It plays with what is probably one of the least used mechanics in the game: characters holding breath.

Should be out tomorrow morning.

[Patreon Exclusive] Dump Stat Traps Part 2 - Gear Hazard (Dexterity)

Looking for ways to trip up those pesky, over-powered characters that are stomping through your campaign? The traps detailed in this series focus on effects that require specific saving throws.

Our second entry is a gear hazard trap. The tra...

[Sneak Peek] More ways to punish your players coming tonight.

As you can see, I'm "grinding" away on more traps. I'm going to try to have two done and release them both tomorrow. That should get me back on schedule.

The one above is for Dexterity (lower levels). It's bound to be totally evil. Muahaha 2019-10-16 18:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post

[Patreon Exclusive] Will-o'-wisp Playable Class/Race | New Player Option for Fifth Edition

About a year ago this time I created one of my first ever playable race/classes, the will-o-wisp, for one of my players. Hard to believe this, but a year ago I was still pretty new to class and subclass creation. So overall, the class was a disast...

[Poll] Stretch Goal 375

Following Stretch Goal 340 (which is relatively close to being hit), the next major stretch goal will be at 375.

I have a few ideas for what it should be, but I'm interested in seeing what you all want.

305 Patrons! Traps and Post-Apocalypse is Coming!

We did it folks! We hit 305 patrons. That means two things:

1) Next up is the post-apocalyptic setting. Only 35 more patrons 'til we hit that goal, so we can probably expect it as soon as next week.

2) And over the next week, I'll be c...

New Class Option Tonight and Traps Tomorrow

Hey all, 

Just want to give you a heads-up on what I'm working on. I've gone back through DMDave.com and found one of the oldest classes I've ever created. I'm getting it a totally fresh coat of paint, so it's going to take a while to g...

Today's post a little late!

Hey folks, busy morning here at the DMDave house. I'm working on a revamp of an old class today, so look forward to that. It just won't be out at the normal time slot.

I got a little caught up working on one of the adventures that'll be out ...

300 Patrons! Thank you all <3

Thank you all so much! I'm truly humbled by each of you that have decided to follow along with my content and this patreon. Hopefully, I can continue to deliver the stuff you all enjoy!

Thanks again!

[Patreon Exclusive] DMDave Revisited - 5 Angel Variants

I use angels very sparingly in my campaigns. To me, they seem kinda like... deux ex machina. Literally. They also kinda come off as super serious. These are the sort of folks that if you make a joke they just respond with "blink blink bli...

[Poll] Wizard of Oz Poll

I'm going to be turning Saturdays into "campaign day" where I expand upon a campaign setting. But what will I expand? Each week I'll let you all decide!

We'll start with the 2019-10-14 03:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post

[Patreon Exclusive] DMDave Revisited: Aboleth Variants

Aboleths.

They're totally gross, right? Basically big, psionic eels straight out of a Lovecraft short story. Not only are they scheming behind the scenes, sending out their minions to do all their dirty work, but they also have that body-hor...

[Patreon Exclusive] The Marvelous Land of Oz v1.0

In an effort to provide a complete campaign setting, the game rules found here are as concise as possible. In general, this 5e Marvelous Land of Oz campaign setting uses the same rules that Fifth Edition does. If you have questions about how an Oz...

[Sneak Peek] Oz is Drafted, Now Proofing

So the first version of Oz is put together. I've got to drop off some books at the post office and then knock out a few other things, but after I give this a read it should be good to go.

This version will be V1.0 which will be limited on im...