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Today’s 20 paladin quest ideas come from Andrew of Cawood Publishing. If you enjoy these posts and would like to see more like it, consider subscribing:

1. An orc war band has made camp near the capital city. You then learn the Chief of the Town is making a deal with them.
2. An angel sends you to the Underdark to retrieve an ancient celestial tome.
3. The Thieves’ Guild steals your mount from the stables. You realize you have to shut them down!
4. After returning from an adventure, you find your castle is overrun by constructs.
5. The king asks you to watch over his castle while he’s away. His floating castle!
6. Undead creatures have overrun your hometown and your mother is missing.
7. Your allies suspect a large ship in the harbor is being used by slavers.
8. You must travel to Hell and rescue a stranded group of knights.
9. You learn a vampire has secretly become the leader of a large city.
10. The love of your life has made a deal with an arch fey. You must travel to the land of the fey to deal with the situation.
11. You are tasked with protecting a caravan through an area overrun by undead.
12. You must escort a dangerous prisoner to the king’s dungeon.
13. Your child runs away and joins an evil knighthood.
14. A silver dragon asks to be protected from an evil adventuring party.
15. Your deity sends you on a journey to another plane to retrieve a legendary magical item.
16. A priest at your temple disappears during the full moon.
17. You find out a spy has infiltrated a local jousting competition.
18. The local Fighters’ Guild is accused of working for an evil lord.
19. Your deity has found the ‘chosen one’. You must escort the young apprentice across the kingdom to the Great Temple.
20. Merchants complain that a cult of devil-worshippers are stealing their business.

Andrew Cawood is a storyteller, former teacher, and counselor. He runs Cawood Publishing, an Indie RPG company based in Vancouver, Canada. The company has made over 30 5E products, including 20 bestsellers for DriveThruRPG and the DMs Guild. Their product catalog includes the Monsters of Feyland handbook and the World of Myrr campaign setting.

www.worldofmyrr.com

This week’s D&D Quest Ideas come from Don Caraco, of Philadelphia’s Drinks and Dragons. Don shares 20 D&D Monk quest hooks (plus a bonus hook).

1. On your masters’ deathbed he tells you of a brother that still lives deep in hostile territory in the frozen north, to complete your training you must seek him out.
2. You were placed as a bodyguard for a VIP at your temple, you failed and must prove that it was a set up by a jealous rival student to clear your name.
3. (Every 80s kids favorite) you are bullied by bigger older students of a monk school, saved by an old gardener/maintenance worker and trained in the ancient ways of Ki to teach them a lesson. PS, they are blonde, wealthy, jerks, and good-looking so you know they are bad guys.
4. Doing your chores one day you dig up an old amulet that is cursed with the spirit of a long-dead warrior. You put it on to admire yourself and are endowed with all the memories and skills of this warrior, what do you do now?
5. Having sworn to never use your skills again after a tragic accident, you retire to a simple the life in a small town, only to find that your old shogun will stop at nothing to get you back. If the shogun can’t have you, then no one can.
6. Having lost the use of your hands, you overhear a bard singing of a Dwarf blacksmith that has unlocked the secret of the Iron Fists, you believe that this is the key to get your self-worth back.
7. You are hired to protect an orphanage from a marauding horde of hyenas, and gnolls, led by a vrock. All your years of training have prepared you for this.
8. You stumble across a newborn baby floating down a river in a basket, with it is a pouch of 500 gold, and a note to please safeguard it till its 18th birthday; at that time, you are to see the child safely back to the kingdom to claim the child’s rightful place on the throne.
9. You are a noble that got mixed up in the wrong crowd and find yourself buried alive, in your desperation, you discover your Ki and escape your grave now free to do what you will and to extract your revenge.
10. Your family and village were raised in front of you by a warlord ransacking the countryside, you as a child then sold to slavery, as you grew you were trained to the art of hand to hand combat for others entertainment, now you are free what do you do?
11. Having had passed all the levels of your training you are now ready to train a new generation, on a trip to visit your family your ship is lost in a storm you wake up in a strange land.
12. All the leaders in the land have united against a shadowy threat forming and posed to take over the world, your destiny has been clear since your birth that you are the one to lead 4 great heroes to face and vanquish this evil.
13. Growing up as an orphan on the streets you would often beg across from a monastery, growing up watching them train you to find that you to have learned the ways of the monks.
14. You are part of a group of monks trained to protect and stop anyone from miss using an ancient portal, you discover there is a long-running plot almost ready to be completed be cultists that have infiltrated your order and seek to crack open this portal and unleash what is locked behind it.
15. You retire to watch over your children after the loss of your spouse, when a bested but not vanquished foe from your past rears its ugly head and kidnaps your children.
16. You live in a large lake town lead by a greedy Mayor, this person’s greed and lust for magic items has brought the eye and wrath of a group of Oni down upon your town and its children.
17. You have been sent a letter that your master has been slain by a master of a rival school, you are the only one left that can stop the takeover of your school now.
18. You have heard stories of a haunted Dojo in the swamps and that there are still many items of value left behind.
19. A local drug gang has noticed your lack of respect for the local law and their rules and has invited you to a meeting, having broken up several of the gangs’ past dealings this may be a trap under the guise of an olive branch.
20. Your sister has been commissioned to deliver ten barrels of rice wine the best in the land for the capitals winter fest, a rival maker will stop at nothing to stop the delivery and make her look bad.
21. A magic staff has been planted in a large rock at the center of the capital, it is said that the warrior that can pull the rad from its resting place will be the ruler.

