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CHAPTER 4: CREATING ADVENTURES

HIS CHAPTER PROVIDES A TOOLBOX TO HELP LINKED LOCATIONS
the Dungeon Master create adventures featur- You can create an adventure that links two locations
ing the guilds of Ravnica. The tensions among together. The Location Connections table offers broad
the guilds, a constant current of animosity, suggestions for how you might lead your players from
provide a solid foundation for building adventures. one adventure location to another.
"Krenko's Way," a sample adventure at the end of this
chapter, can be used to launch a Ravnica campaign. LOCATI ON CONNECTI ONS
The tables and advice in this chapter expand on the d6 Adventure Connection
material in chapter 3 of the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Transport a person, an object, or information
Monsters and nonplayer characters mentioned on the
tables can be found either in the Monster Manual or in collected at the first location safely to the second.
chapter 6 of this book. When a creature's name appears 2 Plant something taken from the first location
in bold type, that's a visual cue pointing you to the crea- inside the second to incriminate someone in the
ture's stat block in the Monster Manual. If the stat block second location.
appears elsewhere, the text tells you so. 3 Do the same thing at the second location as was
done at the first.
GUILD - BASED ADVENTURES 4 Uncover the source of interference encounte red at
Each guild gets a section in this chapter to help you craft the first location, which lies in the second.
adventures inspired by that guild. In a guild's section, 5 Follow a fleeing foe or trail a suspicious figure from
four basic seeds for creating adventures are provided: the first location to the second.
guild locations, guild villains, character objectives, and
6 Follow up on information gained at the first loca-
adventure hooks.
tion by investigating the second.
GUILD LOCAT IONS
GUILD V I LLAINS
Each guild's entry in this chapter includes a map of an
Player characters might belong to any guild, and their
iconic location associated with the guild. Any of these
adversaries might as well. The guild entries in this chap-
sites can serve as the location for an adventure.
The description of each guild location includes a table ter offer examples of the kinds of villains and villainous
that lists possible goals for an adventure based there. schemes that might be connected to each guild.
You can choose an adventure goal, or roll one randomly, Certain kinds of goals and schemes are common to
from the table in the description of the site you've cho- villains in every guild. Some generic villainous schemes
sen. If none of those goals inspires you, choose a goal appear on the Guild Villains table. You can also use the
or roll one randomly from the Guild Location Goals Villain's Scheme and Villain's Methods tables in chapter
table instead. 4 of the Dungeon Master's Guide to flesh out a villain's
activities, and a guild's section in this chapter points to
specific parts of those tables that characterize how vil-
GU I LD LOCATI ON GOALS
lains from that guild enact their plans.
d8 Adventure Goal
Prevent a magical catastrophe inside the location. GU I LD V I LLAINS
2 Find the source of strange occurrences in or near
d6 Villainous Activity
the location.
A villain is attempting to disgrace or discredit a
3 Escape the location (and help others escape) when
powerful person.
a disaster occurs inside.
2 A villain is striving for power within their guild.
4 Quell a riot inside or around the location.
3 A villain has claimed power in their guild and
5 Kill or drive out a monster that has turned the
needs to be supplanted.
location into its lair.
4 The villain is sending agents to infiltrate one or
6 Defend the location against an external attacker.
more guilds.
7 Seize control of the location.
5 The villain's agents are luring members away from
8 Infiltrate the location and report on what's happen-
another guild.
ing inside.
6 The villain's agents are sabotaging the operations
of another guild.

CHAPTER 4 I CRl.ArTNG ADVENTURES