Location: The Square (12) Services: Mounts, animal boarding, veterinary medicine Key NPCs: Gavrin d’Vadalis (male human handler), Lirra d’Vadalis (female human veterinarian), Turro (male awakened dog) The Livery is an outpost of House Vadalis. Lirra and Gavrin provide boarding and care for travelers’ beasts, as well as offering guidance and veterinary care to the farmers around Quickstone. In…
If there are parts of the game you prefer not to handle yourself, assign them to players who enjoy them. If you don’t want to break your narrative stride by looking up a rule, designate another player to be the rulebook reference expert. If you don’t like tracking Initiative, ask another player to do so.
Location: Oldtown (13) Services: Food, lodging, gambling, entertainment Key NPCs: Brogan Hul (male human innkeeper), Fylas (male gnome chef), Grim (female war troll bouncer), Tyraen (female elf entertainer) The Crown is the oldest inn in Quickstone. It’s not as clean as the Gold Dragon Inn, the paint needs to be refreshed, and some nights it seems like more people leave through the windows than…
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:
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…
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.
Type: Gemstone Cost: 500 GP Weight: 1 lb Delerium is a magical mineral left behind by the meteor. It appears in geode clusters of translucent, sharp-edged crystals which reflect octarine light. The eldritch stones softly hum in dissonant tones, and glow brightly at night or when exposed to magic. Deposits are found throughout Drakkenheim, often fused into stone streets and buildings like…
Adventures set in Barovia involve oppressive, gothic menace; suspicion; and the legendary threat of Strahd von Zarovich. Use this section to develop horror adventures in this domain.
One of the best ways to learn how to run a D&D; game is to observe other DMs in action. Another DM can give you a solid foundation for understanding the role—as well as inspire you with cool things you can do in your games. You can use these questions to help you reflect on a game you observe: Beginning the Session. How did the DM start the session? Was there a recap? Body Language. What gestures…
In a vast city such as Sharn, there are so many different businesses and locations that the easiest way to define the city is by districts. Because Quickstone is so small, life revolves around specific businesses rather than around neighborhoods. You don’t just go down to Lower Dura or Upper Central; you go to the Crown. If you want to get new armor, you go see Bel and Jury at the Anvil. This…
The typical dhuthorex is a hungry and thoughtless beast, chasing prey through the depths and venturing onto land only to pursue easy prey. Dhuthorexes Strange things swim in sunless seas, but few are as fierce as the shark-like dhuthorexes. These beasts chase prey fearlessly and tenaciously.
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.
↓ Use Minimum Hit Points and Damage Rolls for this creature.
Wondrous Item, very rare This book contains guidelines for influencing and charming others, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book’s contents and practicing its guidelines, your Charisma increases by 2, to a maximum of 30. The manual then loses its magic but regains it in a century.
While adventuring in the Dragonlance setting, the siblings Caramon Majere, Raistlin Majere, and Kitiara uth Matar provoke the rage of a wyvern Imagination is a key ingredient of Dungeons & Dragons, a cooperative game in which the characters that you roleplay embark on adventures together in fantasy worlds filled with monsters and magic. In D&D;, the action takes place in the imaginations of the…
Caset. A mysterious figure with no known name or face has recently approached the Guild with a lucrative job tied to the University. Onaivu believes Caset is perfectly situated to handle it. The Guild acknowledges the risk: if Caset is caught, they could lose their prestigious sponsorship or even be expelled. Still, Onaivu considers it worth the gamble, and it must be done quickly. The Mission.…
This adventure uses map 2.2: Von Zarovich Sanctuary and consists of these encounters. Berez Churchyard. A stone slab covering a grave in the churchyard has been shattered, revealing stairs leading down to a von Zarovich sanctuary. There, two Vampire Spawn guardians fight trespassers. Lyssa’s Plot. Lyssa greets the characters in the sanctuary’s central room. Observing that they don’t look like…
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.
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…
| d4 | Legend known |
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| 1 | Barovia is ruled by a cruel vampire named Strahd |
| 2 | Once in Barovia, you can never leave without killing Strahd … |
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