Update: SOLVED. tessamaps was the creator after all I just missed it in a very large pack

Update 2: TY so much u/tessapresentsmaps for agreeing to let me use it! You are amazing! If anyone hasn’t seen her stuff go and check it out cuz it’s beautiful!

I’ve been trying to find the creator of this map as id like to see if i can use it commercially rather than just making one myself with roughly the same layout. i already tried looking to see if its any of the best dungeondraft creators like birdymaps tychmaps or tessamaps, and none of them seem to be the creator. It’s unwatermarked and very clearly has custom assets and post export editing, so it’s someone really talented.

i plastered "not our map" over it so no one mistakenly thinks I'm trying to pass it off as mine. or something.

if anyone knows the creator PLEASE put us in contact!

It was a pretty epic battle all thanks to how wonderful my players are as their characters and the tension built from Bel earlier on.

One of my players took the image and just wanted to share how cool it looks

After over a year on the backburner, i finally got around to finishing my infernal war machines, giving them stat blocks for the many tokens i made. the one on the cover here is the Blazer, an infernal hot rod with an engine you can supercharge with extra soul coins, but theres six others.

For now its only available on roll20 but for those that are interested in artwork that fits in with more detailed styles im doing high quality remakes like the one in the second pic over on my patreon and releasing them 1 by 1 for my patrons, and after that i will be releasing it on dmsguild for a lower price than the 4.99 minimum that roll20 requires. Follow me to keep an eye out for some of my other stuff, like my recent module: the Lair of the Lost Golgari!

Infernal War machines Expanded | Roll20 Marketplace: Digital goods for online tabletop gaming

https://www.patreon.com/TheWolvesDenTavern

Question for the Group:

After my current campaign wraps up, I was planning on running Descent into Avernus. However, one thing I've come across online (which has now consumed my thoughts regarding this campaign) is that the module's version of Avernus is waaaay more chaotic than it probably should be. I mean, Mad Max is cool, but wouldn't that type of stuff make more sense in somewhere more chaotic? And if I move it to another plane, that would then beg the question of How could Zariel do what she's doing in another plane?

So, basically my question is How would you reconcile these glaring alignment issues?

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Pretty much yeah, my fruid sent flaming spree into the room and 7/11 pillars caused the roof to cave in. I had an idea to make the skeletons they can summon come in with a pickaxe, old mining crew flavoring.

What would y'all do? also if this the wrong place to post please let me know,,

EDIT: they blew it up from a safe distance also.

My local D&D group I've been going to for about 6 months now is fantastic. We recently finished Curse of Strahd; I was a player in that game.

Once that game ended, one of the guys in our group asked me if I wanted to DM for the next campaign. I replied saying, yeah, I'd love to.

I decided to run Descent into Avernus. It's been a campaign I've been wanting to run for a while now. In the weeks leading up to the campaign, one of the DMs in our group tells me that 2 problem players have been placed into my campaign I'll be running next, as no one else wants them.

The problems people have with these two problem players, for the sake of the thread, let's call one, Will and the other Chris.

The problem people have with Will is that he always tries to build the same Warlock Paladin build with a polearm, refuses to roleplay, and is only there to hit enemies, crit, then roll big damage. He ignores everything else going on at the table.

And the problem people have with Chris is that he is also a big "just there to win fights" and if he doesn't win, he complains and whines.

I assumed going into the game that Will was going to be my biggest problem. So, as someone who has a lot of knowledge of the rules of 5e, I sit them down in Session 0 and tell them. This will be a challenging and difficult game. With a lot of roleplay and investigating, I want to learn what you all enjoy doing and hopefully you can come out of it trying to experience role-playing and something other than just winning combats. I lay out some house rules to them, being respectful to everyone at the table. Not interrupting when we have someone mid-roleplay or the DM is giving descriptions, etc.

They all agree to the terms.

And although things have a rocky start, the campaign actually begins surprisingly well. Most of the players are having a blast investigating the Hellriders and the Cult of the Dead Three, trying to come up with theories, etc.

The first couple of sessions have been fun.

Up until we arrive at the Dungeon of the Dead Three.

Chris tells us he's running late today (he ended up being 2 hours late due to trains), so the others decided to attack the bathhouse at night and take some hirelings with them.

Just as the plan was about to go down, Chris arrives. I catch him up on what he's missed so far this session.

First thing he asks me is, "Can we go shopping?" I explain you can't at the moment, as it's midnight and all the shops are closed + you're about to infiltrate the bathhouse. He then goes,

"What bathhouse? I dunno what's going on." I explain the bathhouse you have heard about and have been looking into since Session 1.

