Welcome to The Great Labors, the first book of Odyssey of the Dragonlords. This book will provide you with everything you need to run an epic campaign in the forgotten land of Thylea.
Odyssey of the Dragonlords is heavily inspired by stories from ancient Greek mythology. As we designed the campaign, we sought to include ideas from many different sources: The Odyssey, The Iliad, Jason and the Argonauts, The Oresteia, and others. However, Thylea is not ancient Greece. You will not find Zeus, Athena, or Apollo among the gods.
As you explore Thylea, you will encounter familiar tropes, monsters, and treasures from Greek mythology —but the rules are different here. Mortals have only recently come to these lands. The world of Thylea blends high fantasy with the trappings of ancient history. Elves, dwarves, and halflings now live alongside minotaurs, centaurs, and satyrs.
Our goal is to make your party feel like heroes from one of the greatest stories ever told—but the ultimate end of that story is entirely within your power. Your players will make choices that forever change the world of Thylea. As the game master, we encourage you to embrace this idea and run with it. How will your players reshape history—and what does it mean to be a hero?
This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 (“SRD 5.2.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
On The Cover A Hero of Prophecy guides his boat toward the den of the great boar. Disclaimer: The authors accept no responsibility for what happens to you in the lands of Thylea. This includes (but is not limited to): discovering that your nymph lover has a captivity fetish, ill-timed prophecies that ruin your social life, bronze dragons who insist that they’re gods, spontaneous hero cults forming in your name without permission, and awkward dinner parties with relatives who have since ascended to godhood.