![]() More so than most D&D games, the Backgrounds of party members shape the story and conflicts of the game. You can even start as one of the first two and become a Dissenter in the course of play. You might be an Initiate, working toward being a glorious human sacrifice to the God-Pharaoh a Vizier, one of the priesthood and the facilitators for Initiates on that path or a Dissenter, a rebel against that social structure. Anyway, the document is crammed with usable content, so let’s dive in.įirst up, we have three new Backgrounds, relating to the results of your character’s Ceremony of Measurement. Nicol Bolas’s secret control of the whole plane is advertised throughout the document, and players would have a hard time missing it. Amonkhet is also built upon a dark secret – well, secret from the characters at least. ![]() Amonkhet is an Egyptian-inspired dark fantasy setting, which James describes in the Introduction as “outside the core D&D experience,” but I’m not completely sure why – other than being a pastiche of a place that isn’t Europe or Asia, even the elevator pitch is dense with D&D-friendly adventure hooks. James Wyatt recently released the fourth conversion of a Magic: the Gathering setting to D&D 5e.
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