Curated playlist
Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings
- Guildmasters' Guide to RavnicaGuildmasters' Guide to Ravnica surfaced on Amazon in July 2018 without any announcement. The cover art and full listing were simply there, visible to anyone who searched. What they revealed was that Wizards of the Coast planned something…
- Explorer's Guide to WildemountExplorer's Guide to Wildemount reached number one on Amazon's overall bestseller list before a single copy had shipped. The announcement came on the 13th of January 2020. An unauthorized Amazon product listing had leaked its existence the…
- Mythic Odysseys of TherosMythic Odysseys of Theros announced its existence on the 2nd of March 2020 through an accidental Amazon product listing. The 256-page sourcebook carries the Theros campaign setting into the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Theros was a…
- City State of the Invincible OverlordCity State of the Invincible Overlord made its debut in a parking lot. At Gen Con IX in 1976, Bob Bledsaw and Bill Owen arrived without vendor registration. A card table and a handmade banner were all they had on the convention floor.…
- Forgotten RealmsForgotten Realms hides a message inside its own emblem. Until the year 2000, the setting's official logo contained tiny runic letters. Translated, they read "Herein lie the lost lands." That was a nod to the world's core premise. Earth and…
- Birthright (campaign setting)Birthright arrived on gaming tables in 1995, and it asked players to do something no Dungeons and Dragons setting had asked before: rule a nation. Not adventure through one, not save one from a distant threat, but actually govern it. Rich…
- RavenloftRavenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, built around a pocket dimension its designers call the Demiplane of Dread. Floating land pieces called domains make up that dimension, held together by an unseen…
- DragonlanceDragonlance began in a car. Laura and Tracy Hickman were driving from Utah to Wisconsin in 1982, heading to a job interview at TSR, when they started sketching out the bones of an entire fantasy universe. Two ideas they had been carrying…
- Dark SunDark Sun is a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting unlike any other to emerge from TSR in the early 1990s. The world it describes, called Athas, has no rain for years on end in some regions, no traditional gods, and no gold coins. Rain…
- GreyhawkGreyhawk, formally called the World of Greyhawk, began as a joke about how Gary Gygax pronounced a word. He named his fictional planet Oerth and said it in a Brooklyn accent, so it came out sounding like 'Oith'. That planet became one of…
- Dungeons & Dragons campaign settingsDungeons & Dragons does not have one world. It has dozens. From the sunscorched wastes of Athas to the guild-controlled city-planet of Ravnica, from the gothic horror of Barovia to the hollow interior of a living world called Mystara, the…
- EberronEberron began as one entry among more than 11,000 submissions to a competition run by Wizards of the Coast in 2002. Its creator, Keith Baker, walked away with $100,000 in prize money. The world he invented sits at an unusual intersection:…
- MystaraMystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Unlike other D&D settings, it gave players ascended immortal beings in place of the usual gods. For most of the 1980s and 1990s, it served as the default…
- PlanescapePlanescape is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting built around a single unplanned image. Artist Dana Knutson sketched a robed figure with blades where her hair should be, before anyone told him what to draw. Designer Zeb Cook liked the…
- SpelljammerSpelljammer imagines fantasy ships sailing straight into outer space, vessels shaped like galleons, animals, birds, or fish rather than sleek spacecraft. Published for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons second edition, it gave the game a fantasy…
- Spelljammer: Adventures in SpaceSpelljammer: Adventures in Space arrived on the 16th of August 2022, carrying roughly thirty years of accumulated expectation. The original Spelljammer setting had debuted in 1989 as a boxed set for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition.…