Waterdeep Dragon Heist Explained in 8 Minutes | DnD 5e City Adventure

I tried to run this adventure and the whole first half just gives ZERO reason for the players to interrupt the investigation without railroading them. Being good aligned, they just... Let the authorities do their job. And then nothing happened forever

Just started running this module yesterday, except I am running something calles the Alexandrian remix which a friend reccomended to me. Basically it is a way to run all 4 villains and not have the bullshit parts of the module. I would reccomend taking a look at it to see if you would want to run that version of the module.

I played through Dragon Heist under a very awesome DM; Half our party (myself included) got caught up in playing Dungeons & Spreadsheets, and focused on getting our tavern up and running. We never ever knew anything about the stone until after the campaign was over, and our characters never learned anything about the stone, ever. Apparently, the other half of the party started doing the 'main quest' and still failed to get the stone. Our GM was kind of sad (but not upset) that we never did the main questline. I remember the fireball going off, and we investigated it a bit, but the NPCs showed up to investigate and so the rest of us went back to running our tavern. Shrug

There is also Alexandrian remix that allows DM to use all bad guys at once while frantically flipping through the book and skipping through a blog that contains all the changes.

I flavored this adventure as the party belonging to a group of revolutionaries trying to overthrow the oppressive dictator of Waterdeep. The fireball was an accident that happened while the revolutionaries were secretly moving weapons. The party had to cover it up and pin it on someone else without the investigators knowing. That actually gave them a reason to care about the investigation and foreshadows the real final boss. Once they successfully covered up the accident they were trusted by the resistance to do a bigger job. They had several contacts, one of which was able to leak info about the vault so the players could spend several sessions pouring over maps and diagrams, hand written notes about traps, etc. And actually plan a heist. Naturally, the 90% of that went to sourcing weapons, explosives, and training for their comrades so they could do their revolution.

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I played an Old One warlock with the Noble background, think Blackadder with magic, in this game. My PC used his rich dad to hire a lawyer to have the ghost of the tavern made an equal partner and owner. Apparently, according to Waterdeep law, ghosts can own property in the city.

Wow this module is not as well received as I thought it would be. Honestly this is probably my favorite just because of all of the cool wacky ideas in it. Like kidnapping sylgar to stop a beholder crime boss is such a fresh idea and I'm glad that after this came out Wizards felt more comfortable doing wacky things like that.

I never got to finish it, but I had a plan for running the summer version of Dragon Heist and then immediately following it up with Descent into Avernus with the Summer route's villains popping back up in Avernus.

Okay, this was good shit. <<==high praise for someone who sat around a DnD table in Louisiana.

I saw all your videos of adventures and I love them so much. I'm running The Wild beyond the Withlight so I hope you do that, it's a beautiful module

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I started the adventure as Durnan was humoring customers of a group of morons who went to the Forge of Fury. It was an in-joke the Yawning Portal module. Also, it is hilarious because the player who spent the most amount of time formulating backstory failed his DEX save and his character fell down the giant well hole in the Yawning Portal during the Troll fight. All of us had a good laugh as I described the character falling for a long time. The players improved the hole was quite large. With the character being functionally dead. The player made a new one in 15 minutes and decided to play a Drow on a whim. It was a fun first session.

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This was fun! Thank you for posting!

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