EN5ider Magazine for D&D

Those Who Crawl

Dungeon crawls are the oldest and one of the most common gameplay scenarios. Kiel Chenier brings you five tips and tricks to help make those dungeon crawls more exciting and run that bit more smoothly...

Get Sick Addendum

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Get Sick: Six New Diseases

[Note: alternate link in description below] Bottle fever, demonic plague, itching insides, ooze decay, aberrant touch, and walking rot. What do these all have in common? They're all new diseases for y...

Apologies for the random flurry of activity. I'm having a little trouble getting the "Get Sick" article to upload correctly. I've deleted it for now (don't worry, you don't get charged for removed art...

King and Country II: Four New Fantasy Realms As Backgrounds

By popular demand - the sequel to King & Country, Mark Hart's introduction to nationalities as backgrounds! You asked us for it, so we obliged! Here are four new fantasy realms for use as backgr...

EN5ider Player Maps - Don't Wake Dretchlor

Michael Tumey, who was the cartographer for Don't Wake Dretchlor, has posted hi-res player maps for the adventure. "Both the main level and cellar levels of the Don't Wake Dretchlor adventure from EN5...

Don't Wake Dretchlor

A forgotten mansion. A sadistic demon. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Can the heroes outwit the demon and escape the mansion, or will they fall prey to Dretchlor's evil machinations? An adventure for...

King & Country: Character Nationality as Background

Previous vocations aren't the only types of character backgrounds. This article discusses the creation of character backgrounds based on nationality, along with two fully developed backgrounds: Crusad...

Help direct EN5ider! Which articles have you enjoyed?

When producing a periodical-style publication, we try to come up with a variety of articles. As part of this, I'd like to ask patrons of EN5ider to vote on the articles so far so that we can see clear...

Party of One: Rewards of the One-on-One Campaign

It's not always possible to form a full five-person-plus gaming group, but that doesn't have to stop you enjoying your favorite tabletop RPG! Party of One takes a look at the one-on-one campaign, fea...

Strands of Life

Giltônio Santos brings you 11 new healing spells for the cleric, bard, druid, paladin, or ranger in your life, and takes a brief look at direct healing, damage mitigation, and gradual healing. A vit...

Fire of the Mind

Tired of villains simply described as "mad" or "insane"? This article introduces four new illnesses - Multiple Personality Disorder, Aphasia, Schizophrenia, Paranoid Schizophrenia. Each includes rules...

Fantastic Tomes & Librams

By popular demand, this rule-light article originally published on TRAILseeker is now available to EN5ider patrons. Fantastic Tomes & Librams presents you with 1d100 mundane but exotic books and ...

I've been asked a few times whether we'll be maintaining an article index. The answer is yes. The index is now linked from the main Patreon page, and can also be found here: 2015-04-08 16:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Winterheart Adventure Announcement

Esper the Bard posted this short YouTube video announcing the release of his adventure, Winterheart - which, as you know, you can get right here on EN5ider! 2015-04-07 02:50:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Winterheart

Winterheart is an adventure for 4th level characters. Can the PCs rescue a young prisoner with latent icy magic before her despair plunges the region into a deep winter? By Esper, illustrated by Jen ...

Creating Enjoyable Puzzles for Role Playing Games

Carl Heyl shows you how to create enjoyable puzzles for your game. It's all too easy to stop a game in its tracks, or throw off any sense of immersion. The advice in this article gives tips on crea...

Circles of Power: Three New Druid Circles

There are many types of druid in fiction and film with widely differing specializations. This article explores three new Druid Circles to help bring variety to your game table. Explore the Circle of B...

Coming for patrons in the next day or two is Circles of Power by Mark Kernow. There are many types of druid in fiction and film with widely differing specializations. This article explores three new D...

[Patrons Only] Give Chase!

Give Chase is now available to Patrons on the Creations tab! Adding to the chase rules found in the core rulebooks, this article presents an abstract way of mapping a chase, along with three new compl...

Give Chase

Adding to the chase rules found in the core rulebooks, this article presents an abstract way of mapping a chase, along with three new complication tables for underground, castle grounds, and mountain ...

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Coming Soon: Give Chase

Coming in the next day or two is Give Chase by James Introcaso. This article introduces a handy abstract way of 'mapping' a chase, along with complications tables for the underground and for castle g...

Permissions & Patrons

Anybody who has pledged should now be able to download both Nature's Remedy and Player Pets; those who have not pledged or who are not logged in should not be able to access either PDF. I'd appreciat...

[Patrons Only] Nature's Remedy

Nature's Remedy is a brand new article for EN World EN5ider patrons! An introduction to the craft of herbalism, a handful of example herbs including darkberries, firedrake petals, silver garlic, and m...

Nature's Remedy

Nature's Remedy is a brand new article for EN World EN5ider patrons! An introduction to the craft of herbalism, a handful of example herbs including darkberries, firedrake petals, silver garlic, and m...

[Patrons Only] Player Pets: Rearing Wild Animals and Training Domesticated Animals

Rules for adopting, purchasing, and training pets, from dogs to wolves to giant fire beatles and constrictor snakes. How to gain their loyalty and teach them tricks or tasks, while ensuring that the R...

Player Pets: Rearing Wild Animals and Training Domesticated Animals

Rules for adopting, purchasing, and training pets, from dogs to wolves to giant fire beatles and constrictor snakes. How to gain their loyalty and teach them tricks or tasks, while ensuring that the ...

We're just finishing up layout for Player Pets: Rearing Wild Animals and Training Domesticated Animals, a fun artice by Jensen Toperzer. It covers domesticating and training animals, actions and tric...

Some fun with statistics, for those who find such things interesting. I just made a little Patreon projection spreadsheet. Due to the way people tend to cap monthly amounts, each subsequent article in...