Ketgrinn are catlike Fey spirits who delight in puzzles, riddles, and bargains. They have large, bright eyes and too-wide grins that gleam starkly even in shadows. Ketgrinn are tricksters and spies, often sent by those they serve to steal the voices of a rival’s minions to sow chaos and confusion. Secret. Ketgrinn can’t resist a puzzle or riddle, and a difficult one can send a ketgrinn’s mind…

Wondrous Item, common As a Bonus Action, you can press this iron shirt button against a piece of fabric and use the command word, “hold.” When you do, the button magically attaches to the cloth, fixing itself in place even if it is defying gravity. The button must be attached to a piece of fabric that is either unworn or worn by a willing creature. It can hold up to 500 pounds of weight and…

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 shelves are groaning with the weight of mismatched plates, bowls, serving platters, candlesticks, loose silverware, glass decanters and more." The scullery is a small storage room. The route there involves narrow corridors and two flights of stairs. Inside the scullery, several different sets of tableware are all muddled up. The party must find the Winterfest set, which has a mistletoe…

Artum has agreed to pay each party member 25gp each for a day’s work, plus a seat at the banquet if they do a good job. Any wealthy guests the party protect in combat will give them a 5gp tip and Elias gives them a tin of spiced biscuits to take away.

↓ Use Minimum Hit Points and Damage Rolls for this creature.

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

Inside the chamber, Factol Erin Darkflame Montgomery (female human Society of Sensation muse —see appendix B) sits at the head of a long wooden table flanked with empty chairs. A few pitchers of local beverages rest on the table—heartwine (slightly sour and heady), gearbrew coffee (strong and earthy) and Stygian mineral water (bubbly with a slight brimstone taste). The factol bids the characters…

Lily pays 50gp for the pest control job, and a 300gp bonus for clearing the Ankhegs. Ianna is handy and, if the party are willing to wait, she can make a quiver of 20 Ammunition +1 arrows from Ankheg antennae and a Breastplate +1 from an Ankheg carapace.

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…

The pests could be a colony of greedy Awakened Shrubs who live underneath Lily ’s farm.

Festergut is one of two abominations created by Professor Putricide. Festergut has a childlike mind, calls Putricide “Daddy,” and seems to cherish its pet plague-dog, Stinky, but it shares Putricide’s loathing of all living things.

Shelves of baking ingredients line the walls of this well-stocked pantry. The supplies in this pantry include a pristine set of Cook’s Utensils, a chef’s hat, and ten bags of flour. A patch of green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) is packed within a jar labeled “Granny’s Sourdough Starter.” Treasure. A thorough search of the pantry takes 1 minute and yields a pouch containing Dust of…

Weapon (longsword), artifact (requires attunement) Few ever saw the gleaming blade Dämglesvir before the God’s End, as only the emperor was permitted to draw the sword from its sheath. Now its blade and hilt are black, like a weapon dipped in shadow. Aspirant At this tier of Attunement, you have the following benefits:

• You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with Dämglesvir.
• Any…

Fenrikyn are warped worgs and winter wolves, altered by the influence of Fenris, the Great Wolf. Fenrikyn roam the cold forests and the hills of the Northlands, devouring all that they encounter. Generally solitary, fenrikyn have been known to gather into small packs or to take over a pack of wolves or worgs. Though they despise most living things, they reserve their greatest enmity for…

The Ruinbound are mutants that can be born to any humanoid species that has contact with the Daelkyr or their minions. A Ruinbound is born with a personal symbiont—an unnatural entity bound to the child. Unlike most symbionts, this entity cannot be separated from its host, and the two are permanently fused. Many Ruinbound have additional disturbing mutations; you can roll on the Ruinbound…

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement) This bone button is found on an article of clothing, such as a shirt or coat, and is carved with the tiny image of a devil. It must be attached to clothing that you wear to attune to it. You gain a +1 bonus to saving throws, and it has the following properties. Improbable Luck. When you fail a saving throw while wearing the button, you can choose to…

Coming out ahead, whether in games of chance or in life-or-death contention, fills you with resolve and vigor. You gain the following benefits. Bet Big. If you don't already have it, you gain Heroic Inspiration whenever you succeed on an ability check made against another creature, when you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, or when a creature fails a saving throw you forced it to make. If, in…

Candy cages hang from the ceiling of this sugar-glazed dungeon with striped walls. A boy made of pink bubble gum occupies one of the cages, humming an upbeat tune to himself. In another cage, a remarkably large human skeleton loosely grips a hefty axe. Between the cages stand four gingerbread people—each six feet tall and armed with a rolling pin. A candy ladder in the southeast corner of the…

Festering Wilds You step into a small grove suffused with a soft, pale-green glow. Ten-foot-tall fungal stalks rise up from the rotting forest floor. Stringy tendrils hang down like vines from the canopy above. The ground rumbles as you see a huge figure slowly walking in the grove, a huge, gnarled tree in a roughly humanoid shape covered in brightly colored corpse flowers that sprout from its…

Content Warning Environmental effect (fire)

Oversized furniture, certainly intended for rooms larger than this one, has been jammed into this small room. An acrid smell, like burning paint, fills the air. Shadow Malice’s members hang out in this room when not on stage. The smell comes from a cracked and barely functioning hookah, which the band nevertheless uses to smoke whatever substances they can find. Kragala Creatures: The four…

Dingpots are animated objects created to assist in magical and alchemical research—or simply to help in the kitchen. Often cheerful, dingpots delight in serving up delicious meals, soothing tea, and the occasional magical draught.