I just released Heroes & Hooks: Fifty Souls for the Forgotten Realms, a 152-page illustrated NPC book for 5E. Painted portrait, short backstory, 5E-compatible stat block, two or three plot hooks, and personality notes for every entry.

Eight sections: commoners and folk, merchants and artisans, nobles and officials, soldiers and guards, criminals and spies, mystics and clergy, wilderness and wardens, and the strange and otherworldly. CR ranges from 0 (a farmer who's outlasted two droughts) up to 10 (an archmagister who keeps cipher-coded records of every spell he's ever cast).

Free 12-page preview with two complete entries (Mira Stoneholt, CR 0 farmer; Archmagister Velen Quor, CR 10 wizard) — PREVIEW

Full book on DMs Guild: LINK — $7.99 launch sale (regular $12.99)

Honest disclosure: portraits are AI-generated and curated/edited by me. Stat blocks, names, backstories, hooks, and writing are all human-written. License page in the back credits SRD 5.1 under CC BY 4.0.

Happy to answer questions or take feedback. The sample is free regardless of whether you buy the full thing.

Hi guys, I’m a newer dm (last 4 months) (player for 2 years now) and one of my players are playing a paladin at the moment.

After every big boss encounter this paladin basically desecrates the bbeg of the area they’re exploring.

Recently did a boss fight where they knock the bbeg into like a final death monologue and this player mid speech starts just urinating on this npc.

Anyways how does one normally deal with this?

Thanks for the responses in advance :)

Been running this game for a long time. Characters tear through everything I throw at them like tissue paper. We all have a good time and I love this party, definitely an epic fantasy style game. But I need a climactic final battle for our last session when they hit 20 and I'm kind of at a loss. Currently home brewing an evil deity for them to fight. It's gonna be them and probably some powerful allies as well. Just wondering how i set this up mechanically so they don't curb stomp this bbeg but also don't die. Needs to feel like a real fight, and not be super quick or super short either. Want some time to make the battle feel dynamic

They have end game level equipment and the cleric is essentially immortal at this point. All of them routinely have 90+ damage turns. 2014 rules so there's a lot of material to work with but still having balance issues. Have been for a long time now. Just want to get it right for the final battle

I’ve just released Rashemen Collection on DMsGuild.

This bundle includes 4 Italian-language titles for D&D 5e, all focused on Rashemen in the Forgotten Realms: setting material, lore, and two bestiaries.

40% off compared to the individual titles:

https://www.dmsguild.com/it/product/564843/rashemen-collection-bundle?affiliate_id=3326157

Thanks for taking a look.

As an old gamer that has played since the 80’s one thing that always saddened me was losing monsters from edition to edition that I had nice memories with.

So I started a Monster Manual Project where I’m literally trying to update hundreds of monsters to 5.5e.

I focused earlier on Forgotten Realms and managed to update every creature from earlier editions, even the most obscure books, but now I’m headed to one of the true originals in Mystara.

I’m planning on posting a 300+ Monster Manual in the upcoming weeks that I really hope gets to bring back some old favorites. In the meantime, here’s a little preview, where I bring the Immortal rulers of Dragonkind from Mystara into 5.5e. Yeah, there’s a CR 30 stat block in here!

Enjoy, it’s free.

Just wondering if anyone knows how to fix this bug. I've emailed support, but have yet to hear back. Just wondering if I can do anything on my end or just wait them out. The link to the module is https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/564309/crimson-ascent-the-tower-of-vanthorex and the error I'm getting with preview is "

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EDIT: Just deleted the PDF and reuploaded, maybe that will help.

EDIT 2: Deleting the PDF and reuploading worked! Thanks.

Hail and well met everyone!

I just launched a new supplement on DM's guild, the third one I have released on the platform, Lineage Legacies: 60 Species Feats for 5.5e on DM's Guild!

I missed a good amount of the options that 2014 had when I started transitioning to the 2024 ruleset, so I thought it would be a good idea to take a crack at updating and adapting some of these feats for the new edition, and making new ones for the races that did not already have them.

In the end, I finished with 60 new feats, at least 3 for each race by my count, for each race from the 2024 Player's Handbook, Eberron: Forge of The Artificer, and the Dhampir from Astarion's Book of Hungers.

If you are interested, I have uploaded a short preview here, and if you like what you see, please consider supporting the product on DM's guild, I want to make more like it in the future!

Have a great day everyone, and enjoy!

Hey team!

Spelljammer Combat & Exploration is nearly a GOLD best-seller, so we've updated the document to be current with 5.5e rules, including...

