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Test Yourself and Your Players with 100 Trials, Games & Competitions for D&D 5e

A book titled "100 Trials, Games & Competitions" is prominently displayed in the foreground, featuring a colorful cover illustration depicting a lively competition scene with numerous spectators. The background shows a festive atmosphere with blurred figures and decorations, suggesting a vibrant event. The title and the publisher's name, "Paws for Effect," are artistically integrated into the design, enhancing the overall theme of games and challenges.

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Paws for Effect’s latest Kickstarter is now in its final 48 hours.

Entitled 100 Trials, Games & Competitions for D&D 5e, this new project presents D&D players with a book containing, well, 100 trials, games and competitions. It has been designed to enrich scenarios and campaigns with ‘little sparks of culture and personality that give a setting its charm’; these sparks are presented in the form of various challenges and tests.

The book has been devised to present not only a deep dive into the ‘many ways people compete, celebrate, and test their limits’, but also a range of challenges which GMs can drop into their games ‘on a moment’s notice’. Said challenges range from spellcaster zap battles, The Princess Bride-style duels of wit and wisdom, or even tests ‘handed down by the gods themselves’. Whatever the case, each one is designed to imbue scenarios and games a variety of fun and engaging Gordian brainteasers and conundrums for your characters to contest.

A section of the book provides DMs with guidance on how to present and preside over these challenges and vignettes.

Although designed for 5e, 100 Trials, Games & Competitions for D&D 5e is system agnostic and can be used in any TTRPG system. It is available in full-colour PDF, and both soft and hardcover formats.

This campaign is already fully funded. It send son ends on Wednesday, January 7th at 6:40 PM UTC.

See the Kickstarter page for more details.

Images courtesy of Paws for Effect

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