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Heisting Xanathar's Lair (maps, heist guidelines and DM's resources for Chapter 5: Spring Madness)

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Heisting Xanathar's Lair

Dragon Heist. It's right there in the title. Heist. Not surprisingly, both you and your players likely expect that there'll be a heist – a daring theft from a dangerous location – in there somewhere. And while taking 500,000 gold dragons from the Vault of Dragons can technically be considered a heist, it's not exactly the sort of heist we've come to expect from watching films such as Ocean's 11 or The Italian Job. So what do you do, if you want to put the heist in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist?

Heisting Xanathar's Lair includes everything you'll need to succesfully run the dangerous Xanathar's Lair for your players. Delving into and adding to the information found in Chapter 5: Spring Madness, this download contains general guidelines for running a heist on a villain's lair, DM's resources that makes preparing for Xanathar's Lair fast and smooth, and several high quality battlemaps – all you'll need to put the heist in Dragon Heist!

This product includes:

  • General Heist Rules – ideas on which score to use and how to set up the need for a heist, as well as general guidelines to help you structure and run a heist on a villain's lair in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.
  • DM's Resources for Xanathar's Lair – tables with valuable information about Xanathar's lair, new and alternative ways of entering the lair, easy-to-use lair encounters, and advice on handling distractions, raising the alarm, and, hopefully, your party's escape from Xanathar's Lair! 
  • Xanathar Lair Roster – a one-page roster giving you a overview of the denizens of Xanathar's Lair
  • Tournament – A one-page guide to running an exciting tournament in the Pit of Blood and Fortune!
  • Monster Stat Blocks – a complete document with the monsters found in Xanathar's Lair, conveniently grouped so there's less shuffling pages at the table.
  • Maps – Four high quality battlemaps primed for use on digital tabletop, showing the Xanathar's Lair, the Xanathar Guild Hideout, the Night Dock Ward and the Pit of Blood and Fortune!

Sample Pages

IndexPage 2Page 4Page 8

Map Previews

Xanathar's Lair

Xanathar's Lair

Pit of Blood and Fortune

Pit of Blood and Fortune

Xanathar Guild Hideout

Xanathar Guild Hideout


Night Dock Ward

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John B October 23, 2020 6:12 pm UTC
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The Hideout map has room markings Q1, Q2 etc... Where are the descriptions for these rooms found?
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John B October 23, 2020 8:06 pm UTC
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Nevermind. It's in the Dragon Heist book. I'm an idiot. :)
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Charles N August 12, 2020 4:24 pm UTC
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Using these maps with FoundryVTT. How do i get them to scale properly? I cant get the overlay grid to scale on the large Xanathar Lair map without the grid quickly becoming misaligned and unusable.
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Eventyr G August 12, 2020 6:31 pm UTC
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Hi Charles

I have no experience with Foundry, but the Xanathar's Lair map is 80x100 at 75ppi (6000 x 7500 pixels total). Using these measurements, it should be possible to align it to the grid in any VTT. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful than that, but I simply don't have experience with the software :/.

Best regards,

J. A. Valeur
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Peter C December 31, 2019 12:54 am UTC
The map previews on this product page are showing a tinypic "image no longer available" error instead
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Thomas C August 05, 2019 5:02 pm UTC
Are you going to make something like this for the Winter Wizardry chapter? I've used your products for Chapter 1-4 and it really helped me run the module. I'd love to see something for infiltrating Kolat Towers.

Thanks!
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George M May 11, 2019 3:51 am UTC
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I'm liking the product quite a bit, but i'm having issues using the maps with Roll20; outside of the grid numbers (30x22), 80X100), what needs to be done to get the maps to line up properly? Scaling them up leaves empty rows that don't line up, and stretching to fit brings no joy. I could find no specs giving guidance; how do I make them work?
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Dennis C May 07, 2019 4:33 pm UTC
Do you have any plans to create a guide for "Chapter 6: Hell of a Summer"?
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Daniel S April 18, 2019 4:02 am UTC
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SUPER stoked for this! All the other W:DH supplements have saved my butt on every occasion with all the detail I missed on my own read-through. Thanks for all your hard work and look forward to running this soon!
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christopher V April 03, 2019 9:09 pm UTC
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Hello, I would like to print the lair but I dont know the size in which to print it so that we can use it for mini combat.
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Eventyr G April 04, 2019 7:18 am UTC
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Hi Christopher

I've answered your email, I hope you get it to work! :)

Best regards
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Zachary C March 12, 2024 4:21 pm UTC
I know this is necromancy of a comment but would this be something I could also have some help in? I'm unsure how best to print this map to use at my table. Thanks in advance!
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Dennis A March 27, 2019 2:18 am UTC
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Is this product going to be affected by WotC's recent policy change on maps (meaning, is this product about to be removed from dmsguild)?
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Eventyr G March 27, 2019 2:38 pm UTC
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Hi

I am not aware on a policy change, so I don't know. But I should hope not - last I checked, this product includes nothing in violation of WotC's content policy :)
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