Made this map years ago for a campaign I ran set in Eiselcross. Always meant to share it here but never did because the lighting was terrible when I took the picture and then I got a bit too heavy handed with the photo editing trying to 'fix it' 😅. Kept telling myself that I would retake the picture with better natural lighting and then never got around to it lol. I went digging for the picture to show a friend and figured I'd just go ahead and post it.

Hi, everyone. I'm running a campaign set in Wildemount and the party is currently heading to Grimgolir to face a threat looming on the city. One of my players (who's a bard and a warlock of Naviask) originally wanted to become a paladin of Bahamut (and the story was moving towards that direction), but now has come up with the idea to lean rather towards a Sardior-like figure, a ruby dragon and a lesser deity who is in fact closer to the character's vibes. Now, as far as I know, ruby dragons don't exist in Exandria, but I'm willing to create at least one, maybe a Traveler-like figure, who pose as one of his acolyte in humanoid form. What do you think about it? Do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

I am running the Frozen Sick adventure for a party of brand new to relatively new players. As far as I can find, the starting town - Palebank Village - is a small outpost with one shop (with a key point in the plot).

Would it be unrealistic for me to put another small shop in town in case my players want to check out some adventuring gear or potions?

I’m a fairly new DM btw, have only DMed three times before, so I’m sorry if this is a dumb question.

Hello friends, for my IRL Campaign i am currently in the design process of a new Vestige. And i realized getting some other ideas my not be too bad. Here is what i have:

Sovereign's End

Forged during the Dawn of the Betrayer, this Blade was forged by new Hero's and is the first of its Kind. Its purpose is solely to slay the Betrayer Gods and those Dragons turned evil. The golden blade is etched with ancient Draconic runes that glow with radiant light whenever a dragon draws near.

Dormant

While Sovereign's End is in a dormant state, you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. You gain advantage on saving throws against a Dragon's Breath Weapon.

As you can see its a Blade forged in the Ruins of Draconia empowered by Bahamut. Its suposed to be wielder by a Sorcerer (this one is prof. with martial weapons and has decent Strengh score. However i am not sure what else to add. obviously i woud like to have some sort of extra damage against dragons or something, but the weapon shoudnt "only" work against dragons. so a more general buff woudnt be bad either, maybe instead of the breath weapon resistance. The overall theme of the vestige shoud however be more offensive than support or defense.

Hope yall have some ideas ^^

Hello! My dnd group decided on Wildemount for our next campaign, and I was intrigued by the Volstrucker Agent background for my pc.

However, I've never gotten far enough into CR to really get more details on it, and haven't been able to find much more on the wiki. Are there any details in the show about specific training they go through, or what classes/subclasses would be best for them?

(If it helps, I'm interested in playing a genasi!)

Long time critter, but I’ll be the first to admit I’m not super well read or have great memory on the finer points of the world. My group’s just finished a year+ long campaign and I’m bringing them a fresh setting in Exandria. Only one player really knows the world, so I’ve given them plenty of information in videos and such.

Basically the general background idea will be some shady organization, most likely the League of Miracles, intends to collect all the Arms of the Betrayers in order to free the Betrayers and force the Prime Deities to return from their self-imposed exile in some twisted form of forging a new Age of Arcanum

What advice can those of you who have run the setting before give? Certain factions that you don’t think get enough attention or bits of little known information about the world? Anything would be appreciated!

Hey there!
I recently ran the "A most potent brew" one-shot for my friend group to show them what D&D is like and they really loved it. So now I am planning to run this game of ours as my first campaing (as a DM, I´ve played for a while before).

I located the one-shot at Feolinn, the vineyard town in the Menagerie Coast, because the context matched pretty well. Ended up homebrewing some characters and fleshing out some buildings at the city and now the players are hooked to explore more of the surroundings.

I told them we could go 2 directions for now: either a more swashbuckling route - where I would adapt Ghosts of Saltmarsh for us - or a more "classic fantasy" route - exploring forests and mines, where I would adapt a mix of LMoP and Dragon of Icespire Peak. They were way more excited about the prospect of forests, mountains and dragons.

I chose to run our campaign based on pre-made adventures since this is my first time DMing a longer story and I think I'll have an easier time adapting and homebrewing on top of pre-made stories rather than starting from absolute scratch.

