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Standard Exchange Rates, Expanded

 Here's some additional exchange rates designed to replace the chart in chapter 5 of the PHB, and the sources used.

These three sources establish the value of gold per pound and that the value of coin quantity to pure metal quantity is flat (there's no 'value added' by making the coin).

• Player Handbook, Chapter 5: "A standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce, so fifty coins weigh a pound."

• Player's Handbook, Chapter 5: "50 gp = 1 lb. of gold"

• Player's Handbook, Chapter 5: "... Rather, the gold piece is a standard measure of value, and the actual exchange is in gold bars..."

These sources establish the exchange rates for the metals not included in the original PHB chart (iron, mithral, and adamantine).

• Iron: Player's Handbook, Chapter 5: "1 sp = 1 lb. of iron". Dungeon Master's Guide, Chapter 1: "...iron is normally valued elsewhere (1 sp per pound)." Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Level 21: "Sixty iron bars are stacked on the floor. Each bar is worth 1 gp and weighs 10 pounds."

• Adamantine: Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Chapter 4: "The characters can purchase a 10-pound adamantine bar for 1,000 gp." (this sets the price of 1 pound of adamantine equal to 2 pounds of gold)

• Mithral: Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Chapter 6: "One character can strip 1 pound of mithral in 15 minutes. Each pound of the metal is worth 50 gp." (this sets the price of 1 pound of mithral equal to 1 pound of gold)

The mithral and adamantine prices are also confirmed on this tweet, which unfortunately doesn't make it clear that he's talking about pounds.

Having said all that, Tomb of Annihilation, Chapter 2 has a very different price for adamantine. "Each adamantine ingot is worth 10 gp and weighs 1 pound." So here, 1 gp = 5 adamantine pieces (adamantine is significantly cheaper than gold in this section). It does say the ingots are "refined adamantine". I think its easy to explain this off as local market dynamics (a 'nonstandard' exchange rate) or the fact that these specific ingots aren't fully refined. Also note that Tomb of Annihilation doesn't have this regional pricing adjustment for iron as the exchange rate is that listed in the chart above "each iron ingot is worth 1 gp and weights 10 pounds).

Official Tier 4 content (with and without the ampersand)

Here's my attempt at a list of 'official' tier 4 modules, either released with the ampersand (official D&D content released by wotc), or without the ampersand but still by WotC's Adventurers League team (not necessarily the same 'officialdom' as content released with the ampersand). The list is a work in progress.

Hardcover Books

• Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
• Tales of the Yawning Portal (Tomb of Horrors)

Adventure League

• Season 3, Rage of Demons
• DDAL00-02, Lost Tales of Lost Myth Drannor
• Season 5, Storm King's Thunder: 
• DDAL05-18, The Mysterious Isle
• DDAL05-19, The Eye of Xxiphu
• Season 6, Tales From the Yawning Portal
• DDAL06-03, Crypt of the Death Giants
• DDEP06-03, Hecatomb
• Season 7, Tomb of Annihilation
• DDAL07-15, Streams of Crimson
• DDAL07-16, Pools of Cerulean
• DDAL07-17, Cauldron of Sapphire
• DDAL07-18, Turn Back the Endless Night
• DDEP07-02, Drums of the Dead
• Season 8, Waterdeep
• DDAL08-16, A Change of Address
• DDAL08-17, The Tower of Ahghairon
• DDAL08-18, Moving Day
• DDEP08-03, Last Call at the Yawning Portal
• Season 9, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
• DDAL09-19, Fang and Claw
• DDAL09-20, Where Devils Fear to Tread
• Dreams of the Red Wizard
• DRW-08, The Harrowing Hell
• DRW-19, Fall the Cold Night
• DRW-20, The Death of Szass Tam
• DRWEP-02, Wings of Death
• DRWEP-04, Tears Among the Stars
• Adventure League Season 00
• DDAL00-02, The Lost Tales of Myth Drannor
• DDAL00-03, Those that Came Before
• DDAL00-10, Trust and Understanding
• DDAL00-11, Pipyap's Guide to All the Nine Hells
• DDAL00-12, Infernal Encounters
• DDEP00-01, The Red War
• Eberron
• DDALEB-17, The Final Tribute
• DDALEB-18, Scales of War
• DDALEB-19, Back to the Mud
• DDALEB-20, Old Scores
• DDALEB-EP04, The Last War

