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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GURPS supplement for Poul Anderson's "High Crusade"?
Recently I've been re-reading the amusing novel "The High Crusade" by Poul Anderson and enjoyed it as much as I did back then.
As I was reading, a thought came to my mind: I seemed to ...
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Are there official rules for Vecna published for 5E?
I am considering creating a campaign with Vecna as the main antagonist.
The Critical Role show has the party fight against Vecna with Matt Mercer having stats and rules he refers to, I am trying to ...
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What happens on a critically failed secret check while camping in "Age of Ashes - Cult of Cinders"?
I have a question concerning the Camp in the Mwangi Jungle activity taking place during the exploration of the jungle in the part 2 Cult of Cinders of the Age of Ashes campaign.
The activity is ...
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How can live fire exercises be made safer?
My group is in Waterdeep, and our wizard would love to help train the world-famous griffon cavalry, especially in evading fireballs. That is, he wants to hurl fireballs at them that they need to evade....
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Campaign in already existing world and story - fear of NPC domination
I am attempting to create a campaign utilizing a setting and lore from an already established series, World of Warcraft, but I fear my players may feel their story and characters overshadowed by this ...
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Can Blades in the Dark be played in a custom setting?
I'm looking at systems for my next campaign. Currently I really like the look of Blades in the Dark however I have one concern before I invest in buying the rulebook.
Every review of the system I ...
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What D&D setting or universe resembles Warcraft's Outlands?
A few years ago, I wrote a homebrew campaign. For a few levels of the campaign, the players are teleported from a city within the Forgotten Realms setting into another dimension of the multi-verse. I ...
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Has Brian Jacques's estate licensed the Redwall IP for an official role-playing game?
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Is there an RPG system that has been licensed for the Redwall setting created by Brian Jacques? I expect the answer to be "No" so as a follow up, has there been ...
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Is Matt Mercer's homebrew setting of Exandria now considered an official setting, as of the release of the "Explorer's Guide to Wildemount"?
Now that Explorer's Guide to Wildemount is out, I'm curious to know how much of Matt Mercer's homebrew content is now considered "official". Since this is a first-party WotC official D&D ...
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How can I write up interesting filler for my campaign? [closed]
At the end of the fourth session, just yesterday, I actually ran out of content for the session almost an hour before I thought I would.
So I'm going to employ the old 'Adventurer's Guild' trope to ...
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Are the Tiefling subraces from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes specific to a particular campaign setting?
Are the Tiefling subraces from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes specific to a particular campaign setting?
In Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (MTF) there is a section on Tiefling Subraces (p.21), which ...
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How can I write a historical timeline for my campaign's magical world?
I'm writing a campaign and I'm a big fan of history and I want to write a history of my campaign's world.
The problem is, I have no idea how to do this.
I am aware that I should bullet point wars ...
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What are the campaign settings published for AD&D 2nd Ed? [closed]
I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons since the second edition, and my brother and I want to try to buy used second edition campaign box settings (Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, etc...).
When I ...
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Does Forgotten Realms setting count as “High magic”?
Could you please provide some sources about that? I am asking about the categories listed in the DMG in the Starting Equipment equipment table, and for calculating price of enchantment items and such ...
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How do we know what content is in/from the different settings?
How do I know what is in the different settings? (e.g. races, classes, landmarks, and history). I can't find anything in the PHB except the Gods of the different settings. Is there a guide to know ...
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