Well, here we are! After 8 months of work, I am proud to finally be able to show you Home-Field Advantage, the book I had to assemble a team to produce!
Home-Field Advantage is a 240-page book which grants Lair Actions to all of your favorite baddies from the 5e Monster Manual, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, and Volo’s Guide to Monsters.
All in all, it includes 250 lairs, for 320 creatures (some creatures share a lair, for example a druid and an archdruid, the same way an adult and an ancient dragon of the same color share the same lair actions).
We focused on tier 1 and tier 2, which make up almost 70% of the creatures in the book. After all, this is where most people play D&D, and this is where there are the least amount of Lair Actions in official sources, so this is where we could make the biggest difference!
With Mordenkainen’s Monsters of the Multiverse just around the corner, you will be able to both update the creature’s stat block, and then give it new lair actions, which should really breathe new life into your D&D game!
I tried to give the team some good amount of creative leeway, so they got to explore this design space pretty thoroughly. Here’s a couple examples of interesting concepts from this book:
- We gave Hags new lair actions on top of the ones they got in Volo’s Guide to Monsters (which not a lot of people know about!), but then, we also created a “hag coven” lair, with an additional set of lair actions that they can only access when all three members of the coven are together
- We’ve split CR 0 commoners into two lairs: one for a mob of angry townsfolk, whose lair actions get stronger the more people are in the mob, and one for a shopkeeper, who has to protect their wares from pesky adventurers and their schenanigans.
- Wizards like to customize their towers, right? Well, what we did is we gave them a pool of 10 lair actions, and then each mage must pick a number of lair actions equal to half its challenge rating, and those are the only ones they’ll have access to during combat. This way, no two mage towers will ever be the same!
- To represent how chaotic they are, some of the monsters such as the Ettin or the Mouth of Grolantor have to roll 1d4 to randomly select which lair action they use. And on the other end of the spectrum, some constructs such as the Oaken Bolter have to use their lair actions in a pre-determined order and cannot stray away from their rigid programming
If that sounds like something you’d like to get your hands on, head on over to DMsGuild! You can get the book here for only $20!
And if you want to judge what this supplement has to offer beforehand, there’s a pretty long preview which includes the first 50 lairs of the book, and here is a review video by Rogue Watson!
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