Lair Magazine #28, Conquest & Champions, Is Out!!!

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

And even more Pathfinder 2e content this month!!!

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This Month's Patron Digital Benefits

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

Map Pack 23: Arctic - $10+ patrons
This month's map pack is themed around the arctic. 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.)

Scaling 5e Adventures: Adjusting for Party Size and Level - $15+ patrons
This short guide explains how to scale D&D 5e adventures and encounters for party size and level.

• Understanding Encounter Balance
• The Encounter-Level and Character-Level Relationship
• Making Adjustments
• Two Example Adjustments

Conquest & Champions, Lair Magazine #28, April 2023 Issue - $15+ patrons
This month's issue delivers the following D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e compatible resources:

• Mysterious Music | Puzzles - Five puzzles to provide players with new challenges to overcome: Four Bells, Hall of Dissonance, Hard Audience, It Goes Like This, and The Last Tavern Band. Read-a-loud text, features, solution, hint checks, and customization options are included.
• Monster Transformations: Spellcasters | Templates - These ten enhancement templates can be applied to the stat block of a standard creature to create a spellcasting variant! Arcane spellcasters: Earth Mage, Fire Mage, Ice Mage, and Wind Mage. Divine spellcasters: Holy Divine, Desecrated Divine, and Divine Warrior. Inherited Spellcasters: Pact Servant, Birthright Caster, and Psionic Caster. Eight new custom spells are included as well.
• Zula's Seasonal Treasures | Magic Items - Ten new magic items ranging from uncommon to legendary: Arevola Oil, Basket of Delights, Blumgait Boots, Leafguard Armor, Ring of Falling Darkness, Sickle of Summer's End, Wand of Cambir, Wardcloth of the Seasons, Coldrath the Giant-Breaker, and Cloak of Winter's Rebuke.
• The Ambitious and the Deluded | Villains - Ten devious villains for players to challenge and (hopefully) defeat: Percival the Stitcher, Chief Vighandel, Krafuru the Colorful, Duchess, The Puppet, Laverna, Darrius the Impetuous, Sir Morgan, Inquisitor Illwren, and Magnus the Pack Lord. Six new stat blocks included!
• The Astral Pool - This level-16 fifth-edition adventure includes read-a-loud text, encounter notes, and digital maps. It is designed to require minimal pre-game prep and be easy to reference during the game.
  An outpost drifts by the crossroads of the planes. Some are here for a purpose, searching for a way to escape from the endless world of shimmering mist; others see the mist as penance for their sins. The souls at the outpost have gathered for protection, comfort, and companionship. But the storm is coming.
• The Great Stone Prison - This level-17 fifth-edition adventure includes read-a-loud text, encounter notes, and digital maps. It is designed to require minimal pre-game prep and be easy to reference during the game.
  When things are hidden away beneath the earth, it is only natural that the curious will go hunting for them. And while curiosity may have killed the cat… this time, the curious just may have killed everyone.

Pathfinder's Prison (level-4 fifth-edition adventure) - $25+ patrons.
The adventure comes with digital maps for online play.
If only we could see the things lying dormant beneath our feet. An entity of power known as "Pathfinder” sleeps encased in a subterranean prison of ice and stone, waiting patiently for the day someone will set them free.

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. Our Monster Transformations: Spellcasters templates from this month are an example of that. Because it was originally planned for just 5e MONTHS ago, when we recently visited it for PF2 conversion, it just didn't make sense to do so. There may be other instances like this here and there, but our team has already transitioned to considering only publishing resources that work for both 5e and PF2; that way neither side will feel like they are being left out.

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

-Luke