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A Tale of Two Cities - a Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus DM's Resource (maps, advice, handouts)

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Advice, maps, cheatsheets, and More to help you start your Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Campaign!

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities serves as the starting point for the newest official campaign: Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. This introductory chapter is packed with action, where the adventurers get a feel for the seedy streets of Baldur's Gate, discover background information and dark secrets that sets them up for their journey into Avernus, as well as where they meet some of the allies that will follow them on their adventures.

This download contains the following resources for Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus — Chapter 1:

  • 5 Full-color, VTT-ready Encounter Maps. Five full-scale digital battlemaps for Elfsong Tavern, Dungeon of the Dead Three, Low Lantern, Vanthampur Villa and Under the Villa in both DM's and player versions primed for virtual tabletops! (see previews below)

  • Additional Hooks. Several ideas on how to get the characters properly hooked and motivated to fight devils and journey into Avernus!

  • Changing Campaigns. Advice on how to transfer your characters from either the Ghosts of Saltmarsh or Waterdeep: Dragon Heist to Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus.

  • Running Chapter 1. Ideas on how to run each location in Chapter 1, extra content, and advice on scaling difficulty.

  • Encounter Sheets. 20+ pages of monster stat blocks covering every foe in the chapter, neatly arranged together on pages, so you don't have to flip through several books.

  • Thavius Kreeg's Contract. A handout showing Thavius Kreeg's contract with the Duke of Avernus.

  • Infernal Weapons. 7 new magic items for your campaign put together using new magic item guidelines established in Nybor's Tome of Enchanted Weapons.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have already picked up the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Complete DM's Bundle, the content in this bundle has already been added to your download. Go to 'Account' -> 'Updated Titles' to download the updated bundle.

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PREVIEWS

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Elfsong

UnderVilla

Low Lantern

DotDD

VVilla

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Matthew R July 28, 2020 8:46 am UTC
Hey, love this resource, it’s great. Quick question about the maps, what size do I need to print them out at to get a 1 inch by 1 inch grid?
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Eventyr G July 28, 2020 8:10 pm UTC
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Hi Matthew

We had a printing guide for this download, but it doesn't seem to be in there anymore. I've updated the product with it. If you have downloaded the bundle, there should be on there as well. You can also find the guide here: https://eventyrgames.com/2020/01/20/guide-how-to-print-encounter-maps-free-elfsong-tavern-map/.

The guide is pretty thorough, but if you just want the short answer, the maps dimensions are in their titles (i.e. 22x18 inches) and they are 150 PPI. Personally, I've found that using the software suggested in the guide usually yields the best results. Let me know at jvaleur@eventyrgames.com if run into any issues, I'll do my best to make sure we can get it to work :)

Best regards,

J. A. Valeur
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Sean S December 16, 2019 11:43 pm UTC
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An excellent resource, and well worth the price. Confidential to Valeur R: a 'segway' is the thing GOB Bluth rides around on. A 'segue' is a transition. I think you want the latter on p. 5. :-)
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Eventyr G December 17, 2019 7:54 am UTC
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Thanks for the kind words – and the helpful, but embarrassing correction ;). We'll make sure to fix it in the next revision!
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Sean S December 18, 2019 1:28 am UTC
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Apologies for the snark :-). I'll be starting my DiA campaign this week, and I'm really looking forward to using your suggestions and maps.
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Eventyr G December 18, 2019 7:29 am UTC
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Haha, no worries, I truly do appreciate it – the embarrassment is all my own fault ;)
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Michael H November 17, 2019 6:54 pm UTC
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I went to https://rasterbator.net and got pdfs that I printed. These maps turned into a lot of printed pages, but my party loves having more detail to work with instead of my dry erase scribblings.
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daniel M November 04, 2019 2:26 am UTC
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what size poster paper would you recommend printing Elfsong Tavern to get grid to proper game play scale? I was thinking of ordering some of these maps from a local print shop in poster format and pray they come out ok.
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Eventyr G November 04, 2019 6:56 pm UTC
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Hi Daniel!