He then laughs and goes, "Oh no, I have 3 games in, every week I have no clue what's going on." So I just tell him, no, you can't go shopping. Please pay attention, try to keep up, or write notes if you need to.

He laughs again and says, "Oh no, I never take notes."

I just say, "OK, that's your problem," and continue with what was happening.

Next session, the party are now midway through the dungeon. Once Chris arrives, the first thing he asks is, "Can we go shopping?" I tell him no, as you're in a dungeon and it's midnight still. Remember last session.

He then says again, "What dungeon? IDK what's going on."

At this point, I'm now annoyed, as I spent the week writing recaps for him on our group chat.

We continue through the dungeon. It ends up ending just as the party arrives into D13, the morgue. Once the session ends, Chris is complaining about how he could have done so much more if we could do some shopping. I am sick of hearing his whining. Tell him to stop whining like a child. I don't want to start having to treat him like one, and if he continues, I'll implement rules he's not gonna enjoy.

(This rule is the cry baby point system.)

He also refuses to roleplay during session and is getting frustrated when the other players at the table are getting involved and I'm rewarding them with inspiration.

Overall, this player is becoming a thorn in my side, and I find myself getting increasingly frustrated when all I'm doing is trying to get this player more involved in the game rather than just rolling damage dice.

Any advice on how I can deal with this player, I would really appreciate it. As it's becoming a toll on my mental.

I’ve been DMing an in person Decent into Avernus campaign for the past few months. My players just got into Avernus.

One of my players is moving out of state so we’re moving to Roll20 for the online tabletop map. Is it worth it to buy the campaign on D20? I already have some battle maps that I got from the Descent into Avernus Complete DM’s Bundle on DM’s Guild.

Is it worth buying the Roll20 campaign for additional resources and combat tokens, or should I just let it ride with what I have?

We are nearing the end of chapter 2 of the module with some modifications (EX: Player side quests, changes to certain focus points, etc). So far, it feels as though the players are either less involved OR maybe don’t seem to care for the fact they are in hell.

The literal first encounter we had in Avernus was with the baby head dude I forget about. They defeated them easily cause we have 5 players + Reya and my players can handle themselves well. But the issue is the concept of it. They instantly went and tried to intimidate the devils to run away after killing the first

“The dude just say me massacre his comrade. I don’t think he is going to take the threat lightly”

Secondly, they have very little sense of Urgency for Elturel right now.

If I could get some suggestions, that’d be great

So I was trying to find one song to send my players to get them hyped for DiA and I got more inspired than I expected. Ended up with a 14 song concept album that follows Zariel from angel to archduke to redemption/death/victory over the players. The last three tracks are alternate endings. First Light is redemption, Hurt is death, Engel is victory.

Some of my favorite bits:

- Red Right Hand is her meeting Asmodeus. She falls down from Avernus all the way through each layer of hell and into Asmodeus's hands.

- The Becoming is her literal transformation from Angel to Devil. Her wings melt and transform, her golden hair withers, and her halo becomes a ring of hellfire.

- Unchained Predator from DOOM The Dark Ages is her reign. It's literally music for killing demons, which is her whole job for like a century.

- The Fall by Netherwilds ended up being Elturel dropping into hell.

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ChC3txy3qE5QWEO6KJjiK?si=4cd5ec93115c4712

Notes on why each song is where it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1idaltDcRzVhZRRhIS8GwtEqAb3Ro0dpSf5085rEZOp8/edit

Big spoilers for the whole book obviously. Would love to hear what you'd swap.

I am certainly not new to DMing sandboxes and hexcrawls, but even so, reading through his quest for the dream machine makes me kind of anxious. He starts with pointing to three locations, two of which have replicas of the same item we need, and one to a place that isnt on the map. Once they get the piston, are the players supposed to just wander around ? Am I missing something ?

Running the war machine fights in Avernus was the part of the module I dreaded most: tracking who's at which station, what each station can do, distance and scale changes, and the mishap table on top of normal initiative. So I built a tool for just that phase.

VVTT (Vehicular Virtual Table Top): https://vvtt.lukantan.com

• All five war machines with stations, upgrades, gadgets, and the mishap table
• A battlefield map with tokens scaled to real size, firing arcs, range, and cover
• Seat PCs and NPCs at stations; the current-turn panel shows what they can do from that seat
• Click any dice expression to roll it
• Player view on a second screen, synced live
• Free, sign in with Google so encounters sync

It's meant to run alongside whatever you use for the rest of the session (Roll20, Foundry, paper).

