Broodmother Skyfortress (5e) – The Broodmother

See the index post for the context of this monster. My PCs never fought the broodmother because they woke Zeus (skygod) who killed a party member before the rest prostrated themselves, Zeus then promptly killed there remaining broodfiends – Swordmaniac, Runt Runt and the Broodmother – giving the party enough time to flee. With the […]

typhon (sydon)

I am running a modified Odyssey of the Dragonlords campaign called Clash of the Titans. My players finally faced off against Sydon (who I renamed Typhon to make it more in line with Greek mythology). A fun time was had by all. I eliminated the Kentamane battle entirely. The original Sydon was pretty boring, looked […]

juno, harpy noble

I am running a modified Odyssey of the Dragonlords campaign called Clash of the Titans. My players are at the end of the campaign as written investigating the tower of the big-bad. I wanted to have a beholder at some point in the game, but beholders dont really fit a Greco-Roman campaign. So I created […]

argon (argyn), tarnished silver dragon

As part of the Clash of the Titans campaign I am currently running – a modified Odyssey of the Dragonlords campaign – the players have a running feud with one of the villain’s cronies named Gaius. He has a silver dragon named Argyn (which everyone pronounced Argon) an evil silver dragon. When the party raided […]

hexia, mercury dragon

In my current campaign called the Clash of the Titans – a modified Odyssey of the Dragonlords campaign – the players fought a “green” dragon called Hexia. The original was just an adult green dragon which my party of 6 to 7 level 12 PCs would eat up. So I created a modified version. The entire […]

golden axe skeleton

In the game The Golden Axe there are skeletons who are tougher than the mini-bosses. This spawned a joke about “beware the skeletons with the golden axe”. Here is the skeleton. He is on a random encounter for my Clash of the Titans game. A rebuild of my Gasha-Dokuro skeleton from Japan. In my game, […]

what does magic smell like?

In my current Clash of the Titans campaign one of the characters picked up a mutation that allowed his character to smell magic. I ended using the following table to simulate this: Magic Generally – Ozone. Evocation – Coriander. Conjuration – Black pepper. Transmutation – Earthy smell. Abjuration – Freshly Baked Bread Divinition – Chocolate. Enchantment […]

Energy/Level Drain for 5e

I have always liked the idea of level drain as a representation of terror/horror as the given monster actually scares the PC. I never liked the fact you could be de-leveled back to level 1 – though I never saw this happening back in 1e days, PCs were just too careful when dealing with level-draining […]

Bonfire for D&D

My 5e games are fairly lethal – no resurrection magic of any kind, hit points capped at level 10 but monsters not modified and only 1 action a turn. My son calls them “the Dark Souls of D&D campaigns”. The only way my PCs get a rez is if they escape (or are saved) from […]

Quetzal the Sidh Sorceress-Queen

I used the adventure “Spire of Quetzal” as the exit from the Gardens of Ynn. My PCs did what they could to avoid combat with Quetzal and after she possessed a character, knocked that character out before fleeing back to their homeward – The Ninth World. Here are her 5e stats. I changed Quetzal to […]