Advent's Amazing Advice

Phadnelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 3c Cragmaw Castle)

Welcome to the next installment of the PaB: The Shattered Obelisk series. In this session, your players will find themselves at Cragmaw Castle where they will have to battle through a castle filled with goblins in order to reach the missing Gundren. I've made a few minor changes to the original to make it a more engaging encounter. The main one is altering the final encounter to use the mechani...

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 3b Ruins of Thundertree)

Congratulations on surviving your first dragon encounter! Did you talk your way out or perhaps you thought steel was the better option. Whichever you choose, may decide your fate in the future to come. Your players will now find themselves in Thundertree, where an evil dragon resides, an enemy of Torhaem and perhaps all of Phandalin. Here your players may learn the path to Cragmaw and possibly ...

Delivery Witches Apply Within

Delivery Witches Apply Within is a level 3 One-Shot/Side-Quest for 1-2 players. Inspired by Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki and Kiki's Delivery Service your player will meet a strange black cat who leads them to the Kat and Cake Bakery where they'll try to prove themselves worthy of the title Delivery Witch by delivering a set of packages. These aren't just any ordinary deliveries, throughout you'...

January 2024 Wrap Up

It's the first monthly wrap of the new year and boy is it a big one! So much has happened already, so let's dive right in!

Contest Winners

I'm thrilled to announce the winners of Advent's One-Shot Challenge and the incredibly talented individuals who will be joining our team!

Nyx - 1st Place
Alanna (AJ) - 2nd Place

Special sh...

The Delian Tomb (Contest Winners)

The results are in, and I'm excited to announce that Nyx and Alanna (AJ) are the 1st and 2nd place winners of Advent's One-Shot Challenge! The goal was simple: find people who could prep in a style similar to mine so that I could work with them and expand Advent's Amazing Advice! I was blown away by the results, and I'm proud to show you what they've come up with!

The Delian Tomb is a Le...

A Deep and Creeping Darkness

It's finally time for the level 4 Adventure from Candlekeep Mysteries that you all voted on A Deep and Creeping Darkness! Coming in at over 20 pages of notes and 23 tracks to set the mood! This Adventure was quite the endeavor, but I'm very excited with how it turned out! I can't wait to hear all the stories from your sessions! Good Luck to all your players...they'll need it!

Candlekeep a...

December 2023 Wrap Up

Wait what, when did this happen, how did 2023 disappear like that!? It's absolutely wild how fast this year has gone by. So much has happened; between creating a new banner and avatar, unlocking 2024-01-01 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Advent's Amazing Advice Is Hiring!!!

The time has finally come, I've been working on Advent's Amazing Advice for well over a year now! Thanks to all the support you've shown, I'm finally in the position where I can add someone to the team to lighten the load of prepping! With their assistance, I'll be able to expand the ways I can help everyone!

In order to find the perfect person, I'm creating a contest. Th...

A Holiday One-Shot (2023)

The Year is almost over and the Holidays are fast approaching; which means now is the perfect time to get all your friends together for another Amazing Holiday One-Shot!!!

You've all heard of them before, one of my all-time favorite creators Loot Tavern made a fantastic One-Shot called The Spectres of Midwinter! I...

November 2023 Wrap Up

Holy Cow, it's actually December, how did we get here already!? This year has gone by in the blink of an eye! It's pretty clear you wanted to finish things off strong which is why you helped us reach the next Milestone! Speaking of Milestones, let's talk about that and a bunch more below!

Milestone One-Shot

I never expected to get here so fast and yet here we are ag...

[Poll] What One-Shot Should I Prep Next?

For those of you who celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving! It feels like I'm making these posts faster than I can prep! You guys are just tearing through milestone after milestone! Which of course means another vote for which Bonus One-Shot you'd like to see me prep! We've been here a bunch before, so let's get to i...

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 3a Reign of Iron)

Welcome back once again! This is the twist we've all been waiting for. The base version of Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk is fun, but it lacks in a few departments. One of which is The Big Bads; both Venomfang and The Spider.

Thanks to this amazing One-Shot, courtesy of 2023-11-19 17:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Scarab of Death

Whew, another fully prepped One-Shot voted on by you has been completed and boy was this one a doozy! Coming in at nearly 20 pages this one was far more challenging than I had expected. I ended up using my experience from prepping Barber of Silverymoon for this one and created a bookmarked and indexed ...

October 2023 Wrap Up

Whew, it has been a heck of a month, I hope you all had a wonderful October! I've been hard at work getting quite a few releases out this month. We've got a lot to discuss, so buckle in!

Milestone One-Shot 1

I'm super excited to have completed prepping 2023-11-01 17:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 2b Redbrand Hideout)

Well done for making it this far. Here your party will find themselves at the Redbrand Hideout. This is a more typical dungeon crawl. Your players will have the option to enter from a few different locations, but overall things are relatively simple. Towards the end there's a chance for Glasstaff to escape, if he does, that's not a problem since your players will be able to encounter him later ...

Don't Say Vecna (Level 20, Milestone One-Shot)

You've been breaking milestones left and right for Advent's Amazing Advice so it's only right that we ascend once more to level 20 and take on one of the greatest D&D villain's of all time!

Don't Say Vecna is a level 20 One-Shot by Michael Galvis...

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 2a Phandalin)

Your adventure in the town of Phandalin is about to begin! What path will your players take? Will they end the tyranny of the Redbrands?

Congratulations on completing Part 1 of Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk! In Part 2, your party will find themselves in the town of Phandalin. If you've been using my notes for this, along with previous adventures, you'll noti...

The Haunt

It's October, the month of Halloween, so of course I had to prep a spine-chilling One-Shot! The Haunt is one of the highest-rated 5th-level Horror-Themed One-Shots around by Phil Beckwith. In it, your pl...

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (Part 1 Cragmaw Hideout)

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk stems from The Lost Mine of Phandelver a classic and beloved starter set that ma...

September 2023 Wrap Up

We're finally into Fall, and the Spooky Month is here! October is going to be Amazing, and that's because thanks to all of you, we reached our next Milestone! You can read more on that below, along with everything new that's been happening and will happen!

Milestone One-Shot

It seems like I'm writing about this every month, and I couldn't be happier, it's amazing wa...

[Poll] What One-Shot Should I Prep Next?

You all did it even faster than I could have imagined, I'm speechless! In just over a month we reached our next milestone and a massive one at that! I didn't know if I'd ever be able to see us reach $1,000 a month, but here we are! Only $160 more and I'll officially be making minimum wage in the US. No...

Grammy's Country Apple Pie

We're back at it again with another Level 1+ One-Shot, this time by the amazing Jennifer Adcock! Grammy's Country Apple Pie is the perfect One-Shot to run for a group of kids who are looking to just have some fun. They can go in the hard way and try to fight everything...