This large, iron cauldron, draped with good fortune banners and talismans, has been here since the market’s inception and is presumed to belong to Mistress Clove. Market-goers and vendors fill the cauldron with coins, good luck charms, and other small items of value, all of which are given back out to the community once the cauldron fills. This event, when it happens, is called the Cauldron Pour,…

Southwest. Through a passageway to the Guest Chambers, Continued. West. Through a passageway to the Oration Chamber Redux. Down. Stairway to the Tear of the Gleaming One.

Armor (ring mail), legendary You have a +3 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.

Karas operates from a hideout deep beneath the city of Baldur’s Gate. The hideout contains shrines to the Dead Three and her research about lore or Artifacts related to those gods. Only Karas’s most trusted confidantes know her hideout’s location. Karas extends her connection to the Dead Three into the region she inhabits, creating the following effects: Creeping Dread. Terror runs rampant in…

Assassin Heir to a Sinister Legacy After the death of patriarch Fzoul Chembryl, House Chembryl and its descendants were scattered across Faerûn. Some members have dutifully continued the family’s dedication to Bane, while others have sought to free themselves from that god’s malignant shadow. However, none have embraced the Chembryls’ tyrannical legacy more than Karas Chembryl, a ruthless…

Assassin Heir to a Sinister Legacy After the death of patriarch Fzoul Chembryl, House Chembryl and its descendants were scattered across Faerûn. Some members have dutifully continued the family’s dedication to Bane, while others have sought to free themselves from that god’s malignant shadow. However, none have embraced the Chembryls’ tyrannical legacy more than Karas Chembryl, a ruthless…

Rimekin hail from both Lorwyn and Shadowmoor, though the first rimekin arose from flamekin during the Phyrexian invasion (see Lorwyn: First Light). These flamekin approached their problems with cold logic and rejected reactionary responses. As a result, the magical flames that engulfed their bodies took on a frigid air, and they became rimekin. Like flamekin, rimekin possess innate magic, but…

During the Hour of Ascension, Castle Avernus—Azalin’s seat of rule and magical laboratory—erupted in a magical conflagration. Now, Castle Avernus stands frozen in time at the instant of its destruction, blasted to magically floating chunks of rubble. Its towers pitch wildly and crumble to pieces amid arcane flames, yet they don’t fall. Although time has halted in the ruins, Azalin’s servants who…

Some nefarious magic-users carry out forbidden necromantic rituals that sever their souls from their bodies to turn themselves into liches, masters of magic and undeath. With their souls preserved in hidden relics, liches puppet their own corpses as they pursue ambitions free from mortal bonds. Liches possess exceptional cunning and magical prowess, and they use their unnatural immortality to…

Ranging across the domain is Mother Lorinda’s home, the Gurgyl. This towerlike structure of thorns, wicker, and giants’ bones walks on three skeletal dragon legs.

East. To the crypt hallway (Area 2). Up the Ladder. To a closed trapdoor in the gatehouse tower (Area 8).

Map: The Crimson Monastery View Player Version The following areas are keyed to The Crimson Monastery map. The descriptions of these areas assume that the characters have arrived on the night of a Night of Flames (see “ Investigating the Village ” earlier in this chapter).

Blood-red light bathes this antechamber, filtering through large red windows. In the middle of the room, four Scourge-corrupted blood elves—three with pallid skin, one only bones—stand around a small glowing orb on a pedestal, taking turns drawing energy from it in a stream of blood-red magic. Opposite the entrance, a short flight of stairs leads up to a sealed door. These elite San’layn include…

Area open to visitors This wooden structure is where Inquisitor Cromwell and the Sanguine Hunt stable their Warhorses during the night of a burning. There are also four Riding Horses here. These horses are Indifferent and suspicious of new people but become Friendly and ridable with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check (DC 20 for a warhorse). One corner of the stables is a small…

Armor (ring mail), very rare You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.

Unless otherwise stated, the indoor areas of the Crimson Monastery have the following general features: Ceilings. Rooms and hallways are 15 feet tall. Doors. The side of doors that face hallways and common areas are covered in spikes. A creature who attempts to break down the door from its spiked side takes 2 (1d4) Piercing damage. All doors are unlocked unless stated otherwise. Locks. Some doors…

Klobiodon is a Jurassic (166 million years old) European pterosaur found in the Taynton Limestone Formation. Design Philosophy Life is diverse. We find that the current 5.5e system of normal, proficiency, and expertise for saves/skills/attacks/etc. calculations based on one chosen stat is insufficient to express that diversity. To give us more granularity in our designs and to better represent…

Domain of the Soul’s Shadow Darklord: Lord Loren Soth Genre: Dark fantasy Hallmarks: Cataclysmic fire, malicious shadows, tormented memories, twisted fantasy Mist Talismans: Black rose, burnt armor, scrap of black fabric, three thorns Aligned Tarokka Card: Paladin Opposed Tarokka Card: Innocent Whatever Sithicus was or could have been, it will never be. The dramatic ruins of a fabulous elven…