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  • Guildmasters' Guide to RavnicaThe sky over Ravnica never holds more than one moon, yet the ground beneath it stretches endlessly in every direction. This single city spans an entire…
  • Explorer's Guide to WildemountThe Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty stand on opposite sides of the Ashkeeper Peaks mountain range. King Bertrand Dwendal rules the western lands with…
  • Mythic Odysseys of TherosJames Wyatt began writing free PDF releases called Plane Shift in 2016. He was a longtime Wizards employee who had worked on Dungeons & Dragons for over a…
  • City State of the Invincible OverlordBob Bledsaw and Bill Owen founded Judges Guild in 1976 to sell subscriptions to gamemasters. They finished a city map just in time for Gen Con IX that same…
  • Forgotten RealmsEd Greenwood began writing stories about the Forgotten Realms as a child, starting at the age of eight. He came up with the name from the notion of a…
  • Birthright (campaign setting)In 1994, Rich Baker and Colin McComb began work on a project that would change how players viewed their role in fantasy worlds.
  • RavenloftIn 1978, Tracy and Laura Hickman wrote adventures that would eventually be published as the Dungeon & Dragons modules Pharaoh and Ravenloft.
  • DragonlanceIn 1982, Tracy Hickman drove from Utah to Wisconsin for a job interview with TSR. His wife Laura sat beside him in the car as they discussed two ideas that…
  • Dark SunIn 1989, TSR released the second edition of its Battlesystem mass-combat ruleset. The company began pre-production on a new campaign setting that would use…
  • GreyhawkIn the late autumn of 1972, Gary Gygax invited his eleven-year-old son Ernie and nine-year-old daughter Elise to explore a dungeon he had just sketched…
  • Dungeons & Dragons campaign settingsDave Arneson created Blackmoor in 1971 for personal games using the Chainmail rules set. This setting existed before Greyhawk and even before Dungeons &…
  • EberronIn 2002, Wizards of the Coast launched a competition called the Fantasy Setting Search to find a new world for Dungeons & Dragons.
  • MystaraIn 1974, Lawrence Schick and Tom Moldvay began building a fantasy world for their own Dungeons & Dragons game sessions. They called this creation the Known…
  • PlanescapeImagine a place where the sky does not exist. Instead, an all-pervasive light waxes and wanes to create day and night for those who live there.
  • SpelljammerIn 1989, TSR released the boxed set Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures in Space. This launch marked the first of many new campaign settings published by the…
  • Spelljammer: Adventures in SpaceThe Spelljammer: Adventures in Space boxed set arrived on the 16th of August 2022. It contained three distinct sourcebooks alongside a Dungeon Master's…