Wow, that sounds cool – I'd love to see it in action!

I don't have experience printing the maps as posters, but since the map is 40 x 20 squares, you'd probably have to go pretty big. With an A1 size (23.4 x 33.1 inches), you could get the map to a reasonable 16 x 32 inches, which would be 0.8 inch squares. That seems like it would be playable with minis. Mind you, I haven't tried it, so I can't say for sure!

Good luck :)
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Donald S November 02, 2019 8:12 pm UTC
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This is very nice! It will be very helpful when I start my group on this tomorrow! I do have a small gripe, however. The DM's version of the Villa has no grid. The other maps and material are fantastic!
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Eventyr G November 02, 2019 9:51 pm UTC
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Hi Donald

Thanks so much for the kind words and letting us know about the map. I've added a grid to the DM's version of the Villa (which was indeed missing!), you should be able to download it now! :)
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Donald S November 03, 2019 11:39 pm UTC
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Thanks for the quick turnaround! :-)
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Justin C October 23, 2019 10:28 am UTC
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These maps are perfect, thank you!
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Eventyr G October 29, 2019 5:53 pm UTC
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Hi Justin! Thanks for the kind words – really appreciate it! :)
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PEDRO HENRIQUE B October 17, 2019 10:32 pm UTC
Does this supplement has better maps ? I mean colored ones, not that white background and red lines, I'm more interested in better maps to import into roll20, thanks
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Eventyr G October 18, 2019 7:09 am UTC
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Hi Pedro

Yes, you can also see previews of them in the text above :)
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Tom W March 30, 2020 6:34 pm UTC
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I love this guide so much - it's really helpful! And the maps are great! This is probably more a question to ask on the Roll20 forums than here but I thought I'd try, I've bought the official Roll20 maps with dynamic lighting and monsters all set up. Do you know if there is a way to add your colour maps over the existing ones so I don't have to manually draw up the lighting and replace monsters? Not your responsibility but I thought I'd ask!
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日本語 でたらめ ? May 16, 2020 2:08 pm UTC
I know how to do all that but I can't line the map up with the grid and that makes me sad
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Michael H September 30, 2019 2:49 am UTC
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Thanks for the work. Will there be an update for the maps that appear later in the book?
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Eventyr G October 18, 2019 7:08 am UTC
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Hi Michael! Yes - we expect to have Chapter 3 out very soon, and will finish guides for all 5 chapters + some bonus content :)
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Thiago L September 29, 2019 1:38 am UTC
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Very good material, only a small mistake at Vanthampur Villa, Second level... at V11, theres a wall that shouldn't be there, it closes the way to V13, V14 and V15
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Eventyr G September 29, 2019 5:55 am UTC
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Hi Thiago!

Good catch and thanks for pointing it out! I've removed the excess wall and updated the product, you should be able to download them again through 'Updated Titles' in your DM's Guild Account. My apologies for the mistake and inconvenience, but thankful that you pointed it out so we could get it fixed quickly!

Have fun in hell ;)
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Thiago L September 29, 2019 12:28 pm UTC
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good, gonna use it today! Im waiting for maps like these for the other chapters!
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Fedor D September 28, 2019 2:39 pm UTC
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This is great, thanks a lot!
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Eventyr G September 29, 2019 5:55 am UTC
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Thanks for the kind words and the support, really appreciate it :)
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Aaron L September 26, 2019 8:47 am UTC
Looking forward to a complete DM bundle for the whole adventure! Going to be directing my players over here from Waterdeep when that wraps up, but it will be a little while yet.
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Eventyr G September 26, 2019 10:31 am UTC
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Awesome to hear – and thanks for the support! :)
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Alexander W September 24, 2019 5:38 am UTC
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glad this came out I desperately need for full color maps for this for my roll20 games
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