Beyond the Known: 100 Unique Locations for D&D 5e!

“Beyond the Known: 100 Unique Locations for D&D 5e!” is the latest addition to our library, a supplement created to fill your world with memorable places for adventurers to discover, explore, and survive.

Inside, you’ll find everything from secluded sanctuaries and impossible monuments to drowned settlements, living landscapes, hidden underworlds, and places thoroughly corrupted by evil. They are meant to be dropped into an existing world or used as inspiration when building your own, with enough detail to make each location feel like an actual place rather than just a name and a quick idea.

Most locations are presented on a single page, while some of the larger ones span two. Each includes a detailed overview and history, a narration section to introduce it to your players, notable features and dangers, and adventure hooks for bringing the location into your game. Some also hide unique treasures for characters willing to look for them.

A location might be somewhere the party stumbles across on the road and spends twenty minutes exploring. It might become the destination of their next adventure. Or you might like it enough to build an entire part of your campaign around it. The book gives you the details you need, while leaving plenty of room to make each place your own.

The supplement is available in full-color PDF, Softcover, and Hardcover formats for the 5th Edition, but it can be used with any TTRPG system since it doesn't heavily rely on specific rules. We offer multiple pledge levels to suit your gaming budget, so check out the project, share it with your friends, and help us reach our goal and unlock many stretch goals!

The Project

The 100 core locations are divided into six distinct chapters, each exploring a different kind of place that might exist beyond the familiar borders of your campaign world.

• Sanctuaries of Civilization: Places built to offer safety, worship, healing, or refuge. This chapter covers chapels, monasteries, sacred retreats, shelters, and other places where adventurers might find a welcome rest. Of course, safety is never guaranteed, and a few of these sanctuaries have secrets of their own.
• Wonders of Civilization: Great monuments, unusual settlements, magical constructions, and other things people built simply because they could. Some are triumphs of engineering or magic, while others are the result of generations of hard work, enormous wealth, or one ruler with a particularly ambitious idea.
• Ruins of Civilization: Abandoned settlements, fallen fortresses, forgotten temples, and the remains of kingdoms that no longer exist. War and disaster account for some of them. Others were simply left behind. Whatever happened, there is usually a reason to go digging through what remains.
• Wonders of the Wilderness: The strangest places found far from towns and well-traveled roads. This chapter includes living mountains, unnatural forests, wandering islands, and other locations shaped by nature, magic, or a mixture of the two.
• Wonders of the Underworld: The world below is much larger than a few small caves and tunnels. Here you’ll find immense caverns, buried kingdoms, ancient passages, and places that reach far enough beneath the surface to brush against realms meant for the dead.
• Domains of Evil: Some places are best avoided. Cursed territories, corrupted sanctuaries, forbidden temples, and lands claimed by malevolent forces fill this final chapter. These are locations where something has gone terribly wrong, and fixing it may not always be an option.

Rewards

€13: Adventurer (PDF). Get the full project (+ all unlocked Stretch Goals!) in PDF!

€16: Creditor. Get the full project (+ all unlocked Stretch Goals!) in PDF, and your name engraved in the Credits Section!

€19: Collector (Softcover). Get the full project (+ all unlocked Stretch Goals!) in PDF and a Print on Demand (POD) link to get a Softcover of the book! PRINTING COST+SHIPPING NOT INCLUDED.

€25: Bold Explorer (Hardcover+Credits). Get the full project (+ all unlocked Stretch Goals!) in PDF, a Print on Demand (POD) Hardcover of the book and your name engraved in the Credits Section! PRINTING COST+SHIPPING NOT INCLUDED.

Print on Demand (POD) Tier and Add-ons:

Since a lot of you enjoy professionally printed material, after the PDFs are sent out, we will make sure the physical tiers get their physical Print-on-demand versions.

Backers in the Collector (Softcover), and Bold Explorer (Hardcover) tiers will receive codes to get a physical version of "Beyond the Known: 100 Unique Locations for 5e!" via DrivethruRPG. These codes are at cost, which means that you pay later to DrivethruRPG only for the manufacturing and shipping costs (we don't get any extra money from this).

Printing Cost: The final price will vary depending on the number of pages, as the book’s content will grow with stretch goals and adjustments. Below are our best estimates based on a ~130-page book:

• Softcover: about  $ 10.50
• Hardcover: about $ 16.10

Shipping Cost: It depends on your country: DrivethruRPG Shipping Rates

Add-ons

If you're interested in exploring some of our previous works, feel free to check out our DriveThruRPG store.

