Lair Magazine #29, Intellect & Imagery, Is Out!!!

The next issue of Lair Magazine, Map Pack, and bonus 5e adventure have dropped.

And the entirety of Lair Magazine is available in both 5e and PF2 versions! :D See note below regarding our Pathfinder 2 content.

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This Month's Patron Digital Benefits

Here's the loot DM Lair patrons get this month:

Map Pack 24: Religious Sites - $10+ patrons
This month's map pack is themed around religious sites. It contains 4 ten-room "dungeon" maps and 6 "encounter" maps. Each map comes as an image file with both gridded and non-gridded versions and both low- and high-resolution versions. (So four versions of each map.)

Intellect & Imagery, Lair Magazine #29, May 2023 Issue - $15+ patrons
This month's issue delivers the following D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e compatible resources:

• Ten Tables of Randomness - Ten random tables for quickly dragging and dropping items into your game: Books and Scrolls, Brews and Beverages, Foraged Flora, Games Played in a Tavern, Glitzy Jewelry, Locations of the Local Magic Shop, Musical Instruments, Small Tinkered Objects, Things Found While Pickpocketing, and Weapons with Unconventional Damage Types.
• Spine-Chilling Horror: the Ch'Thuun | Monsters - Eleven extraplanar aberrations of terrible countenance to terrorize characters with, ranging from CR 2 to CR 20: ch'thuun drone, ch'thuun dolthri, ch'thuun hive node, ch'thuun hivehaunt, ch'thuun mindweaver, ch'thuun regis, ch'thuun soldier, harbinger of the void, spinal worm (neuropede), void-touched thrall, and void-touched raver.
• Hive of Misery | Encounters - Five encounters, designed for levels 18 to 20, and featuring the new Ch'Thuun creatures. Includes digital maps.
• The Glimpse of the Void Adventure Arc - Three adventures designed to played sequentially, featuring the new Ch'Thuun creatures, and designed for parties level 18 through 20. The three adventures are detailed below.
• Horrors Below - Level-18 fifth-edition adventure.
  An open portal has allowed horrific creatures of the Void to leak into the material plane and infest the bowels of a small city. They have begun enacting their queen’s plan for total reign of the region – and that’s just the start of Helm knows what else they have in store for those above. The quick thinking of a mayor in what were likely her final moments might be the only fighting chance those among the plane have. Few have the bravery to answer the call, and even fewer have the skill to survive.
• The Ch'Thuun Defense - Level-19 fifth-edition adventure.
  Ogville is cleared. But the weak remnants of a portal to the ch'thuun's hive remain in the city's sewers. What horrors lay beyond? A dark and twisting cavern crawls with insect aberrations and cultists who work together with one mind to protect their nightmarish home.
• Into the Hive - Level-20 fifth-edition adventure.
  Something waits, squirming, under the streets of Ridgemouth. The bugs are crawling; their bodies and minds act as one. Deep within their hive, their queen is breeding an army and has bred a truly mighty foe. She’s waiting for you.

The Ominous Fog (level-15 fifth-edition adventure) - $25+ patrons.
The adventure comes with digital maps for online play.
Nestled in the heart of the Clearwater Mountains is a hidden valley known as the Kings’ Keep. In ancient times, this valley served as the burial ground for cloud giants, seeping the area in elemental magic. Now, four powerful individuals known as the Cloud Princes have harnessed the area's magic to create a noxious fog that rolls outward into the Clearwater Mountains and threatens to envelop the region, killing those that the Cloud Princes see as "invasive." It’s a race against time as the party must destroy the source of the fog wall because, with every passing minute, the fog rolls closer to destroying all life in the region.

Discount Codes - 5-15% off all digital products in the DM Lair Store

Bloopers Video - $15+ patrons
Clips of me at my finest! This will be released when available.

Sign-Up for Monthly D&D Game - $15+ patrons
I run one monthly D&D one-shot game, and I choose the players from my patrons. The signup form for this will be released next Monday via a Patreon post.

Pathfinder 2 Content

As a reminder, until our official launch of PF2 content in September, all PF2 content is being released as "unofficial content," meaning they won't be done up in a fancy PDF like our other resources. We are focusing on fine-tuning our conversions before we worry about making them look pretty.

Also, I wanted to note that some of our in-flight projects simply do not have a viable translation to PF2. Because they were originally planned for just 5e MONTHS ago, when we recently visited it for PF2 conversion, it just didn't make sense to do so. However, our team has already transitioned to considering only publishing resources that work for both 5e and PF2; it will just take us getting through our several-month-long publication lead time to get there.

The Secret Art of Game Mastery Kickstarter

As a reminder, our next Kickstarter is launching in August. You can follow the project and get notified when it launches here: The Secret Art of Game Mastery

My core team and I have taken all our combined game master experience across dozens of systems and genres and stuffed it all into one book, The Secret Art of Game Mastery. Also, we'll have two companion books, a GM journal and a campaign-planning workbook.

We're really excited to be able to offer these resources to game masters, both new GMs and veterans looking for ways to make their games even better.

Thank you all so much for your patronage and happy gaming!!!

-Luke and the DM Lair Team