Beyond just pastoral farmlands and medieval kingdoms, many sourcebooks offer dozens of varied locales worth visiting.
These adventures are perfect for low-level D&D parties.
Here are some of the most unique environments you’re free to use for your campaign.
10Sub-Zero Tundra
Campaign Playstyle
Creature Types
Survival
Think of this biome as a perpetual Ice Age.
The world is covered with frost, ice, snow, and hardly any large settlements.
Survival and harvesting of food and water is the name of the game in this unforgiving landscape.
Instead, this kingdom is sprawled out as one large megacity crammed with millions of people.
The party must contend with autocratic rule and a crowded, restless citizenry throughout their journey.
Megacities offer a great challenge for DMs in terms of mapping and designing a homebrewed world.
But they also have a lot of flexibility in terms of time and place.
Take a break from your campaign’s main story with these fun side quest ideas.
There are plenty of ways to customize an endless ocean setting to your liking.
Regardless, for tables looking for a full pirate-themed campaign, this setting could prove perfect.
7Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
The world has been irrecoverably damaged by warfare.
Magical superweapons have wiped out crops, livestock, and entire cities.
North Kingdoms by Bruce Brenneise
Now, the survivors of this horrific war are left to scavenge over whatevers been left behind.
Sadly, theres not even that much left to scavenge.
This is another great option for survival-based campaigns, or fans of any post-apocalyptic-themed content.
North Kingdoms by Bruce Brenneise
6Land Of The Spellplague
Supernatural Horror
Magical contagions offer a fun wrinkle to pepper over your campaign.
This is similar toTomb of Annihilationbut can be tailored to your liking.
Perhaps the party must seek out the cause of this spellplague and eradicate it.
Greyhawk by Bruce Brenneise
Bastions in Dungeons & Dragons arent just great setpieces.
Theyre also great places to start an adventure!
Spellcasters should be warned in such a campaign that their magic may not always go as planned.
Storm-Tossed Ship by Olivier Bernard
4Parched Desert
A desert is one thing, but a desert without so much as an oasis?
Thats another story altogether.
Challenge your party to survive an endless, sprawling desert without a drop of water in sight.
A Volcanic Battlefield by Kent Davis
3Labyrinthine Underworld
Extraplanar
The Dungeons & Dragons multiverse is no stranger to prison planes.
Or, it’s possible for you to go with a labyrinthine underworld from which players must escape.
Consider why the adventuring party exists in this prison plane in the first place.
Demonic Possession by Alexandre Honoré
Why is anyone placed here?
How do people escape?
Or is that just a myth, lost to the annals of history?
Sage’s Room by Lixin Yin
These landmasses play host to cities, farmlands, and all manner of locales.
Navigable only through flight-based means, a whole host of adventures await the party beyond the clouds.
Here are the best surviving tips for high-level encounters in D&D!
Acolyte by Titus Lunter
1Mysterious Ruins
Mystery
Long ago, a whole host of ancient civilizations called this land home.
However, mysterious circumstances caused entire populations to abandon their ancestral homes.
Now, new settlers have come, searching for answers.
Exploration By William O’Connor
The world is filled with ruins, and a looming question: where did everybody go?
Elemental Plane of Air by Noor Rahman
A Giant Dungeon by Titus Lunter
