roguelegend posts
Free Module: The Plane of Water
A drought arises and the players must travel to the Plane of Water and battle sahuagin in order to direct a flow into the drying world.
Speed Up Combat
Combat can be one of the most time-consuming parts of your game, taking hours to resolve and eating up a large chunk of the session. It can be a little ridiculous to spend 2 hours on a combat which only amounted to 60 seconds passing in-game. If you're feeling like your combats are getting bogge...
Downtime Activities and Events
A list of all downtime activities, with automatically calculated requirements, results, and complications. Building structures, lifestyle, buying / selling / crafting magic items, crime, gambling, carousing, research, training, businesses, and everything else a player could want to do.
Campaign Generator
Generates everything you need to start a new campaign from scratch. Including surrounding geography, local culture and experts, a structure and motivation for adventure, religion and gods, and additional lore to fill your world.
How To Choose Your Alignment Quiz
A simple breakdown of what alignment means, and includes a quiz to help determine yours.
Premium Module Now Available
To celebrate reaching our first milestone, I've released an expanded module as a bonus for all premium users! With maps, npc and environmental details, as well as a much bigger and involved storyline, it's a high-quality campaign with everything you need. Thanks again to all of you for makin...
Magic Item List
Quickly accessible list of magic items. Sort, filter, and read the full descriptions for each item. Also hooks into the magic item prices list for easy reference.
Premium-Exclusive Module Early Preview
Here's an early preview for early birds, The Beast of the Frozen Wastes. This premium-exclusive module is my thanks to you for helping us reach our first major milestone!
Second Grid Map Update
The second Grid Map update is here with a big list of new features and changes, available for everyone to celebrate hitting our first milestone! If you missed the first update, you can check out all those changes as well here: https://www.kassoon.com/dnd/grid-map-update/Big thanks to all of you who ...
200 Patrons!
Wow, we've reached our first goal and milestone with 200 patrons! That means an exclusive and expanded module that's only for you. It has more details, maps, descriptions, characters, art, and a bigger story. Work has already begun, and it should be available soon. Hopefully within the next ...
Plot Twist Generator
Story stuck? Twist it up! Try injecting some of these plot twists into your story to shock your players and get things moving again.
Exploring Backstories
Backstories are typically written before the game starts, then either not touched again or referenced a few times with plot hooks. Some characters might not have backstories at all, or didn't put much in them when the game was still new and uncertain. Yet as your game progresses these backstorie...
Free Module: The School of Magic
The PCs are sent to deal with a raiding ogre that turns out to be a gnome illusionist.
Make Tactical, Memorable Combat
Are those little demigods some call PCs running all over your encounters without breaking a sweat? Maybe they've even had the audacity to call the encounters “easy.” 5th edition has really ramped up the power levels of the players, and as the DM you may find it difficult to meaningfully chal...
Vicious Mockery Insult Generator
Generate insults.
Dwarven Empire of the Deep
A dwarven stronghold goes quiet and stops all trade with the outside world. The party goes to find a greater threat coming from below.
Big Grid Map Update
There's been some big updates to the grid map that you should know. This is one of the biggest updates I've done to the site, and the number of changes and feature additions to the grid map rival that of any other tool I've made on kassoon.com. I've been working on this update for mo...
Make 3D Dungeon Tiles for $1
Upgrade from that plain beige battlemat to some nice looking dungeon tiles that'll really make your dungeons pop up from the table. This is a great starter project for crafting your own terrain, and it's easy to move on from this to all sorts of different terrain, scatter, and even your own ...
Taking Notes Makes You Like Your Game More
Players and DMs alike take note: taking notes is important for everyone at the table. That means every player and the DM should each be taking their own notes. Why so much redundancy? Isn't one person taking notes enough? The answer is simple: taking notes actually makes you have more fun. Serio...
What To Do When Players Cancel
It's the situation everyone fears, you've spent all week looking forward and getting ready for D&D and someone cancels. You don't want them to miss out on the cool plot points you've planned out, so do you cancel?
The Underwater Cultists
There's rumor that a cult has some dragon eggs and is performing weird magical experiments on them in a secluded part of the swamp.
Free Module: Dueling Dragons
A young copper dragon believed it to be funny to steal an object from the hoard of a chromatic dragon and hide it in the another chromatic's hoard, laughing as the two chromatic drakes do battle over the landscape. Unfortunately, this causes heavy casualties amongst the poor people that are help...
Free Module: The Lost Tinkerer
The PCs are sent to find a wizard that has created a thriving business with golems. The mystery they uncover is a tangled web of automation, and a man that has been gone for 20 years.
How To Roleplay
Maybe you've never roleplayed before, or you've played a couple games and realized you weren't really contributing to the RP. In either case you're wondering how to get better, like that one guy who's really good and natural at it. What's his deal, anyway? The good news is th...
Character Builds
Search, make, and share character builds by race and class, in a simple and easy to read format
Make a Roleplay Cheat Sheet
A roleplay cheat sheet can be a single sheet of paper covered in a bunch of quick references for roleplay, in a similar way to how a DM Screen is a bunch of quick references for game mechanics. It contains a number of tables you can glance at to quickly put together NPCs, locations, towns, motivatio...
2p D&D Module - Wood Elf Rites
Deep within a great forest, homes are built in and around the trees using magic to shape the wood without harming the plant. A town full of wood elves lives here with a deep and ceremonious respect for the woods. You've been living here as an adult for about a year now in a home shaped for you b...
How To Overcome DM Anxiety
Does the thought of DMing and running a game make you feel anxious? It doesn't have to, just follow these steps.
4 Easy Ways to Speed Up Game Prep
DMing can seem like a daunting task because of all the work you have to do just to get ready before the game even starts. Here’s a few ideas to make it easier, faster, and just less work overall.
Library of Flying Books
Crowds are gathered around the gleaming new library, but there's something odd and animated about the new books. It needs be under control before the ribbon cutting ceremony. An adventure for 4th-level adventurers.






















