Questions tagged [campaign-settings]
For questions primarily about published or player-created game worlds in which ongoing adventures take place.
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Am I allowed to use the name Greyhawk in a group name and website name?
I have been running a 5e D&D group for several years with the tentative title "Spoils of Greyhawk" since the main campaigns have been placed in the World of Greyhawk.
I am now looking to ...
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How can I best set expectations for and run a campaign in a darker setting?
Having played in multiple 5e campaigns over the past few years I've felt like a lot of campaigns have a "happy go lucky" nature about them - where my fellow players and I are playing mostly ...
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Which official rules books and adventures are based in the world of Toril, or have a setting accessible from Toril?
I recently started trying to look at lore of the Forgotten Realms and Toril, and it has made me curious which rule books (such as the Player's Handbook and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything), setting ...
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Who are Los Aterradores?
Impossible Lands (pg.226) shows three key factions in the Mana Wastes. One of them is Los Aterradores. Who is this faction?
I didn't see any substantive description of them in the rest of the section.
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Is this a good homebrew pantheon? [closed]
For my homebrew setting, I was wondering if this pantheon was balanced, with enough deities for every role and not too much overlap.
Ink-The god of knowledge, study, and learning. They have made it ...
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Can you run D&D 5e in a post-modern setting without magic?
I recently found a PDF on DMs guild about cyberpunk D&D and didn't feel that I wanted to run it with magic. The main 3 casting classes that have a subclass in the PDF are artificer, cleric and ...
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What are the fictional differences between the original Iron Kingdoms and Requiem?
I played and really enjoyed the Iron Kingdoms campaign setting for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Now they’ve returned to Dungeons & Dragons with Iron Kingdoms: Requiem for the ...
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What information is there on the latitude of different countries/cities in the Forgotten Realms setting?
My party has relocated our 'base' to the island of Lantan, and I'm wondering what latitude it's at in the Forgotten Realms setting.
According to the Forgotten Realms Wiki, in 3e Waterdeep was at about ...
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I seek some campaign setting, but I only remember the description of one creature from this
I'm looking for one setting. I read one d20 rule book about 10 years ago. There was described a large angel-like humanoid creature of epic level, which was painful just to be in the material plane, ...
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Campaing/adventure recomendations for a new company [closed]
I will be mastering a "The one ring" group and i'm looking for adventures or campaigns recomendations. I found there is a lot of content but i'm a little confused about what level is each ...
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How would closing borders and supply routes affect local market prices? [closed]
I'm developing a world where governments are freaking out over a perceived threat (not a virus). The stars have disappeared and the gods have seemingly abandoned them. Many leaders have ordered their ...
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What tabletop setting (if any) is this 1980s map from?
My dad found a photo from his college D&D game, and we're wondering what setting this map on the wall might be from.
The photo was taken in 1986, and my dad doesn't recall any specific setting ...
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Does an Underdark exist in D&D worlds other than the Forgotten Realms?
Basic Rules, pg. 307:
Underdark Cities. The dark elves build fantastic cities in enormous caverns where food and water are abundant...
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I realize we don't have settings books for Dragonlance, ...
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Is it reasonable to have an extremely overpowered GMPC accompany the party early on to let them with enemies that they can't overcome on their own?
I created a scenario that features an antagonist who has armies of demons and creatures at their disposal.
I made a gmpc character to help my players because the game features a ton of difficult ...
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Stylistic, Mechanical and Contextual summaries of Candlekeep Mysteries
My group is playing through Candlekeep, which consists of 17 different 'Mysteries', each tied to a book that the party finds in Candlekeep.
Only one of us is an experienced DM, but we agreed it would ...
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