D&D 5e

Death on the Styx

Climb Aboard a Stygian Cruise You Won’t Forget!

A dark thread connects ports-of-call across thousands of worlds– the River Styx. Join the crew of the Silver Sphinx and start downriver on an impossible journey across the Labyrinth in Death on the Styx. Sign up for 10 adventures along the River Styx that can be linked together or run separately as part of your worlds-spanning campaign for Tales of the Valiant and 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Death on the Styx offers plenty of adventure for level 1 – 11 characters. Let the Styx take you along an epic river cruise through the worlds of the Labyrinth.

Read More

5e Conditions & Effects Status Marker Pack

A complete set of 5e condition icons plus common spell & combat effect markers, for 5e and 5e 2024!

Track every combat detail with clarity. This comprehensive token marker pack gives you every official 5e/2024 condition, plus the most commonly used spell effects, buffs, debuffs, and targeting indicators. Clean, readable, and highly visible at tabletop scale, these markers make it easy for players and GMs to stay on top of the action.

Read More

Downtime Activities [article series]

Downtime Activities is a playtested, workable, fun system for your characters to explore when they’re not adventuring. The Tales of the Valiant: Player’s Guide contains five downtime activities: Carousing, Crafting, Researching, Training, and Working; this article series showcases several new downtime activities. Compatible with both Tales of the Valiant and 5e.

Read More

Tales of the Valiant: Player’s Guide 2

Expand your options for Tales of the Valiant and fifth-edition games with Player’s Guide 2. Discover a wide world of new heroic subclasses, magic items, enchanted weapons, and arcane abilities. Inside, you’ll find three new base classes, equipment and magic items including magical tattoos, heroic boons, and 48 new subclasses. There are over 150 new spells plus variant spellcasting options, expanded base-building and downtime rules, and much more!

Read More

Dungeons Deep

16 Classic Ready-to-Play Drop-In Dungeons

Dungeons Deep is an essential addition to your GM Library: Challenge players with 16 prepared dungeons stocked with loot, traps, factions, and plenty of enemies. Each dungeon offers tiered monster-loadouts for low, medium, and high level PCs—so you have 48 options available! Explore ruined temples, slime-filled caverns, a feywild oasis and more. Run them as-written or pick what works with your campaign and leave the rest. These dungeons are ready. Your heroes might not be!

Read More

Ascendancy of Nur’Ry’Za

Play the Game. Lose Control. Feed the God.

What begins as a simple missing persons case quickly spirals into a descent through obsession, curses, and cult sacrifices. Ascendancy of Nur’Ry’Za is a full-length adventure set in a monastery high atop a remote mountain where a cursed game is dominating minds and feeding the bottomless hunger of a dark eldritch entity.

Read More

Tales from the Wastes

Enter devastated lands torn asunder by ghastly creatures and chaos magic. These wastes hide ancient treasures, potent magic, and abandoned cities waiting to be discovered—or refusing to stay buried. Tales from the Wastes brings you fast-paced 5th Edition adventures set in twisted locations packed with memorable NPCs. Inside this tome, find: 15 new single-session adventures, suitable for levels 1-18, playable separately or in sequence; new environmental hazards to face, mysteries to unravel, and encounters with terrifying villains; 15 full-page, full-color maps and dozens of illustrations; new monsters, NPCs, magic items, and easy prep for your next game! Enter the wastes and embrace full metal mayhem!

Read More

Planebreaker: Planar Character Options

Planar natives, multiverse explorers, and those touched by mysterious forces leaking through from the planes: these characters are shaped by backgrounds and experiences unlike those found in more conventional environs. From the Way of the Amethyst Fist monk, who channels power through a psionically resonant prosthetic, to a traveller character with a mysterious cosmic map imprinted on their skin, to a character with the Limbo Touched feat, who can change objects at will—characters with ties to the planes are just a bit different.

Read More

Tome of Beasts 3 Lairs

Created for the 5th Edition of the world’s first roleplaying game, these 23 standalone, single-map adventures each feature new monsters from Kobold Press’s Tome of Beasts 3. Weave these adventures into your ongoing campaign, or use them as thrilling one-shot sessions. With adventures suitable for heroes of level 1–12, you will find enough dangers—and delights—for every game night!

Read More

Tome of Heroes

Tome of Heroes for 5th Edition delivers character options galore—heroic choices that have been judged and found worthy! New styles of magic and new weapon options, all-new monk paths, the riverfolk halflings and expanded catfolk, the soulspy rogue, a Path of the Dragon for barbarians, cleric domains—and much more. Discover a beautiful, well-organized tome of 5E DnD character races, backgrounds, and classes to expand your game in new directions! This project yields a wealth of brand-new, carefully developed and playtested material—all of it immediately usable in your next game.

Read More

Robot Wizard Zombie Crit! Newsletter
Discord wordmark
Keep up with John Joseph Adams' anthologies, Lightspeed, and Nightmare—as well as SF/F news and reviews, discussion of RPGs, and other fun stuff.

Delivered to your inbox once a week. Subscribers get a free ebook anthology for signing up.
Join the Lightspeed Discord server to chat and share opinions with fellow Lightspeed readers.

Discord is basically like a cross between a instant messenger and an old-school web forum.

Join to chat about SF/F short stories, books, movies, tv, games, and more!