Resources for Chapter 1 (in Baldur's Gate)
My campaign is under way, and I wanted to share some resources that I'm finding useful.
First, here are some free ones:
A 48-page player guide to character options and the setting.
Another player's guide, largely overlapping with the first but including some extra backgrounds: Hellrider, Flaming Fist, and Order of the Gauntlet.
Fantastically Boring: Baldur's Gate's Sow's Foot District - Welcome to Sow's Foot, a miserable little slum on the eastern edge of Baldur's Gate's Outer City. It is a muddy, mold-cr
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A free DM's Guild supplement to a rundown neighborhood in Baldur's Gate. May be useful for side adventures or even a place for some of your PCs to call home.
And here are some that cost money but that I'm finding to be worthwhile:
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Complete DM's Bundle (maps, guides, cheatsheets and more) - Advice, maps, cheatsheets, and handouts — EVERYTHING you need to run Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Get all the
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I don't remember who recommended this to me, but thank you! I'm finding that it is well worth the price, and we haven't even left Baldur's Gate yet. The suggestions for alternate story hooks, remixing to avoid the hollyphant for groups with low cuteness tolerance, and transitioning into the adventure from other campaigns are all really solid. I expect to get even more out of it when we actually head to Avernus, as there are supplemental side adventures with maps, stat blocks for more challenging devils, etc. Big thumbs-up on this one!
Monster Loot – Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus - I want to loot the abyssal chicken! When brave adventurers face the dangers of the world, they want something to show fo
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My players want to loot everything they come across, so this series of supplements has been a lifesaver. The only thing I wish it included was suggested cash for the humanoids, because once I've described their equipment, the players tend to follow up with "So he didn't have any money on him?" (What can I say? They mostly go back to the AD&D days.)
Baldur's Gate - People, Places, and Shops - Within these pages you will find bars, thieves' hideouts, restaurants, and more. All of them designed to breath life int
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Helpful for when the gang wants to sell all the stuff they looted from various corpses.
Baldur's Gate: City Encounters - Baldur's Gate: City Encounters There’s no eliminating power in the City of Blood; it only changes hands. Baldur’s
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I've already mined this for when I needed some extra encounters in town.
Murder in Baldur's Gate (5e) - Duke Adrian Abdel is a living legend in the city of Baldur's Gate, and much of the city has gathered to celebrate him an
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Also can be raided for extra city encounters. For example, the "Thieves!" event can be dropped in almost any time you need a little action, and you could also repurpose the assassination subplot for one of the remaining dukes (probably Dillard Portyr) if you want to play up the political situation in Baldur's Gate and don't want to bring in the entire plot from the Adventurer's League season.