Don Caraco born in Alaska in 1974, the year of the great RPG awakening. He grew up in South Carolina, and moved to Philadelphia for college, and still resides there today. I am an artist, general contractor, renovator and restorer of a single family home, home inspector and as of December of 2016, founder of Phillys’ first open TTRPG group Drinks and Dragons.

I, with help from the community, run multiple adults-only open TTRPG game nights. At great Philadelphia pubs like The American Sardine Bar , the Black Cat Tavern on 12th, Bourbon and Branch, Thirsty Dice, and our newest event the Abbaye. We run games for all level of players as time allows for on both sides of the screen.

You can check us out on Facebook, email us at drinksanddragons215@gmail.com, or find me on Twitter. Thanks for letting me share these hooks! I hope they are useful. Ideas for the 20 plus hooks came from myself and from members of Philadelphia’s original open TTRPG night, Drinks and Dragons.

Read more about Drinks and Dragons:

Gaming Trend
EnWorld
Philly.com

Build your ninja crime-fighting team:
Sweet Ass Nunchucks (Do you even chuck brah?!)
Stabby Sais (cuz Raph was the best turtle)
Kickass Katana (B3 is not responsible for any stabbings)
The Bo Staff Beatdown

Every day I hear/read people saying that they would like to learn to play D&D but don’t know where to start. Additionally, I’ve met several people at conventions who used to play D&D, but who don’t know how to get back into Dungeons and Dragons. I’ve created a list of resources, some free, some not, that will allow new players to get started playing D&D, as well as aid returning players.

I’ve personally played D&D for the last 29 year, and have played every edition of the game, and I can honestly say 5th edition is the easiest rule set to learn. This is a great time to start playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Free Options

“TheBasic Rulesruns from levels 1 to 20 and covers the cleric, fighter, rogue, and wizard, presenting what we view as the essential subclass for each. It also provides the dwarf, elf, halfling, and human as race options; in addition, the rules contain 120 spells,
5 backgrounds, and character sheets.” (WotC)

D&D SRD (Free)
The D&D Basic set has a lot of information to get you started, but it only contains a few character classes. When you’re ready to expand into more options, you can use a System Reference Document to access free (under the Open Game License) content legally. There are many SRDs online, I recommend 5thSRD.org as they run a clean site, with few ads. 5thSRD.org can also be downloaded for offline use.

Public Library (Free)
Believe or not, your public library likely has some gaming books, and even if they don’t, they will gladly do an intralibrary loan to borrow the core books from another library.

Character Sheet (Free)
You can get these anywhere, but here are the official WotC sheets. We also have a form-fillable PDF sheet you can download here.

