The Records Office of the Guild of Lawyers, Scribes, and Accountants, as it is formally known, is located in the Artisans’ Quarter. The façade is embellished with detailed carvings of gold and silver dragons, and the interior boasts highly polished dark woodwork. Stairs circle up to the records rooms above, where Helva Plinkington staffs the front desk. Helva is Indifferent to the party and takes…

Estimated Duration: 30 Minutes The characters must gather clues at the safe house to determine where to go next.

You have honed your talents of investigation and deduction—fueled by a boundless curiosity—to explore mysteries, find missing people, recover stolen goods, unearth corruption and conspiracies, and solve crimes. As an inquisitive, you might have pursued freelance work, signed on with an inquisitive agency (perhaps one licensed by a dragonmarked house such as Medani or Tharashk), reported for a…

Type: Tool Cost: 25 GP Weight: 1 lb Ability: Dexterity Utilize: Pick a lock (DC 15), or disarm a trap (DC 15) If you have proficiency with a tool, add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check you make that uses the tool. If you have proficiency in a skill that’s used with that check, you have Advantage on the check too.

Wondrous Item, uncommon This powder resembles fine sand. There is enough of it for one use. When you take a Utilize action to throw the dust into the air, you and each creature and object within a 10-foot Emanation originating from you have the Invisible condition for 2d4 minutes. The duration is the same for all subjects, and the dust is consumed when its magic takes effect. Immediately after an…

The dagger belonged to Anton Palmirian and is a +1 Dagger. Secrets Exist to be Discovered! The adventure’s progress depends on characters discovering clues and players interpreting them. While Part 3 provides specific guidance, keep in mind that a character who searches an area should find a clue, and progress should not be locked behind a dice roll. However, some players prefer to roll and use…

If the lurker is discovered outside the window, it begins combat by using Dark Teleport to appear next to the character who discovered it. If it isn’t revealed in six attempts, the lurker attacks from the ceiling, surprising the characters. Once the lurker is destroyed, the wooden doll climbs onto the left bed and settles in comfortably before becoming inanimate as the soul fragment is put to…

You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: Bat, Cat, Frog, Hawk, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Rat, Raven, Spider, Weasel, or another Beast that has a Challenge Rating of 0. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a Celestial, Fey, or Fiend (your choice) instead of a Beast. Your…

What is it?” Ban asked, carefully studying the ancient gauntlet. Pulling out her Duster, Dela passed the wand over the relic. Centuries of grime vanished, revealing blackened steel and glittering Khyber dragonshards. “The Hand of Halas Tarkanan. It’s a weapon made to amplify the power of aberrant dragonmarks.” She touched one of the embedded shards. “This gauntlet once leveled the towers of…

From a distance, will-o’-wisps look like lanterns bobbing in the dark. Through the windows of abandoned structures or around the bends of treacherous paths, these spirits tempt the curious into peril. Once their prey is vulnerable, will-o’-wisps feed on the life force of those they lay low. Roll on or choose a result from the Will-o’-Wisp Ambushes table to inspire how a will-o’-wisp imperils its…

While The Chained Reaper is generally unable to interact with the physical world, when the characters are in danger, he summons up what little strength he has left to help. While carrying the balefire lantern, on Initiative count 20 (losing Initiative ties), Yorgrim causes one of the following effects; he can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row: Balefire Burst. Yorgrim’s lantern erupts with…

Camouflaged as rock formations, ropers are aberrant ambushers that lurk in wait for smaller creatures. These bizarre subterranean hunters extend their rubbery tentacles to explore and prod their surroundings, often reaching beyond their fields of vision. Should they encounter prey, these limbs ensnare victims and drag them close to ropers’ toothy maws. If these tentacles are severed, ropers…

The Black Dragon Onyx guards her treasure hoard in the ruins of Xak Tsaroth Adventurers strive for many things, including glory, knowledge, and justice. Many adventurers also seek something more tangible: treasure. This chapter presents treasure in all its forms, from coins to magic items.

