Hello there!
I only make posts for important releases, so you might have missed some of the smaller bits of content from this month – so here they are, in one short, easy-to-digest post!
1- Home-Field Advantage
Home-Field Advantage is a 240-page book which grants Lair Actions to just over 320 of your favorite creatures from the 5e Monster Manual, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, and Volo’s Guide to Monsters.
This is a book I and a dozen other designers have been working on for about 8 months now, and I was glad I was finally able to release it this month, especially since it’s been extremely well-received!
It went Copper Best Seller in a day, Silver Best Seller in less than a week, and just hit Electrum after less than two weeks.
Besides this, it has received only 5-star reviews, including a review by RogueWatson which you can watch above, with all pros and no cons.
And finally, from the moment it was released until now, it’s been the second most popular book on DMsGuild.
If you haven’t picked it up yet, consider going to the DMsGuild page, where you can read the book’s reviews, and view a free 50-page preview of the book to make your own opinion on it!
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that I don’t usually put a price tag on things I make for D&D… So if this book has one, you can trust me when I say it is worth every penny!
You can pick up Home Field Advantage for $19.95 here!
2- Warlock: The Archmage Patron
Designer friend NevernotDM held a subclass design contest on his Discord channel, and my submission won it!
Having an Archmage as a patron means that, rather than turning you into a wizard yourself… Your patron treats you as a glorified familiar.
In combat, this subclass is a support who specializes on helping other spellcasters in the party.
But, having a master with such an advanced understanding of the arcanes does come with a few benefits which do result in you spamming Eldritch Blast a little less than you otherwise would.
Fun fact, this subclass was playtested (minus the eldritch invocations, which are a recent addition that will probably get nuked a dozen times before I’m happy with them) by a PC who was a 11th level skeleton named Pelvis Presley.
You can pick up the Archmage Patron for free here!
3- Artificer: The Augmented
As a result of winning NevernotDM’s contest, my Twitter grew quite a bit, and I decided to celebrate the milestone by hosting a giveaway where people would give me a prompt for a subclass, and I would make one randomly selected prompt come to life.
The prompt ended up being “A utility-based artificer, sort of Inspector Gadget”, and this seemed like a fun challenge, so I was happy to oblige!
On top of letting you hide way too many items inside of your own skin, the subclass gives you a bunch of ways to make mundane items more useful.
And as you transition to higher levels, you’ll probably pick up a few magic items that this class lets you make the most of.
You can pick up the Augmented Artificer for free here!
4- The Ring of Jade
Lately, I have been revisiting some of the first magic items I’ve ever come up with, and modernizing them. You might remember last month’s “Wizards as a Service“, and this is the next one I wanted to take a fresh new look at.
This cursed ring waits until your party is most vulnerable – one of your martials just got knocked down… And then makes the situation a lot, lot worse for everyone involved. But, if you manage to survive the dragon’s ultimate scheme, you do get a fairly powerful magic item out of it!
Fun fact, the PC who found this ring hid it from the rest of the party. I had originally intended for this to be a story about how terrifying dragons can be, but it turned into a story about teamwork, and how people who act like dragons… Get treated like dragons.
5- Battlemap: The Container Ship
Here is another big post-apocalyptic urban battlemap for your Fallout and Zombie Apocalypse campaigns.
This massive 60×40 map has 5 levels: the exterior, the bridge, the crews’ quarters, the top deck, and the cargo hold… Plus a bunch of containers where survivors have settled and made a life for themselves.
You can pick up the Container Ship battlemap for free here!
What comes next?
If you stick around, you can expect:
- More free content, similar to what is listed above!
- Old Magics Reborn (working title), a supplement porting over 100 spells from older editions to 5e, and giving you tools to reintroduce these spells in a way that’s going to be a bit more interesting than just adding them to your PCs’ spell lists (Q1 2022)
- CharActor Studio, a web-based 3D character creation tool, with VTuber technology to apply a face-tracking and a hand-tracking algorithm to your D&D character (coming on Kickstarter Q1 2022)
Content wrap ups from previous months:
Trekiros 