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Gate Pass Gazette Issue #32

Issue 32 of the Gate Pass Gazette has now been added to the site. This is the October 2024 issue, and includes wild brew potion crafting rules, a way to corrupt regions for more difficult Exploration Challenges, new deadly monsters, new herald archetypes, and more!

Wild Brewing: An Unpredictable Art of Potion Crafting

You’ve picked your ingredients and gotten your cauldron bubbling, it’s time to put your best pointed hat on and start wild brewing! This article presents an alternative magic item crafting system of controlled chaos, granting the brewer some—but not complete—control of what potion will bubble up.

Regions of Dread: The Corrupted Region Template

Sometimes a region is so saturated with dark influence that forbidden magic and foul monsters just aren’t enough—sometimes you need to turn the corruptive force of the very land against your players! This article presents mechanics and examples to help Narrators turn any landscape into a region of dread.

Murderous Menagerie: Serial Killers

The threat of a murderer on the streets is reason enough to garner an adventuring party’s attentions, but a serial killer is another matter altogether. Consider this coterie of cruel criminals the next time the streets are bloodied in the night and give the PCs a real challenge!

Heralds of the Dark

Some heralds shine like a beacon of light drawing the righteous to them, others dive into the darkness to destroy it and save those captured by it, while some embrace the shadows as a weapon of their own. This article presents new herald archetypes who dive into the darkness to bring justice, hope, and redemption to your Level Up A5e games. By Marc Kenobi.

ISSUE 32 (October 2024)

  • Wild Brewing: An Unpredictable Art of Potion Crafting || Who Can Wild Brew and How? | Wild Brewing Tables
  • Regions of Dread: The Corrupted Region Template  || Corrupted Regions | Blasted Heath | Mist-Shrouded Mountain | Misty Fen | Poisoned Woods | Wolflands | Unending Night
  • Murderous Menagerie: Serial Killers || Alleyway Strangler | Freelinking: Node title Bone-Breaking Bruiser does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Catastrophic Killer does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Laughing Lacerator does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Poisonous Patissier does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Wily Widower does not exist
  • Heralds of the Dark || Freelinking: Node title Dark Scourge does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Deliverer does not exist | Freelinking: Node title Voice of Dawn does not exist

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