Seas of Vodari

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Seas of Vodari is a swashbuckling themed 3rd-party campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. It is set on a world that used to be normal, until a cataclysmic battle between the gods literally smashed the continents to splinters and raised the sea level, reducing the world to a mostly oceanic planet dotted with countless islands. The survivors of that cataclysm promptly shifted their culture to emphasize naval traditions, and the result centuries later is a world built around dashing explorers, swashbuckling pirates and sea monsters.

Official Description

Long ago, a vast continent was annihilated. The devastation left only a scattered few to start rebuilding their civilization on a ring of islands…

Vodari contains all of the iconic things you expect in a fantasy setting, but the familiar becomes surprising and new. Dungeons can be found above and below the waves, in the form of caves, shipwrecks, and lost temples. From island to island, you’ll find variety and wonders, ranging from bustling ports filled with travelers from distant lands to the unexplored wilderness, ruins, monsters, and other dangers. Halflings live in villages made of interconnected boats and anything that can float. Dwarves are respected shipbuilders, sailing the seas in search of relics from their sunken homeland and battling an enemy below in the Night War. Elves dwell high in the treetops and below the surface of the seas. Gnomes find themselves on opposite sides of a battle between machines and nature. Goblins are as likely to be encountered as raiders riding waveskippers as working as a tinkerer living in a city. Instead of land armies, Vodari has navies and pirates that battle with flintlocks and cannons to control the seas. The most dangerous monsters are found in the seas, such as sea dragons and white whales. Nature is as deadly as the most powerful monsters, with furious hurricanes, catastrophic tsunamis, and fiery volcanoes.

Playable Races

Vodari is home to all of the standard PHB races (minus some subraces, such as svirfneblin and duergar), plus the iconic goblinoids (goblin, bugbear, hobgoblin) and, at the DM's discretion, aasimar, aarakocra, tabaxi, genasi, goliaths, kobolds, lizardfolk, orcs, tritons and tortles. It's also home to six unique races:

• Dwarf Subrace: Sea Dwarf
• Elf Subrace: Aquatic Elf
• Cursed One
• Minotaur
• Siren
• Voda

Religion in Vodari

For obvious reasons, the gods are very important in Vodari; everybody accepts that they're real, although there's a tongue-in-cheek mention of atheists who are secretly being guided by Istoro. The Vodarian pantheon goes as follows:

Deity	Alignment	Suggested Domains	Symbol
Aerako, god of wind and mischief	CG	Nature, Tempest, Trickery	Gust
Aubori, goddess of nature and beauty	CG	Nature, Light	Flower
Dokahi, goddess of the deep sea, epic poetry and monsters	LE	Nature	Sea monster
Fortana, goddess of freedom and luck	CN	Knowledge, Trickery	Coin
Istoro, god of wisdom and knowledge	LN	Knowledge	Owl
Kalder, god of winter, survival and valor	NG	Death, War	Snowflake tridents
Mirta, goddess of birth and death	LN	Life, Death	Circle
Morto, god of necromancy and secrets	NE	Death	Broken circle
Okeano, god of the sea and sea creatures	CN	Nature, Tempest	Waves
Scatho, god of conquest and tyranny	LE	Knowledge, War	Ram
Sindri, goddess of creativity and invention	CN	Forge, Knowledge	Hammer
Taeva, goddess of civilization and war	LG	Knowledge, Order, War	Three points
Tero, god of light, love and healing	LG	Life, Light	Rising sun
Toamna, goddess of agriculture and fertility	LG	Life, Nature	Grain
Vesi, goddess of chaos, storms and darkness	CE	Tempest, Trickery	Swirling storm
Volkan, god of fire and destruction	CE	Death, Nature	Volcano

Classes

Obviously, as a swashbuckling piracy themed setting, Vodari has a whole class dedicated to the Gunslinger, with the Arcane Gunmaster, Musketeer, Pistolero and Sniper subclasses. However, it also has at least one new subclass for each class from the PHB.

• Barbarian: Path of the Buccaneer
• Bard: College of Nature, College of Shanties
• Cleric Domain: Spirit
• Druid: Circle of the Deeps
• Fighter: Cannoneer, Corsair
• Monk: Way of the Wild
• Paladin: Oath of Discovery
• Ranger: Stormcloak
• Rogue: Mask, Scoundrel
• Sorcerer: Tidal Sorcery
• Warlock: The Council
• Wizard: School of Mistwalking

Beneath the Waves

You might be wondering: since this is a heavily sea-focused campaign setting, does it give any love to the idea of underwater adventuring, long regarded as the ultimate black sheep of the D&D adventuring world? Well, not so much in the corebook, although it does establish the existence of underwater kingdoms, but inevitably the designers promised a splatbook expansion for the setting which would tackle the underwater realms, seeing as these are effectively the Underdark of the setting. Titled "Under the Seas of Vodari", it was initially scheduled for release in February 2022... but got screwed particularly hard by various factors, including world-wide shipping disruptions and a decision to revamp many of the new races and subclasses in the "5.5" style, meaning it was delayed until around September/October 2022, though early access PDFs that were complete, just lacking some of the desired artwork, did launch around the expected time.

The drowned lands of Vodari are are specifically divided into three regions; the Sunlit Seas, the Twilight Waters, and the Midnight Depths.

The undersea races of Vodari are a mixture of those amphibious races seen in the original setting splatbook, and several newcomers; Merfolk, obviously, as well as four variants of that race; the octopus-merfolk Cecaelias, the shark-headed, shark-tailed merfolk Tiburons, and the Grindylow, who are goblin-merfolk with the heads of shark-people and octopus tentacles for legs. There's also Selkies, Sea Dragon and Coral Dragon lineages for Dragonborn (known in this world as "Draga"), an Atlantean equivalent called the Varu (or "Ancients), and a race of Crabfolk called the Karokans.