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A Shrine to Lies

A Shrine to Lies

Alright, the Darkness-spammers are here to party; Devils have a huge natural advantage in darkness, so it just makes sense to keep some squidlocks around to ink the place up. More even than that, though, these warlocks are built around looking and feeling powerful, around making sure that when they take an action, something of consequence happens. Can't be making the boss look bad, after all. View Post

The Season of Flame

The Season of Flame

Experimental Blood-fueled Hellfire Pyromancies are the name of the game with these cults and subclass; they've got the power and flexibility to go a whole cultin' career without ever casting a non-fire spell, though said career is likely to end with them consumed by their own magical recklessness.

Pappa Nurgle would be proud

Pappa Nurgle would be proud

The great plague is perfected, let the age of cleansing begin! Unless you're still working through stuff, in which case.... uh, don't do that! These Baalzeboys play a bit oddly; they want a lot of wounded and afflicted enemies around them so they're incentivized to spread their damage around, dropping slow-damaging curses and diseases on everyone around (even allies, potentially) and harvesting...

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Infernal Support Group

Infernal Support Group

Glasya is one of the most enthusiastic collaborators in the hells, and her cults reflect that trait, often found in tense alliances with cults devoted to other entities. This warlock and cultist set are centered around getting someone else to do their fighting for them, stacking powerful buffs to turn their chosen champion into a combat monster.

Master List 1.43

Blessed be, I have not perished under July's heat. This year's renfaire was 30 degrees cooler than last's, which is good because I was fighting in armor and literally would have died. Now only August's furor remains to be faced; my hopes of surviving the season remain high. Warg Riders will be pleased to find that the Early Access doc now finally contains all the player content rolled together ...

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August Whirlwind Rewards

August Warg Rider Rewards

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Finally, Strahd "The Von" Zarovich has come to Conflux

Finally, Strahd "The Von" Zarovich has come to Conflux

Got a proper Strahd for you at long last, based very directly on the work of Dragnacarta; I figure no sense in reinventing the wheel when he'd made something excellent already, and I really had to stretch to make something I like better than it.

if you're running Curse of Strahd and not using his CoS: Reloaded re...

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DM Tuz Guest Post - Unbound Monsters

DM Tuz Guest Post - Unbound Monsters

I've got some exceedingly cool monsters from DM Tuz here today, an old friend who you may know from his work adapting Darkest Dungeon to 5e; here you'll find a spread of catlike fairies called Feylines, and a bunch of offbeat golems made from things like glass, tar, tumors, funerary urns, and even a full house.

Tuz is...

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Cold, Ice Cold

Cold, Ice Cold

Levistus is quietly the angriest person in the hells, forced to manage his layer through just yelling real loud from his frozen tomb, ever since Asmodeus cut his power budget to beef up Glasya's after ruining his reputation.

His subclass is more of a bottom-up design than some of the others I've done, revolving mechanically around the ability to just be the best at being an Armor of Agath...

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Phlegethosi Religious Practices

Phlegethosi Religious Practices

Look, you just can't have 45 devil-cultist stat blocks without some of them being themed around torment; what distinguishes these guys from the whip-and-chain crowd on the demonic side of the aisle is they're not particularly into it; suffering is all about dour self-improvement and grindset for these folks.

On the subclass side of things, warlocks of Belial/Fierna get to make any spell d...

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Belial and Fierna

Belial and Fierna

Got a two-for-one deal on archdevils today; I didn't forget about everyone's least favorite archdevils (okay maybe a little), they just needed time to cook! These a little stripped back in their power and complexity budgets, but that's because it's meant to be reasonable to run them as a duo, both in terms of challenge to the PCs and to the DM.

Also got some Despair-Cult Oni here from Cob...

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Master List 1.42

Who's tried out Daggerheart? It's got some interesting looking mechanics and presentation that I definitely intend to steal, but I'm curious how they feel at the table.

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Time for a bling era

Time for a bling era

I'm sick of fighting poor people in D&D, normalize rich bandits! Today for your viewing and playing pleasure I have a slate of Mammon cultists, perfect for complementing that Usurer's Guild from a bit ago, and a subclass that lets you buy extra spell slots from your patron (it's less unbalanced th...

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Panopticon!

Panopticon!

Jeremy Bentham is one of my favorite philosophers, but he really screwed us over laying the groundwork for the modern prison-industrial complex, so bit of an L there.

In D&D, though, oppressive security and a surveillance state can be fun! Here's the cults of Dispater, good for prison wardens and spymasters. I've also got him as a warlock patron, for an ultracautious playstyle where n...

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Let's put the War back in Warlock

Let's put the War back in Warlock

You know, demons got five warlock subclasses in my demon book, I think it's only fair to do nine more for devils, with cults for each of them.

After all, how the hell are you supposed to integrate a devilish big bad into your setting without a robust cult architecture to hang them off of? These devils are Distinct Characters with Big Vibes and their worshippers should reflect that!

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Myconids and Merrow

Myconids and Merrow

More updates to some basics; the myconids were maybe my worst stat blocks to have survived this long, so it feels good to get them cleaned up properly, and it was a fun challenge trying to make the merrow feel distinct from the twenty other sorts of merman I've got already.

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Crawlers and Floaters

Crawlers and Floaters

Got a beefier elder brain variant here for those who want more of a solo fight from it, and and an update to carrion crawlers that tries to address some of my pain points with them; as scary as 1 minute of inescapable paralysis might be, being locked out of a full fight like that is kind of lame.

Master List 1.41

June heat is oppressive out here (especially if you're in armor), but Free RPG Day nears; don't forget to light a candle for Martin of Tours, patron saint of not paying for things.

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Beasthearts and Merchants

Beasthearts and Merchants

More 3rd party adventurers! These ones are based on MCDM's Beastheart and the Merchant class by Taron Pounds; both deliver really satisfying encapsulations of their core fantasy and play delightfully at the table.

Atavists and Blood Hunters

Atavists and Blood Hunters

Watch your fingers, there's a lot of edge here; today we're rolling blocks based on the Blood Hunter by Matt Mercer and the Atavist by SwordMeow.

You should get a pretty good sense from these why people whin...

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Gribble and Grumblyn - Collab with The Fluffy Folio and Printable Heroes

Gribble and Grumblyn - Collab with The Fluffy Folio and Printable Heroes

All right, strap in buckaroos, y'all ain't ready for how cute these awful little guys are. Getting to collab with people like this is the coolest part of this job.

The grumblyn is a horrible invisible drop-bear that curdles your potions and makes you blame your problems on your friends, and the gribble is a nasty devil-chihuahua centaur that will ruin your life unless you give it constant...

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Kelfecil's Tales - Throne of Cinders

Kelfecil's Tales - Throne of Cinders

In addition to your regularly scheduled monsters, I've got a level 20 infernal adventure here by Kelfecil's Tales with art by Dusky Cat and maps by Sliph to share with y'all in ant...

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Warlords and Gunslingers

Warlords and Gunslingers

You can never have enough ratcatchers on hand; they do tend to expire on you just when you need them. Here's a slate of adventurer blocks based on some of the cleanest 3rd party class designs out there; the Warlord by KibblesTasty and the Gunslinger by 2025-05-05 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Master List 1.40

The siren song of Oblivion calls out, yet must yield before the inexorable tide of calendar observances, so release your goats and get ready to revel, its International Workers day!

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