For Playtester Club members only! Every person is born amongst the strands of fate, finding themselves interwoven by probability and chance into the cosmic tapestry. Fatebenders find themselves at the extreme edges of the tapestry and find that they ...
2018-07-04 11:42:03 +0000 UTC
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The next part of the acclaimed adventure path is here! A fantastic investigative adventure set on a week-long train journey as the heroes race against time to identify the bad guy.
The famous Avery Coast Railroad thunders along its week-long journe...
2018-07-03 08:47:54 +0000 UTC
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Tinkerers reshape the world around them through mechanical means. They use their Affect-Engines to bring to life impressive contraptions, craft incredible devices, and forge legendary destinies by way of a courageous heart and maddening intellect....
2018-06-26 14:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Expanding the Gemini character class (see EN5ider #207), Mike Myler presents two new Balances - the Atavist, who is divided between the past and future; and the Equalist, consumed by the pursuit of balance. Illustrated by Indi Martin.
2018-06-19 08:25:52 +0000 UTC
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Eshaq was once the prophet of an evil deity. His reward for a lifetime of faithful servitude was being embalmed and interned in a temple but he was quickly forgotten with the passage of time. 200 years since the last of his disciples have perished Es...
2018-06-15 15:29:20 +0000 UTC
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Now for playtesting by Playtest Club members! Nothing makes for a good dungeon like traps but many a rogue are wary to the arcane dangers of a lair or crypt. Make the adventurers think twice with a few of these mundane machines prowling the passages ...
2018-06-12 10:15:06 +0000 UTC
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The thirteen new minor magical items in this article from writer Robert Lashley include the inspiring pahu, smelly stone, midnight pearls, messenger ant, and more, making it easy to add a bit of flavourful magic to your 5E games without unbalancing t...
2018-06-11 08:25:25 +0000 UTC
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New Playtester Club advance access to Gemini balances for the class we introduced last month - the Atavist, conflicted between past and future; and the Equalist, consumed in pursuit of balance and opposites. Remember, this is a playtest article - you...
2018-06-05 19:40:07 +0000 UTC
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The third adventure in the ZEITGEIST adventure path continues in this 30-page instalment!
In the wake of a villain's defeat, his accomplices flee into the seedy underbelly of Flint. The party tracks down an arcanoscientist selling illegal arms...
2018-06-04 08:44:13 +0000 UTC
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The first in a new thing we’re trying — as well as plug-in locations like our ‘Over The Next Hill’ series, we are trying out plug-in events which you might hold in your game. We start with a Royal wedding!
(Note I’m working via a mobile p...
2018-05-30 21:48:58 +0000 UTC
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Jeff Gomez' latest Anatomy Of... article helps you to generate a spooky graveyard for your game. Randomly choose Funeral Rites, Cause of Death, Tombstone Inscriptions, and the Restless Dead, and other elements to create memorable graveyard your playe...
2018-05-28 15:51:58 +0000 UTC
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It's not part of EN5ider, but the first part of the War of the Burning Sky adventure path has just been released on RPGNow. We're giving Patrons of EN5ider a small discount off the $9.99 cover price (I know it's just a dollar off, bu...
2018-05-24 18:23:23 +0000 UTC
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Gemini are warriors that evade, confound, and attack by creating dangerous magical multiples of themselves or copying a foe's techniques. A brand new character class for your 5th Edition games! By Mike Myler; illustrated by Indi Martin.
2018-05-21 08:25:08 +0000 UTC
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This large Challenge 10 monstrosity is a herald of strife, a patchwork guardian of nature. Also includes a CR-14-15 sample encounter, plot hooks, tactics, lore, and ecology.
2018-05-14 14:05:44 +0000 UTC
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Ezekial is a minotaur gifted (or maybe cursed) with intelligence and cunning beyond that of most of his kin. Ezekial is the leader of a small band of thieves who are on a crime spree stealing priceless artifacts and rare tomes of knowledge.
T...
