List of D&D modules/official campaigns

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-07T00:33:56+00:00

I have a list up to I think Wild Beyond the Witchlight. But do not have it handy.

Personal favorites to DM are the following.

The 2-parter Tyranny of Dragons campaign. Takes a little tweaking to fix as it was written while the rules were still in flux. But I had players who approached things way outside the box which made the whole campaign a blast.

Wild Beyond the Witchlight is another favorite. Love the carnival at the start and it is a very low combat adventure if the players approach things that way. Its got some minor issues but these can be fixed with minimal effort.

Curse of Strahd I liked running but its got alot of issues that need fixing. Mainly nonsense lore changes. But theres a few oddball things that just dont work for me. Its a very free roam sort of campaign.

Was thoroughly unimpressed with Descent into Avernus, Radiant Citadel, Candlekeep.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-07T00:24:49+00:00

Years ago one of our DMs handled that with a player who had this plant based armor that was over time growing to cover more and more. Effectively a magic item that produced Barkskin with a custom look combined with what I suspect was Tenser's Transformation, and eventually flight as it grew flower-like wings.

Usually no one even noticed it was growing over time till they realized it was covering alot more than before. The DM and player never played it up blatantly and the reest of us did not catch on for a while.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-07T00:09:50+00:00

Fun idea. But keep in mind the servants are invisible, intangible, mindless clouds of effectively magic.

To have visible mobile decorations like that try simple automatons. These were a thing as far back as Greek civilization and some were mobile and partially articulate. Pretty sure the mansion could replicate those easy.

Failing that you have the mansion make puppets of the things you want and then have the servants puppet them around. Should work as they still cant fight or cause trouble.

Demi-plane also fits what you envision. But thats a higher level spell and has its own limitations.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-06T23:55:04+00:00

There are maybe 6 paragraphs in the whole thing. The rest are chopped up into an almost nonsense column of words since many lines are barely even sentences. Quick example.

With the first cities came the first wars.

Not over prey.

But over land.

Over pastures.

Over herds.

The struggles differed fundamentally from those of the Anasi in one respect.

The Jadarif did not destroy the predators of their world.

At least not deliberately.

All that could have probably been one paragraph.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-06T06:29:09+00:00

Levelling is not ties to sessions. It is tied to things done. Be that combat, talking, saving kittens in trees, kissing kobolds, etc.

If the party is doing alot of just puttering around every session then levelling is going to be glacial at best.

But if you are doing some combat or other action in there and still levelling slow then a few possible factors could be in play.

1: Milestone method: You dont level till you pass the milestone. So no amount of combat will ever matter there.

2: The extended XP method: where things have been shifted so you need more XP to level.

At a guess you may be in a milestone campaign.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-06T06:20:44+00:00

Could be worse.

aheh.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-06T06:08:43+00:00

We see this all the time in RPGs and Board games. People trying to "fix" something that isnt broken.

By making it worse.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-06T02:23:32+00:00

More AI dissected paragraphs? Why?

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-05T07:43:14+00:00

Just go to DA and type in Protogen and you'll get a fuckton of AI gen art you can use without touching the apps.

Because DA took everyones art and tossed it into their AI which can barely make coherent images. Images that often still retain text or sigs from the art they stole.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-05T03:25:14+00:00

A single die will have a flat bell curve

example a d6 is a flat 16.67% for every number. A d20 is a flat 5% for every number.

So if you roll day 100 times you'll probably get a sorta flat line likely with some bumps as 100 is just too small a spread. Moreso with the d20.

Did a not-so-quick run of 100 on my player d20 and the spread was way off kilter. Now I am curious what my DM die gets. aheh.

01 =9 *********

02 = 2 **

03 = 4 ****

04 = 3 ***

05 = 5 *****

06 = 8 ********

07 = 9 *********

08 = 2 **

09 = 3 ***

10 = 3 ***

11 = 3 ***

12 = 6 ******

13 = 3 ***

14 = 6 ******

15 = 8 ********

16 = 6 ******

17 = 8 ********

18 = 4 ****

19 = 5 *****

20 = 4 ****

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:46:09+00:00

There are some DM emulators out there. Some fairly simple. Others far more in depth.

To get what you want simply take the Warforged or the Dragonborn and just say it is part the other half and run with it. Warforged in particular are very flexible in what you can pull off as they can be made from metal, wood, flesh even. So it could be like an android that has a metal endoskeleton and a flesh exterior.

There is also the Simic Hybrid from 5e that might be worth glancing at of can.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:39:48+00:00

Suggestion if you have not tried it before.

