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Small roadside shrines appear in many towns and cities. They venerate important saints, local deities, or gods without a formal church in the area and are often tended by a small group of dedicated lay worshippers.
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One or more stables can be found in any settlement of note—and many of those without note.
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At Raging Swan Press, we believe that games set in a richly detailed, immersive world are better than games that are not. It should come as no surprise that we are huge fans of dungeon dressing, but what exactly is dungeon dressing, and why do we keep going on about it?
With Citadel on the Wilderlands now out in the world, our attention turns to the Late 2024 edition of Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands and the Player's Guide to Citadel on the Wilderlands!
Citadel on the Wilderlands is a flavour-rich 5e mini-campaign setting designed for low-level characters intent on wilderness exploration and dungeon delving. Designed to be easy to prepare and easy to run, Citadel on the Wilderlands is perfect for GMs who don’t have unending time to prep for the next session.
Citadel on the Wilderlands is a flavour-rich 5e mini-campaign setting designed for low-level characters intent on wilderness exploration and dungeon delving. Designed to be easy to prepare and easy to run, Citadel on the Wilderlands is perfect for GMs who don’t have unending time to prep for the next session.
Citadel on the Wilderlands is a flavour-rich 5e mini-campaign setting designed for low-level characters intent on wilderness exploration and dungeon delving. Designed to be easy to prepare and easy to run, Citadel on the Wilderlands is perfect for GMs who don’t have unending time to prep for the next session.
Are you a busy GM? Does session prep take too long? Do you never have time to work on the cool little details that can bring your adventures to life? These focused lists give you, the time-crunched GM, the tools to effortlessly add verisimilitude and detail to your urban adventures.
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Read MoreTo maintain the illusion of detail, utilise the descriptions below to describe chambers the party reach which you have not yet designed. Remember to modify the descriptions below to suit characters’ explorations.
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Read MoreMany corridors are featureless areas of little or no interest. Other times, a corridor serves as the location of a random encounter or the scene of a trap. Remember to modify the descriptions below to suit the characters’ explorations.
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Read MoreFew things are worse than a character showing interest in a throw-away monster. Perhaps, the heroes have entered a dungeon, butchered its denizens and now loot their enemies’ still-warm corpses. Use these lists to fill their enemies’ pockets with interesting but essentially worthless things.
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Read MoreFew things are worse than a character showing interest in a throw-away monster. Perhaps, the heroes have entered a dungeon, butchered its denizens and now loot their enemies’ still-warm corpses. Use these lists to fill their enemies’ pockets with interesting but essentially worthless things.
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Read MoreEven villains must have clothes or favourite foods, and these tables can generate such details. Such small items may spark the characters’ interest and could lead to interesting role-playing opportunities or could even give insights into the NPC’s personality and interests.
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Read MoreEven villains must have clothes or favourite foods, and these tables can generate such details. Such small items may spark the characters’ interest and could lead to interesting role-playing opportunities or could even give insights into the NPC’s personality and interests.
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Read MoreCampaign worlds need deep dungeons, lost dwarven holds, crumbling castles, ebon caverns and dusty necropolises for the characters to explore. Such locales need suitably evocative names.
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Read MoreThrones are meant to present an image of power. The exalted personage occupying a throne is important and sits in style and comfort while others stand in their presence.
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Read MoreA marvel of architectural engineering, the archway lends itself as much to decoration as it does to functionality. Many things can lurk in shadowed dungeon archways.
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Read MoreUse these random encounters to add spice and interest to your dungeon. The encounters are designed to be relatively generic and should be easy to insert into almost any dungeon. As always, change or ignore any details that do not work for your setup.
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Read MoreUse these random encounters to add spice and interest to your dungeon. The encounters are designed to be relatively generic and should be easy to insert into almost any dungeon. As always, change or ignore any details that do not work for your setup.
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Read MoreA tapestry can be nothing more than decoration. However, a tapestry can also hide a concealed door, be climbed on or even be used to enfold an enemy (when pulled from the wall). More importantly, they can also be loot!
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Read MoreAs well as including “large” pieces of dungeon dressing—statues, interesting pillars and so on—in your dungeon, smaller pieces of dressing can also tell an interesting story and help bring your creation alive in your players’ imaginations.
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Read MoreAs well as including “large” pieces of dungeon dressing—statues, interesting pillars and so on—in your dungeon, smaller pieces of dressing can also tell an interesting story and help bring your creation alive in your players’ imaginations.
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Read MoreDungeons rarely comprise featureless corridors swept clean of debris (unless a gelatinous cube wanders the halls). Here, strange things abound.
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Read MoreWhether it be a cobweb-covered gate, a portcullis adorned with a green iron devil's face or a fissure in the stony ground belching a sulphurous smoke, the entrance to your dungeon sets the tone for the adventure.
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Read MoreA bridge normally crosses a river, ravine, chasm, gorge or another obstacle. In a dungeon, a bridge could also span a deadly lava flow, glacial lake, pit of spikes, the den of dangerous subterranean creatures or other outlandish terrain feature. Deep pits (or more perilous falls) make bridges dangerous terrain to cross and fight on, particularly for characters without the ability to fly.
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It’s no secret that at Raging Swan Press, we are big fans of dressed dungeons. A dressed dungeon feels more real than an undressed dungeon. A dressed dungeon engages your players’ imaginations, promotes creative play and helps them immerse themselves in the adventure.