D&D 5E Your Favorite Sandbox Support Materials

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I have Yawning Portal and AT LEAST Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury and going to be sites. I keep meaning to pick up some MT Black stuff so this is a good opportunity.
Saltmarsh will give you good adventures on or near the ocean, if you're going to have a sea coast or a large lake.
 

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Do they give it some good detail?
About 10 pages and a big ass map. It is probably enough for my purposes (using tables and stuff to fill out specifics).

I have not ever actually played in Greyhawk or used it as the basis of a campaign. But I need a main city (the PCs are not starting there) where the BBEG rules.
 

About 10 pages and a big ass map. It is probably enough for my purposes (using tables and stuff to fill out specifics).

I have not ever actually played in Greyhawk or used it as the basis of a campaign. But I need a main city (the PCs are not starting there) where the BBEG rules.
Golotha from Columbia could work.


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It is dominated by the two "evil" churches of Harn: Agrik, the fire god of war, and Morgath, the god of the undead. Plus, it has a interesting geography.
 

I love cities for a sandbox campaign.

3E Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk would be a nice complement to a Greyhawk campaign.

3E City of Splendors sourcebook (on DMsguild) would work great for Forgotten Realms and also be lootable for Greyhawk.

Paizo has great "starter towns". Absalom is their equivalent to Greyhawk/Waterdeep/Ptolus and that book is more than solid. I also heartily recommend Sandpoint: Light of the Lost Coast as an amazing small town sandbox where you could run a whole campaign from that one book.
 

About 10 pages and a big ass map. It is probably enough for my purposes (using tables and stuff to fill out specifics).

I have not ever actually played in Greyhawk or used it as the basis of a campaign. But I need a main city (the PCs are not starting there) where the BBEG rules.
Bardsgate is a large, detailed city book put out by Frog God Games that I recommend looking at. It is generic enough to fit into most D&D style fantasy campaigns but has enough unique flavor to keep it interesting. It has a lot of detail and includes some small adventures. Another city from Frog God Games I really like is Caterhage in their book The Blight. But it is technically more advanced and grittier and may not fit into many D&D campaigns as well as Bards Gate. Also, while it has a lot of detail on the city, it is also a campaign book, so you may not use a lot of the content in it. It is a huge, and therefore not cheap book, but I think it is worth getting the PDF, especially if you can get it on sale or in a humble bundle, if you want a larger, gritty, and a bit more technologically advanced city as a major location in your campaign.
 

Mostly just monster manuals and such for me personally. Along with the occasional internet search engine to research real world, historical, or mythological homologs for various elements.

There used to be some threads devoted to encounter ideas on these boards, which I think might be useful for building some region-based encounter lists.
 

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