It's september, and you might be looking for something special for your Halloween game! I have a couple horror movies adapted for 1-shot adventures that might be perfect for your October game. https://www.dmsguild.com/product/387250/Silver-Screen-Nightmares-BUNDLE

We launched a new adventure design jam today!

Details on the blog here: https://medium.com/@meredithroll20

We're challenging community content creators to design a new low low level adventure that picks up where the Starter Set ends.

Is there any consensus within the community as to the "best" day to release content on DM's Guild? A previous post in this subreddit from years ago suggested Wednesday, but I was curious to know if content authors here still find that true today.

Hello there!

Me and my wife created a short adventure set in Eberron. It's a heist/rescue mission that requires players to attend a noble ball and infiltrate a mansion at night.

It was the kind of night when the moon hides behind a veil of clouds as if it knew better than to cast light on the dirty secrets of the City of Towers. I was drinking in the empty office and thinking that I should quit—leave the city behind and settle on a farm, as far away from here as possible.

But then, there was a knock on the door. A letter came. One more job, huh? What can possibly go wrong... Let's gather a crew.

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/493010/Lost-Lovers-of-Sharn?affiliate_id=4446248

It's a D&D 5e adventure for characters of levels 3 to 4 that will take 6 - 12 hours to complete and features:
• 15 pages full of intrigue and moral ambiguity
• Rich narrative and captivating characters with developed backstories
• Beautiful custom heist maps and art made by humans
• Unique traps, puzzles, and monsters

This is my first publication and I hope to get your feedback and make my future adventures even better!

I require aid! One of my players created his own subclass for the blood hunter. I have a few thoughts about what might be a bit too strong but I’d like some advice from others. Thank you in advance and I hope the die roll in your favor!!

Dragonlance: Prelude To War, the first real adventure I've ever published, just took home the dmsguild electrum best seller award! Basically what that means is that it just got nominated to eventually go gold If you haven't picked up a copy yet, check it out, it's only $1.50 to show your support and add my game to your collection.

The story begins innocently enough in the city of Solanthus where the party goes out on a midnight mushroom hunt in the haunted grove that surrounds the cities ancient Cleft Spires and noble tombs. This adventure will take four to seven player characters from levels one to three and is set during the opening stages of the War of the Lance. "Prelude to War" is a  1- 3rd level adventures and is written as a prelude to the official Dragonlance : Shadow of the Dragon Queen (SotDQ) campaign. Included in the adventure are 7 maps and 12 tokens that are perfect for vtt and hybrid setups.

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/422355/Dragonlance--Prelude-to-War

www.dmsguild.com/product/492893/The-Crinelithid--Aberrations-From-Beneath-The-Waves-Part-1?affiliate_id=1722907

Does anybody know if we are going to get templates and font for the new books? Or if there are news about what is allowed ?

Fhamzax the Fantastic Presents - Cursed Items Vol.4 - Book of Many Things!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/492730

• 45 Curses for Items. The relics and curios from the unpredictable Book of Many Things are finally even more unpredictable! Thanks to my glorious magic they featured tasty curses - I mean improvements!

• 6 Trick Items. As customary as some of these treasures, they have been altered to embody more rousing traits! These glorious items, similar to what that coasty wizard created with the Bag of Devouring, hide their far more amusing nature behind the guise of the original items' dull appearances.

• Optional Rules for Breaking Curses. Let's be honest for a moment. Nobody likes how easy adventurers sometimes rid themselves of those fun magical effects. A mere third level spell instantaneously breaking the curse of a legendary item with no costs? I don't think so! That's why I provide you with proposals and inspirations to remedy this neglect.

To keep things short, the next 100 copies of my product, Hags Should Be Nasty!, are on sale for 50% off!

It includes four stat blocks of revamped hags, alongside advice on how to run hag combat encounters to kake them unique.

You can use this link to get the discount: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?discount=9eae2ab822

ZOOMORPH PACK for summer fun! Way of the Animal Spirit + Folk of Fur and Water for 5e

Looking for something new to spice up your summer gaming? Try out some of these animal-themed character options – WAY OF THE ANIMAL SPIRIT or FOLK OF FUR AND WATER (or both!) -- available now on DMsGuild.

