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Some supplementary pictures of Ashblack and Blackbones Districts I used for my players a while back. Feel free to use for your own tables Sometimes, as a DM, I want something a bit more than just 1 battle map or a list of descriptions. Words are hard, so when I knew my party was going to enter the Cogs in Sharn, I started sketching out a crude visualization of the Blackbones and Ashblack District. This helped me get a good understanding of what was there, rather than listing out "shops, lava pool, onathar's shrine" for me to read later. I ended up coloring these and adding walls in FoundryVTT and stairs to teleport the players around. (like the lifts in the picture, and the tunnel/cave thing. I think my players liked it a lot!

im pretty sure I designated the roof colors to specific types of shops food(green), shop(dark blue), service(Red) or .. something like that. There've been a few folk who know the Eberron setting (I see you) so I thought i'd share some DM stuff.

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DnD player character tokens I drew for a one shot i'm running today

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so last session of our Avernus campaign was a lot.

the player holding the shield got downed, and our sorcerer got charmed into taking it.

Kram the sorcerer belongs to @eberronm

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old art of The Immovables

that's a hat of disguise they took from a reoccurring villain, and a ton of devilweed cigars they took from the Daask.

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Authur (Dhampir monk) and Veriah (Tiefling artificer) canonically cooked for the party while they took refuge in (what my players call) the "brother's love shack".

reference and more context under cut

We were all brainstorming characters for our session 0, because i love when player backstories are connected, and everyone had to somehow be affiliated with the Flaming Fist or Baldur's Gate, and the fighter already knew she wanted to have the noble background. The sorcerer thought it'd be cool if his character's brother married into their noble family, which we thought was so cool!!! later on we (the player and I) decided the fighter would be a middle child and that she would have two brothers.

cue me and the player thinking, "-gasp- they're gay"

Cut to about 8 sessions in, and by now we've met the sorcerer's brother, and the fighter's brother has been missing since session 1.

The party had defeated and taken in (yet another) npc and needed a place to rest before they tackle on the next day. The sorcerer's brother offered a small cabin that him and his husband had built, and that he had originally wanted to offer the new home to the sorcerer, but never got the chance (once the brother got married, him and the sorcerer grew slightly apart, mostly because the sorcerer hates the rich. its great.)

what I wasn't expecting, was the implications of a married couple's 'backyard' cabin would do to the party. so many jokes about the married brothers boofing, but the best thing is the characters being in-laws and reacting canonically with disgust. its hilarious.

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Just a fun interaction from last session.

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yesterday's DiA session went great.

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"This is where all the magic happens" -The actual quote

poor Authur has 7 int, but the players were definitely in on the joke