Die Rollers
Another free option for digital players (those who like to use their phone or tablet at the table) is die rollers programs. You can find many free apps and programs to replace physical dice.

Paid Options

Starter Set (>$20)
“Containing everything you need to leap into a D&D adventure, this boxed set is designed for five to six players, with one of you taking on the role of the game’s lead storyteller, the Dungeon Master.” The starter set is available at your local game store, Walmart, and Target.” (WotC) The Starter Set comes with:

• 64-page adventure book with everything the Dungeon Master needs to get started
• 32-page rulebook for playing characters level 1-5
• 5 pre-generated characters, with character sheet
• 6 dice

Core Rulebooks ($25-$100)
If you decide to play D&D regularly, you’ll need to eventually pick up the core rulebooks. Players will need a Player’s Handbook (PHB), while a Dungeon Master will need the PHB, the Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG), and the Monster Manual (MM).

Accessories

Dice (<$10)
You can get some great dice anywhere, but if you want to outfit your whole table for less than $2 a player, I suggest these dice (5 sets).

A Buttload of Dice (<$25)
If you need a bunch of dice quick, the pound of dice from Chessex is a gamer standard.

DM Screen ($10)
A Dungeon Master’s Screen is not for everyone. They contain a lot of useful information and they can be useful in hiding your notes and miniatures, but some DMs choose to roll and act in the open, lest they be accused of cheating.

Grid Mats
I use a variety of battle mats, but the one that is always on my table is from Chessex. They come in three sizes: Battlemat (23.5 x 26), Megamat (34.5 x 48 inches), and the Mondomat (54 x 102 inches). The Battlemat is a bit small, but a good choice is your table is small. The Mondomat is too big for nearly all tables. I have an eight-foot-long game table and it wouldn’t fit well. My recommendation is the Megamat.

Note: regardless of the pens you use, or what you use to clean your map, they will stain over time. Invest in a piece of clear plexiglass to place over your mat. My Chessex Megamat has never been written on and looks pristine after 6+ years of play.

Next time we’ll talk about finding a game or starting your own.

This week’s guest blogger is author, Thomas Biehl. He has prepared 20 quest ideas for the party’s rogue.

1. An adventuring group asks you to open a chest for them, it’s empty, but they don’t believe you and think you stole its contents.
2. The local magistrate wants someone to be gotten rid of ‘quietly’, so they hire you, but then you realize you are the intended target.
3. You use Mage Hand to pickpocket a wizard’s spell book, which contains dark magic; you think nothing of it until someone close to you dies under mysterious circ*mstances.
   
4. A local noble hires you to spy on his enemy who is gathering righteous forces; to do so you have to impersonate a paladin.
   
5. A healer needs money; she asks you wound, but not kill, several people so that she can heal them and split the profits with you.
   
6. A party hired you to deal with traps, then left you for dead; you escaped and are ready to get even.
   
7. A ranger scout on an opposing side spots you alone in a thick forest, and a deadly game of hide and seek ensues.
   
8. A party is auditioning for a thief; the task, steal the jeweled necklace of a local nobleman’s wife, which she never takes off.
   
9. Members of your old guild are disappearing when a mysterious note appears in handwriting you recognize and asks you to meet.
   
10. A fellow Rogue inadvertently tries out a new form of poison on you…
    
11. You awake stripped of all your equipment and weapons; you must escape using only your skills.
    
12. A lout at a bar challenges you to a dagger throwing contest, and you win his dagger only to find out that it is cursed.
    
13. The only way to get to something you need to steal is by an opening only a child could fit through, what do you do?
    
14. A man is certain that his wife is cheating on him and wants proof, he will only pay you for proof. You find out that she isn’t cheating, but is rather attractive…
    
15. A dragon suspects a rogue stole from his hoard and tells you to find out who or he’ll roast you.
    
16. A lord hires you to attend a dinner party for his noble. He wants you to steal something special from each one of the guests.
    
17. You are hired to assassinate a local rabble-rouser; when you got to his home, he isn’t there, but his daughter catches you there.
    
