Chapter 4: Creating Adventures - Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Chapter 4: Creating Adventures. This chapter provides a toolbox to help the Dungeon Master create adventures featuring the guilds of Ravnica. The tensions among the guilds, a constant current of animosity, provide a solid foundation for building adventures. "Krenko's Way" can be used to launch a Ravnica campaign. The tables and advice in this chapter expand on the material in chapter 3 of the Dungeon Master's Guide. Monsters and nonplayer characters mentioned on the tables can be found either in the Monster Manual or in chapter 6 of this book. When a creature's name appears in bold type, that's a visual cue pointing you to the creature's stat block in the Monster Manual. If the stat block appears elsewhere, the text tells you so. Guild-Based Adventures Each guild gets a section in this chapter to help you craft adventures inspired by that guild. In a guild's section, four basic seeds for creating adventures are provided: guild locations, guild villains, character objectives, and adventure hooks. Guild Locations Each guild's entry in this chapter includes a map of an iconic location associated with the guild. Any of these sites can serve as the location for an adventure. The description of each guild location includes a table that lists possible goals for an adventure based there. You can choose an adventure goal, or roll one randomly, from the table in the description of the site you've chosen. If none of those goals inspires you, choose a goal or roll one randomly from the Guild Location Goals table instead. 1 Prevent a magical catastrophe inside the location. 2 Find the source of strange occurrences in or near the location. 3 Escape the location (and help others escape) when a disaster occurs inside. 4 Quell a riot inside or around the location. 5 Kill or drive out a monster that has turned the location into its lair. 6 Defend the location against an external attacker. 7 Seize control of the location. 8 Infiltrate the location and report on what's happening ins...