Dragon Delves to Return to Godsbreath, a Journey Through the Radiant Citadel Setting

Dragon Delves is returning to Godsbreath, one of the campaign settings found in Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. In our interview with James Wyatt about Dragon Delves, the upcoming dragon-themed adventure, the senior D&D designer revealed that one of the upcoming adventures would be set in Godsbreath, a world first seen in the 2023 anthology book Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. The adventure, written by Erin Roberts, is called Copper for a Song, and features players trying to find the lost verse of a song that can restore the region's farmlands. As the title of the adventure suggests, the adventure involves a copper dragon.

Godsbreath is a new campaign setting created by Roberts that draws heavily from Black communities in the southern US. The region was given a gazetteer in Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. The setting involves five gods coming together to rescue a community by moving them across the sea to a new land. In recent years, the land has turned against its populace for unknown reasons.

Interestingly, the adventure is also one of three that is suitable for "solo play," i.e., between one player and a DM. Since the adventure involves finding lost verses to a song, the D&D design team recommends playing through the adventure as a bard if doing a solo adventure.

 

[overgeeked]

San Citlan is the standout setting for me, but there are a number of greats there.

Also note that a bunch of the creators put out additional material for their settings in the Journeys Beyond the Radiant Citadel PDF on DMs Guild, if you end up liking the book.

Yeah. Same for me. San Citlán is great. I want a whole setting of that.

 

[DrJawaPhD]

I can't wait to hear more about this one, I'm really surprised to hear that Godsbreath is the region chosen for a dragon-based adventure. The obvious choices would've been Yeonido, Dayawlongon, Akharin Sangar, Yongjing, or Umizu. I don't see how Godsbreath ties to dragons whatsoever, so this will be interesting!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I had most fun with Akharin Sangar (which gets a name drop in Keys from the Golden Vault).

I also liked Atagua, which canonically is near San Citlan. Thri-kreen and dancing capybara.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Glad to see them revisiting a Radiant Citadel setting. I'd like to see a product that covered the Three Dragon Siblings settings; Yongjing, Yeonido, and Umizu.

 

[Parmandur]

I can't wait to hear more about this one, I'm really surprised to hear that Godsbreath is the region chosen for a dragon-based adventure. The obvious choices would've been Yeonido, Dayawlongon, Akharin Sangar, Yongjing, or Umizu. I don't see how Godsbreath ties to dragons whatsoever, so this will be interesting!

Nothing about Godsbreath preclude dragons, or anything else in D&D: it is a pretty wide open High Fantasy Setting, even if it has a distinct flavor of it's own.

 

[Parmandur]

I had skipped Journey but with the feedback from people on here after the dragon book mentions it and how the gods breath was cool, I picked up the digital version to read through….thanks all for the feedback on it.

It really is a delightful anthology, with some really innovative ideas and themes thst can fit in a lot of campaigns.

 

[Perky the Dragon]

Heck yeah, loved the Radiant Citadel - working a homebrew civilization for it based on Ireland.

I was most intrigued by Godsbreath - really dug the southern gothic vibe. I hope the adventure expands a bit of the civilisation itself.

 

[DavyGreenwind]

I would buy the hell out of more Radiant Citadel stuff

 

[TravDoc42]

Glad to see WoTC isn't abandoning the Radiant Citadel! It is a brilliant concept, and something fresh added to the 5e standard cosmology.
In general, I'm all for revisiting and expanding on settings and worlds that have already had products made about them, as opposed to "checking them off the list" and forgetting about them.

 

[Parmandur]

Glad to see WoTC isn't abandoning the Radiant Citadel! It is a brilliant concept, and something fresh added to the 5e standard cosmology.
In general, I'm all for revisiting and expanding on settings and worlds that have already had products made about them, as opposed to "checking them off the list" and forgetting about them.

I appreciated all the Radiant Citadel material in the new DMG