2018-05-07 22:07:14 +0000 UTC
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Ready for playtesting in the Playtester Club is a brand new full class! Gemini are warriors that evade, confound, and attack by creating dangerous magical multiples of themselves or copying a foe's techniques.
The assassin cackles as his t...
2018-05-04 09:10:24 +0000 UTC
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The third adventure in the ZEITGEIST adventure path continues in this 33-page instalment!
In the wake of a villain's defeat, his accomplices flee into the seedy underbelly of Flint. The party tracks down an arcanoscientist selling illegal arms...
2018-04-30 10:23:18 +0000 UTC
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Take your 5th Edition spellcasting into new realms with this article by Edric Alan Leggett. Words of Power is a variant rule system which uses combinations of words to craft spells. This article contains fifty such words of power, arranged into An...
2018-04-23 09:28:05 +0000 UTC
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Following the popular Fantastic Humans article, Michael McCarthy brings you variant racial traits such as Ancient Master, Unearthly, and Child of the Bow; new elv...
2018-04-16 10:47:18 +0000 UTC
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New for the playtester club members only, an advance playtest sneak peek at the Gemini Class.
Gripping her shortswords and watching her opponent closely, the dwarf notes the elven duelist’s canny footwork and the way his blade wanders throu...
2018-04-11 17:23:04 +0000 UTC
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Run a fantasy bank job, steal some rare dragon eggs, and overcome traps, labyrinth, and monstrous guardians in your 5th Edition game! Jeff Gomez presents a range of options to choose from - targets, goals, factions, methods, and obstacles to help you...
2018-04-09 10:00:30 +0000 UTC
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Something unusual for 5E... a prestige class! Able to control the ebb and flow of magic around them, some warriors are destined from birth to live an existence outside the normal flow of the world—and by their very nature become legend. With an imp...
2018-04-06 17:05:12 +0000 UTC
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This piece is a sequel to the article Fantastic Humans, which is among the most "liked" EN5ider article in at least the last 30 articles or more (beaten out only by Zeitgeist). Just like Fantastic Humans provided new rules for the most commonly playe...
2018-04-04 22:27:07 +0000 UTC
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For our 200th article, we introduce the first in a new series called Enchanted Trinkets! These 13 minor magical items include the Butter Knife of Perfect Serving, Flask of Inebriation, Signaling Ammunition, and the Wig of Styling, amongst others. By ...
2018-04-04 21:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes you might need just a little bit of a magical kick to increase your quality of life. Other times, you might have never realized how handy something is until you need it. For these little things, you don't need a new set of armor or a sword ...
2018-03-30 22:51:53 +0000 UTC
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Watch out for the amorphous Black Icers, the hard-to-see Snow Angels, and the ethereal Wailer on the Ice! Writer Walt Ciechanowski bring you three icy undead monstrosities for your 5th Edition games! Illustrated by Phil Stone.
2018-03-30 13:02:50 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the third adventure in the ZEITGEIST adventure path!
In the wake of a villain's defeat, his accomplices flee into the seedy underbelly of Flint. The party tracks down an arcanoscientist selling illegal arms and magic developed in la...
2018-03-23 11:04:28 +0000 UTC
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Stonewatch is an aging lighthouse that looms above a particularly dangerous stretch of coastline. Its lone, weather-beaten spire rises from a rocky hilltop, as if stubbornly guarding against the thick ocean mists that churn below. The lighthouse itse...
2018-03-19 13:36:31 +0000 UTC
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This article describes a way of flavoring magic in a more mystical way, using power words (similar to the three-word phrase Dragon Shouts of Skyrim) instead of spell names. Playtest it and let us know what you think!
2018-03-15 14:50:07 +0000 UTC
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Details on the Plane of Time, tethers, and timeslips, and the guardians of time, The Order of Chronology Devoted; along with a new Warlock Patron, the Chronomental (one of the time dimensionals which move through, around, and between...
2018-03-12 12:30:34 +0000 UTC
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