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Puzzle: Fountain of Truth

Nothing brings about honesty like a life-and-death situation but this puzzle demands truth in the face of peril! The Fountain of Truth includes clues to its purpose and function, guideline...

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Cursed Warrior Archetypes

Warlocks take the cake when it comes to making compacts to gain power—but why should they? Warriors and ne'er-do-wells can make just as much use out of a fell bargain! Consider imbuing an adventu...

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Adventure: Dragon Turtle Surgery

The dragon turtle Damantharn (scourge of pirates and protector of the remote settlement of Swellgate) suffers from a terrible illness that resists magical healing. Without treatment they are certai...

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Mini-Adventure: Eruption Temple

The adventurers have beaten back a resurging tornado, put stop to the crystallization of an arctic entity of epic scale, and fought a living storm—then the dreams of flames begin, inexorably draw...

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Mini-Adventure: Storming Wrathua

A storm like no other rages in the distant Hinterlands with no sign of stopping any time soon—for this is no anomaly of weather but a living tempest. The adventurer Frida Montesro has learned thi...

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Monstrous Menagerie: Perils of the Sky

Why should adventurers be bound to terra firma or the seas, delving below the earth into dungeons or out upon the oceans for plunder—why not take to the skies instead? This article reviews the ma...

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Dangerous Scenarios: Bulette Spawning

Something's gone awry in the town of Meadowbridge—cattle lay slaughtered in the field, houses are locked tight, and its halfling denizens are holed up in the Haystack Inn. What troubles them? A b...

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Adventure: Isle Slithers

Far removed from the mainland of Elissar, the people of Leapsheep rarely have any need for adventurers. Their recent troubles are...

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Enchanted Trinkets: Top-Shelf Trinkets

What's better than a bit of fine liquor? A bit of enchanted liquor! This batch of magical booze details incredible concoctions from the dreamy archfey's delight to a bolstering View Post

Mini-Adventure: Void Chrysalis

An ancient and primal force seeks to once more take hold in Elissar, an entity that consumes heat and light until all is as froze...

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Mini-Adventure: Wildwynd's Return

Ancient and terrible danger has been unleashed upon the realm of Ostinad, a tempest of such incredible size and ferocity that it threatens to tear the lands of the horse lords asunder. In the eye o...

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Spells: Tribwil's Troublesome Illusions

Illusionists are the trickiest of mages and their mendacious practice of magic is as manifold as their imaginations. One of their most celebrated practitioners was the gnome Tribwil, his work with ...

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Adventure: Nightmare of Corrin's Mound

Humble farmsteads and friendly smiles hide a secret in the idyllic region of Shining Valley—long ago the Dreamers magocracy ruled the realm through the power of psionics, and the ruins of their c...

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Dangerous Scenarios: Hell's Huntmaster

A lost soul does not always remain so—most especially when a fiend has an interest in it. Hell's Huntmaster is tasked with tracking down and collecting the wayward few that escape the realms infe...

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Alien Gods and Eldritch Secrets

This article presents distant alien intelligences to incorporate into the realms of medieval fantasy, along with details of the cults that worship them and what elements of their nature can be comp...

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Mini-Adventure: Tarnishing a Reputation

A group of doppelgangers are seeking a hidden portal that will allow them to bring thousands of their kind out of exile to invade. Unfortunately the map that would guide them was disguised inside a...

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Monstrous Menagerie: Explosive Undead

Regular zombies failing to inspire fear? Reaching for more from your skeletons? Look no further! This article includes the high-flying corpse-throwing carrion swarm (CR 8) along with a trio of stat...

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Adventure: Ashes to Ashes

In the cold tundra of western Laskia there is a famous establishment that people travel from far across Elissar to visit: the Red...

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Magic Items: Advanced Parasitic Weapons

Getting tired with glowing swords and floating gems? Has that old bag of tricks lost its charm? Consider rewarding adventurers with loot they can really love—specifically the kind that l...

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Dungeon Delver's Guide: A Sourcebook for D&D 5E and A5E

Now on Kickstarter and already fully funded and past the first stretch goal is this essential tome for creating, exploring, and running dungeons in your 5E or A5E game.

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Intriguing Organizations: Vandt Ascendency

Would-be usurpers—siblings thirsty for power, rivals eager to take for their own, clever creatures seeking to control mortals—are always grasping at the reins of power and the defenses against ...

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Dangerous Scenarios: Brickbeaks

The party’s travels are interrupted by people in disarray outside the Ducking Shoe Inn. These villagers from Treecrest are in a panic, eager to find help dealing with overgrown avians the sheriff...

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Items: Queue Branch

Espionage and the gathering of intelligence has existed in one form or another since the dawn of recorded history. Nations, guilds, and other organizations employ agents and operatives to gain usef...

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Adventure: Drawing Monk

One of the most promising monks from the Monastery of the Sun has twisted their martial discipline to terrible effect, and in his wake he leaves not only murder but death itself. With every life ta...

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Monstrous Menagerie: Oddlings of the Quendrian Wood

There are consequences when wild magic is left undisturbed and the Quendrian Wood is a fine example of a place altered by unfettered arcana. While traveling in this enchanting forest beware the blo...

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Against Archetypes

It's time to play an adventurer that reaches beyond the scope of the bolstering bard, leaf loving druid, and disciplined monk—contained herein are archetypes perfect for such a foray! The College...

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Monstrous Menagerie: Villains Three

What makes a villain? In the case of this deranged giant, ambitious crimelord, and murderous warlord it is a specific item that personifies their wickedness. This article includes the giant puppetm...

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Villain Spotlight: Toron the Blue Demon

Ambition and strength are the two greatest attributes of this warrior and he has both in spades. After years of turmoil waiting in his father's shadow Toron murderously stepped to the fore and he h...

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Adventure: Book of Endless Life

Finding the Book of Endless Life doesn't get the party very far—it needs to be opened, a task that is not so simple as undoing a clasp. To access this powerful enchanted tome the adventu...

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Monstrous Menagerie: Reforged

Powerful magic can merge flesh and metal into one, remaking both into something altogether greater. The reforged are perfect examples of what this synthesis can achieve, their muscles enhanced by a...

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