18. A member of your party finds things of theirs missing and blames you; you scoff, but the items are found among your belongings.
    
19. An anonymous person hires you to test out the traps they set to protect their dungeon, but it turns out to be an old rival who is trying to trap you.
    
20. You wake up, hung over, to find out several people were stabbed by daggers, a few died, in a tavern brawl and you are being blamed.

About the author:
Thomas Biehl is a writer, teacher, parent, and petty dabbler in theoretical physics, metaphysical philosophy, and abnormal psychology. Read more at biehlsnotebook.wordpress.com.

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Today we have a guest blogger, Mia Johnson from Tipsy Badger. She has prepared 20 D&D Quest Ideas for bards.

1. The children of the surround farmland have been disappearing, some say a satyr play his flute just on the edge of the woods, enticing them to join his dance.
2. Despite the disappearing members and strange accidents happening around the traveling circus, the troupe seeks new headliners for this evening’s show.
3. A haunting melody rouses the party from their sleep to see a ghostly veiled woman drifting towards a pond, beckoning the party with her hand before sinking below the water.
4. Drunken revelry draws the party’s attention to a crowd of townsfolk gathered round a fighting pit, the betting pot valuing a small fortune.
5. The whole town decorated in fresh flowers and summer banners, many walls and posts are littered with fliers detailing a competition on the center stage, winner receives a hefty some of gold and a masterwork instrument by a local craftsman.
6. Many musicians have been disappearing from town, rumor has it a devilish creature stalks through the streets at night with his corpse band chained to his side.
7. A young red dragon with a belled collar around its neck comes bounding through the woods near the party, followed by an out of breath young elf singing an off-key lullaby in an attempt to soothe the beast .
8. The thieves guild has got a big score lined up from a nobles manor, and they’re willing to give the party a cut if a big diversion is made in the market district.
9. After a long evening of celebrating their latest victory, the party finds their pockets and sheaths empty with the vague memory of one of the tavern names that they had visited.
10. The streets are littered with a variety of statues locked in expressions of fear, in the town square large stone beings gather up statues, dragging them towards the keep.
11. A symphony of terrified screams bring the party’s attention to a large troll walking down the city street, peering through doorways and windows looking for someone.
12. Desperate, a baron seeks local performers in an attempt to make his bride to be smile.
13. A woman follows the party wherever they go, claiming to be the bard’s daughter.
14. It is an annual tradition for a musician to enter the catacombs perform a song to soothe the restless dead, with a necromancer claiming the area as his own, no musicians have been willing to enter the dead infested underground, and the deadline is fast approaching.
15. The party stumbles upon a slaughtered caravan, the only survivor, fast asleep among the carnage is a blood covered old man with scars over where his ears should be. As the party approaches, the old man opens his eyes, and a toothy grin spreads across his face as he transforms into a hideous abomination.
16. While building a new addition onto the lord’s manor, the workmen discovered a series of tunnels underneath the household as well as a gray cow-like beast with milky eyes guarding them, at least that’s what the surviving woman claimed to his lordship. A reward has been posted to all the surrounding towns for anyone who can slay the beast.
17. In a run-down tavern, a huntsman recounts finding a carved door surrounded by small shards of glass and other found objects set into a hillside, he swears the door opened a crack when the birds were singing.
18. A neatly written letter is delivered by courier detailing out a plea by a well-renowned songstress, believing someone is going to make an attempt on her life, asks the party to protect her or take her place on stage.
19. When performing in a local tavern, a finely dressed heckler insults the bard’s performance. If confronted, it will be revealed that the heckler is in fact the duke that rules over the surrounding land, and will call for the arrest of the party, and will try to have them run out-of-town.
20. In danger of losing his position as royal court jester, the old fool begs the party to help him perform a simple play of three old maids for his lord. In return, he promises to reward the party his grandfather’s prized possession.