€16: (PDF) 100 & 100 Consumables and Enchanted Trinkets for 5e! A 5e supplement featuring a wide variety of consumables and enchanted trinkets, ready to drop into any campaign!

€16: (PDF) 100+8 Trials, Games & Competitions for 5e! A 5e supplement filled with unique trials, games, and challenges, ready to drop into any campaign!

€16: (PDF) Arcana Expanded - New Schools of Magic for 5e! A 5e compendium of brand-new schools of magic, with fresh spells, classes, enemies, and items to redefine arcane power.

€16: (PDF) 100+6 Curses & Diseases for 5e! A 5e supplement expanding on the various Curses and Diseases the world may have, including effects, signs and symptoms, and a potential cure.

€16: (PDF) 100+12 Feats & Backgrounds for 5e! A 5e supplement expanding on player options with Backgrounds inspired by historical occupations, as well as Feats to go with them.

€16: (PDF) 100+9 Unique Stores and Businesses for 5e! A 5e supplement featuring a wide variety of stores and businesses, ready to drop into any campaign.

€17: (PDF) 100+10 Settlements for 5e! A 5e supplement expanding on various cities, towns and villages in different environments.

€17: (PDF) 100+7 Factions & Guilds for 5e! A 5e supplement featuring a wide variety of stores and businesses, ready to drop into any campaign!

€18: (PDF) 100+11 Unique Puzzles for 5e! A 5e supplement, containing 100+11 Brain-Bending Challenges for your TTRPG needs!

€18: (PDF) 100 Unique Puzzles for D&D 5e Volume 2! A 5e supplement, containing 100+7 Brain-Bending Challenges for your TTRPG needs!

€22: (POD+PDF) 100+6 Curses & Diseases for 5e!  Get a POD Softcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€23: (POD+PDF)  100+12 Feats & Backgrounds for 5e! Get a POD Softcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

25€: (POD+PDF) 100+11 Unique Puzzles for 5e! Get a POD Softcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€29: (POD+PDF) Arcana Expanded - New Schools of Magic for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€29: (POD+PDF) 100 & 100 Consumables and Enchanted Trinkets for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€30: (POD+PDF) 100+8 Trials, Games & Competitions for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€30: (POD+PDF) 100+9 Stores and Businesses for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€30: (POD+PDF) 100+10 Settlements for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€30: (POD+PDF) 100+7 Factions & Guilds for 5e! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

€33: (POD+PDF) 100 Unique Puzzles for D&D 5e Volume 2! Get a POD Hardcover link, fulfilled by DrivethruRPG along with the PDF (Printing Cost + Shipping not included)

Stretch Goals

As with all our previous supplements, we believe your support should be reflected in the size of the final book. For every €2,000 raised, we will add 1 Legendary Location, forming a seventh chapter that will continue to grow alongside the campaign.

• Legendary Locations: Places whose existence has shaped history, inspired countless stories, or changed entire regions. These immense and extraordinary locations are designed to become major destinations within a campaign rather than simply another stop along the road.

About Us

Meet Kardoula! Kardoula was born in the streets, on the outskirts of a  great kingdom, where she quickly developed a love for adventure and  exploration. As she grew older, her curiosity led her to break into a  nearby house, where she discovered the world of tabletop gaming.

With her sharp mind and natural charisma,  Kardoula quickly became a  skilled dungeon master, guiding adventurers through perilous quests and  treacherous dungeons. Her players were always impressed by her clever  puzzles and cunning traps, and they often marveled at her ability to  weave intricate storylines that kept them on the edge of their seats.

Introducing Tinos, the feline dungeon master! Tinos was born on an  island in the Aegean Sea in 2022. After being adopted by a group of  aspiring adventurers who loved nothing more than playing tabletop games  together, they quickly realized that Tinos had a keen interest in their  activities,  often batting at their dice and meowing with excitement  when they rolled particularly high numbers.

When he's not leading his adventurers on quests, Tinos loves to curl  up in a cozy spot and nap, purring contentedly as his players plot their  next move. With his quick wit, sharp mind, and boundless creativity,  Tinos is the purrfect dungeon master for any group of adventurers  looking for a challenging and rewarding gaming experience.

(Also our humans are veteran Game Masters with decades in tabletop RPGs and into D&D 5e since the beginning, with many challenging products delivered over the years)