What Kind of Campaigns Does Aether Skies Actually Support?
One of the first questions people ask when they hear the premise of Aether Skies is simple: “What do players actually do in this setting?” It’s a fair question. At a glance, Aether Skies looks like a world built for traditional fantasy adventures. Floating cities. Strange technology. Ancient...
Under the Dome: The Bone Caravan
A Mobile Fortress That Refuses to Die Most Domes stay where they were built. That is the point. A Dome is stability.A fixed point against chaos.A declaration that civilization will not move, bend, or retreat. The Bone Caravan rejects that idea completely. It moves. Slowly.Relentlessly.Like a corpse dragged across the wasteland...
Beneath the Clouds – The land beneath the Aether Skies
The Forgotten Surface of Aether Skies Most people born in the sky cities never see the surface. They grow up hearing stories about it, of course. A broken world swallowed by storms.Ruined civilizations buried beneath endless forests.Corruption twisting flesh and mind alike.Savage tribes lurking in the ruins of...
Knight of the Anti-Aether (Crusader of the Aether Skies)
Those Who Fear What the Sky Cities Are Becoming (Editor’s Note: “Knight of the Anti-Aether” is currently a working title within the Aether Skies setting and may evolve as the world develops further—but the core idea remains one of the most important philosophies in the setting.) Most...
The Shatterminds: Reimagining Illithids for a Post-Apocalyptic Chaos World
Few monsters in Dungeons & Dragons are as iconic as the dreaded Mind Flayer. The image is timeless: purple-skinned psychic tyrants with writhing facial tentacles, lurking beneath the world while feeding upon sentient brains and building empires of enslaved thralls. But what happens to Illithids when...
Echoes After the End (Aether skies a steampunk horror D&D setting)
Running a Post-Barrier Campaign in Aether Skies Most campaigns end when the world is saved. In Aether Skies, some campaigns begin after it fails. The Barrier held reality together. It stabilized the skies, contained the unknowable, and allowed civilization to exist within predictable rules. Entire cultures were built...
Under the Dome: Running a Chaos Beholder
Encounter Design, Tactics, and a 5e Stat Block A Chaos Beholder is not a normal boss fight. If your players walk into a room, roll initiative, and trade damage—they’ve skipped the most important part. This creature is: An environment A pressure system A perspective that overwrites reality Run it...
Under the Dome: Chaos Beholders (post apocalyptic D&D setting)
When Reality Starts Believing Itself Before the storms, beholders were aberrations. After the storms, they became something worse: Anchors of unstable reality. Out in the wastelands beyond the Dome, there are places where the chaos doesn’t just distort the world. It organizes around something. In those places, you don’t find ruins. You...
Under the Dome: A Simple Delivery (Post apocalyptic D&D adventure)
An Adventure About What Happens After the Hard Part The job is done. The party went beyond the Dome.They survived the storms.They extracted the Grind. They made it back. That was the hard part. What’s left should be simple: Deliver the Grind. Get paid. Move on. Under the Dome, nothing that involves...
Aether Storms in Aether Skies (TTRPG setting)
Navigating the Most Dangerous Weather in Aether Skies In most worlds, storms are something you wait out. In Aether Skies, storms are something that can erase you. They don’t just bring wind and lightning. They warp reality, destabilize the engines that keep entire cities afloat, and press against...
Smugglers of the Aether Lanes (Aether Skies TTRPG Campaign Setting)
How Goods Move Between Cities in Aether Skies Trade keeps the sky cities alive. Food, fuel, parts, and information move constantly between floating civilizations, carried along carefully mapped aether currents and tightly regulated trade routes. Entire economies depend on the reliability of these exchanges. But not everything moves...
Under the Dome: 10 Grind Dealers & NPCs for Your Campaign
Faces Behind the Chaos Economy Under the Dome, Grind doesn’t move on its own. It passes through hands.Through deals.Through people willing to risk everything for power, profit, or survival. Some are respected.Some are feared.Some are barely holding it together. All of them are dangerous in their own way. These NPCs...
Black Markets of the Sky Cities (Aether Skies TTRPG setting)
Trade Beneath the Law in Aether Skies Every sky city runs on rules. Regulated trade lanes. Licensed aether tech. Controlled resource distribution. Carefully monitored imports and exports designed to keep fragile systems stable beneath the Aether Barrier. Above the clouds, order is survival. Below the platforms? So is breaking it. Because...
Under the Dome: Grind Dealers & Power Factions (D&D campaign setting)
Who Controls Chaos in Your D&D Campaign? Under the Dome, Grind is survival. It fuels engines.It powers magic.It stabilizes the unstable. And because of that, it is never truly free. Every grain of refined chaos passes through someone’s hands—and those hands belong to people who understand a simple truth: Control...
Voices from Below (Aether Skies & undercities A D&D campaign setting)
Rumors, Myths, and Urban Legends of the Underside Every city has rumors. In Aether Skies, they don’t just spread through taverns and trade routes—they travel through metal beams, along tensioned cables, and across the hollow spaces beneath the world. In the underside, stories aren’t just told. They are passed...
