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Will Doyle

Mar 11, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

Creating adventures is such an important part of D&D, but it can be daunting for new DMs. This Guild Adept product lets you make your own level 1-20 adventures for the #oracleofwar campaign! Let me tell you more... 1/8
dmsguild.com/product/306028…

@JamesIntrocaso

With this product, we wanted to give DMs the tools to quickly “roll up” a cool adventure, with unique villains, twists, and locations. If you want to tailor your creation further, you have the power. @JamesIntrocaso and his team knocked this chapter out of the park! 2/8

Your salvage missions can (optionally) be sold on the DMs Guild, without prior approval from the admins. You just need to stick to the rules laid out in the product. Anybody with a legal Oracle of War character can then play it! 3/8

@JamesIntrocaso

On top of that, the product comes with four, ready-made two-hour duration salvage missions written by @JamesIntrocaso, @MTBlack2567, @GinnyLoveday, and @skydawn1! A killer team of writers right there, and one adventure ready to go for each tier... 4/8

Of course, organised play requires balance between tables. Salvage missions let your crew gather resources, but you can’t trawl them for treasure or rare magic items – only the core campaign modules offer those. Instead, you earn “salvage”. 5/8

Salvage is invested into your own, customisable HQ. You can upgrade your base between missions to kit it out with all sorts of fun gear to aid you in your quests. At higher levels your base can even become mobile! 6/8

@shawnmerwin

In some ways, this is the most important product we've released so far for #oracleofwar. I’m grateful for the wisdom and advice of @shawnmerwin while making it, and I’m frankly blown away that @onnatryx gave me the green light to create it in the first place. 7/8

But most of all, thanks to the team who actually wrote the thing – the Guild Adepts! They breathed life into the concept and crafted it into something amazing. I hope you find a place for this book in your games and I can’t wait to see your creations on the DMs Guild. 8/8

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