Category Archives: Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition 3rd Party Reviews

What Do I Know About Reviews? Fables: Agents of the Empire Part 4, The Smoking Coils (5e SRD)

Let’s turn our attention back to Ghostfire Gaming’s current Fables campaign, Agents of the Empire. This is going to be our fourth installment looking at the campaign, although we’re only up to the third adventure in the series, since we looked at the setting guide as it’s own entry. The Smoking Coils is an adventure for 5th-level characters. Disclaimer I

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 25 (5e SRD)

How is it almost the end of February (time of this blog post)? While I’ve been busy looking through all of the heists in Keys from the Golden Vault, another issue of Arcadia has crept up on me. I’m going to try not to think about how these issues are now kind of a countdown to the end of the

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What Do I Know About Reviews? Fables: Agents of the Empire Part 3, Killing Aetherium (5E OGL)

We’re going to return to our ongoing look at the current campaign of Fables, Agents of the Empire, as we look at the second adventure in the series, Killing Aetherium. Last time around we not only saw the opening adventure for this campaign, but we also had four scenes that the PCs could play through to level up to 4th

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What Do I Know About Reviews? Fables: Agents of the Empire Part 2, Razorfin (5E OGL)

Now that we’ve already looked at the setting material for Fables: Agents of the Empire, it’s time to look at the initial adventure for the campaign. The campaign starts at 3rd level, but there are missions in the appendix to this one that will allow you to start at 1st level, performing “try-out” missions to see if The Agency will

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What Do I Know About Reviews? Fables: Agents of the Empire Part 1, Setting Guide (5e OGL)

I realized looking back on my coverage of the Fables line that I’m not really doing a first impression of each individual adventure, so much as doing a running review of the entire adventure path as the individual installments were released. Because of this, I’m going to treat these just a little bit differently going forward. I’m just going to

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 24 Review (5e OGL)

I didn’t manage to take a look at this issue the week it was released, because the release got pushed back, and let’s face it, even if it wasn’t, January was a mess, so let’s just call it a wash. In the intervening time since we last looked at an issue of Arcadia, there was some . . . drama

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 23 (5e OGL)

The veil of night draws close to the world. The howling cold winds blow over the plains, and the threat of deep snows loom over holiday plans. What better time to completely retreat into fantasy and ignore the real world. Let’s take a look at Arcadia Issue 23 from MCDM.DisclaimerI received a review copy of this issue, and I have

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What Do I Know About Reviews? Pirates of the Aetherial Expanse

This is going to be a dual-purpose post, looking at the last adventure of the Pirates of the Aetherial Expanse, Legends of the Seas, as well as a review of the overall Fables campaign. We’ll look at the adventure, how it unfolds, how it wraps up the campaign, and all of the elements that went into this setting. Disclaimer I

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 21 (5e OGL)

It’s October, and the leaves are turning colors and falling, dead, from the trees, sometimes creating a pool of crimson to mark their passing. The dying breath of Summer fades, and the cool embrace of the lifeless Winter beckons. Can you tell I’ve been watching horror movies all month long? We’re going to take a look at this month’s issue

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Lost to the Aether (Pirates of the Aetherial Expanse Episode 4, 5e OGL)

It’s taken me a few extra weeks to get back to this one, but before the month is up and the next installment is out, I wanted to take a look at this month’s installment of Fables from Ghostfire Gaming. We are up to episode four of the latest campaign, with only two more installments to go. Disclaimer I was

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