Paladins: Better Oathbreakers
A paladin is defined by her oath. She practices its tenets even before swearing to them formally at 3rd level. Tension between... 2022-01-25 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Matthew Perkins posts
The Montage Dungeon
Open-world sandboxes can feel overwhelming to run. This supplement explains how to condense sprawling sandbo... 2021-12-13 14:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobold Krafts
Kobolds are masters of their environment. They are renowned for defending their lairs with deadly traps of improbable design. ... 2021-11-22 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Eyestalk Wands
Players love harvesting monster guts... It's gross, but true! So when they encounter a floating mass of tentacles and eyeballs... 2021-11-08 21:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Battle Map: River on the Autumn Ley
Hey everyone!
Here are five A4-sized versions of this river in the Feywild with the central log in different positions, each with a full-inch, half-inch or no grid. I had a play with some watercolours last night 2021-09-25 05:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Bi-annual Shareholder's Report #003: 20-21 Financial Year
Every six months I try to share some insight and updates into how your support helps me run the YouTube channel and its overall financial position. I actually love writing these breakdowns and reflecting on the business, because I believe being in...
2021-09-13 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMPDM Player Role Cards
Hi everyone!
This is the companion piece to this video which I just released on my friend Anto's channel. This video was prerecorded ages ago – I promise I'm not working ...
2021-08-13 19:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostMPDM Conversation Combat
Inspired by Critical Role... When the Mighty Nein faced off against a friend-turned-foe, Matt Mercer let the players use their... 2021-08-04 16:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Gnarly Options for Gnolls
Gnolls deserve love too! This supplement aims to provide some extra tools to help you flavour gnolls, turning them from malici... 2021-07-05 22:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Giant Attack, Giant Commander statblock
Hey friends!
Here are the generic stats I'm suggesting you use for your assault on the starting town in Chapter 2 of Storm King's Thunder. This is a combat against the Giant Commander and a number of minions equal to the number of players in...
2021-06-29 05:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Giant Attack, Chapter 2 of Storm King's Thunder
One unlucky town in Storm King's Thunder is about to get wrecked by giants – that's just a fact. But this campaign doesn't h... 2021-06-22 11:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Expanded Stat Blocks
The official stat blocks are too cramped... 2021-06-07 04:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Alternate Villains of the Lost Mine
If your villain dies early, replace her! Iarno has written to the Black Spider, indicating he's betrayed her and set her in op... 2021-05-25 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Treasures of the Deep
Here are six magic items for your water-world adventure! The fun of an underwater campaign relies on the authenticity of the s... 2021-05-10 22:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Character Breakdown: The Storm Preceptor
Your villain is important!
Think of it this way: the story is happening because of the villain, so you might as well kn... 2021-05-04 11:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Index Post: The Pea Pod
This is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to the Perkins Patreon Podcast, lovingly known as the Pea Pod.
All episodes in reverse-release order
Index Post: Lost Mines of Phandelver
This is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to the Lost Mines of Phandelver. You can find all the videos about LMoP here. Even th...
2021-05-01 18:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostSKT Exposition Checklist
This is a checklist of every piece of information in Storm King's Thunder, incremented by level of detail. The idea is to print this out and cross off items once you're sure your players have discovered that information.
At the moment, this ...
2021-05-01 18:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostIndex Post: Storm King's Thunder
This is an index of every MPDM Patreon post relating to Storm King's Thunder. You can find all the videos about SKT here. I will add a...
2021-04-27 13:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostMPDM Battle Companions [free preview version]
Every combat encounter can be its own story—a tale with its own heroes and villains, its own tension and plot. And like any good story, a good combat can be ruined by poor pacing. When combat has too many combatants taking too many turns, it...
2021-04-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Companions: Core Rules
Every combat encounter can be its own story—a tale with its own heroes and villains, its own tension and plot. And like any good story, a goo... 2021-04-24 03:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Bi-annual Shareholder's Report #002: October 2020 - March 2021
I try to put every dollar the channel earns back into covering costs, improving production, filling a Perkins-shaped hole in the internet. I made this YouTube channel in April 2018 to promote my DriveThruRPG products, then launched this Patreon in...
2021-04-01 23:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostWIP: New styles and rebranding
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I got bit by some crazy bug last night which compelled me to change everything. It's been on my to-do list for MONTHS to revamp how Patreon PDFs look and my general aesthetic across every platform. I'm really just play...
2021-03-20 01:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostEmotion vocabulary wheel
Hi everyone!
This is something which I was planning to release on the 19th, but it's relevant to the video coming out soon so here it is early. The idea is to use this wheel to break down how your character is feeling so you can describe it ...
2021-02-15 11:43:02 +0000 UTC View PostThundertree maps
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Last week I posted this video all about Thundertree: https://youtu.be/agzZOagEaQQ
So here is the map I made for the video! It's broken into encounter-b...
2021-01-24 03:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostSentient Weapons of the Shadowvale
When the party succeeds in lighting the brazier, whichever spirit was used to kindle the Everflame sheds its personality into a weapons of the party's choosing.
These sentient weapons are custom rewards I've designed for this one-shot advent...
2021-01-11 02:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostSanta's Sleigh statblock
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Rather than wait till this Friday, I'm putting this one out now to coincide with today's Xmas one-shot video. In the video, I suggest playing a battle where Santa's Sleigh has been stolen and represents a battle hazard in comba...
2020-12-21 22:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostWave Echo Cave maps
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I thought some people might get some use out of these battlemaps for the Wave Echo Cave video. These are half-inch grids, so if you blow them up to 2x, you'll have a 1-inch grid. Attached is a PDF of the whole dungeon and indi...
Here's an Among Us dungeon map
Hi everyone!
This is a little bit silly, but at the start of Christmas week I'll be releasing a video about how to turn Among Us into a holiday one-shot. So while I'm stuck without a computer still, I figured I'd draw a dungeon map while wat...
2020-12-11 10:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostWave Echo Cave handouts: Mapping tool, Lore Loot
Hey everyone!
This is simultaneously late from last week and early from this week, because both items are thematically tied to this week's video.
These location cards are different than usual, because you can use these...
2020-11-30 09:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post