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The Sanguine Dawn Inn | New Plug-and-Play Supplement for Fifth Edition

The Sanguine Dawn Inn is a plug-and-play add-on for Fifth Edition. The inn easily fits into any campaign setting of your choice and can work as both a tavern/inn in a village, town, or city, or as a stand-alone structure at an important crossroads. Although this location is chock full of ready-made details, feel free t...

Thrown to the Wolves Tier 1 Variant

Hey all!It was pretty fun writing Thrown to the Wolves yesterday. I actually managed to run it with my Saturday group last night, too.I'm probably going to do up to three variants with it, each tied to one of the four tiers; the original module is tier 2.For the first tier, what type of threat would you like to see...

Thrown to the Wolves | New 5th-Level Adventure for Fifth Edition

Thrown to the Wolves is a Fifth Edition adventure for three to five characters of 5th to 7th level. It’s optimized for a party of four characters with an average party level of 5. The adventure is campaign agnostic, but can just as easily be placed into any campaign setting which includes werewolves, particularly tho...

Thank You All!

Hey everyone!Thanks so much for a fantastic month so far. I know I've been a bit behind on content as of late, but I'm finally getting out of the weeds. Currently, I'm about 50% done on this big inn release I'm doing with Tom Cartos which I hope to have up tonight or early tomorrow.Additionally, I'v...

Blire Manor and Into Quabus Now on Roll20

Hey all!Great news today as our two newest modules, Danger at Blire Manor and the entire Into Quabus series are now available for purchase on Roll20. The modules include all the tokens, dynamic lighting, colored maps, and everything else needed to turn the original PDFs into actionable content for your players.Everythi...

What do you want first?

Hey all!Following up on my last post explaining the pause on certain types of content, I figured I'd put it in your arena to see what comes out next.Pick one! Survey ends this afternoon.

"Hey Dave, where is [such and such] part [x]?"

Hey all!I've had a couple people ask about certain pieces of content I've been working on in the past and why it may not have additional parts or appears abandoned. Popular examples include: Uncle Skeleton's Nightmare Tunnels, Hand of the Eight Part 9, Neverending Dungeon, etc.There are three major reasons ...

[Neverending Mad Mage] 3.7 - The Old Man

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "The Old Man"The party: Aaron, Sylvalor, Cedric, Four, Ug, and D.D. Aaron traveled back to the second level, Arcane Chambers, to learn more about Kalabash. In the Arcane Chambers, they learned that The Sorrow...

[366 Days of Monsters] Days 152-155 - Monsters of Horror Continued

This set includes four new horror-themed monsters for you to enjoy, including: Death Spirit Ghoul Lord Maniac VampyreI've attached these new creatures to the previous Monsters of Horror release for your convenience. There are also a few fixes to the old document.

VTT Token Sets #004-005 - Minotaur (Female and Male)

I've been slow to post this one (d'oh), but here's the next set in our Greek Monsters Set, minotaurs, both in female and male versions.Thanks again to the awesome Darryl T. Jones for supplying these awesome tokens.Hope you enjoy!

Final 48 Hours to Get Legends of Omeria on Kickstarter

Hey all!If you didn't know, we've been kicking ass on a Kickstarter this month for the Legends of Omeria starter set that comes with all sorts of fantastic goodies. It's now in its final moments with less than 48 hours to go. We're getting close to hitting out last bit of stretch goals, but need your he...

Breaking Down Curse of Strahd (And How to Make Sandbox Campaigns)

This video I made on Facebook shows you exactly how all the information in a professionally produced module works together to create a "sandbox" campaign setting.https://www.facebook.com/dungeonmasterdave/videos/207143977281367

[Call for Suggestions] DMDave Plug and Play Series

Hey all!Hope you're having a great summer so far. I'm about to start a new series of resources for GMs that allows you to quickly set up stocked areas of interest in your games both as a resource on here and on Roll20.These assets will make it so you can run stuff "out of the box" without having to do a...

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.6 - The Calendar Stone

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Wyllow's Tower."The party: Kilus, Granny, D.D., Knose Piccer, and Softy After they discovered that the werebats reentered Wyllowwood and took control of the stone tower and its Calendar Stone, the party ...

[366 Days of Monsters] Days 147-151 - Monsters of Horror

This set includes five new horror themed monsters (8 if you count the variants!) for you to enjoy, including: Dream eater Pyre elemental Hideous one Loup-garou Wolfwere

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.5 - Stuk

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Stuk."The party: Samlas, Kilus, Granny, Four, Osstaer (new), and D.D. (new) The party headed north through Wyllowwood Forest to investigate the destruction caused by Valdemar (see episode 3.3) and find the b...

