Several NPCs the characters befriend in Dragon Heist would be very interested in finding out what happened to the delegation choose one or more of them to hire the characters. Material is also provided for levels 1-2 in a chapter of side treks, but this isn’t important for people moving to this adventure from Dragon Heist. For higher-level characters, the main adventure hook is the missing trade delegation the characters need to be sent to look for it. As a result, players can get to dangerous areas quite quickly. It is a sandbox adventure, which allows the players a lot of freedom of where to go. The main adventure in Princes of the Apocalypse is for levels 3-15. Elemental Evil – Princes of the Apocalypse Is this a further portion of the embezzled hoard? Does Lord Neverember have anything to do with it? And why are there rumours of dragon attacks?Īny faction contacts the characters have (especially with the Lords Alliance, Order of the Gauntlet or Harpers) would like the characters to investigate.įrom this point, you can play through the rest of Hoard as written, and then continue through Rise as well. A suspicious caravan is leaving Waterdeep towards Neverwinter. You can introduce characters into the Tyranny storyline half-way through Hoard of the Dragon Queen. He embezzled from the city and ran already before Dragon Heist began, and Lady Laeral is already the Open Lord.
Second, Lord Neverember never appears on the Council in Rise of Tiamat. If you still want to run Tyranny after Dragon Heist, there’s a couple of changes to make.įirst, don’t talk about the dragons during Dragon Heist.
There’s a basic problem with using the Tyranny of Dragons storyline: the plot of Dragon Heist is based on something that happens during The Rise of Tiamat! Others are subtly different… Tyranny of Dragons – Hoard of the Dragon Queen and The Rise of Tiamat This is based on my previous article on What to Play After Finishing the Starter Set, and some advice is very similar. So, what do you do next? Here are some suggestions from the official adventure line, with suggestions for linking the adventures together.
The adventure takes you from first to fifth level, much as does the D&D Starter Set adventure, Lost Mine of Phandelver. Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is an enjoyable adventure set in the City of Waterdeep, where you get to work for some of the factions of the City whilst stopping other factions from looting a great hoard of gold from a hidden vault.