About the Author:
The minute I could pick up a crayon, my parents had to cover the walls with paper to save the walls from my creations. I’ve been fascinated with art, story, film-making and of course Dungeons & Dragons all of my life. I’ve been attending Columbia College Chicago with a major in Cinema Arts & Sciences and minoring in animation to further my love and appreciation for both art and story. I founded the art page Tipsy Badger after finishing a piece for my own D&D game for some extra experience points from my dungeon master. One hairy dwarven maiden pin-up and I was hooked on this genre of art. The traditional hero type I have a harder time connecting with, you’re telling me those huge badonka-honkers don’t have stretch marks anywhere on them? I don’t think so. It’s important these little details, especially in art. Most everyone is going to have sagging bits, or folds, or stretch marks or hair (so much hair). It’s important to be proud of these features, both in-game, in art, and outside of it. If you’re looking for some naked hairy wizards you can find my work at any of the links below.

Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/tipsy-badger-2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/tipsybadger/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tipsybadgerdesigns/
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Last night I revised our D&D5e Resource page. I’ve updated the System Reference Document (5E SRD) document, the errata for the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual. Additionally, I added several missing Unearthed Arcana articles. If you see an official WotC D&D5e resource I’ve missed, comment or send me an email. Thank you!

-Andy

I am a big proponent of using existing games as in-game D&D Puzzles. The following article outlines ways to use a Simon game as a D&D puzzle.

Reminder on D&D/Pathfinder Puzzles
Puzzles should ALWAYS be optional. When you place a D&D Puzzle or riddle at a choke point in an adventure or dungeon the momentum grinds to a halt.

Difficulty
When you successfully follow Simon through a pattern you receive a signal (effectively a point), after 35 signals the game is beaten and you win. In our playtesting, 20 signals presented a moderate challenge and 25 signals presented a difficult (but still achievable) challenge.

The longest recorded game of Simon was at the 25th anniversary party of the game in 2003. 14-year-old Joel Berger beat the game 14 times in a row. (This is often misquoted by the duergar on Reddit as 14 moves, Joel got 35 moves in a row, 14 times, not 14 moves).

Sci-Fi Example
The players discover a crashed alien vessel the doors of which are sealed with four colored buttons, red, yellow, green, and blue. Don’t overuse the locks, protect only sensitive areas that hide advanced weaponry or major plot points.

Fantasy Example (D&D5E Puzzle)
Given the colorful nature of the Simon puzzle, it lends itself to a prismatic wall trap. A room of the dungeon is blocked by a prismatic wall. This prismatic wall seems slightly different than others of its kind. The scintillating pattern is made up of splashes of yellow, red, blue, and green. On the floor in front of the wall are 7 gems, three of the which are dull and grey. The remaining gems are red, blue, yellow, and green.

The players then attempts to complete sequences equal to or greater than the difficulty set by the DM (Usually 20 or 25 moves). If they fail to get the correct number of moves they suffer damage, the type of which is determined randomly (damage presented for D&D5E, tweak for Pathfinder):

Damage Type (1d4)
1 Red – fire
2 Yellow – lightning
3 Green – poison
4 Blue – cold

Damage by Level
1 – 4: 1d10
5 – 10: 2d10
11 – 16: 4d10
17+: 10d10

Damage-less Option
You can replace damage by increasing the difficulty of subsequent attempts by 3 or 5 moves.

Horror Example
A playful spirit hides a clue or point plot, and refuses to share with the information unless a character beats it at Simon. The two-player version can be used or take turns.

D&D puzzles can be difficult to create. This mini-game can lighten a session and be used to break up ordinary gameplay with a splash of nostalgia. Try it and let me know how it worked in the comments.

Any Simon game will work, we used a handheld version. Need one? Grab them here.