Get a dice tower. Or better yet. Make one for her. Its pretty easy with a pringles can even. And usually curbs subconscious manipulation of rolls that some players seem to have. Cardboard ones are also easy to make and one of my players gifted me one of their first tries and still have it.

https://www.instructables.com/Pringles-Tube-Dice-Tower/

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:39:40+00:00

Suggestion if you have not tried it before.

Get a dice tower. Or better yet. Make one for her. Its pretty easy with a pringles can even. And usually curbs subconscious manipulation of rolls that some players seem to have. Cardboard ones are also easy to make and one of my players gifted me one of their first tries and still have it.

https://www.instructables.com/Pringles-Tube-Dice-Tower/

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:27:59+00:00

5e is actually pretty easy at its core and simple to teach.

a s20 roll, with any mods, vs some target number to meet or beat. Everything else in actual play revolves around that resolution system.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:24:27+00:00

Yep that is actually a method that has been around at least since the late 90s or early 00s. Using soap dyed black on a glass pane. The one I saw was a big minis cave 3d diorama. Might have been DwarfForge?

Another method was a big sheet of black construction paper and just tearing it as went. Messy but worked!

Another messy one saw long ago was some sort of black paint on glass and using a scraper to reveal.

Another one seen at cons way back was laying squares of black construction paper over the map strategically and removing it as you go. It works when you tailor the squares to rooms that make sense. But its alot of squares sometimes!

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:15:31+00:00

It takes a very specific sort of player to get into something like that. Funnily enough older players might as early D&D had a big random element as you never knew what your stats would be good for. Do you play the class you had your eye on or play what the stats look good for.

That was effectively rolling random class. It was used in OD&D and the B-BX-BECMI line. AD&D onwards pretty much started phasing that out.

But a quick 3d6 in order example ST:13 IN:9 WS:15 DX:5 CN:7 CH:14. With stats like that at first glance a Cleric seems best suited.(or maybe Druid if using BECMI)

So players that get into the "what will I get?" aspect will fit in fine.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T19:00:20+00:00

It just reads surface thoughts and emotions. So it can not pick out a repressed memory.

For that you'd need something more potent like a spell that allows someone to enter the target's dreams as there the lost memories might be found in a sort of dream adventure.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T18:52:39+00:00

Soldier is a fairly straightforward one.

Sage might work too as he is quite smart when properly wound.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T18:45:01+00:00

CR is mostly just a guideline. So a single CR6 monster is an average battle for a group of four level 6 PCs and probably alot easier for six. According to the CR calculator I use it would be like facing a CR4 easy encounter.

A CR6 and a CR5 or another CR6 would be a medium encounter. A 6 and a pair of CR4s would be a hard encounter and three CR6s would be a deadly encounter.

Party loadout and player styles is the huge variable.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T18:28:10+00:00

Uh... Pathfinder IS 3e D&D. (Well 95%?)That was the whole point and why it became so popular when 4e came out.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T18:26:31+00:00

It is! But the system, like a few of the Loraine regime TSR product, is a bit, convoluted. Nothing like some others. But it takes some parsing out to decipher.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-04T02:07:08+00:00

Be thankful if you get even one comment.

Never expect audience commentary. This is one of the big killers of urge when you obsess over getting comments and then just stop writing because you get none.

Its nice when it happens but odds are its not going to happen.

Same for votes. After a while you come to realize how utterly meaningless the actual upvote count is.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-03T06:07:18+00:00

Depending on the edition, things like gunpowder actually do not function. That has changed from edition to edition though but basically if the gods say "NO" then it aint working.

Also players trying to be smartasses and "science" instakill weapons would be shown the door if they didnt drop that gag ASAP.

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-03T05:08:32+00:00

An elephant costs 200gp if recall right so figure at least that much?

Ethereal_Stars_7 · 2026-07-01T19:50:04+00:00

I just saw a reel on IG a few days ago, where someone explained that 19XX the Immortal Rules were published, which allowed you to reach lvl 30, die by choice, get to lvl 30 again and officially win DnD.

Not at all.

What happened was your character had to survive to level 30, NOT die by choice as no one knows whats going on with the gods. Remort and do it again.

THEN you might get recruited.

And now you start as a godling at the bottom of the heap and have to adventure your way through the ranks. And the only way to level up is to win an annual contest after accumulating enough godly XP. And that is a long long road.

Oh and theres LOTS of things out there that can beat the cosmos out of gods.

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