#bodrabod

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The City of Drakesguard

Lots of work has gone into creating this city, which you can insert into your D&D campaign setting very easily.

Drakesguard is a city on the smaller side in terms of population, which can be explained principally because of the fact that it lies just on the edge of the territory of an ancient red dragon, and as such is attacked by her and her minions quite regularly.

In this 24-page PDF, you get everything you need in order to run an adventure in Drakesguard, and to have it integrated into your campaign setting as a whole. You get features such as:

Population demographics with NPC race and name generating guidelines

Explanations of the unique region around the city

Random encounters in the region around the city

Writeups on the city’s culture, history, and current events

In-depth explanations of the city’s major features such as its governing structure, religious structure, dragon attack shelters, and economic centers

2 taverns with rumors

Guidelines on how to run a session in which the dragon and/or her minions attack the city

An in-depth starter for a story arc in your campaign

Stat blocks for 5 new monsters

Stat blocks for 2 types of general NPCs specific to the city

Stat blocks and personality writeups for 6 major NPCs

5 magic items

1 artifact

Rules for a new type of material and weapons/armor made out of it

Countless adventure/story seeds

Here is just the table of contents:

Becoming a patron of just $1 or more per month gives you access to this city along with a number of other posts. If you’re apprehensive, I may suggest checking out the free cities I have also made, Bodrabod and Ilfreyel. If you like those, you’ll love Drakesguard.

Here’s the PDF

[homebrewings]

Have you ever wanted a desert setting for your D&D campaign?

Do you wish you had a module that lays out an entire cultural capital where scholars flock to?

Are you looking for something to throw at your players, but not interested in those modules that require that you use their entire universe?

Do you want a whole bunch of already-made NPCs, institutions, and monsters that exist in an otherwise free-to-roam city and surrounding area?

Do you want cool cultural background and history?

Do you want all of that for FREE?

DM, welcome to Bodrabod.

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Homebrewings Content Masterpost

City Modules

Bodrabod

Ilfreyel

Nodrad ($1 tier)

Monsters 

Boggart

Kobold (Fireblest)

Kobold (Frenzian)

Leprechaun

Odimence

Spriggan

Yellow Dragon

Miscellaneous Creatures

Miscellaneous NPCs (part 1) (part 2)

(complete bestiary - $1 tier)

Races

Broken One

Fey Races

Half-lycanthrope

Half-illithid

Leprechaun

Odimence

Tieflings Reimagined

Subclasses

Cleric

  Elemental Domains

  Sacrifice Domain

Monk

   Way of the Darting Rabbit

   Way of the Farad

Sorcerer

   Origin of the Symbiant

Warlock

   The Rancid One

Other Content

Magic Item Compilation

Magic Item & Artifacts Compilation ($1 tier)

Request to have an NPC named after yourself or your D&D character in a city module ($1 tier)

(pssst click here for this list except where it also tells you all the cool stuff that is coming out soon)

Check out my Patreon to get updates when I make a thing and get access to everything!

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If you're a DM, you've likely heard proclamations along the lines of "I go and see the king!" shortly after you've finished describing a completely unrelated plot hook.

Do you ever say to yourself, "I wish someone would make all the insignificant details of the city for me"?

Well, either way, I present to you:

Welcome to Bodrabod, where sages and wizards flock to. As a hub of magic, secrets are not uncommon here, and people can be somewhat cloak-and-dagger, but it's great! With a population of 500,000 full of extraordinary intelligence and magical ability, and kept in line by an elite force of eldritch knights and a mysterious order of monks, neither of which is hiding any information or powerful weapons from the public (no siree, not even one), what could go wrong?

You can download this 25-page document for free  right now and you will have access to all these cool things like

- Population demographics with NPC generating guidelines

- Surrounding area with creature encounter tables

- Basic layout of nearby towns

- Writeup on 1 nearby town and rural culture

- 1 high-level dungeon outline and entrance

- Writeups on culture, history, and current events

- Landmarks including a river and reservoir, palace, temple, monastery, city wall, etc.

- 2 tavern writeups complete with rumors that can be used as plot hooks

- 1 encounter and in-depth plot hook that plunges the entire city into lockdown (geared toward a 1st-level party)

- 4 specific NPCs and 4 general NPCs, all with combat stat blocks and personality writeups

- A few monsters, including a boss monster

- A Dragonborn subclass

- 6 magic items

- 2 artifacts, one of which is completely gamebreaking

This document is not an adventure module, but can be a huge help to DMs when their characters are off doing things on their own, and it helps ease the worldbuilding process. There are plenty of adventure seeds that can be built upon, giving the DM more creative freedom than following a module, but still a chunk of a world that can be fallen back on.

Download the free PDF (it’s downloadable from my Patreon but I promise it’s free I won’t ask for any information)

Note: for me the PDF seems to get all messed up if it is downloaded in Microsoft Edge, but in Chrome it does fine.

 I’m hoping to make more of these as time goes by, and hopefully I will get faster at producing them as I do more. If you want to become a $1/month patron, you will already have access to another one of these, The City of Nodrad!