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providing it with a caustic breath weapon. Its body is in a constant state of growth and change, allowing it to quickly heal from its wounds.
These creatures are most often found in abandoned dragon
lairs, temples to Tiamat, or other sites associated with the dragons they love.
Dragonflesh Grafters
Dragonflesh grafters practice forbidden rituals and risky experiments on themselves, modifying
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watch how they respond.
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An emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers.
Connected Creatures
Emerald dragons
emerald dragon has befriended a stone giant, who is teaching the dragon giant folklore.
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A young emerald dragon lairs in abandoned bandit caverns also occupied by a friendly earth elemental, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Abandoned Temple Abandoned temples can be found across Theros. Some of these places were once houses of worship of Klothys, the nearly forgotten god of destiny, but abandoned temples of many other
Villains Monsters who plot alone and criminals on the run or who engage in taboo behavior are often found in abandoned temples. Examples of such villains appear on the Abandoned Temple Villains table
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people who became yuan-ti were one of the original human civilizations. Their society built great temples of stone and forged metal into armor, tools, and weapons. In their ceremonies they paid homage to
interest of maintaining the strength of their personal bloodline.
The yuan-ti have abandoned their humanity and consider non-serpentine humanoids to be lesser creatures, barely more civilized than
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them in peace.
Crystal dragons’ connection to the radiant forces of the Positive Plane fosters a nurturing, optimistic attitude in most of these dragons. They sometimes adopt the abandoned eggs or
future.
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An ancient crystal dragon is stalked by a villainous ranger who has already claimed a dozen draconic trophies.
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An ancient crystal dragon follows a pod of whales from one sea to
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.
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An emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers.
Connected Creatures
Emerald dragons generally go out of
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Emerald Dragon Lairs
Emerald dragons make their lairs in caves and subterranean ruins, favoring locations that have been abandoned—and ideally forgotten—by other creatures. They are most
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emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers.
Connected Creatures
Emerald dragons generally go out of their way to
for a history of the gods the dragon is compiling.
Emerald Dragon Lairs
Emerald dragons make their lairs in caves and subterranean ruins, favoring locations that have been abandoned&mdash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, and magnificent treasures. The best of these they kept for themselves. The rest traveled to the surface world, where merchants carried the dwarves’ work far afield. In time, as the city was abandoned
minions to stake claims in and around the abandoned foundries. The tiefling knows that controlling the ability to craft the tools of warfare gives her cult a leg up on the others, and she fervently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Greyhawk Conflicts Although Greyhawk lends itself well to any D&D adventure you might want to run, the default setting features conflicts with three major villainous groups: chromatic dragons
use these conflicts, look for opportunities in your adventures to introduce creatures in service to the three villainous groups. Give goals to these villains that bring their operatives into conflict
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
boasted manors, temples, and a garrison for the watch. But all of these edifices were abandoned long ago, and now most are home to nothing but squatters and vermin. The district of Callestan is a nexus
abandoned after it was struck by a falling tower. It’s covered in more detail later in this chapter. Malleon’s Gate is home to the goblins of Sharn, along with other monstrous immigrants from Droaam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
booty through the clerics, who shipped the goods to distant temples where they could be sold without being recognized as stolen merchandise. The Abbey Isle clerics often cheated the pirates on these
for the cellars being buried by the burning debris. After the battle, the pirates gathered what loot they could and abandoned the ruins, unaware that they were leaving survivors behind. When the smoldering wreckage cooled, the survivors made their way out through the rubble.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
insisted that Moradin had sent omens and warnings to the lost dwarves, but they went unheeded. Envoys from the other clans had found clan Duergar’s stronghold abandoned, with no evidence of invasion
, plague, or other calamity. Even worse, the temples of Moradin had been left untended. Only laziness, greed, and contempt for the All-Father could account for the clan’s fate. Laduguer, in response
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Thorbardin, abandoning the underground city, but only after sealing it against any intrusion. In the Elemental Evil campaign, this city becomes the location of the four elemental temples. The four Haunted
Keeps are abandoned outposts that predate the Cataclysm. They once guarded the entrances to the ancient dwarven enclave. Rivergard Keep lies along the White-Rage River, north of Haven. The calamitous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
outside, making them ideal places for hidden temples and black markets. Swaying rope bridges provide the best avenues between the blocks of this quarter, since the old boardwalks are sinking like
everything else. Alchemists’ Quarter The Alchemists’ Quarter is the northeast section of the Styes. Long ago, it was the seat of the district’s scholastic and religious leadership, but its once-fine temples
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
found in abandoned dragon lairs, temples to Tiamat, or other sites associated with the dragons they love. Dragonflesh Abomination
Huge Monstrosity, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Religion and the Gods The gods of Krynn are said to have abandoned the world, and in the great cities of Ansalon, temples and centers of faith are few. Nevertheless, small miracles occur across the
above. Ancient, forgotten sanctuaries hold wonders beyond imagination, and divine whispers reach those with the minds and hearts to listen. The gods haven’t wholly abandoned Krynn, and as threats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
on their properties and claim it’s being spread by strange fungus-covered bipeds (myconids).