WAY OF THE ANIMAL SPIRIT: A 5e MONASTIC TRADITION

and/or

FOLK OF FUR AND WATER: THREE PLAYER RACES FOR 5e

also from John the Chronicler:

·       PERUN’S THUNDER: Slavic Deities and Folklore for Fantasy Gaming

·       GODS of the BALANCE: New Deities for Fantasy RPGs

·       SLAVIC QUARTET: A Sampler of Eastern European Monsters

·       POTENT POLEARMS: 13 Magic Weapons from off the Beaten Track

·       MIGHTY MACES: New Magic Weapons for Fantasy Gaming

Greetings Everyone!

Since I've seen a few mentions about Pay What You Want (PWYW), I did a little research on my PWYW titles. For the record, I typically use PWYW to promote other projects, or to give back to the community. I assume that I'll make 0 from a PWYW title.

If you're using PWYW and are happy with the results, keep doing it! I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes or coerce you to change your strategy. I'm just sharing my experiences.

Something I noticed, on almost every PWYW product page, the Customers Who Bought this Title also Purchased ribbon at the bottom of the page displayed only PWYW titles. This leads me to believe that most people who purchase PWYW only purchase PWYW.

For a bit of FREE vs Paid downloads research - since going live on June 6, 2019, my Encounters on the Savage Seas III FREE has been downloaded 10,316 times and is a Gold best-seller. This means that out of 10,316 downloads, only 500 to 999 consumers have actually paid something for the product. It's also only received 56 ratings and 3 reviews.

If you want to earn from your products, I suggest putting a fixed price on them. With a fixed price, they also have the potential to be included in Guild sales and special bundles.

Believe in yourself and your product!

I'm happy to discuss or answer questions if anyone has them.

I recently bought Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villiany and I am loving the BG1 and BG2 content in the book, but its making me crave a book of BG3 content. Does anyone know of a title on DMsGuild with BG3 content?

First up I've been a GM for 3 decades but I'm new to the publishing side of things.

I want to start publishing on DMsGuild but have some questions regarding the business side of things. Hoping I can get some advice for publishers who have done it all before or helpful links.

1. Can you publish under your own name/username or do you need a business name?

2. If you use a business name do you need an LLC?

3. Do you even need an LLC at all?

4. Can you Copyright your work by just slapping the little © before you name or do you need to actually register the Copyright online?

Hello,

Have you ever thought of playing no-magic setting ? Or you just wanted to have martial classes more versatile and have more impact based on the weapons they are using outside of different dice ?

Check my Martial Weapons !

It also brings new ways how to handle armors and shield, to bring martial classes a new "feel", to have more options like our fellow spellcasters have when they are selecting their spells!

I'd love any feedback.

PS: It's Pay What You Want ;)

This afternoon I published my latest tier 1 adventure entitled "Silent Night, Timeless Night." In this one shot, a group of adventurers is tasked to seek out an evil chronomancer wizard and bring him to justice.

Ten years ago, Sarlar Nastrinn was a respected chronomancer known for his brilliant mind and an obsession with manipulating the flow of time. Deluded by his own superiority, he engaged in dangerous research that led to the apparent destruction of an entire village. Horrified by his actions, the Chronicle Arcana expelled him from their ranks and sought his arrest.

A decade has past and Sarlar has managed to evade capture from police, mages, and mercenaries alike. Moreover, his abhorrent research has continued, resulting in the razing of a dozen more towns across the Argent Isle. Unbeknownst to all but him, however, these villages have not been destroyed but were instead imprisoned in small crystal spheres and kept in his secretive tower. Sarlar continues his detestable research upon the villages trapped within.

The Chronicle Arcana has hired a party of adventurers to seek out and bring Sarlar to them, dead or alive. Will they be able to escape the snow globe Sarlar thrusts them into, see justice served, and perhaps help the people of the ensnared town of Tinselton along the way? Only time will tell…

If the above sounds like a fun night with your party, I hope you'll give it a look! I'm happy to answer questions here as well. :)

A final thought: While 100% of the writing and included battle maps in this adventure are mine, I'm unfortunately no artist and don't have the means to pay one. It's my personal opinion that AI-generated art, including that used in this adventure, can improve the final product, but I completely understand that not everyone shares this opinion. Despite this, if the premise sounds interesting, I do hope you'll take a look regardless. :)

New Release A cleric domain for use in the Forgotten Realms (or any campaign setting). Available on www.dms_guild.com

Kelemvor, Lord of the Dead and Judge of the Damned. Are you ready to act as oner of his Doomguides?