1. Tiny dolls made of wheat sheaves are attacking the village at night, made by the children of the town being taught how to construct them by a night hag who disguises herself as a fairy godmother.
2. Three old ladies wander into town, and set up shop as adventurers, and knitting sweaters for their clients. Every quest the party goes on, they’ve somehow managed to skip to the end and defeat the big boss. Now they’re looking for a fight.
3. Two rival houses enlist the aid of the party in poisoning the leader of the other.
4. A rat catcher stumbles into the street and collapse. His body is covered in vicious bites. The terrified man can only speak a single, “Grokk”.
5. The PC’s fall asleep and are astral projected to an ancient alien temple/ruin/structure filled with bizarre traps, treasure, and creatures. If the survive they must try to find the great treasures, they left behind and the mystery of who sent them there.
6. A war has broken out between the guild of barber surgeons and a newly founded college of surgery. The city/town/region is in turmoil as the wounded flood temples and exhaust the resources of the clerics with mundane injuries.
7. A PC is trapped inside a Mirror of Life Trapping, and in freeing their party member, the players release a score of horrible creatures.
8. A fountain in a local park/garden is turning people’s tongues/hair/skin various colors as a precocious fey has taken up residence nearby.
9. A pit fiend will grant a wish to any who help him defect from the Bloodwar.
10. The books in a local temple/library/guild/shop have begun talking to one another, but never to people.
11. Seven townsfolk that disappeared seven years ago to the day have returned with no memory of where they have been.
12. The PC’s are hired to retrieve a valuable item from the flooded basem*nt of a local inn/tavern/temple that has become invested with a swarm of angry, and very hungry, quippers.
13. The heraldic banner of an unknown lord/family/house flies in the middle of the town/city/fort and no one knows he planted it or why it is there.
14. A dim-witted flower seller is said to be wandering the city/town/region selling a rare and priceless, and believed to be extinct, flower known for its curative/magical properties for a copper each to the peasantry.
15. A jeweler is found murdered in his locked shop. A Necklace of Strangulation is the culprit.
16. A missing woodsman’s trail leads into the forest and ends next to a beautifully carved wooden throne that acts as a portal to the Feywild.
17. A troll spotted in the wilderness nearby is reported to speak common and offers sound advice to the terrified travelers that happen onto its path.
18. Every bird flown by the royal falconer disappears moments after being set loose.
19. Bards all over the region/town/city are being found turned to stone.
20. A wizard trapped for years on another plane/in stone/Imprisoned returns to find all his belongings sold off and he hires the PC’s to track down his notes/spellbook/research
21. The rare beasts being sold in town by a traveling merchant are just polymorphed cats that revert to their natural state an hour after purchase when the merchant is long gone.
22. The grave of a local hero has been desecrated and the corpse is missing.
23. A noble family’s new wet-nurse/servant is a member of a feuding family that goes back generations.
24. A famous playwright is found stabbed through the eye a week after being mysteriously arrested without cause.
25. A young maiden is drawing a fearsome red dragon on the cobblestones nearby and some villagers swear they’ve seen the dragon moving. What will happen when she finishes?
26. Panic ensues when every lock in the castle/city/town springs open at once as if from the Knock spell.
27. An antimagic field has appeared in the center of the town/city/temple and it is growing at an alarming rate.
28. A gang of valuable gladiators has escaped the fighting pits and must be captured alive.
29. An alluring belly dancer has been captivating crowds while her pickpocket lover robs them blind.
30. PC’s are drafted to lead an unprepared militia against a horde of orcs/gnolls/One Direction fans.
31. A sailing ship carrying the royal heir was destroyed by a kraken and the PC’s must recover the body, so he/she can be raised before the next in line can claim the throne.
32. Blood hawks have taken up nests in the town/city/temple/castle and are creating a nuisance as they protect their nests. Violence cannot be used as the blood hawk is the crest of a powerful noble/hero/family in the region.
33. Lizardmen/bullywugs have dammed a vital water source to create a new home as theirs has been claimed by a black dragon/band of harpies
34. All the player’s attuned items break their bonds with their owners
35. An arch mage needs help unleashing a plague of rust monsters on Dispater’s Iron Tower to rescue the Chalice of Heironeroius.
36. A NPC is convinced that their wife/husband is a doppelganger.
37. The city’s rat catchers are on strike and a plague threatens the populace is a diplomatic solution can’t be reached.
38. Cities are being raided by warforged marauders seeking something for their awakened iron golem “god”.
39. A dwarven hold has gone silent and ceased trading. Pc’s discover that the hold’s leaders have been replaced by simulacrums controlled by the Drow.
40. The pillars of the local temples want the PCs to kill or run off a mysterious cabal that is offering magical healing (and potions) for free.
41. The king/mayor/noble’s dog has run off to become the animal companion/familiar of a wandering ranger/wizard/druid and the PCs are offered a huge sum to return it at any cost.
42. A white, divine rank zero, stag has appeared in a local wood and the fey/elves/druids want to the PCs to help stop a band of orcs trying to claim the beast’s divinity for themselves.
43. As a newly opened university grows in size and influence divine and arcane magic in the area start to decline in effectiveness as local move towards science.
44. The king has died, and he was the only person who knew the location of the heir who was placed in status to protect him/her from political rivals.
45. A curse/plague/ randomly changes the language of everyone affected.
46. A thief running from the law hides in a manor house occupied by two sisters. The sisters turn out to be vampires/cultists/witches and kill him. Now the thieves’ guild hires the PCs to recover the stolen item from the manor.
47. Something is eating missionaries who are building a temple in a nearby swamp.
48. Each new moon, one of the players is contacted telepathically by an entity claiming to be trapped on the dark side of the moon.
49. You are invited to dinner/drinks by an old friend who keeps steering the conversation to a seemingly irrelevant item you acquired years ago on an adventure. He/she seem obsessed with finding the item, though they are evasion if questioned.
50. The party must obtain a recently crash meteorite made of adamantine that is currently being worshipped by a tribe of monstrous beings.

