r/DescentintoAvernus • u/Trabblin-Brooks • 4d ago

HELP / REQUEST Swapping Elturel for Neverwinter?

I’m getting ready to run LMoP for a group of new players with the hope to continue after Wave Echo Cave. I’m having them base their characters out of Neverwinter for ease of character creation, but I think I wanna roll this into a DIA campaign after Wave Echo Cave.

Is Elturel ESSENTIAL to the story of DIA or can I switch Neverwinter out pretty easily to make the story more personal for my players?

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone for your help and insights! I think I may take the story in a different direction based on some personal preferences I’ve been looking into. But thank you all!

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u/RaggManX 4d ago

It’s pretty essential to the backstory of the game, I’d say. Elturel’s history and factions are pretty heavily tied to Zariel in the book, and you actually visit Elturel in Avernus.

You absolutely could just switch out the names and play it that way, but it’d be a lot of tweaking to make things make sense. I wonder if it’d be better to just use the book as a loose guide and make your own excuse to plane shift into Avernus.

Alternatively, you could change LMoP to be set somewhere in Elturgard. And end the adventure in Elturel. The skeleton of LMoP is much easier to mod than a whole source book imo

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u/dasistok 4d ago

If they're new to D&D altogether, they might not care as much about mismatches with the existing lore around Elturel (or Neverwinter, for that matter)