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Monthly Archives: March 2014

D&D Next – Winged Fiend – A New monster

I  created this monster for my Fires of Hell module. It is included in the module but I thought that I would also post it here. You can send in a LOT of these little guys to give your players a hard time. Individually they are laughably easy to kill and do a tiny amount of damage, but in large groups they can be quite nasty.It helps if you have a lot of 20 sided dice (I know that I do). Once you figure what you must role to hit, roil your handful if to-hit dice (up to 16 Wing Fiends can attack a single opponent) but you don’t have to roil damage because each hit inflicts only one point of damage.  I had to add a smaller size category to those included in the play test rules.

Enjoy!

D&D Next – New Module – “Fires of Hell”

Download a free copy of this adventure here [Fires_of_Hell-Nextl].

This is a complete re-write of the module I posted last year. I updated the entire module to work with D&D Next rules. It also includes converted monster specs – on new color reference sheets.

This  adventure (like the 3.5 version) takes place after a Total Party Kill (TPK).  I modified an old AD&D adventure (The Fires of Dis) to accommodate a group of DEAD PCs to earn a second chance by fighting their way through the first layer of Hell to retrieve a stolen artifact.

 

D&D Next – Cranium Rat

I converted this monster to D&D Next. I may have to re-do it once the official new rules are published. It is unusual in that it is not your typical swarm. It can contain any number of rats and the more rats the more powerful the swarm. Let me know how you think I did on this. Comments are always welcome.

An individual cranium rat is almost indistinguishable from a normal rodent, except that a portion of its large brain is exposed and pulses with a soft glow. Singly, the creatures are also virtually identical to normal rats, but they are never encountered singly.

Download the PDF file here: Cranium Rat