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.4 - Phantasms

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Phantasms."The party: Samlas, Jacobb, Knose, Softy, Sock, and Kilus. The party teamed up with the green dragon, Valdemar, and headed up river to confront the aboleth Iluun's minions. After convincing Val...

[366 Days of Monsters] Day 146/366 - Brineling

Found mostly in deep subterranean caverns, brinelings are fish-ogre hybrids known for their horrific appearance, especially the thick mucus that drips from their tooth maws. Their naturally sour temperament makes them a vicious foe of any creature that dares enter their lairs.Aboleth Thralls. Like many of the dull-witt...

[Neverending Mad Mage Recap] 3.3 - Spiders

Here is a quick recap of what happened in the last episode of DMDave's Neverending Mad Mage, titled "Spiders."The party: Jock McQuacken, Darien Ofensen, Kal'el, Walford "Softy" Lucifer, Kilus, and Sock McQuacker The party discovered that Aaron's disciple, Zarrut, was missing, likely captured...

Content coming

Hey all!Been working on a few commissions. But you can expect fresh content soon!♥️

[366 Days of Monsters] Day 145/366 - Funny Bone

Bards who die without having accomplished what they set out to do in life rise from the grave like any other strong-willed creature. But in their case, they often return as funny bones—singing and joking skeletons. Unlike most of their animated brethren, funny bones have full sentience and memory of their former live...

[WIP] The Vertex of Revelation - Ground Level (Bloody Bunch Spoilers!)

Hey all!Wanted to give you a taste of the latest adventure that I've been working on, titled The Vertex of Revelation. This is still a work in progress, so there's bound to be typos, logic errors, etc. Also, there's no art, formatting, table of contents, or OGL yet, either.If you find any mistakes, be sure ...

[366 Days of Monsters] Day 144/366 - Silas, The Dust Mephit Priest

Silas is one of the four false rulers of The Vertex of Revelation. Awarded the unenviable task of protecting The Vertex's ground level, Silas spends most of his days obsessing over the cleanliness of his quarters. Even if the alarm is raised, he might not respond immediately, content to dust and vacuum. The irony o...

Werebat Lycanthropy - New Player Option for Fifth Edition

When your character contracts werebat lycanthropy, you gain the following traits in addition to those offered by your race, class, background, etc.Ability Score Increase. You gain a Dexterity score of 17 if your score isn't already higher.Shapechanger. You gain the shapechanger tag. As a werebat, you can use your a...

The Kickstarter's at the Half-way Point! - Help us unlock the next Stretch Goal!

Hey all!It's been an exciting two weeks for the Kickstarter. With two weeks left to go, we've already unlocked three of our stretch goals. Now, we're aiming for our biggest one yet... a minotaur!If you haven't already checked out the Kickstarter, here's everything you need to know about it:This Fift...

VTT Token Set #003 - The Kraken

Our Greek token set continues! You voted for it... here it is! The Kraken!The file includes three tokens, a full body version, and a full body in a watery environment version. Enjoy!

End of Month Platinum Sign-On Bonus

Today is the last day of the month. Happy Canada Day Eve!To encourage sign-ups for platinum memberships and to see if folks want to join in on our Dungeon of the Mad Mage games that I'm running every night, I'm offering for people who start the month of July (as in the signed up before July 1st) as a Platinum m...

New OFFICIAL Platinum Member Benefit

Hey all!I think it's time to officially announce the Platinum Member Benefit:Neverending Mad Mage access! Each night from 9:30 pm CST to 11:30 pm CST (sometimes later, depending) I run a game on Discord/Roll20 in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage. The game is restricted to Legendary Members only. However, all Platinum me...

[Poll] VTT Tokens - What to Make Next?

Hey everyone!If you haven't seen, we're now offering VTT tokens here on DMDave Patreon created by the amazing Darryl T. Jones. Currently, we're in the middle of creating Greek minis to go with the new official Fifth Edition release.We were wondering which Greek mythological creature that you'd like to s...

[DMDave] Token Set #002 - Centaur

Continuing our greek tokens theme, Darryl T. Jones has put together this centaur for you to lay your eyes upon! Currently, our centaur comes in four versions which range from "al originale" to Underdark to celestial.We've included full body shots, pogs with close ups (which could be used as non-centaurs), a...