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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How to pass a world to a different DM
I'm about to pass the campaign setting I've been working on to a different DM. I've given them the references I made and I've done some slight explaining of certain elements.
Is there anything else I ...
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Which dark SciFi Fate Core settings other then Mindjammer exist? [closed]
I want a list of dark SciFi Fate Core settings.
I have already looked Mindjammer, which can be played with a grim mood in mind.
Are there anything else?
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I'm feeling like my character doesn't fit the campaign
My boyfriend is DMing a D&D 5e game for a good friend of mine and I. It's a pirate themed campaign, which I was excited about, and takes place in a universe where magic is not believed in by most (...
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Any good rulesets that are gritty, dark, and low-magic? [closed]
I am currently making a world setting for my group of players and I was hoping for recommendations for any ruleset that is
Low-Magic - A hint of magic known to those who are born into special ...
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A spell that let's you travel to another setting. Which level would it be? [closed]
My last campaign took place in the Forgotten Realms. The characters lived in a kingdom, which was threatened to be annihilated by some strange outside force. In the course of the story, the characters ...
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How exactly do "Domains of Dread" function?
So I've never played Curse of Strahd or anything in the Ravenloft campaign setting - but I'm working on my own campaign world and I was reading through some texts and found out about Domains of Dread. ...
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What changes would the City Domain (UA) need to work in Waterdeep? [closed]
I am hoping to start running Dragon Heist in the near future (leading in to Dungeon of the Mad Mage) and would like to make the Unearthed Arcana City Domain available to users. While it introduces ...
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What would it take for a villain to get his domain transported to Ravenloft on purpose?
In all the cases I can remember in which somebody got taken by the mists to become a Dark Lord, it happened to an unwilling subject (which makes sense, given the torment they suffer there).
Let's ...
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What is the world of Ravnica like, outside the Tenth District?
Ravnica is an ecumenopolis: a world-wide city.
The biggest map in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica shows only the 10th district. Its diameter is around 10 miles, which makes it as large as Amsterdam. ...
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What human ethnicities exist in other settings besides the Forgotten Realms?
There are 9 human ethnicities mentioned in the PHB (pages 30-31): Calishite, Chondathan, Damaran, Illuskan, Mulan, Rashemi, Shou, Tethyrian, Turami.
The Player's Handbook says under "Human Names ...
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What areas are there where magic is forbidden or "dead"?
I want to write a campaign where magic is totally absent using an existing setting—like an existing area where magic is strictly forbidden by authorities or an existing dead magic zone.
For the ...
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How common is faction membership in Planescape?
The second-edition setting Planescape introduced 15 factions for player and NPC usage. I'm in the early stages of running one of the Planescape adventures and I'm wondering: how common is faction ...
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Which Golarion features are important to Curse of the Crimson Throne?
I'm trying to convert this Adventure Path to a different setting, namely the Forgotten Realms, possibly in the mapped areas (Faerun).
In doing so; I need to know which features of the Golarion ...
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If Drow and Duergar are allowed as monsters in the D&D 5e SRD, are they allowed as subraces as well?
I'm developing a campaign setting with my S.O. which we intend to publish. (We're uncertain of exactly where we'll publish yet.) I was reading through the D&D 5e SRD released under OGL to see what ...
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War: Cyberpunk 2020 vs Shadowrun [closed]
I've been reading a lot about Cyberpunk 2020 and Shadowrun, mostly 4&5e for Shadowrun. What I notice is there are large standing armies in Cyberpunk 2020, but in Shadowrun I only see "Security ...
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How does Mind Control work against a Stormer?
I'm going to be running Emerald City Knights soon and I have a question: what would happen if a Psychic attempted to Mind Control a Stormer?
Taken from Emerald City Knights:
While two of the ...
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Has anyone tried adapting "Rivers of London" as a RPG setting? [closed]
I am a big fan of the series of books and graphic novels by Ben Aaronovitch, collectively named after the first book in series, Rivers of London (sometimes also called the Peter Grant series after the ...
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Moving between different D&D universes
I have a group of mid-high level players. As part of some D&D shenanigans, I wanted to have them plop into Athas (Dark Sun) as a surprise joke. But knowing them, sadistic as they are, they might ...
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Creating an RPG with a similar setting to Shadowrun: is it a derivative work?
I have spent a lot of time looking at both other posts on this form about derivative work and its actual definition/ conditions, but I would like to hear your thoughts on this specific case. I have ...
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Is there a Forgotten Realms campaign setting book for D&D 5e?
To immerse myself into the world of the Forgotten Realms I wanted to pick up a book or source materials of the lore.
Is there a comparable book like it exists for Pathfinder with the Inner Sea World ...
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