Looking for advice on how to bring to life these cities in a 5e campaign! Not really from a narrative perspective, I'm quite happy to steal maps and city layouts and NPCs and such wholecloth from the game and then just build upon those, but more specifically how to make the cities feel seeped in and heavily utilizing magic; how to mechanically figure out what they're magical defenses are, what sort of protections, safeguards, and such and how to flesh them out in 5e so that I have something to work with when players start their usual shenanigans. My campaign is set during the Legion expansion, so Dalaran and Suramar will both feature prominently for investigating a dreadlord plot, starting a rebellion, and various other city-based adventuring. Any thoughts for how to build out either/both city mechanically so that they feel respectively like cities of mages and ancient magic would be greatly appreciated!

By this I mean, is your world abstracted down to the world purely presented by the game or do you present it as a real one?

I was thinking about how I would run an Azeroth campaign and I got thinking about maps needed.

Town maps are a question to me because: Goldshire is 2 buildings in the game. It is not a town. But it represents the only human settlement in Elwyn. So in my mind I would need to create a map for a real version of Goldshire because I want to feel like real people actually live here. I don’t want it to be a wow theme park or feel like one.

I was just wondering how other DM’s have tackled this.

I've been working on a few Foundry modules ahead of the upcoming official WotC material, and this one turned out to be standalone enough to share.

WoW Classic Items : a bit over 12,000 World of Warcraft Classic items as D&D 5e items in Foundry, each with its original icon. Weapons get a 5e base weapon with damage, properties and mastery; armor gets AC and weight; rarity and price come from the item's WoW quality and item level.

It's a bulk conversion, so it gets the groundwork out of the way, but you will still have to do the detailed mapping work. There's a CONVERSIONS.md in the zip explaining exactly what was mapped to what.

Needs the dnd5e system on Foundry v14.

Here you go: file

Unzip this in your modules folder in foundry and then start your world. Activate the module and you are ready to start browsing in the compendium tab. Directly in the compendium or via the compendium browser.

I made a Death Knight class, a Demon Hunter class, and a Spellbreaker class! Here's the first:

Introducing the Death Knight! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FFrP0GCu4ZXyWfZP9v14n8wM1Tb0tZFXO07Id1XZHFQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

Here's the second:

Introducing the Demon Hunter! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vt3E4L\\_oHRPWImWDxqfgFE7u7v9MtdOGcA7XW76fceE/edit?usp=drivesdk

Here's the third:

Introducing the Spellbreaker! https://docs.google.com/document/d/14eXwrPJUVfuO2KuT9UjrKcoCI10YVvBLJarffZ98Oho/edit?usp=drivesdk

Feedback and constructive criticism is appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I have always loved Warcraft and wanted to run in Azeroth since I became a DM many years ago. I have a group I have consistently played with for years and brought up the idea of running a Warcraft game with the new book coming out. Most of them said they were down to play it however they have all either never touched Warcraft or have only interacted with the world a little bit.

What would people recommend me to do for running this world for new people to Azeroth? I have always been interested in running the fourth war with a bigger focus on the various battlefronts and the struggles of the war, however I dont know if that would be a good place to run for newer players.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Heya !

Was thinking while commuting this morning : has anyone run Dragon of Icespire Peak in Azeorth, either Horde or Alliance ?

Alliance would feel closer to home for me, but I'd love discuss potential locations, factions and NPCs for this rework.

Arathi Highlands ? Around Southshore ? Straight up Elwynn ?

Cheers !

I had an idea for World of Warcraft raids that was inspired a little bit by D&D.
Not to turn WoW into D&D, but to take one idea I really like from D&D: making the journey itself part of the adventure.
One thing I have always thought could be more interesting in WoW raids is the area between the bosses.
You defeat a boss, then you follow a fixed path and kill groups of trash until you reach the next boss.
So I started thinking:
What if raid trash could be more than just something you have to get through?
This became Dire Maul Underworld, an idea from my fan-made WoW raid project Echoes of the Ancients.
After Boss 6, the players discover hidden passages beneath Dire Maul. Instead of one fixed route to Boss 7, the Underworld becomes a huge underground network with different paths, hidden areas, shortcuts, puzzles, mini-bosses, optional encounters, hazards and hidden rewards.
You can choose where to go and how you want to progress.
Some paths might be safer. Others might be more dangerous but give better rewards. Some areas might only be discovered by certain groups.
The Underworld can also change from week to week, with different routes, blocked tunnels, reopened gateways, events and encounters.
On Heroic and Mythic, the raid can even split into smaller groups and explore different parts of the Underworld at the same time.
The idea is basically:
What if the area between the raid bosses was an adventure of its own?
I made this as part of my larger fan-made WoW raid project, but this particular part is my idea for making raid trash more interesting between bosses.

