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Adventure: Northminster Job
The famed blade and heirloom of the Vivanti family—the Silver Orchid—is going to be stolen. They know because the burglars are the Florists, a brazen and talented group who've completed daring heists across the continent and have sent a calling card warning of the impending theft. The advent...
Dangerous Scenarios: Curse of the Specters
Though slain long ago the sorcerer-king Solor's immense power echoes still, buoyed across the centuries by a quintet of champions that linger in the realms material—haunting their tombs, resisting the draw of true death, and slaying any that dare trespass. Dutifully designed by Anthony Pryor, ...
Monstrous Menagerie: Notable Ne'er-Do-Wells
A trio of brigands awaits! First a masked, mysterious, dangerous, and often dashing bandit that seems to care more about keeping their identity hidden than their own life. Then a mounted bandit who keeps foes at a distance with the improved speed and maneuverability offered by hooved feet. Finally a...
Intriguing Organizations: Necrophage Cult
Not all seek to end outbreaks of maladies or avoid the suffering of the many—the Necrophage Cult embraces these atrocities and far more in their fanatical worship of Holy Undeath. To spread their beliefs these cultists submit themselves to vampiric lords, lure and unleash lesser undead, or subject...
Mini-Adventure: Joy From the World
Anyone with a mind to celebrate is welcomed into the House of the Merry Heart by Revelmasters Ebbe and Flo—but not while it’s being assailed by fiends. Demons have infiltrated the temple of revelry to unleash a maelstrom of violence, and if their intrusion is not brought to a swift end it could ...
Adventure: Gul-Badur's Scales
The scales of the ancient gold dragon Gul-Badur have long resided in the Temple of Divine Truth. Used only in the most sacred rights and the swearing of oaths of the utmost importance, they are one of the faith’s holiest relics. A new Veritani, the highest member of her clergy, has delayed her ord...
Dangerous Scenario: Six Guardians of Scythrax
Many have died trying to take riches from the Tomb of Scythrax, realizing too late that its six guardians are more than capable of felling a single plunderer—indeed they can only be overcome through cooperation! While a thief is critical to surviving the trials of this dungeon, only those with ste...
Enchanted Trinkets: Creative Canvases
The next time your adventuring needs require a bit of enchanted help consider turning to the arts for an innovative solution! Briefly overwhelm a foe with swarms from an artling kit, distract with a deck of renditions, leave behind subtle directions via the dwarven runesign box, and generally impres...
Monstrous Menagerie: Tree Trio
Treants can be as diverse as their rooted kin throughout the forest and should provide as fun of an encounter as any beast. Consider throwing an ashen pine (CR 9) at adventurers, surprising them with a needled giant that's overcome the touch of flame. The hagedoorn (CR 9) is a subtler foe and ha...
Puzzle: Interplanar Delicatessen
Too often two essential things are skipped over amidst the excitement of dungeon delving: eating and puzzles. The Interplanar Delicatessen offers a delightful solution to both these quandaries. Sure the adventurers are deadly, but are they canny and hardy enough to finish a plate of eyes-cargo, the ...
Adventure: Horror on the Lysymachus
A brutal murder has occurred on a small merchant ship in mid-ocean. The party uncovers not only evidence of unnatural violence but an unwelcome and unseen presence aboard the ship as well—now they must deal with both the mysterious killer and an increasingly hostile crew! While the adventure is se...
Dangerous Scenarios: Conflicting Charms
While journeying the party wanders directly into a spat between monsters and the plight of their proxies. An item of great value to a pair of dryads has been taken by a trio of harpies and the fey will do anything they can to get it back—even appealing to passing adventurers without the aid of mag...
Enchanted Trinkets: Zlick Willy's Extended Catalog
Zlick Willy is back with a whole host of impressive new enchanted trinkets sure to delight! Catch a friend off guard with the hilarious bucket of fun, strike up a conversation with a stranger you can't understand without an informative dragonheart's ring, or otherwise get the party going wit...
TO SAVE A KINGDOM--Coming to Kickstarter This Week!
Hi folks! Just a quick reminder that TO SAVE A KINGDOM, a 400-page hardcover compilation of the adventures To Slay A Dragon, To Stake A Vampire, and To Smite a Fiend is coming to Kickstarter this coming week. Click on the link below to make sure you get notified!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Flatearthed Arcana
THEY can't stand to see you with this issue of EN5ider because of the unadulterated honesty unleashed inside of it! Spread the truth with anti-potion pamphlets, make it clear you know what's up with a snazzy pair of suspenders of disbelief and a canny casting of circular theories, but whatev...
