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[PR] 5 More Free Encounters from the 5E Adventure: Habitation of the Stone Giant Lord

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Stamford, CT, August 23, 2020 : The latest monsters and magic items are available now for free from the 5E RPG adventure, Habitation of the Stone Giant Lord . The Habitation of the Stone Giant Lord is a fan-created module created by Gaius Stern. He wrote the adventure when he was just fourteen years old. It is meant to be inserted into the “Against the Giants” series. It focuses on the "missing" giants in the series, the stone giants, and introduces a new type of giant, the rock giant. Tim Hutchings, archivist of The Play Generated Map and Document Archive (PlaGMaDA), was introduced to the manuscript in 2012 when it was donated to the archive by a game collector who goes by the pseudonym Scribe of New York City. He managed to track down the author and then Mike Tresca converted and updated the adventure for Fifth Edition. PlaGMaDA collects and preserves gaming ephemera created for or during actual game play. If you have gaming material please consider donating it to

[PR] 5 More Free Monsters from 5E Lovecraftian Horrors

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Stamford, CT, August 16, 2020 : The latest monsters are available now for free from the 5E RPG monster book, Lovecraftian Horrors . What if Every Horror Movie Was Written by Lovecraft? Dive into the unknowable, the unthinkable, and the unspeakable with this collection of over 70 monsters for popular fantasy role-playing games. This collection includes monsters inspired by popular horror movies and a diverse array of creatures from horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s original works. These monsters are true to the source material, which contains surprises for jaded adventurers. Players who think they know everything about Lovecraft’s mythos might be surprised to discover that shoggoths glow, wamps chuckle, and vooniths howl. There are plenty of aberrations in this collection, but there’s also fiends, undead, and a few plants. This PDF has a bookmarked table of contents, with monsters linked by creature type, challenge rating, and environment. Challenge ratings range from 1/8 to 25.

[PR] 5 More Free Monsters from 5E Fearsome Critters

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Stamford, CT, August 9, 2020 : The latest monsters are available now for free from the 5E RPG monster book, Fearsome Critters . "Fearsome critters" is a phrase for a uniquely American phenomenon. It first starts with American lumberjacks who were fond of inventing stories to pass the time. Sometimes those stories were invented to prank the newbies (known as “tenderfoots”), sometimes they were to explain unknown phenomena, and sometimes it’s clear they were created to just to be amusing. Often forgotten by fantasy bestiaries, these beasts are back to remind you that they're no pushovers. Inside, you'll find 47 new monsters for 5E games, ranging from the ball-tailed dingmaul to the soul-sucking dungavenhooter, from the fast-moving flitterick to the backwards-flying goofus bird, from the pathetic squonk to the elusive snipe ... they're all here, waiting to confound, confuse, and potentially consume adventurers. This PDF has a bookmarked table of contents, with