Level 5 – 6 Adventure. Spooky. Delivery. Cursed Tomb. A ghastly curse has been accidentally unleashed by a sticky-fingered treasure hunter, who stole a book from an undead ruler’s mausoleum. Villagers who live near the tomb are suffering, and will continue to wither away until the party can return the beloved book to its owner.

An elf man wearing gray robes sits at this room’s desk, writing with a quill on a roll of parchment. A shelf full of ledgers sits against the south wall, and doors lead to the north, west, and east. The elf man is Alik Nal (Medium Mage), a shipping agent. Nal is recording the details of a recent shipment. Nal demands the characters leave if he notices them, barking that he’s too busy to speak…

Freylie’s mother, Mags, carves wooden toys, and her father, Pietr, specialises in painting them. In many years of working at the factory, Freylie’s parents have never had to work such long shifts. Freylie’s brother Toma is 18. He was looking after her until he went to visit the factory yesterday. The note Freylie received is in Mags’ handwriting, but the formal wording matches Mr Meville’s ads.…

This room’s table and chairs are spartan, its walls and floors undecorated. Two desks sit along the south wall; the one to the west has a drawer. This area serves as a break room for the guards in the warehouses (areas T7–T9). Blackmail Evidence. The western desk’s drawer is locked. A character can take the Utilize action to try to pick the lock using Thieves’ Tools, accomplishing the task with…

The NPCs also know optional clues that aid in navigating the Fields of the Crow or fighting Raum. They only reveal these secrets if they’re Friendly with the characters. You decide which questions succeed on a DC 15 Charisma check to get an NPC to divulge this information:

• The Old Windmill had a cellar (area J9b) that Adelaide and Isaac used to play in as children. She had been spending more…

You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was Undead when it died. The spell also fails if the corpse was the target of this spell within the past 10 days. Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what…

Valyra didn’t have children; as the great-grandchild of her sister, Kristofer is her oldest surviving heir. Kristofer hadn’t even heard of the Artichauts, as the two branches of the family became estranged. Artichaut Mansion wasn’t reported vacant for some time, due to its secluded position in the forest. Once Valyra revived Rossi Artichaut as a reanimated corpse, she performed the same magic on…

Ghast gravecallers wield fell magic and converse with corpses. They might pose as liches or vampires. Ghasts Ghasts are reeking, undying corpses closely related to ghouls. They hunger for the vices they enjoyed in life as much as they do for rotting flesh.

Each Dark Bargain is unique, and a character can enter into a given bargain only once. A character could be bound to multiple Dark Bargains at one time, but each one only once.

“Stepping down the smooth wooden steps into the bowels of the ship, you hear the cheerful sounds of someone singing an old sea shanty.” The party must load all the crates into a supply room adjoining the galley, where Ella is busy cooking. The crew sleep in hammocks, but the captain has his own room with a large bed. There are rodents nesting in the linen closet.

Wondrous Item, common A question mark is worked into the head of this key. The key has a 5 percent chance of unlocking any lock into which it’s inserted. Once it unlocks something, the key d isappears.

Yorgrim, an orcish spirit bound to an eternity of penance, is the dour sexton that oversees Maidenmist Cemetery, hunched beneath the crushing weight of his duty and the heavy stone chained to his back. Haunted by the failures of his past and the loss of his friends to their respective sins, he goes about his duties with grim determination, never relenting despite the constant cracking of his…

You touch one object that is no larger than 10 feet in any dimension and specify any number of creatures you can see within 10 feet. Until the spell ends, the object sheds silvery Bright Light in a 20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 20 feet. This light is only visible to the creatures you specified during the initial casting of the spell; all other creatures perceive the area affected…

Dragonmark Feat (Prerequisite: Eberron Campaign, Can’t Have Another Dragonmark Feat) You gain the following benefits. Deductive Intuition. When you make an Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Insight) check, you can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Magical Detection. You always have the Detect Magic and Detect Poison and Disease spells prepared. You can cast each…