Rules: Memento Masteries
There's loot and experience gained from every quest the adventurers complete—but what about what they've truly learned from their rigorous trials? Does a new class feature really reflect new tactics, party maneuvers, or combat tricks? Try rewarding your PCs with Memento Masteries! Each of ...
Monstrous Menagerie: Wondrous Wildlife
Nature in the real world is a panoply of strange traits, remarkable talents, and evolutionary wonder—and in a place where magic is real there should be far more found in the beasts that roam it! This article includes a half dozen new monsters to include alongside the teleporting dogs and semi-illu...
Adventure: Peace in the Border Kingdoms
As forces mass along the Border Kingdoms of Elissar there is a fear of devoting too many resources to fighting incursions, of rulers becoming weak and inviting attacks from rivals. Instead they seek out experienced adventurers to parlay with the disparate groups and find a way to get them to stand d...
Dangerous Scenarios: Chained to the Deep
A fate most terrible is about to befall a group of fishers that have run afoul of vengeful merrow: without immediate intervention they are to be dragged to drown in the depths! These fanatical fishfolk (a priest and acolyte) are not alone however, and anyone that interrupts their revenge has a tooth...
Enchanted Trinkets: Roadside Reliquaries
Routes of pilgrimage and holy places are rife with merchants offering divine relics, but so many are cosmetic symbols of faith and nothing more. With these 9 magic items the power they grant is true all the same—though their veracity comes into question when pushed to the limit! From the empowerin...
Monstrous Menagerie: Unique Undead
Everyone knows the common undead—ghosts, skeletons, vampires, zombies—but there are yet more of these horrors, some with unorthodox origins and even odder appearances. What happens to powerful necromancers that develop incurable diseases? Or if an earth elemental bestows a curse that rots the bo...
EN5ider #500: Vault of Splintered Souls MEGADUNGEON
Distinguished patrons, players and gamemasters alike—today we have something truly spectacular to celebrate EN5ider's 500th issue!Nine months ago we asked what YOU wanted to see in a megadungeon and since then we have been hard at work turning that into an amazing reality.Classic There's a...
Spells: Miraculous Magic
Magic can be a fickle thing, and when deities are involved the power of what might be can astound. Consider this batch of a dozen spells each with its own element of Miraculous Casting, increasing its potency when the situation is dire. Bolster the resolve of companions with emboldening banner, even...
Archetypes: Oaths of Arcane Soul
This article presents two new options for paladins: the oath of the arcane for servants of magic, and the oath of souls for psychopomps dedicated to ensuring the integrity of the mortal veil. The former employ powerful arcana and mimic the enchanted feats of the mages they are sworn to protect, and ...
Intriguing Organizations: Dungeon Builders
Archmages, demigods, and liches alike all need lairs—it's the Dungeon Builders they turn to so they can stay focused on the important things like unlocking ancient evils. Following their patented 10-Step Process, these deluded architects utilize monsters like rockplowers (CR 2) to do much of t...
Enchanted Trinkets: Pirate Booty
Any seafarer worth their salt can make good use of these 10 nautical magic items whether to save a fellow sailor from a deathly fall with the buccaneer's cutlass,put fear into foes with a burning beard, down a draught of leviathan grog to dive into the crushing depths, or gaze through tomorrow&#...
Seasonal Spells
There are simply never enough nature spells! Explore some of the magic the natural world can offer with over a dozen new spells—whether keeping an aura for every season, summoning a blizzard or heatwave, or putting the chill into a foe with hypothermia these are certain to bring some holistic exci...
Adventure: Fangfane
Guided by an ambitious gnome scout into the ruins of a once grand underground settlement, the party finds not only the idol their guide seeks—they also run afoul of the cult of Chernobog! Recovering the relic will be more than a dangerous trek as they fight off cultists, overcome lethal obstacles ...
Monstrous Menagerie: Consecrated Cultists
Acolyte, cultist, cult fanatic—lightweights one and all! When dark councils gather to enact fell rituals they call for devoted maniacs like the lethal dark martyr (CR 4), darkly inspiring harbinger of doom (CR 2), a channeler of foul energies such as the heathen conduit (CR 4), bolstering heretic ...
Villain Spotlight: Tellara the Story Thief
Subtlety and subterfuge are the weapons employed by this entry in the Villain Spotlight series, though she doesn't seek to take any gold from the party—her only wish is to take credit for their accomplishments and take their reputations as her own! Included with this cunning villainess' st...