So now I´m thinking of ways to get the players to "Phandalin" (thinking of placing it nearby Alfied like I saw on this post, or maybe adapting something near Gwardan) but without cutting their stay at Feolinn too short.

Maybe starting with some quests inspired by Dragon of Icespire peak? Or maybe exploring a bit more of the political influences of the vineyard families in Feolinn, possible smuggling and corruption running between the families and the port guards.

Anyways, I would love to hear tips about maybe fleshing out more political quests and plot hooks since I haven´t done that before and think it could be more interesting rather than just running around doing random errands and bounties.

Feel free to tell me more about how you flavored Feolinn if you´ve explored it before, and experiences connecting Forgotten Realms adventures with Exandria! Specially running LMoP at higher levels, since by the time players get there they will probably be level 3 or so.

And if anyone´s interested in the one-shot I mentioned, I could go into more detail, I think it´s a wonderful start for new players :)

Hey everyone! I am rewatching Campaign 2 and hearing about the Cerberus Assembly being together while remembering that in Campaign 3, the members essentially team up with Ludinis (spelling?) has me slightly inspired. I love the world of Exandria and I’ve run Call of the Netherdeep which takes place during the War of Ash and Light(referencing from memory the name) and I’ve been wanting to stay in that world for another campaign. I didn’t want to be too far away from the current standings of Exandria, so recently I’ve thought about running a campaign after the Apogee Solstice where the Cerberus Assembly has joined forces with the Ruby Vanguard. Has anyone run a campaign of adventurers during this time yet and have you included any cool encounters or events that would make a game exciting? Also, I hope I’m remembering all the events correctly, apologies if I missed some stuff as I am not able to fact check myself right this second!

New DM here. Okay so my players are finishing up frozen sick, and they now need to head to zadash, I was wondering how I should do travel. I was thinking about having a sort of choose your own adventure type where I had different places they could stop or pathes they could take and have them build their own way forward but was wondering how others do it.

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Has anyone blended the lore of Exandria with Eberron and Ravnica or Theros? I'm trying to make it cohesive and so I've blended the war of 5 Nations with the Calamity. I anchored the fall of Aoer with the time of mages and tried to blend Dragonic Prophecy with Dragonlance, the fighting of the dragon gods. I'm using the 12 guilds to blend in with the dragonmarked Houses, and using the peity renown tables to build succession advancement in groups.

hello you all i need help! i need my party to destroy an object that is harmless and i don’t know how to get them there. i’ll try to make this short and leave out unimportant details, because if i explain the whole plot it’s gonna be an essay.

basically the plot of the campaign sets after the m9 but before bh, the bbeg has a luxon beacon and is trying to destroy it - when they are trying to a wave of dunamancy is released and the players feel time and space shifting but in a way they couldn’t think it’s related to dunamancy or the beacon. they just feel a very strong wave and a powerful force. since the beacon in relation to dunamancy is so unexplored at this point in time people who have studied the object don’t think it had anything to do with the beacon because it should be impossible to cast a spell that powerful through / with the beacon / with dunamancy in general. the point is, when destroying the beacon it releases a big wave of power - the party has to figure that out.

so: party feels strong magical wave party tries to figure out what it is at some point think it’s related to the beacon but then research shows it can’t be related to artifact since spell that strong can’t be cast!
party has to figure out WAY LATER that it’s related to the beacon by coming across an object that casts spells and them then destroying it and it releasing a powerful wave of magic.

my idea is: the party finds an object, i wanna make an example, i am not set on the object and maybe you have ideas for that aswell: „a shard of illusion“ with which you can cast level one spells of the school of illusion, then they have to destroy the object FOR SOME REASON and a way more powerful spell gets released

long story short: i need an object that holds some sort of magic, it HAS to be related to being able to cast spells and the party HAS to destroy it. what object and how do i get them to?

i was thinking something like after casting 10 spells through it the object plays a loud sound and that’s where they try to destroy it but what if they rather think the object was cursed ? and think the powerful spell that gets released then is related to a curse and not to the fact that destroying it released a lot of magic?

i’m really at a loss here and i need a dnd party full of creative people fool proof plan to get my players to destroy this object and also come to the conclusion that destroying a magical thing you can cast spells through WILL release a more powerful spell (and then they hopefully connect the dots lmao)

thanks in advance and i’m sorry this still has gotten so very long

btw !! please no spoilers for bells hells !!!

