The Friendly Bard's Companion to Various Things

One bard's take on D&D and other things

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Session Prep: May 2020 CoS Session

Another eventful session in the Curse of Strahd campaign last week! The two player characters have been separated from their NPC allies and find themselves in quite a bit of trouble…

In these posts, I talk about what I did to prep for my monthly Curse of Strahd sessions and the results of that prep!

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Comparing the Recent Psionics Unearthed Arcana

We got a new Unearthed Arcana last week! The survey for the spells and magic tattoos article is also live.

The new article presents revised psionics options for the fighter, the rogue, and the sorcerer. It also revises the new psionics-themed spells and feats. It looks like this is going to be the official approach to psionics in 5e moving forward, as the article notes, “we’ve decided to say farewell to the mystic and explore other ways of giving players psi-themed powers.”

In this blog post, I’m going to compare the new options with their versions in previous UAs.

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Kickstarter: Knights of the Shadow Realm

Hi, all! This post will talk about Knights of the Shadow Realm, a Kickstarter campaign that will run to April 17th. Zac Goins reached out to me earlier with some information and a review copy of part of the campaign, and I thought it sounded pretty cool!

Knights of the Shadow Realm is a campaign for D&D 5e that can take a party from 1st to 20th level. The review module covers the first section of that campaign.

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