D&D: Explore An Endless Fantasy World With These Setting Guides – Up To 33% Off Right Now
D&D has an entire universe of spots for your party to explore and visit. And with these setting guides, you’ll never run out of places to go.
Something that players really appreciate about D&D is its massive collection of fully fleshed-out settings with their own rich history. And with tons of settings coming about, or coming back into the current edition all of the time, you’ll never run out of new regions and cities to explore. If your party is looking for someplace new to travel to, these setting guides and supplements will take them on the far-off adventures they crave.
Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
This is probably one of the more basic setting guides with some of the more well-known locations. But it’s also a solid place to start for any adventurer, from the most green to the most experienced. Including places like Baldur’s Gate, Waterdeep, and Neverwinter, there is a good chance your party is at least familiar with these places. But if they – or you – don’t know the minutiae and the inner workings of the various cities on the Sword Coast, this book will turn you into an expert in no time.
Get everything you need to adventure in the Forgotten Realms on the exciting Sword Coast, home to the cities of Baldur’s Gate, Waterdeep, and Neverwinter. Crafted by the scribes at Green Ronin in conjunction with the Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards of the Coast, the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide provides D&D fans with a wealth of detail on the places, cultures, and deities of northwestern Faerûn. The Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide is also a great way to catch up on recent events in the Forgotten Realms.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Now you’re all set with the more common places, what about something a little more weird? Ravnica is a city-plane where powerful guilds rule the city and quarrel over control. Each guild has unique goals, motivations, and abilities, and getting caught up with one is sure to get you in hot water with another. Which, of course, means your party is going to split up and pick up conflicting quests from opposed guilds.
With the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, you can create characters and run adventures on Ravnica, one of the richest, most beloved settings in Magic: The Gathering. Ravnica is a worldwide cityscape, teeming with intrigue, driven by conflict between 10 powerful guilds, each with its own identity and interests.
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ravenloft brings everything creepy and spooky to your adventure. Vampires? Ghosts? Domains of dread? Ravenloft has it all. Coming here will force your players to face their greatest fears, but also give them options to add monstrous lineages to their backstories.
In a far-flung corner of the plane of Shadow drifts a hidden expanse of roiling mist and vague semi-reality. At this eerie edge of the multiverse lie the Domains of Dread, nightmare demiplanes that form the Dungeons & Dragons setting of Ravenloft.
AdvertisementDiscover the mysteries of Ravenloft, then make your choice. Will you create your own Domains of Dread, settings to host endless terrifying adventures? Or will you join the ranks of haunted heroes who embrace macabre lineages, dual-edged Dark Gifts, haunted subclasses, and other forbidden powers?
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The fantasy of D&D is great, but if you want a little more technology, Eberron will add mechs, constructs, and power armor to your party, as well as the artificers to build and maintain it all. Science meets magic in this city.
Whether aboard an airship or a train car, embark on thrilling adventures shrouded in intrigue! Discover secrets buried by years of devastating war, in which magic-fueled weapons threatened an entire continent.
In the post-war world, magic pervades everyday life, and people of all sorts flock to Sharn, a city of wonders where skyscrapers pierce the clouds. Will you find your fortune on mean city streets or scouring the secrets of haunted battlefields? Will you throw in your lot with the mighty dragonmarked houses, ruthless families who control whole nations? Will you seek truth as a newspaper reporter, a university researcher, or a government spy? Or will you forge a destiny that defies the scars of war?
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Icewind Dale
High tech-cities are cool and all, but your players really want to climb a frozen mountain full of monsters. Don’t they? What if you stick them on a frozen mountain full of monsters anyhow? Icewind Dale is a cold, unforgiving setting where secrets lie at the center of glaciers and the Frostmaiden brings eternal night. Also, this is an adventure book and not a setting guide. But, it’s an adventure in a setting that’s unique from almost anywhere else in D&D.
Feel the cold touch of death in this adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Beneath the unyielding night sky, you stand before a towering glacier and recite an ancient rhyme, causing a crack to form in the great wall of ice. Beyond this yawning fissure, the Caves of Hunger await. And past this icy dungeon is a secret so old and terrifying that few dare speak of it. The mad wizards of the Arcane Brotherhood long to possess that which the god of winter’s wrath has so coldly preserved–as do you!
Planescape
Once you’ve explored all of the various settings on the material plane, expand out and begin exploring the various planes. Adventure through the multiverse, figure out what’s causing these calamities, and discover creatures whose eyes from the material plane were never meant to see. This isn’t a single book, but everything you’ll need to explore the planescape.
Bursting with multiversal flavor, this campaign collection contains everything you need to run grand adventures, including adventure hooks, idiosyncratic locations, 50 unusual creatures, and multiversal calamities. Channel planar energies with 7 otherworldly feats and 2 backgrounds, experiment with intriguing magic spells, and draw inspiration from Sigil’s 12 ascendant factions, each with distinct cosmic ideologies.
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