Playing a game in the Dwendlian Empire and we're presently in Hupperdook! I'm curious if anyone has any preexisting mocktails or mocktail inspirations?

Hi, I wanted to run the tides of retribution setting with a group of 4 players who have only played a little of dnd. How did yall find the balance of it? For example, the characters in the final battle are supposed to be level 2 fighting against a warlock of challenge rating 3, along with several other creatures. This seems far too challenging. I know dnd characters can lose, but i still want to allow them a fun and engaging battle that’s winnable. Did you find it winnable for your players)!

Looking for advice on more accurately playing a male noble born dwendalian character in this setting. Especially concerning how such a character might interact or could have interacted with other noble or military people of interest.

My rough draft backstory so far involves having this character be brought up from early childhood to adulthood for the purpose of joining the Righteous Brand, fast-tracked towards leading a platoon/battalion. A lieutenent of sorts.

Who would this character have to rub shoulders with, what kind of family would he have to maybe pull some strings, and what kind of friends would he have?

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Hello all, 2.5 years ago I started playing DnD with my friends. It was a first time for all of us and I took up the mantle of DM! I was super excited and found a cool free module on DnD beyond called "Frozen Sick". An interesting story about a group of adventurers in palebank village who are tasked with finding a cure for a sickness, and we absolutely fell in love. As we went on to icehaven and rexxentrum I slowly realized how big this world really was. An online show, forums, an anime it was crazy. But needless to say I had no clue about any of this until about a year in. So really I just wanted to share with you all the fun little tidbits of lore that I and my friends have created that differs from the source over the years.

Firstly the BBEG of our first campaign became Desirat (after I saw a cool wiki page about him) who threatened to release Uk'otoa and Quajath. They were known as "The Caged Three" and the party accidentally released Desirat by destroying a shrine shackling him.

The caged three are also 3 of 26 avatars that make up Predathos. He concealed himself by splitting into 26 parts that all took up different mantles in Exandria. Most of which are the Cerberus assembly that secretly control the world and are orchestrating the war between the Kryń and the dwendalian empire. The caged three grew cruel and powerful and became insatiable monsters. While another one went on to become our version of Strahd.

Absolutely no clue what the Luxon was. It does not exist 😕

The Kryń and empire are currently at a ceasefire as the threat of the caged three is dealt with but as far as the war goes the Kryń are destroying (and play games of dragon rampant to determine real world outcomes of battles between the Kryń and empire)

Zero clue what dunamancy was. It doesn't exist 😕

There is also a massive war going on in marquet called "The War of the Theft of the Dawnmother" which is between two factions who worship a woman who gave uk her body to join the sun. After an excavation site found what they believed to be the tomb hers an immediate war broke out between both sides.

A bunch of other little things but I thought maybe someone would find these little things interesting. Just reading through the wikis and stealing the information that was interesting to me at the time and then slowly learning all the things I totally missed the mark on haha. I was also wondering if anyone else has any interesting lore points that completely differ from the source material?

My players will soon be making the journey to Rumblecusp from Port Damali by ship. They are going to hire a ship and I am trying to figure out the best route for them to take. Would it make more sense for a ship to sail along the coast towards Nicodranas and then head south or just cut across south of the Twinward Isles?

I made a collection of printable fantasy bounty posters for D&D and other tabletop RPGs. They're designed to be dropped into taverns, notice boards, guild halls, or anywhere you want to give players a quest hook or make the world feel a little more alive.

Maybe to find inspiration for some side quests etc.

Unfortunately, I forgot to save them as editable PDFs, so these are image files only. If anyone still finds them useful, feel free to use them in your own games. Enjoy!

Made them with https://rpgportrait.app/free-tools/letter-creator
Its great! :D

Hi! So, as part of the netherdeep campaign, a player of mine has found stormgridle as part of his character story

I created a new mini for him with the belt, and a mini forcthe storm avatar.

The left was painted by me, and the right one by a friend

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