A paladin is defined by her oath. She practices its tenets even before swearing to them formally at 3rd level. Tension between a paladin and her oath can create dramatic moment... 2022-01-25 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Open-world sandboxes can feel overwhelming to run. This supplement explains how to condense sprawling sandbox segments into an abstract structure called the M... 2021-12-13 14:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobolds are masters of their environment. They are renowned for defending their lairs with deadly traps of improbable design. Their knack for traps helps them catch a variety o... 2021-11-22 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Players love harvesting monster guts... It's gross, but true! So when they encounter a floating mass of tentacles and eyeballs, each with their own special power, you can imagi... 2021-11-08 21:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here are five A4-sized versions of this river in the Feywild with the central log in different positions, each with a full-inch, half-inch or no grid. I had a play with some watercolours last night on m...
2021-09-25 05:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostEvery six months I try to share some insight and updates into how your support helps me run the YouTube channel and its overall financial position. I actually love writing these breakdowns and reflecting on the business, because I believe being introspective in always worthwhile. I made this YouT...
2021-09-13 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is the companion piece to this video which I just released on my friend Anto's channel. This video was prerecorded ages ago – I promise I'm not working during my break from YouTube!
These are sill...
2021-08-13 19:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by Critical Role... When the Mighty Nein faced off against a friend-turned-foe, Matt Mercer let the players use their Persuasion skills to leverage their former friend... 2021-08-04 16:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Gnolls deserve love too! This supplement aims to provide some extra tools to help you flavour gnolls, turning them from malicious hyena people to malicious hyena people with ev... 2021-07-05 22:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here are the generic stats I'm suggesting you use for your assault on the starting town in Chapter 2 of Storm King's Thunder. This is a combat against the Giant Commander and a number of minions equal to the number of players in your party.
The reason I've done this via P...
2021-06-29 05:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One unlucky town in Storm King's Thunder is about to get wrecked by giants – that's just a fact. But this campaign doesn't have to be difficult to run! This PDF explains how ... 2021-06-22 11:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The official stat blocks are too cramped! These are A4 D&D 5E stat blocks exp... 2021-06-07 04:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
If your villain dies early, replace her! Iarno has written to the Black Spider, indicating he's betrayed her and set her in opposition against the players to get her out of the... 2021-05-25 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are six magic items for your water-world adventure! The fun of an underwater campaign relies on the authenticity of the setting. While the rules are easy to adapt to the n... 2021-05-10 22:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Your villain is important!
Think of it this way: the story is happening because of the villain, so you might as well know who they are. Any energy you can put into deepe... 2021-05-04 11:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to the Perkins Patreon Podcast, lovingly known as the Pea Pod.
All episodes in reverse-release order
This is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to the Lost Mines of Phandelver. You can find all the videos about LMoP here. Even though the video series is finished, I'm still devel...
2021-05-01 18:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a checklist of every piece of information in Storm King's Thunder, incremented by level of detail. The idea is to print this out and cross off items once you're sure your players have discovered that information.
At the moment, this list is far from complete. It turns out boiling an...
2021-05-01 18:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostThis is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to Storm King's Thunder. You can find all the videos about SKT here. I will add and edit this post with resources as they're posted...
2021-04-27 13:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post![MPDM Battle Companions [free preview version]](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/12/gr/up/a4542c-019e7e27-4e20-70a5-ac62-64f1f7811154.jpg)
Every combat encounter can be its own story—a tale with its own heroes and villains, its own tension and plot. And like any good story, a good combat can be ruined by poor pacing. When combat has too many combatants taking too many turns, it can slow the whole session down into a slog, and ...
2021-04-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Every combat encounter can be its own story—a tale with its own heroes and villains, its own tension and plot. And like any good story, a good combat can be ruined by poor pacing. When combat... 2021-04-24 03:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I try to put every dollar the channel earns back into covering costs, improving production, filling a Perkins-shaped hole in the internet. I made this YouTube channel in April 2018 to promote my DriveThruRPG products, then launched this Patreon in May 2020. In the last six months, things have gon...
2021-04-01 23:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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I got bit by some crazy bug last night which compelled me to change everything. It's been on my to-do list for MONTHS to revamp how Patreon PDFs look and my general aesthetic across every platform. I'm really just playing around without locking anything in yet, but th...
2021-03-20 01:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
This is something which I was planning to release on the 19th, but it's relevant to the video coming out soon so here it is early. The idea is to use this wheel to break down how your character is feeling so you can describe it better. I'd recommend you print this wheel, lamina...
2021-02-15 11:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Last week I posted this video all about Thundertree: https://youtu.be/agzZOagEaQQ
So here is the map I made for the video! It's broken into encounter-by-encounter sections so you can reveal as you play...
2021-01-24 03:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post
When the party succeeds in lighting the brazier, whichever spirit was used to kindle the Everflame sheds its personality into a weapons of the party's choosing.
These sentient weapons are custom rewards I've designed for this one-shot adventure written by Aviad from Beyond the Screen. You c...
2021-01-11 02:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Rather than wait till this Friday, I'm putting this one out now to coincide with today's Xmas one-shot video. In the video, I suggest playing a battle where Santa's Sleigh has been stolen and represents a battle hazard in combat. While the players are fending off a hoarde of e...
2020-12-21 22:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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I thought some people might get some use out of these battlemaps for the Wave Echo Cave video. These are half-inch grids, so if you blow them up to 2x, you'll have a 1-inch grid. Attached is a PDF of the whole dungeon and individual image files.
What's next for ...
2020-12-18 04:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is a little bit silly, but at the start of Christmas week I'll be releasing a video about how to turn Among Us into a holiday one-shot. So while I'm stuck without a computer still, I figured I'd draw a dungeon map while watching cartoons. I'm not much of an artist, but it'...
2020-12-11 10:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is simultaneously late from last week and early from this week, because both items are thematically tied to this week's video.
These location cards are different than usual, because you can use these to map out the whole Wave Echo Cave. Just place t...
2020-11-30 09:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post