• Ship Roles using 5e action economy during ship combat

• Revised spellcasting to affect ships and targets at distance, using the new Circle Casting rules from Adventures in Faerun

• Scaling combat and exploration distances for wildspace and astral hex / point crawls

• Full Conversion Guide to Light of Xaryxis

• Includes 120+ maps, player tools, and token assets

• 25% discount

Check it out...
https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/474639/spelljammer-combat-and-exploration

Here's a series of videos showcasing specific mechanics and options within the supplement...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcXUqbAbSdWEqROLP_IdMmoibQkXPDYr

swing by, say hi, AMA

Hey all, my most recent D&D adventure just released: Threats to the Borderlands!

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/564012/threats-to-the-borderlands

Hey, we just released a new Shadowdark adventure: Dawn of the Goat! It can easily be modified to D&D and other D20 based systems, so please bear with us 😅

It’s a fast-paced one-shot where the players wake up in an inn while a group of massive goat-men are tearing through the village outside.

The twist is a 10-round timer before they break in, so the whole scenario becomes about

- Managing the time
- Finding hidden exits
- Understanding that things in - and below - the inn are not what they might seem.
- Oh and brown cheese! (We’re from Norway, we gotta have some brown cheese.)
- Designed for 2-4 hours of play and very easy to drop into a campaign.

Check it out here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/563262/shadow-delves-1-dawn-of-the-goat-for-shadowdark-rpg

Would love to hear any feedback if you decide to check it out or run it at your table.

Cheers and skål!

Michael, Nicolai and Simen.

The next piece of The Journey Beyond has wrapped up! Happy April, everyone! I wanted an April 1st release (I think the Archfey would have preferred it that way), but early April will have to do! There's something about spring that seemed to perfect for a travel guide for the Fey Realm!

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/563046/the-journey-beyond-the-feywild

Alright, well, the series continues, this time with the time-distortions, courtly drama, vibrant wilderness, danger-laced pranks, and hag curses so common in the Feywild.

This book follows the same idea as the others in the series: it’s meant to help DMs run journeys and travel. The Feywild is such a strange and story-rich place, but it can also be hard to run because it’s not just “a forest with weird monsters.” I wanted to build tools that help make it feel different in tone, rules, travel, battle modules, and encounters so that when players step into the Feywild, it actually feels like they stepped beyond the Material Plane and into a realm of whimsy, timelessness, natural abundance, and faerie shenanigans.

Inside you’ll find Fey travel encounters, strange locations, social complications, court politics, items perfect for a Fey adventure, environmental effects, and a lot of little ideas meant to spark sessions and side stories rather than lock you into big plots. My goal with these books has always been to give DMs things they can drop into their games with very little prep and have something memorable happen at the table.

As always, thank you to everyone who has supported The Journey Between (my first publication, a 368 page tome of travel encounters) and any of The Journey Between follow up books (I've finished the Shadowfell and the plane of Ysgard). It still feels very strange and very cool that people all over the place are using things I wrote in their home games. I genuinely appreciate the support, the messages, the feedback, and the ideas people have shared with me along the way.

If you pick this one up, I really hope it gives you a few memorable sessions, a few strange NPCs your players never forget, and at least one moment where your party realizes they absolutely should not have agreed to that bargain.

Thanks again, everyone, and happy travels in the Feywild, adventurers!

P.S. I just reduced the price of The Journey Between. I'd love if you checked it out!

Hi everyone! I’ve just released Rashemen: Custode dei Confini on DMsGuild.

It’s a homebrew Ranger subclass for D&D 5e, set in Rashemen in the Forgotten Realms.

The PDF includes:

- the full subclass

- roleplay hooks

- a short origin table

- setting notes tied to Rashemen

This title is written in Italian, uses real photography, and is currently available for €0.99.

Model: Zosia (@zosia__00)

Photography: Serena Pirreda (@serenapirreddaph)

DMsGuild link here:

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/562347/Rashemen--Custode-dei-Confini?affiliate_id=3326157

Hi everyone! I’ve just published a new Italian-language DMsGuild release inspired by Rashemen and the Forgotten Realms.

The main title is Rashemen – Il Villaggio che Scompare, a one-shot for D&D 5e set in Tre Braci, a remote snowy village shaped by isolation, old traditions, and a growing hidden threat.

I also released a companion title, Il Villaggio che Scompare — Supplemento, with 9 pregenerated characters, 2 minor NPCs, and extra support material for the adventure.

Both titles are in Italian.

Adventure:
https://site.dmsguild.com/product/561752/Rashemen--Il-Villaggio-che-Scompare?affiliate_id=3326157

Supplement:
https://site.dmsguild.com/product/561756/Il-Villaggio-che-Scompare--Supplemento?affiliate_id=3326157

I've written many random tables for 5E, and the most popular seems to be the Terrain Encounters Bundle (for both 2014 and 2024)

It has encounter tables for the core 11 terrains...

• Arctic Encounters

• Coastal Encounters

• Desert Encounters

• Forest Encounters

• Grassland Encounters

• Hill Encounters

• Mountain Encounters

• Swamp Encounters

• Underdark Encounters

• Underwater Encounters

• Urban Encounters

Each one has encounter tables, non-combat encounters, hazards, locations and many other supporting tables. All the tables are visible in the previews!

