http://www.joshuacmcmahon.com/rulesaswritten/7
Our review starts at the 44:16 mark on the podcast.
Year: 2016
The Kickstarter is funded! Thanks to our backers! Look forward to six 5E adventures and the Between Dungeons Handbook. Updates to follow…
We are going to publish six 5E adventures and a 5E handbook for Game Masters. Each adventure module will be two adventures in one. The adventures are part of a series based in the World of Myrr (MEER). However, they can be played as standalone adventures as well.
Most of the funding will go to our editor in Toronto, our illustrator in Wisconsin, and a local graphic designer. We’ve produced seven 5E products this year. We’ve made the World of Myrr campaign setting and six Game Master handbooks. These products have been successful on the DMs Guild and DriveThruRpg. Our Dungeon Master’s Handbook is an Electrum Level bestseller on the DMs Guild (top 2%).
There will be six adventures in three modules for 4-5 characters:
The Old Wood/Chasing Kyzan (Character Levels 4-6)
- The players travel through a dangerous forest full of undead
- Heroic adventurers go on a rescue mission to a ghost town run by a madman
Secrets of Port Telvan/The Village Siege (Character Levels 7-9)
- A port town full of adventure with new allies, enemies, and a halfling community
- A peaceful forest village is attacked by orcs and needs help
Mothik’s Lair/The Wyldwood Race (Character Levels 10-12)
- A quest to a dragon’s lair for a local duke
- A wagon race through woods and over mountains, where the race is almost as dangerous as the other teams
Our focus will be on making heroic, old school style adventures. Remember when adventures were about good and evil and the story had timeless images? Remember when adventures had lots of depth and the heroes were actually heroic? Thus our slogan “We Can Be Heroes”.
The adventures will be about 20-40 pages in length and feature original art by Mark Adelhoch. As two adventures make up each module, it will be 40-80 pages.
The Between Dungeons Handbook (a resource for Game Masters, a collection of tools to use between adventures: descriptions of inns and taverns, tavern menus, stores, new monsters, event tables, other miscellaneous tables, travel information). The handbook will be around 100 pages.
These are examples of the kinds of tables in the handbook:
Our newest handbook for Dungeon Masters is available at the DMs Guild! The Stores Handbook
The Stores Handbook from Cawood Publishing
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/194389/The-Stores-Handbook?term=stores&test_epoch=0
Another practical handbook for Dungeon Masters. There are many useful items in the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. This book can provide a natural way to introduce those items into your game. It is a detailed collection of 56 different stores. There are descriptions of the stores, lists of prices, details about the staff and customers, and more.
This 77 page book includes:
- general stores
- weapon stores
- armor stores
- stables
- magic items stores
- alchemy stores
- art stores
- gemstones stores
- food stores
- a bakery
- a tinker
- a tailor
- a music store
- a fishmonger
- a shipwright
*A printer-friendly version is available upon download
The World of Myrr campaign setting is available at DriveThruRpg
Now a Copper Level bestseller at DriveThruRpg. The World of Myrr 332 page 5E campaign book.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171233/The-World-of-Myrr-5e-Campaign-Setting
Our Inns and Taverns Handbook is now a Copper Bestseller on the DMs Guild
The Inns and Taverns Handbook from Cawood Publishing.
A practical handbook for any Dungeon Master. Choose from over 250 inns and taverns! Want more NPC descriptions and stats? Want encounter tables for each kind of inn and tavern? Want random events tables for inns and taverns? This handbook includes all of that and more…
The 82 page book includes:
- Stats for over 250 inns and taverns
- A tavern menu
- Descriptions of numerous NPCs
- Random events tables
- Stats for numerous NPCs
- Six encounter tables for each kind of inn and tavern (Squalid, Poor, Modest, Comfortable, Wealthy, and Aristocratic)
- Six corresponding monster lists
- Chase tables
*A printer-friendly version is available upon download
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/180244/The-Inns-and-Taverns-Handbook?sorttest=true
The new Travelers’ Handbook is available on the DMs Guild. Preview below.
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/182749/The-Travelers-Handbook?filters=45469_0_0_0_0_0
The Travelers’ Handbook from Cawood Publishing (makers of the popular Dungeon Master’s Handbook found on the DMs Guild). This 80 page book is the fourth handbook we’ve published on the Guild.
Between exploring dungeons and fighting dragons, the heroes are on the move. Want information about the mechanics of traveling? Want to use some unique mounts? Need individual horses for the party members? Looking for many useful tables to help with the traveling aspect of adventures? All this and more can be found in our newest book.
The 80 page book includes:
- Basic travel information/mechanics
- Travel equipment table
- 500 NPC descriptions
- Hundreds of NPC stats
- Vehicle tables (Land, Water, Air)
- Mounts tables (Including a number of unique mounts)
- Individual horse tables
- Random events tables
- Encounter tables and corresponding monster lists
- Detailed individual treasure and treasure hoard tables
Written by Andrew Cawood
Illustrated by Ethan Myerson
Graphic Design (Maps) by Philip Stephen
Other DMs Guild products from Cawood Publishing:
The Dungeon Master’s Handbook
The Dungeon Master’s Handbook II
The Inns and Taverns Handbook
A Fifth Edition Campaign Setting from Cawood Publishing can be found at DriveThruRpg – The World of Myrr
The Inns and Taverns Handbook is now available at the DMs Guild
The Inns and Taverns Handbook from Cawood Publishing (makers of the Dungeon Master’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Handbook II on the DMs Guild and the World of Myrr setting at DriveThruRpg)
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/180244/The-Inns-and-Taverns-Handbook?sorttest=true
A practical handbook for any Dungeon Master. Choose from over 250 inns and taverns! Want more NPC descriptions and stats? Want encounter tables for each kind of inn and tavern? Want random events tables for inns and taverns? This handbook includes all of that and more…
The 82 page book includes:
- Stats for over 250 inns and taverns
- A tavern menu
- Descriptions of numerous NPCs
- Random events tables
- Stats for numerous NPCs
- Six encounter tables for each kind of inn and tavern (Squalid, Poor, Modest, Comfortable, Wealthy, and Aristocratic)
- Six corresponding monster lists
- Chase tables
The Dungeon Master’s Handbook II is now available on the DMs Guild
The Dungeon Master’s Handbook II from Cawood Publishing (makers of the Dungeon Master’s Handbook and the World of Myrr campaign setting)
Available on the DMs Guild
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/178217/The-Dungeon-Masters-Handbook-II
Another practical handbook for any Dungeon Master. Need more monsters? Need useful NPC monsters? Want easy-to-use treasure tables? Need more encounter tables? This book contains all of that and more.
The 94 page book includes:
- Over 40 new monsters
- Many NPC type monsters including; Archer, Arch Priest, Charlatan, Guide, Gypsy King/Queen, Holy Avenger, Hound Master, King/Queen, Mage Slayer, Mariner, Master Bard, Master Spy, Mercenary, Mounted Soldier, Mystic, Necromancer, Ragemaster, Sage, Sentinel, Squire, Steward, Urchin, Witch Hunter, Witch King/Queen
- Over 30 pages of encounter tables and corresponding monster lists including; Aerial Encounters, Bridges, Fields, Houses, Planar Travel, Roads, Royal Courts, Ruins, Sea Caves, Temples, Tombs, Undersea Encounters, and Wizard Towers
- Encounter tables and monster lists for the Curse of Strahd
- Easy-to-use individual treasure and treasure hoard tables
- Several advanced DM tips
- A number of exciting chase tables
- A table of useful NPC stats
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