Athana Chronicles

Daragaard Setting [Complete]

Added 2024-12-09 00:20:00 +0000 UTC

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With this release, Part 3 is done, and thus so is the final part of the full Daragaard Core Setting! As such this is going to be a tad longer - we’ll cover off everything in the entire 3 parts!

We’ve sorted all of the Tier Google drives so that all of the content from these 3 different instalments is in one setting folder. And that leaves you with:

14 Battle Maps
6 Quests
16 Spells
51 Magical Items
9 Bandit Variations
15 Monsters
13 Feats
6 Deficiencies
7 Backgrounds
1 Class (Shaman)
9 Subclasses
5 Subraces
13 Factions
6 Regions
150 pages of setting lore
17 Gods
Godhood Ascension System

Quite the stacking of content! Let’s get into it! We’ll start with the Collector content, and work our way up to the Chronicle Keepers!

51 Items, 16 Spells
So we’ve ended up with FIFTY items and sixteen spells in the entire core setting. This stats are: 9 Armour Items, 25 Wondrous Items whether rings, wondrous, rods, and 17 weapons! The breakdown in rarity is: 15 Uncommon, 13 Rare, 12 Very Rare, 8 Legendary, 2 Celestial Vestiges and 1 Corestone! A pretty decent balance methinks! You can get these item cards in a printable format, or just in image format to hand out! For the Spells, we’ve got a breakdown of spell levels: First x 2, Second x 2, Third x 3, Fourth x 2, Fifth x 2, Sixth x 1, Seventh x 1, Eight x 2, Ninth x 1 - Another decent balancing act, it’s almost like we planned it.

15 Monsters - With Tokens (Portrait & Topdown)
This is what we’re most proud of - creating engaging, lore friendly but portable creatures that have great depth and personality, while being different and fun encounters is a genuine joy for us. The tokens we put out are the most fun we have doing this, as well as the balancing act of sorting the statblocks out! We’d love feedback or ideas for monsters if any of you have any!

Just a Reminder - We store everything here!
Don’t forget that the best place to collect all of the content from Athana Chrons is via the google drive - we actually sort this out before releasing on here, so you may get stuff early if you check this! It’s filterable, sortable, for the monsters the tokens can be seen from the page so you know what you’re looking at, there’s links to take you to their virtual D&D Beyond counterpart for everything, as well as links to their downloadable content!

6 Adventures (Setting Agnostic) with 14 Different Battlemaps
So it’s almost worth picking up the final version to get all of the quests and encounters! Every single of these is created in a way that they can fit seamlessly into any setting you may have, but also fit right on into Athana. You’re provided with scene images, dialogue, tips on RPing, APL tables for creature encounters, with gridded and gridless versions of the maps.

Character Options - Shaman Class, 9 Subclasses, 5 Subraces, 7 Backgrounds, 13 Feats and 6 Deficiencies
There are a plethora of character options inside the final setting - personal favourites for me are the subclasses Malice Domain and Primordial Path Barbarian - if you play one let me know how they go!

Factions & Societies
There are 13 different factions in this final book, from a wizards school through to a merchant conglomerate aiming for world domination. Though their lore is baked deep into Athana and Daragaard, again these are well fleshed out factions that you could port right over to any world you want. There are NPCs and descriptions, as well as listed ranks, figures of interest and their goals and relationships.

Almost 150 Pages of Setting Lore
This is the meat right here. The reason this has taken so long. It has been a grand challenge, and very rewarding to put our game world into a setting, and flesh out every little corner - places even we have never tread! If you are looking for a world as a new DM or an old one to poach some ideas, maps, or cultures from - this is where you’re going to get it. Every single region comes with suggested quests and adventures.

A Godhood System, Universe Lore and a system for managing Ascension to Godhood
This is very specific, but the goal for some PCs if you let them get that far, is to forever become one with the world, the story and forever legendary in the campaign you run. A great way to do this is via ascension to godhood. It’s risky, it’s insanely difficult, it’s the end of multi year campaigns, but at least now you can handle it!

What is going to happen from here?

We won’t go into another setting for a long while. Our monthly releases from here on out (not forever, but for a long while) is going to be us hitting that monthly cadence with adventures set in this setting. As always they’ll be fully portable to any world, they’ll just fit perfectly in Daragaard. The first one is Winter’s Beating HEart - and already well under way.

Note from Euphoria

Wow.

Honestly what can I say. I am so happy and overjoyed that this has finally been completed. I want to say how thankful I am and how proud of every single person that helped bring this together. When we decided in February that we’d start with a setting but try and hit all of the different aspects of DND in our content, looking at other releases and official modules - we thought “Yeah! We have enough of our own world to do that easily! Let’s split it into three parts!” Oh boy. What. A. Challenge. This has been. With time away for personal life issues, and a few other set backs, words can’t describe how it feels to say this is completed. 325 pages, 150,000 words. A small portion of our world we’ve been playing in for almost 10 years come to live on the page.

To literally anybody who is reading this, you have helped us realise a dream, and have supported us doing so. All I can say is thank you so much for giving even just a few thoughts to what we create and our world. It means so much to us, and we can’t wait to really kick on now with adventures on adventures we’ve played, thought up, or plan to in the future. I’m not sure when we’ll do another full setting like this, it won’t be for a while, but unfortunately the DM brain already has ideas for two. Gods save us.

It all starts here, thank you all so much.

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