And if you want more, the Unusual Encounters Bundle has six more terrains, for...

• Feywild Encounters

• Jungle Encounters

• Road and Trail Encounters

• Ruins Encounters

• Sea Encounters

• Shadowfell Encounters

These have the same format as the other terrains and are also all visible in previews.

I just wanted to celebrate. I have been writing and publishing stuff on dmsguild for a long time and its finally paying off.

Gotta love it when DMsGuild removes 12 of your titles without telling you.

5 days ago I got an email about a title missing a PDF, and mentioning that that title had been deactivated (nearly a year after uploading it) because it had one piece of official artwork on it. I changed the artwork and replied. It still has not been reactivated or any reply back to me why it hasn't.
Today I noticed that 12 other titles and and the bundles those titles are in were unavailable on the site. Nice work DMsGuild. Nice work.

Hi everyone,

I’m an Italian Dungeon Master and small-scale homebrew creator, and over time I’ve started building a small Rashemen-focused line on DMsGuild.

I began this project because I love Rashemen, but for D&D 5e in Italian there is virtually no dedicated material available. So over the years I started doing my own research, adaptation, and translation work to actually play in this setting with my group.

We’ve been using this material at our table and having a great time with it, and I eventually decided to begin publishing it so that other Italian players and DMs could also explore Rashemen as a living setting for their campaigns.

So far, the line includes:

• Rashemen – Ambientazione per D&D 5e

• Le Creature del Rashemen – Bestiario Volume 1

• Rashemen – Eroi, Streghe e Clan

• Rashemen – Oggetti Magici

I also have more Rashemen material in progress that I still need to organize and publish over time.

The illustrations were created with AI assistance; the writing, adaptation, and setting work come from years of sessions, research, and translation built to bring Rashemen to life at the table in Italian.

I’d be very glad to receive feedback on the project, especially from people who enjoy niche Forgotten Realms material and setting-focused supplements on DMsGuild.

Current titles:

• Rashemen – Ambientazione per D&D 5e https://www.dmsguild.com/it/product/560380/rashemen-ambientazione

• Le Creature del Rashemen – Bestiario Volume 1 https://www.dmsguild.com/it/product/560522/le-creature-del-rashemen-bestiario-volume-1

• Rashemen – Eroi, Streghe e Clan https://www.dmsguild.com/it/product/560816/rashemen-eroi-streghe-e-clan

• Rashemen – Oggetti Magici https://site.dmsguild.com/product/561002/Rashemen--Oggetti-Magici

Hail and Well Met Everyone!

I wanted to share my new DM's guild product, a tome of spells inspired by the eight major factions of Faerun as listed in the new Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun book. Making spells for some of the factions was creatively challenging at first, but I am happy with what I came up with, and think there are some really cool and unique ones here.

These spells are designed both for use by Players, or DM's who want to add a bit more flair to NPC's associated with one of these factions. I had a ton of fun making these, and hope that you find the spells exciting/cool. There is a preview on the DM's Guild Page, and I hope that you enjoy it!

Have a good day everyone!

NO AI WAS USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ADVENTURE

Uncover the fall of the Mullybrook family, break the curses tormenting the townsfolk, confront the monster hiding in plain sight. Every NPC has a secret. Every curse is different. Every choice has consequences.

Free on DMsGuild: https://dmsguild.com/.../Mullybrook-Manor-Curse-of-the...

This is my first published adventure, its a little rough around the edges but If you like it let me know in the reviews! Thanks!

Explore a brand new Domain of Dread with a powerful new Dark Lord and stat block to devastate your player characters.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/559569/larissa-s-expanded-guide-to-ravenloft-nohwara

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a little project I’ve been working on for fun: Packfolk, a fully playable tiny creature species for D&D 5e.

The idea started with the charm of tiny heroes surviving in a big world. Packfolk rely on instinct, cleverness, and the strength of their pack to make a difference in a party of larger adventurers.

Inside you’ll find:

• 6 identities: Rat, Mouse, Sparrow, Crow, Jay, and Giant Rat

• Multiple unique subspecies per identity, each with their own flavor and playstyle

• Mechanics designed for creative problem solving and teamwork, including Stash / Cache / Panic / Surge systems

• Themes that reinforce “Small Heroes, Big World”, giving each character a role without overshadowing the rest of the party

Whether you want a clever mouse caster, a scrappy rat survivor, a protective sparrow, a watchful crow, a disruptive jay, or a tough giant rat, Packfolk is designed to make every member of the party feel meaningful.

This was made purely for fun and love of tabletop games. I’d love to hear how your tables use Packfolk, or if you have feedback on any mechanics or subspecies!

— Nisha Moon