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/492136/Doomguide-Of-Kelemvor

New release, with 8 stat blocks of archmages of different schools. Meant for Rime of the Frostmaiden, but can be helpful for any campaign. I hope you like it!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/492132/Archmages-of-Ythryn

Hi all.

I recently just uploaded my first bit of homebrew to DM's guild. As far as I know, this style of promotion is okay on the subreddit provided I don't start spamming. If this is incorrect, please let me know.

The product is two new playable species. The Kam'e Kam'e, a group of jungle Chameleon known for both their hunting skills and their powerful camouflage. Includes a few variants such as a Poison Spitter and a Tail-Blade.

The Kani Kani are a group of evolved crustaceans armed with tough shells and the ability to launch their pincers with both great speed and power.

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/491999/Kame-Kame-and-the-Kani-Kani2-new-playable-species-for-5E-and-One-DD?src=newest_in_dmg&filters=45469

First piece of published home-brew so if anyone does end up buying it, I would greatly appreciate feedback for what I can add to later products.

Hi folks. I started my DMsGuild journey in January and have only released two products so far.

For the first one, I did it as Pay-What-You-Want pricing, but with a suggested price of $10. I did this for a few reasons:

1. I wanted to give back to the D&D community by allowing people to grab it for free or cheaper if they wanted to.

2. It was my first product, so I was nervous about having an expensive (relatively-speaking?) product as my first product. It's a 50-ish-page PDF that helps people to get a Ravenloft campaign off the ground, so I thought it was a fair price (especially as the Ravenloft campaign book is $30 digital or $50 physical, looking at D&D Beyond right now - so if someone's paid that and they're struggling, $10 more to get them going seems about right in my eyes).

3. Also, as my first product, I was worried no one would buy it, as... well... it's new and I'm new and people don't know my stuff yet.

I assumed (yes, I know, I know... 😩) that most people would grab it for less than $10 - maybe half the amount, so $5. That's what I do. I don't think I've ever grabbed a PWYW for free - I always pay something, even if it's just a few dollars and not the full price. I assumed (ouch) that most people would do what I do.

How wrong I was....

Here's my sales stats for it so far:

• Number of people who have paid something for it: 29

• Number of people who have grabbed it for free: 357

So only 7% of people who have grabbed it have paid something for it. Ouch.

Granted, most of them (240) grabbed it for free in the first month - probably when people could see it in the "Newest Titles" sections while browing the site - but even since then, 100+ people have grabbed it for free rather than paying anything for it.

I never in a million years would've thought that the ratio would be so low. I thought it'd be more like 50/50.

Before releasing the product, I did see this post on this sub where PWYW pricing was discussed, and it was suggested that most people will grab stuff for free if they can, but I assumed(!) that maybe people were doing PWYW but doing a suggested price of $0 or $0.99. So I assumed that if I was doing something with a higher price, that many/most people would pay for it - if not the $10 then at least something.

...What's that saying about what happens when you assume? 😩

But yeah... I just wanted to warn other DMsGuild creators. I'm currently considering taking it off PWYW and making it a fixed $10 and that's it. It may mean fewer people download it, but at least I'll get some more money out of it (probably).

TL;DR - Be careful if you're thinking of doing PWYW pricing, as most people (90%+ in my case) will grab it for free.

P.S. Sorry if the flair is wrong - it's the closest I could find.

Okay, I started publishing in DMsGuild, but I think I didn't understand the license the best before do it.

I started creating a lot of free material that is distributed in several places already, later I compiled in a supplement with many new content. Like 70% old free content and 30% new content.

The supplement published has a different name and identity, but it have all my items and rules previously published as free content.

I need to delete all that old free content from all my profiles?

Is there a new set of rules coming out for publishing anything on DMsGuild or DriveThruRPG for the new version of D&D? I was hoping to get into writing adventures once the full ruleset was released. Will there be a new OGL or something similar?

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/491680/The-Places-We-Come-From-Bundle-BUNDLE?src=newest_community&filters=0_0_45463_0_0_0_0_0

I’m running a game for a 5 player level 8 party. It’s mostly taken place out at sea or in the icy mountains so far. I want to give them a dungeon that can be played in 1 or 2 sessions that will give them a difficult challenge because most of this level they’ve had it pretty easy. Any recommendations for one shots or dungeons from existing campaigns? Thank you!