Dungeon Master's Guide 5e

11ARPER5 ORDER OF THE GAUNTLET EMERALD ENCLAVE LoRDs' ..ALLIANCE ZHENTARIM from that spoken in the neighboring kingdom. This m i ...

give you a good sense of the organization's personality. From there, think about typical members. How might people describe them ...

dedicated to preserving the natural order-might be less friendly toward characters who have not cultivated at least 3 renown wit ...

anyone who can afford them. People purchase tickets to ride airships and trains propelled by elemental magic. Consider these que ...

Creating a Campaign The world you create is the stage for the adventures you set in it. You don't have to give more thought to i ...

Or perhaps they begin the campaign in the dungeons of an evil baron's castle where they've been locked up for various reasons (l ...

PuTTING EvENTS IN MoTION -------- World-shaking events can happen at any time in a campaign or story arc, but the biggest incide ...

might be a local sage, seer, hedge wizard, wise elder, or teacher. Rise of a Leader, Beginning of an Era. In dramatic stories, a ...

Describe or name the creature that warned the populace about the oncoming disaster. Who listened? ho were the lucky (or unlucky ...

Imagine that part of your campaign world erupts in revolution. Pick a power group in your current campaign and name (or invent) ...

Who or what is to blame for the loss? Describe an immediate consequence of the loss. Forecast one way that the loss impacts or c ...

9. PREDICTION' OMEN' PROPHECY Sometimes the foretelling of a world-shaking event becomes a world-shaking event: an omen that pre ...

times of day. And some holy days are local, observed by dle faithful of a specific temple. Give some thought to how priests and ...

34 PLAY STYLE By building a new world (or adopting an existing one) and creating the key events that launch your campaign, you d ...

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CHARACTER NAMES Part of your campaign style has to do with naming characters. It's a good idea to establish some ground rules wi ...

This approach also allows you to break your design work down into smaller pieces. Create material such as adventures, NPCs, maps ...

g8 Characters who reach 20th level have attained the pinnacle of mortal achievement. Their deeds are recorded in the annals of h ...

e protagonists are motivated more by greed and self- rerest than by altruistic virtue. Fighter, rogue, and :Jarbarian character ...

DARK FANTASY Vampires brood on the battlements of their accursed castles. Necromancers toil in dark dungeons to create horrid se ...