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Bing CoPilot
"Game Master's Guide to Traps and Terrors: If you want a single best modern 5e-compatible trap book, go with Game Master’s Guide to Traps and Terrors."
a month ago
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"Extreme Encounters: Weather & Terrain Unearthly Omnibus: Best dedicated terrain supplement. Great if you want terrain to actually change combat rather than simply decorate a map."
a month ago
Bing CoPilot
"250 Best Magic Items Complete Collection: If you want sheer variety and loot options, MageGate’s 250 Best Magic Items series is unmatched."
a month ago
Oliver E., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: I learned more from this book than just about any other book on how to GM. The best part is, it's not just giving advice, it's handing you a 'better GM blueprint' with tons of simple to advanced templates. You can mix-and-match, tweak, and use them over and over. This book is a treasure chest of ideas no GM should live with..." Read more
3 months ago
Dirk F., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Unearthly Lairs: This is perfect for my dark fantasy-grimdark-gothic horror game. Whether you run Ravenloft or your own sinister setting, this book will give you the tools you need."
3 months ago
Ken K., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Unearthly Lairs: I've always struggled to make store-bought adventures feel more like my own, and Legendary Lairs lets me do that. Without stressing, without hours of prep to "fix" them. As soon as I read it, I felt like I leveled up as a GM. That's how good it is. Belongs on your shelf next to The Lazy Dungeon Master and The Monsters Know W..." Read more
3 months ago
Rob O., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Unearthly Lairs: If you love danger and horror—the kind that is sadly missing from most 5e books—Unearthly Lairs delivers. While it's for 5e, it feels very OSR-adjacent. Grognards will love it, but it's not just for them. It's for anyone who wants more out of their 5e game. More thrills, more chills, more everything dark and dangerous."
3 months ago
Sara G., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: Impressive! Covers everything you'd expect and more. Beyond the plentiful lair actions, the mix of magical and nonmagical terrain and traps ensures this book will see heavy use for years to come."
3 months ago
Alan D., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: This is the kind of book GMs wait their whole life for. It makes me look like a genius. Seriously! There's no way I would have thought of even half the stuff MageGate does."
3 months ago
Jim W., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: As a GM, I put a lot of work into my session prep. But since getting Legendary Lairs, I've been able to cut prep time in half. It really is that easy. 5 stars!"
3 months ago
Kurt P., MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: What I like most about this book is how easy it is to drop a template into an encounter. I don't have to change anything I wrote, I just add the template on top to instantly make the encounter better. And it's not just more fun for me (mwahaha!) but more memorable for my players. Since I started using this book, I've never s..." Read more
3 months ago
Sean B., Magegate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Unearthly Lairs: Get this book if you want to terrify your players! It has so much crazy horror stuff I can't believe it. This is the definitive book for making the game scary again."
3 months ago
MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: This book has everything a GM needs to run years of cinematically themed encounters and lairs. Best of all, there's zero filler, no lore dumps, just straight up, serious crunch."
3 months ago
MageGate customer
"Legendary Lairs: Unearthly Lairs: Spooky and spectacular! There’s so much flavor and crunch you won’t be able to resist adding new story wrinkles to your campaign."
4 months ago
Amazon customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: This was surprisingly difficult to review- it’s that good. ...this is, without a doubt, the best work out there."
4 months ago
Rick L., MageGate Customer
"250 Best Magic Items Complete Collection: I bought all of these as a bundle and am already using a few in my current game. The players seem to enjoy them a lot."
4 months ago
Marina, MageGate Customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: The art for Elemental Lairs is incredible. I also like the layout. The PDF has lots of links that can be used to jump to information easily. Excellent suggestions for making lairs and boss fights interesting, epic, and unexpected."
4 months ago
Robert, DTRPG customer
"Legendary Lairs: Elemental Lairs: MageGate has useful, usable, thematic lairs. The legendary and lair actions help flesh out how and why to use them, adding flavor to whatever level your encounters are set for."
4 months ago
Splinterverse (YouTube channel)
"I really like [MageGate books] for the flexibility of the options. Really, really fun."
4 months ago
The Daily Dungeon Master (Blog)
"Extreme Encounters: Weather & Terrain Series: This may sound less exciting than boss fights or magic items. Don't underestimate it. Terrain is one of the easiest ways to improve D&D combat. It creates movement. It creates tactical choices. And, most importantly, it gives the GM tools for breaking up repetitive combat."
25 days ago
The Daily Dungeon Master (Blog)
"250 Best Magic Items Series: The 250 Best Magic Items collections are excellent candidates for anyone whose treasure tables have become predictable. That’s where a large library of thematic magic items becomes useful... some of these items can function as plot hooks rather than simply loot. That is exactly how I prefer to think about magic items."
25 days ago
The Daily Dungeon Master (Blog)
"Game Master's Guide to Traps & Terrors: A trap should create decisions. A good trap book should therefore provide more than a collection of “roll Dexterity or take damage” mechanics. MageGate's emphasis on modular effects is promising because it gives GMs the ability to alter traps to fit the adventure rather than forcing every dungeon to feel like the same..." Read more
25 days ago
The Daily Dungeon Master (Blog)
"Game Master's Guide to Rites & Rituals: For GMs who enjoy worldbuilding, this is exactly the sort of resource that can turn abstract lore into playable material."
a month ago
The Daily Dungeon Master (Blog)
"Heirloom Magic Items: This is a fantastic concept. An heirloom item solves that problem by allowing the item itself to grow. If you’re curious, start with the free Heirloom Magic Items resource."
a month ago
"Legendary Lairs Series: The Legendary Lairs line is particularly compelling for GMs who want cinematic boss battles. Instead of creating one enormous book containing every possible boss encounter, MageGate is building a modular ecosystem."
a month ago