Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus starts in the city of Baldur's Gate, before your adventure takes you to the layer of Avernus within the Nine Hells.

Where does Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus take place?

Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is set in the year 1492 DR in the Forgotten realms.

When does Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus take place?

Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is designed to take players from levels 1-13 over the course of their adventure.

What level is Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus?

The events of Baldur's Gate 3 take place shortly after the story of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, and there are several characters and places that can be found in both!

Is Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus connected to the video game Baldur's Gate 3?

Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is an expansive adventure that can take 30-40 sessions on average, depending on the players and the choices they make!

How long does it take to finish Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus?

I have been running this module for the last ten months in my home game. It's incredibly evocative in tone, but the details are quite the mess, and extremely hostile to unwary GMs.

That said, I've been running it successfully, largely by doing several things:

1. Replaced key NPCs with player characters. I gave several archetypes to the players and encouraged but did not require they be selected. As a result we have a firbolg Hellrider PC who replaces Reya Mantlemorn, and we have a Hollyphant PC who replaces Lulu.

2a. Worked with the players to create motivations: multiple times in the book the GM is encouraged to coerce, sometimes forcibly, sometimes at threat of PC death, to get PCs to "follow the story". I'm sorry, but that's bulls---. Simply having a conversation about *why* a character might care about the fate of X does wonders for smoothing out how to move things along.

2b. Related to above, but this is just a more general GM tip: you don't need the entire party to share identical goals! Just non-contradictory ones, or ones that aren't contradictory quite yet (if you're encouraging PvP).

3. Take your time in Baldur's Gate: I know GMs who literally skip everything in the early chapters and start in Avernus, and that's fine, but we took our time in Baldur's Gate and it really paid off.

4. Supplement and fix: I can't recommend Justin Alexander's "Remixing Avernus" blog series highly enough; it's essentially an entire book fixing the campaign as it was published. You don't need to take everything (or anything) that Alexander provides, but you almost certainly need to respond to the concerns he's addressing. He also links to multiple other third party sources to flesh out different parts of the campaign if you want to focus more or less on them.

5. This is probably the most idiosyncratic to me, but I've been running this using the new Daggerheart system instead of D&D, and while that has added a little work to me in the way of stat block conversions and the like, overall it's been a great decision and I have no regrets on that.

Jordan Peacock

I love this module! The beginning of the adventure contains some of 5e's most exciting and challenging dungeons. The middle section - including Elturel and Avernus - has a number of fun and interesting encounters, although I typically mix and match these to structure the adventure more like a sandbox than the linear paths presented in the module. The conclusion is very satisfying and gives players a chance to see the alliances they forged and the decisions that they made pay off. The connections to BG3 are lots of fun, and I like to throw in a few extra ones, as a special treat. 10/10, would recommend.

Neal Z

Welcome to Baldur’s Gate, a city of ambition and corruption situated at the crossroads of the Sword Coast. You’ve just started your adventuring career, but already find yourself embroiled in a plot that sprawls from the shadows of Baldur’s Gate to the front lines of the planes-spanning Blood War! Do you have what it takes to turn infernal war machines and nefarious contracts against the archdevil Zariel and her diabolical hordes? And can you ever hope to find your way home safely when pitted against the infinite evils of the Nine Hells?

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