Read or paraphrase the following: The doors to Lord Governor Saevil’s office are carved from dark oak. One hangs loosely from broken hinges. Inside, the chamber is lined with maps of Leukish and Urnst pinned across the walls. At the center of the room float three massive, rotting orbs of flesh. Eye stalks twitch erratically atop each, and their central eyes roll erratically.

Weapon (morningstar), uncommon You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Morningstar allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Sap. If you hit a creature with this weapon, that…

The beholder zombies are spread out and unmindful. It’s likely the characters arrive at the door without alerting the monsters to their presence (Passive Perception 9). Adjusting the Encounter Use the following suggestions to guide adjustments at your table: Less Challenging: Remove one beholder zombie. More Challenging: Add one beholder zombie.

This room is the Lord Governor’s office and at least used to be well appointed. Two Beholder Zombies are here and are not interested in anything but making a meal of the heroes. The area has the following features:

• Dimensions and Terrain. This office is 30 feet by 50 feet, with a large desk and a smaller conference table mostly intact.
• Lighting. The fires that are raging outside of…

Weapon (morningstar), very rare You have a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Morningstar allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Sap. If you hit a creature with this weapon, that…

Estimated Duration: 75 Minutes In this part, the party meets with Caset at the University of Magical Arts, stays overnight, and attempts to locate the gems through their dreams, tracing the dark whispers back to their extradimensional source.

Weapon (greatclub), uncommon You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Greatclub allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can…

Fighting Style Feat (Prerequisite: Fighting Style Feature) You gain the following benefits. Dual Shot. When you take the Attack action on your turn and attack with a bow or crossbow, you can make one extra attack as part of the same action against a creature that is within 10 feet of the original target that is within the weapon’s range. If you do so, both attacks are made with Disadvantage .…

A storm cloud appears at a point within range that you can see above yourself. It takes the shape of a Cylinder that is 10 feet tall with a 60-foot radius. When you cast the spell, choose a point you can see under the cloud. A lightning bolt shoots from the cloud to that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d10 Lightning damage on a failed save…

While she escorts the characters to their selected defense zone, Corlie answers questions they have, which might include the following: What’s in This Horde? “Our scouts haven’t been able to get too close, but they say we’ll face dozens or even hundreds of skeletons and zombies all around this part of the fortress. They have a few wagons, or perhaps large creatures, with them—that’s not clear.…

Read or paraphrase the following: Caset ushers you into their room with a quick glance toward the hall to see who might be paying attention to their strange visitors. Within, you find a sparsely furnished chamber with a bed, a wardrobe, and a writing desk, all of which have been pushed up against one wall. Blankets and pillows lie in a circle in the center of the chamber. “Chase told you the…

↑ Use Maximum Hit Points and Damage Rolls for this creature.

The game uses actions to govern how much you can do at one time. You can take only one action at a time. This principle is most important in combat, as explained in “ Combat ” later in this chapter. Actions can come up in other situations, too: in a social interaction, you can try to Influence a creature or use the Search action to read the creature’s body language, but you can’t do both at the…

Weapon (morningstar), rare You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Morningstar allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Sap. If you hit a creature with this weapon, that…

Caset (Medium, Chaotic Neutral Mage Apprentice; add Skills: Sleight of Hand +4, Stealth +6; add At Will: Detect Magic) is thrilled to have support on this job, as they have no real idea how they would accomplish it on their own. By and large, they are an open book and will share all the information they have honestly. However, Caset is visibly anxious and repeatedly asks whether the group can…

Lord Marrowgar An Adventure for Level 16 Characters

The tribex is a quadrupedal herbivore native to Khorvaire. While they were originally only found in the Talenta Plains and the western barrens of Breland, human settlers quickly domesticated the tribex, and they are now found throughout the Five Nations. Plains Tribex are the original form of the beast; they are large and powerful, and are usually found hauling heavy loads or being raised as…

Dragonmarked houses and others are heading to the Western Frontier. House Orien is extending the lightning rail toward Graywall. But this is no story of Brelish colonialism. Breland isn’t expanding across this frontier—it’s being driven away from it. Throughout the history of Galifar, the people of the Barrens were divided. The medusas of Cazhaak Draal, the changelings of Lost, and the tieflings…

Weapon (greatclub), very rare You have a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Greatclub allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can…

After the introductions, Corlie gives a grim smile. Continue reading: Corlie leads you north through the fortress. Workers repair walls, stack spears, and sharpen swords. “Five great cities of the Sword Coast have combined forces to restore this fortress,” she explains. “We expected it would give us better visibility into trouble on the frontier. But it seems that the Red Wizards of Thay don’t…