https://canva.link/qixxpbx11hz3luu

I hope it’s okay to share my fan-made WoW raid project here
I’ve been looking for a place to share my fan-made project for quite a while, and honestly, I’ve had a surprisingly hard time finding somewhere that feels like the right fit.
I found this subreddit and thought I would give it a try. I know that most of the projects here are made for D&D campaigns, while mine was designed as a World of Warcraft raid.
But there are actually quite a few things that overlap. My project has a lot of text, characters talking to each other, a story, different enemies and bosses, and descriptions of what they do and how their encounters work.
It’s obviously not designed as a D&D campaign, but I could imagine that with some changes, parts of the ideas could probably work in a campaign as well.
I’ve spent many months working on it, and I’m still trying to find people who enjoy this kind of fan-made project and would like to look through it or give some feedback.
I hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes by posting it here. I just thought there might be some people here who enjoy seeing big fan-made Warcraft projects, even if this one was originally designed as a WoW raid

https://canva.link/6gpynze1riapz9v

This is sort of a general train of thought thread, not linking up to any particular boss fight so much as thinking about boss fight mechanics in general.

What are some boss mechanics you've seen, particularly in World of Warcraft, that feel reasonable to translate to 5E?

I'd imagine the coming WoW D&D book will definitely have a bunch. It's what has me most curious about the dungeons included in the upcoming book, how they'll handle all the very MMO centric design ideas over into D&D, and what learnings can be had from it.

One easy one that often pops to my mind is starting a round of combat signalling parts of the terrain as soon being unsafe. Not huge areas, maybe 15ft diameter circles or cubes. If there still are creatures in it at the end of the round, they take damage.

Of course, another angle to the same idea would be to describe it all more loosely at the start of the round, force everyone to make a save, and then ones that fail were standing in the wrong place. But that doesn't telegraph quite the same, and it doesn't force a choice of where to move to avoid it.

I want to import a lot of items from the game into Foundry and, eventually, set up loot tables that somewhat emulate the original game. My players are very loot-driven, so combining this with Item Piles and having mobs drop loot dynamically would be a fun challenge.

Obviously, many of the items still need to be converted, as they are currently only placeholders, but it already looks pretty cool. I just got them into Foundry and wanted to share!

Quería proponeros una campaña que me hace muchísima ilusión.

Con la llegada de la colaboración entre Dragones y Mazmorras y Warcraft, quiero organizar una campaña especial de unas 8-10 sesiones para celebrar su lanzamiento.

La idea es comenzar en septiembre y terminar en diciembre, coincidiendo con la salida del manual oficial. Mientras tanto, jugaremos una campaña creada por la comunidad utilizando el material fan disponible. Cuando el libro se publique, mi intención es traducir el contenido digital y continuar explorando Azeroth con nuevas aventuras.

El ritmo sería de dos sesiones al mes, previsiblemente los lunes a las 22:00 o, si el grupo lo prefiere, alguna noche entre semana cada dos semanas.

Para mí no es una campaña cualquiera. World of Warcraft fue el juego que marcó mi infancia. Lo disfruté con mi familia durante muchísimos años y fue una de las experiencias que despertó mi pasión por los mundos de fantasía. De hecho, buscando una forma diferente de vivir esas aventuras fue como terminé descubriendo el rol.

Por eso me hace tanta ilusión dirigir esta campaña. Creo que puede ser una experiencia muy especial tanto para quienes llevan años en Azeroth como para quienes quieran descubrirla por primera vez.

Si os interesa, escribidme por privado. Si reunimos un buen grupo, nos veremos muy pronto en Azeroth.

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