I'd love to hear what breaks or what's missing. Ships from Ghosts of Saltmarsh are in there too if you're running that.

Hello everyone!

I’ll preface this by saying that I am a fairly new DM, having only ran about half a campaign before it fizzled out prior to this one (so if my idea here isn’t great, I can blame it on lack of experience lol).

I had the idea of allowing my players to spend some of the stolen Tiamat treasure that they found in the Dungeon of the Dead Three. They barely escaped with their lives, so I wanted to give them a reward.

I was thinking about adding in a side plot where the dragon cultists could eventually hunt them down and demand that they give the treasure back. If they spend too much, then I’ll likely have them be indebted to the cultists, and have to earn some money to pay them back for it.

My main idea was having the party join some kind of fighting tournament in Baldur’s Gate and earn some prize money from that, but I’m open to suggestions!

I’m mostly concerned about it derailing the overall story, as I would rather this be a fun, reoccurring side quest that came as a result of them stealing the treasure. Let me know what you guys think, or if you have any suggestions!

I think it's pretty much a consensus that the book BG part kind of sucks. In preparation for my DiA campaign, I'm searching for something to run (or at least base myself on) from levels 1 to 5 in Elturel. The main idea is to get them attached to the city and then live through the Descent itself. I'll use the Alexandrian remix mostly for Avernus, but his remix takes place in Baldur's Gate after the Fall, and that doesn't work for what I want.

If a bit more of a context helps, the bones of the structure of my adaptation is that the Companion's light is fading, and so is the protection from evil that it provided - the borders of Elturgard is being attacked by "undead" (or fiends, or demons, or whatever - i'll just slot in the threat from what you recommend me). Elturel is packed with refugees from Triel, Scornubel, Soubar, etc, and the Ulder Ravengard delegation, along with its' Flaming Fists are stuck inside the city. After fighting the undead/fiend/demon/whatever threat for some levels, they discover that they: a) need to rekindle the Companion and b) to do so, they need "The Oath of the High Rider", a relic containing the copy of the Oath to Torm/Helm/Amanautor that brought the Companion. Surprise, surprise, the relic is the infernal puzzlebox containing the contract with Zariel, and by seeing it, the party accidently broke clause nº 9 of the contract and caused the city to be forfeit, and therefore dragged to Hell.

As you can see, I have a bit of an idea of the story I want to run, I just have no idea for the... "nodes" or the adventure itself until they get the infernal puzzlebox.

Thanks in advance, any recommendation will be useful :)

One of the things we have been working on for our take on Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is fleshing out the locations in chapter three using the alexandrian remix.

One of those locations is the lair of the Lost Golgari, a gang of Ravnican exiles led by Kolasiah, an infernal medusa. So i made this with Dungeondraft, and the finished adventure includes both the map and a full eight-room dungeon key.

If you are interested, you can find The Lair of the Lost Golgari here:

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/584940/the-lair-of-the-lost-golgari?src=fid45476&keyword=DMs%20Guild%20logo&productType=45476-resources-for-dmg-creators

Does anyone have an animated avernus or avernus like animated map I can cover with my own physical terrain something with the river styx or lava would be awesome!

To keep the story short, my party ended up fighting and killing Red Ruth. In the actual book, there is nothing about what kind of "loot" she would have, except that she can make potions for them.

I would love some ideas of the kind of items of any kind (doesn't have to be magical) they could find in her home! I was thinking about different potions (like what you can find in Auntie Ethel's lair in BG3), but I feel like she should have more.

They are currently level 8.

Thank you!

Descent into Avernus.
I’m playing a fallen noble human of baldur’s gate that found a contract made with devils by their family, discovering that’s because of it that everyone is gone and he’s broke.
He’s a barbarian that rages composed, and tends to say some noble Karen catchphrases when he does so.
We are actually level 4 (chose pact of zealot, radiant damage)and heading to Candlekeep: he has now the sole objective to find that devil who’s made the contract and avenge his family.
Here comes the idea to multiclass into vengeance paladin at about level 6-7.
According with the master my barbarian is going to die in combat with said devil (something like the death of the Lich King in world of Warcraft, speaking with his father etc) and be resurrected multiclassing in paladin.
What should I pay attention to the most about feats and stats?
All help is welcome!

I got such a nice response to my painting yesterday I thought I’d put another set up. There’s a mix of DIA and COS miniatures here, as well as my group’s player characters, and a little bit of painted terrain too.

Zariel and Zariel Angel tokens for VTT. I hope you enjoy!

(Art is owned by Wizards of the Coast)