Category: DMs Guild Review

DriveThruRPG Review – Potions Unlocked

New optional rules, merchants, adventure hooks, and over two dozen highly-detailed potions.

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Designed by: Splinterverse Media

Potions are usually little more than an afterthought in magic item supplements. A few sentences, pick a buff spell, and boom there’s a D&D 5e potion! Not so with Potions Unlocked, which treats each of its intricately detailed potions with as much loving care and attention as the alchemists who make them.

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DMs Guild Review – Dread Metrol: Into the Mists

A unique, and massive, blood sport-based adventure for level six.

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Designed by: Keith Baker, Andrew Bishkinskyi, Imogen Gingell

Is it awkward that my first review of 2022 is also one of the best products I’ve reviewed on the DMs Guild?

Dread Metrol is an awesome crossover between Eberron and Ravenloft, shunting a ruined city in the Mournlands into its own demiplane where an authoritarian Queen rules over an increasingly desperation populace, besieged every night by a never-ending army of undead.

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DMs Guild Review – The Scion

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Designed by: Darel Dominguez

If the Ranger is the martial version of a Druid, and the Paladin the martial version of a Cleric, then The Scion is the martial version of a Warlock. The martial-spellcasting hybrid includes full level 1-20 progression, four subclasses, and three new backgrounds.

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DMs Guild Review – Academy of Adventure

Graduate from an adventuring academy in this campaign kick-off for level 1.

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Designed by: Scott McClintock, Marc Altfuldisch, Kathleen Harrington

One of the more challenging scenarios for a game master to concoct is the initial meeting of the player characters. To help avoid the “you all meet in a tavern” trope, the Academy of Adventure drops level one PCs in an adventuring school for young adults.

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DMs Guild Review – Dragonbowl

A unique, and massive, blood sport-based adventure for level six.

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Designed by: Duncan Rhodes

Inspired by blood sport adventures such as Running Man, The Hunger Games, and Gladiator, Dragonbowl invites a sixth level D&D party into a humorously corporatized sporting event that’s one part Superbowl and one part Battle Royale.

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DMs Guild Review – Hither Adventure Bundle

New and expanded locations from chapter 2 of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight 5e campaign.

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Designed by: Daniel Kahn

In each of the divided realms of Prismeer, the Feywild domain that’s featured in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, there lies an awesome mega-dungeon ruled by a hag. Unfortunately the rest of the notable locations that reside in each realm aren’t given the same love and attention. The Hither Adventure Bundle rectifies this, at least for the domain of Hither, expanding on two of the locations and adding an all-new third one to the swampy fey realm.

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DMs Guild Review – Witchlight Carnival Expanded

Expands upon, and adds new content from chapter 1 of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight 5e campaign.

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Designed by: Daniel Kahn, Patrick Rehse

In my Roll20 Review of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, I was very impressed with the campaign’s opening chapter, calling it “one of the best level one areas that 5e has produced.” Witchlight Carnival Expanded is an unofficial, but very impressive, expansion to that specific chapter, expanding and adding new attractions, events, backgrounds, and rollable tables.

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DMs Guild Review – College of Celebrity

Bard subclass and background built around fame and personality.

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Designed by: Sebastian Yūe, Walter Srebalus

The College of Celebrity is a single subclass supplement that adds a new Bard college based around fame (or infamy), along with a new fame-based background.

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DMs Guild Review – Through the Veil: Treasures of the Feywild

Over 400 Fey-inspired magic items, weapons, and armor.

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Designed by: Elise Cretel, et al

The first volume of Through the Veil was a superb anthology of Fey-themed adventures (and one of my top ten DMs Guild products of last year). The follow-up, Through the Veil: Treasures of the Feywild, isn’t an adventure at all, but a massive collection of Fey-themed magic items – which is arguably more useful for many DMs. Like its predecessor, it’s also one of the most impressive DMs Guild products of the year.

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DMs Guild Review – The Book of Seidr

Three new Norse-themed magic subclasses, along with spells, invocations, and magic items.

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Designed by: Thieves’ Cant Games (Evan Jackson)

When I think Norse, I’m usually thinking of Viking warriors, barbarians, or skalds (hello, Bard College of Valor). The Book of Seidr (from the designer of the Norse monster book The Book of Monstrous Kennings) offers a different take on Norse-themed player content,  with new subclasses, spells, companions, and feats based around the fate-weaving Norse magic.

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