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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 1: Greenest
I mentioned last year that I’ve been running Tyranny of Dragons for my table. I used the module once before – back when it and 5e were in their infancy, and I was a much younger DM. I held onto a lot of lessons from…
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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 2: Preserving Characters
One of the ways I think Tyranny of Dragons is most inconsiderate of its own resources is the way the module uses its own characters. Particularly the villains of Hoard of the Dragon Queen (the first half of the module, formerly sold as a separate…
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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 3: The Long Road
When I first ran Tyranny of Dragons 10 years ago, no chapter provided as many headaches as On the Road. Back then, I was running the module almost entirely as written – we added a handful of optional things over the course of the entire…
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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 4: Two Castles
One facet of this double-book adventure that makes me wonder if the two books were written much in conversation with one another is the incredibly brief section Hoard of the Dragon Queen contains about Waterdeep. After months of travel with a caravan whose ultimate destination…
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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 5: Masks of the Dragon
Both when I ran this module at the beginning of 5th edition and as I was preparing to run it again now, I always had this distaste for the way the module advises us to withhold the Masks of the Dragon. The few times they’re…
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Reworking Tyranny of Dragons 6: The Ruin of Altand
Over the course of the last five posts in this series, I’ve talked about the ways I adjusted this module as I ran it for the second time. So far, most have been pretty minor overall. I preserved some characters, I threw in additional dungeons…
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