Finally finished my #TTRPG #EOY blog post. I cover the campaigns I ran in 2024: #DungeonInABox, #DnDAdventureClub, #TalesOfTheValiant, #Humblewood, and more. I also discuss my 2025 plans, including a Pokemon-themed adventure, The #Cosmere RPG, more #ToV expansions, and an 80s movie-based series of modules!

https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2025/01/19/my-2024-ttrpg-campaigns-plus-2025-plans/

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This Weekend’s D&D Moments

This weekend we finished The Wild Trilogy from DnD Adventure Club. The first challenge involved sneaking around an Owlbear. The kids asked about their options and I noted that in addition to sneaking, they could try and distract it. Sam’s dwarf, Grumpy McGrumbles, has a cooking hobby, so he took hits pots and pans and made a bunch of noise so that the Owlbear would follow him around the camp.

After that there was a mini “dungeon” crawl in the basement beneath a wizard’s tower. The girls finally started to get the hang of investigating chambers rather than blindly setting off traps.

The coolest moment came at the end of book 2. Since part of DnD Adventure Club’s goal is to teach D&D principles to budding DMs, it goes through pains to explain why none of the characters should be able to jump the gap between where the characters stand and a platform surrounded by a pit of spikes. Part of the explanation revolved around the fact that the ledge wasn’t long enough to get a running start. So no character should be able to do a standing jump across the path. By my kids surprised me with a bit of cleverness – “Why can’t we start running out in the hallway that leads into this chamber so that we can do a running jump?” I couldn’t see a reason not to allow it, so they went ahead and jumped. (and succeeded at their roll)

The final book in the trilogy didn’t have too many crazy bits, but the final battle was one of the D&D bits where Lady Luck just hates you. Out of all 3 kids and 2 bosses, only Scarlett really dealt any damage. Everyone else kept rolling too low, including Sam rolling nat 1 and, consequently, getting his battle axe wedged in a faraway tree. Key to winning the battle was a discussion I’d had with Scarlett about strategy and having her arrow-wielding character stay out of range of melee attacks.

Another fun weekend. I think we’re caught up on all our currently owned DnD Adventure Club stories, but there are another 9 issues available.

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Bite-Sized TTRPG Adventures

I’ve written a lot about DnD Adventure Club, including my last two posts. Today while I was looking at the Pathfinder Humble Bundle, I went to the Pathfinder website to see if they had a page listing differences (since Pathfinder started as a fork of D&D 3.5). I found this page – Adventure Paths. It looks like they’re doing the same thing as DnD Adventure Club, except in Pathfinder 2e and without a kid focus. Also, it seems like each trilogy is building to a larger story (like Buffy the Vampire Slayer with its villain of the season, but also overarching story). It makes me wish that Wizards of the Coast (the Hasbro subsidiary that runs D&D) would do something similar – or if a 3rd party creator did it that it would be tightly coupled to D&D beyond. One advantage of WotC doing the mini-adventures is that they could use them to highlight different aspects of the mechanics or classes. I love that DnD Adventure Club comes with a new character each month with some example backstories. It really helps demonstrate the different races and classes. Also, upon further examination of the Pathfinder adventures I saw that each trilogy is written by a different person (creating opportunities to showcase new writers) and that (at least the one I clicked on) is tied to a campaign setting book. This is SO smart from a marketing point of view. “If you enjoyed your little trilogy in this corner of our world, you might enjoy learning more about it…” Yeah, WoTC should DEFINITELY look into this.

PS I didn’t end up getting the Pathfinder bundle because it’s tied to a VTT. I’d much rather have PDFs of the source books that belong to me rather than being tethered to any one platform – this is actually a sore spot with me and D&D and might feature in a future post.

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A fun family night killing mimics and wargs with the kids.

Also, arguing about who should try eating the strange glowing mushroom found in the corner of the cellar.

And how safe it is to try shooting the lock off a door with a crossbow.

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