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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

The mad mage Halaster Blackcloak is apparently at it again. Man, you think the Lords of Waterdeep would have evicted that guy by now. Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage picks up where Dragon Heist left off and takes characters from 5th to 20th level.

Hundreds of years ago, long before Waterdeep had been built, Halaster Blackcloak carved a vast dungeon beneath Mount Waterdeep and stocked it with all manner of creatures from across the planes. Over time Halaster has gone quite insane and the dungeon he carved, now dubbed Undermountain, is a labyrinthine death trap for those bold enough to venture within. Precious few have returned from Halaster’s home, and frequently they’re not who they were when they started out. One thing is certain however. Wealth unimaginable exists within the halls of Undermountain.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage is available in hardcover for $43.91

If you are looking for D&D quest ideas, check out this Kickstarter from Limitless Adventures. From the project page:

Revised Limitless Encounters vol. 1, a collection of 19 Limitless Encounters products.

The 200-page soft cover book will contain:

• 173 fully detailed encounters set in 17 different environments
• OGL stat blocks for all monsters
• Creative, CR appropriate treasure
• 500+ Further Adventure™ writing prompts

Limitless Encounters vol. 1 is available in a softcover format as well as a PDF. All printing will be handled by Ka-Blam, a digital printing house with over a decade of experience and multiple Kickstarter campaigns. Shipping is available to any country in the world (reduced international shipping).

Revised Limitless Encounters vol. 1 Includes D&D quest ideas in the following environments:

• 10 Arctic Encounters
• 10 Desert Encounters
• 10 Dungeon Encounters
• 10 Forest Encounters
• 10 Grasslands Encounters
• 10 Haunted Locales
• 3 Heroic Battles
• 10 Highway Encounters
• 10 Hill Encounters
• 10 Mountain Encounters
• 10 Orc Hordes
• 10 Planar Encounters
• 10 Sea Encounters
• 10 Sewers Encounters
• 10 Subterranean Encounters
• 10 Swamp Encounters
• 10 Urban Encounters
• 10 Urban 2 Encounters

FAQ

What’s been revised? – The book has a new custom cover, new interior artwork and expanded content of existing encounters.

Already own Encounters vol. 1? – If you already own either a PDF or print copy of Limitless Encounters vol. 1 you will receive a free PDF version of the revised book.

Hard Cover Books – If we reach $20,000 we will offer Hardcover books.

Virtual Tabletops – At this time there are no plans to include a VTT option with this Kickstarter.

Pathfinder – There are currently no plans for a Pathfinder version of this book, though you could easily convert the ideas and encounters in this book to the D20 system.

This book is packed with D&D quest ideas, new 5E monsters, magic items, and supplemental rules. Check out the project!

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