A Guide to the Guides of Hell

Finding info on the nine layers of Hell is a bit tedious. Here's what I've come up with so far (so its a work in progress), while I was trying to dig up info for this publication: To Hell With You.

*Asterisks indicate novels, the rest are D&D publication.

Specific Layers

1.  Avernus
• Elminster in Hell (novel)
• Well of Worlds (Planescape - ADD 2e)
• Descent into Avernus (5e)
• Fire in the Blood* (a small scene in Avernus, with the party interacting with Tiamat).
2. Dis
• Fires of Dis (ADD 2e)
3. Minauros
4. Phlegethos
• The Adversary* (a couple minor descriptions)
5. Stygia
• A Paladin in Hell (ADD)
• The Shield of the Weeping Ghosts*
6. Malbolge
• Brimstone Angels*, Lesser Evils*, The Adversary*, Fire in the Blood*, Ashes of the Tyrant, and The Devil You Know* (all of the Brimstone Angels novels)
7. Maladomini
8. Cania
• Shadowstorm* and Godborn* (Erevis Cale novels)
9. Nessus 

All Layers

• Guide to Hell (ADD)
• Manual of the Planes (ADD)
• Faces of Evil: The Fiends (Planescape - ADD 2e)
• Planes of Law (Planescape - ADD 2e)
• Planescape Campaign Setting (Planescape - ADD 2e)
• The Planewalker's Handbook (Planescape - ADD 2e)
• Fiendish Code II - Tyrants of the Nine Hells (3.5e)
• Manual of the Planes (3.5e)
• Dungeon Master's Guide (3.5e)
• Manual of the Planes (4e)
• Dungeon Master's Guide (5e)
• Mordenkeinen's Tome of Foes (5e)
• Dragon Magazine #28. The Politics of Hell.
• Dragon Magazines #75 & 76 (and republished in Dragon Magazine #400). The Nine Hells
• Dragon Magazine #223. The Lords of the Nine.
• Pipyap's Guide to the Nine Hells (DDAL00-11)

Honorable Mentions 

• Hellbound: The Blood War (ADD). Discussion on the Blood War but no significant details on hell.
• Blood Wars (card game)
• Dragon Magazine #120. Dining Out in the Hells.
• Dragon Magazine #300. Hellish Fangs on Abyssal Wings.
• The Harrowing of Hell (DRW08) occurs in Avernus and Nessus
• Season 9 of Adventure League occurs in Avernus
• Infernal Encounters (DDAL00-12) includes numerous encounters in Hell

Here's my own homebrew version of Baatezu hierarchy. 

Field of Triumph Maps

I'm fiddling with maps and I'm beginning to realize why there's no maps of the Field of Triumph...its just stupid big.  Here's views to scale. The building is 800' x 600'. I do get why there's no maps out there for the site though - the map is huge and all the combat happens in the middle, so the spectator area / outer building is a bit pointless.  It's all in here though: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/389738/Gladiators-in-Waterdeep 

Free Map Resources

 Here's my short list of free map resources that can be used commercially.

• One Page Dungeons - CC BY-SA 3.0 license (2021's version is available separately for free here)
• Mike's Free Maps - Basic BY license
• Dyson's Commercial Maps - Basic BY license

As far as assets go, here's some world-class brushes.

• K.M. Alexander - CC0 License

Dragons of Waterdeep

...been tinkering with dragons.

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/373143/Dragons-of-Waterdeep