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The Celestial Job

The Celestial Job is a planar adventure for a party of 3rd level characters and can be played in approximately four hours. The adventure takes players from their home world to the city of Sigil and across the multiverse, entangling them in the politics of the Outer Planes!

The players are asked by an agent of the Lady of Pain to steal a particular item from Mount Celestia. The item, a golden lotus flower, contains the soul of an enlightened mortal sage who discovered the interconnectedness and secret passages among the planes.

Along the way, the PCs entertain two other offers for the soul lotus, one from the devils of hell and another from the demons of the abyss. After confronting the lotus’ guardians the players must decide whether to return the lotus to the agent of the Lady of Pain, to give the lotus to the demons or the devils, or even to keep the lotus for themselves.

This one-shot D&D adventure was written by DM Rob and DM Matt of Dungeon Master of None. You can listen to us create and revise the adventure on the podcast. If you have time, let us know how it goes. Check out our show for more cool RPG stuff!

Check out the Celestial Job on the DMsGuild!

The Advanced Artificer

Forge a new path with the Advanced Artificer!

The Advanced Artificer is your resource for customizing and expanding the brand new artificer class. Perfect for DMs and players of Eberron campaigns but useful for anyone who uses this class.

What is inside:

• 4 Alternate Homunculi: the Arbalester, Docent, Iron Defender, and Shadowself

• 2 New Artificer Specializations: the Arcanist, a master of deep rules of magic items, and the Warsmith, an artificer for the frontlines

• The Siege Staff and Alchemical Creations: alternate specialization abilities for the Alchemist and the Artillerist, perfect for players who don’t want a pet

• 10 new Artificer Infusions: including the Battlefist, Ray Shield, and Reloading Weapon

• 10 new Artificer Spells: including Animate Tools, Replicate Spell, and Merrix’s Faithful Luggage

Help us expand this supplement! If the Advanced Artificer makes Silver Bestseller we will add two new specializations: the Renegade Maker and the Eldritch Inventor as well as more infusions and spells for free! The authors will update these options as future changes to the UA Artificer are implemented.

Check out the Advanced Artificer on the DMsGuild (now a Copper Bestseller)!

RPG Books-to-Prisoners aka Against the Slave Lords

RPG Books-to-Prisoners aka Against the Slave Lords

A3: assault on the aerie of the slave lords

To support the recent nationwide prison strike, we are donating of RPG books and materials in solidarity with the incarcerated populations. You may have read the Vice article from last year about how common role-playing games are inside prisons. Most inmates just lack the rule books (they can't have dice inside but have plenty of clever ways around the ban). RPG manuals are on the "most requested" list of almost every prison book donation website and are never stocked by the humorless authoritarian bureaucrats that run what's left of prison libraries. These books are so in demand that when charities are no longer accepting general donations, they will always make an exception for RPG books.

We don’t need to convince y’all of the power of role-playing games. Most of us read the great post by the recreational therapist running a D&D game in California. Other prisoners have written about how their D&D games have helped them deal with life inside and help their fellow inmates. More importantly, if you are an American, you know how needlessly cruel, punitive, and dispiriting prisons are in this country. D&D and other RPGs are for everyone and prisoners need these games more than anyone.

One place that you can mail and specifically needs RPG books right now is Books to Prisoners in Seattle (they also have satellite groups in Portland, Olympia, and Spokane).

Also, here is long list of other programs and charities that send books to prisoners. You will need to check to make sure that they are accepting books and specifically accepting RPG materials. If, like me, you are in Texas then you can drop off books for Inside Books Project in Austin.

Books to donate, in order of how in demand* they are:

1. D&D core rules (PHB, DMG, MM), 5e > 3/3.5e > 4e > AD&D

2. Pathfinder core rules (PFCR, Bestiary)

3. Generic/Universal core rules (d20, FATE, GURPs, Savage Worlds, etc.)

4. SciFi & Star Wars core rules

5. Superhero system core rules

Other things to keep in mind:

• Don’t donate a boxed set or anything with dice or other stuff inside. Books only.

• Don’t donate books that are in poor condition.

• Don’t donate books that have lots of writing in the margins.

• Don’t send books with gratuitous violence on the cover.

• Do donate core manuals. Don’t donate obscure supplements.

• Do pressure Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and other game developers to join the community and donate their books directly to prisons.

• Do call your state elected officials if you are a Pennsylvanian and get them to reverse the ban on D&D and Pathfinder books in PA state prisons.

• Do find other ways to support the demands of striking prisoners in any way you can.

Send us a picture of the books you’ve mailed or dropped off for prisoners and we will add them to the gallery!

In solidarity,
DMs Matt & Rob
Dungeon Master of None

*Based off three conversations with a books-to-prisoners volunteers around the country who knew enough to differentiate these books.

Books donated by Matt’s Texas group.

DM Tip: Easy Nameplates!

Make name tents for your players.  It's easy! Use an old folder, a printer, and some tape.  Done!  These really help your players remember everyone's names in the first few sessions!