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Paladins: Better Oathbreakers

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 moments for the game, moments that are lost when the consequence of oathbreaking lacks nuance. The paladin’s sacred vows therefo...

The Montage Dungeon

Open-world sandboxes can feel overwhelming to run. This supplement explainshow to condense sprawling sandbox segments into an abstract structure called the Montage Dungeon. If you’re a hard-line stickler for story fidelity, rules-as-written and preserving the pace of the official module, you will ...

Kobold Krafts

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 of dangerous vermin which they build into their deadliest inventions, traps for larger creatures like adventurers.As a player...

Eyestalk Wands

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 imagine the grisly trophies they'll collect. This supplement provides rules for crafting special eyeballs into a range of...

Battle Map: River on the Autumn Ley

Hey everyone!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 my Twitch channel and ended up with something I'm kind of happy with.I want to try...

Bi-annual Shareholder's Report #003: 20-21 Financial Year

Every 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 YouTube...

MPDM Player Role Cards

Hi everyone!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 silly little cards for assigning roles to players at the tables. Get THIS player t...

MPDM Conversation Combat

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 friendship and sap their opponent's Legendary Actions. This ruleset provides a more robust framework for social interactions i...

Gnarly Options for Gnolls

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 even more deadly options! These are options you can swap out with a gnoll to alter how they operate in battle.Now, even though...

The Giant Attack, Giant Commander statblock

Hey friends!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 Patreo...

The Giant Attack, Chapter 2 of Storm King's Thunder

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 to run an opening session where the players defend a town under siege by breaking the story into five simple sce...

Expanded Stat Blocks

The official stat blocks are too cramped! These are A4 D&D 5E stat blocks expanded to include tick boxes for spell slots and legendary abilities. Expanded to include all skill scores and resistances — not just the ones the creature's proficient with. Expanded, so every element has a designated...

Alternate Villains of the Lost Mine

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 picture. King Grol has written to the players, threatening them and commanding them to leave the region because they wa...

Treasures of the Deep

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 new environment, imaginations are not so easily transported beneath the waves. The players’ features and spells play out mo...

Character Breakdown: The Storm Preceptor

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 deepening your understanding of your villain is worthwhile.In Storm King’s Thunder, the villain is an ancient blue dragon disguised in ...

Index Post: The Pea Pod

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

Index Post: Lost Mines of Phandelver

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 developing and updating resources for the Starter Set.All posts in release orderCompanion wolf guideCragmaw Hideo...

SKT Exposition Checklist

This 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 e...

Index Post: Storm King's Thunder

This 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.All posts in release orderBattle Companions [full patron version]Battle Companions [free preview version]Ex...

MPDM Battle Companions [free preview version]

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 allied ...

Battle Companions: Core Rules

Bi-annual Shareholder's Report #002: October 2020 - March 2021

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 gone g...

WIP: New styles and rebranding

Hey everyone!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 there are a f...

Emotion vocabulary wheel

Hi 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, laminate...

Thundertree maps

Hey everyone!Last week I posted this video all about Thundertree: https://youtu.be/agzZOagEaQQSo here is the map I made for the video! It's broken into encounter-by-encounter sections so you can reveal as you play. It's not the most beautiful, but it was fun to make — I think I drew this o...

Sentient Weapons of the Shadowvale

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 can...

Santa's Sleigh statblock

Hey everyone!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...

Wave Echo Cave maps

Hey everyone!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 Patreon?We just cr...

Here's an Among Us dungeon map

Hi everyone!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, b...

Wave Echo Cave handouts: Mapping tool, Lore Loot

Hey everyone!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 them number-side up for your pl...