2 A hermit who once lived in the abandoned fortress on Cas Island hires the party to retrieve an
people’s holy site from an ancient, evil treant called Blightroot. The druid doesn’t mention that the surrounding forests are a clonal colony of the villainous plant.
7 A grieving villager begs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Spellplague. That catastrophe left many asking why the gods were angry or had abandoned them. To those questioners, the faithful of Asmodeus provided answers and a god who would forgive all their faults
soul some comfort. Today, shrines to Asmodeus are still rare and temples are almost unheard of, but many folk have adopted the habit of asking Asmodeus for reprieve from their sins. After transgressing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Death Trap. This dungeon is built to eliminate any creature that dares to enter it. A death trap might guard the treasure of a villainous wizard, or it might be designed to lure adventurers to their
. An abandoned mine can quickly become infested with monsters, while miners who delve too deep can break through into the Underdark. Planar Gate. Dungeons built around planar portals are often
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, animals, or elemental forces. The ancient druidic traditions are sometimes called the Old Faith, in contrast to the worship of gods in temples and shrines.
Druid spells are oriented toward nature and
character lives in a society where the Old Faith still thrives, or was raised by a druid after being abandoned in the depths of a forest. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter with the spirits of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
standing stones 19 Ruined or toppled circle of standing stones 20 Totem pole Ruins Crumbling towers, ancient temples, and razed cities are perfect sites for adventures. Additionally, noting the existence of
that are either abandoned or serve as lairs for marauding bandits and monsters. Strongholds Strongholds provide the local population with protection in times of trouble. The number of strongholds in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, religious services were moved to grander temples in the upper wards. Godsgate became a tenement district, and the shrines and monuments were forgotten and left to decay. The final blow to this once-proud
corpses led to infection and disease. The City Council had no interest in sinking gold into Lower Dura to restore the area, and the district was abandoned. Today, the district known as Fallen is strewn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
communities offer abundant sacrifices to the god, but also guard their ancient rituals from outsiders, as Karametra’s organized clergy harshly forbids discussion of abandoned religious practices. However
blasphemies.
The Years of Rage. The tales about Karametra don’t specify what ignited the god’s rage in ancient times, but they do record that for a year, she tore down her own temples and refused to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Humans Transformed The people who became yuan-ti were one of the original human civilizations. Their society built great temples of stone and forged metal into armor, tools, and weapons. In their
interest of maintaining the strength of their personal bloodline. The yuan-ti have abandoned their humanity and consider non-serpentine humanoids to be lesser creatures, barely more civilized than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
(and which the dwarves have already repaired). The temples of human deities stand abandoned. The walls are patrolled by a few sharp-eyed sentries, whose duty is to report what they see and to turn away
that all commerce entering and leaving the city do so by means of underground traffic, so that most surface trade routes could be abandoned entirely. Sundarren trust of outsiders is low, and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
respond.
8 An emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers.
Connected Creatures Emerald dragons generally go out of
emerald dragon lairs in abandoned bandit caverns also occupied by a friendly earth elemental, which hunts for buried coins for the dragon’s hoard.
3 A galeb duhr acts as a door guard to a young
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
undertakers and caretakers of gravesites. Jergal has no temples dedicated to him aside from abandoned places devoted to his old, darker incarnation, but his priests are welcome in the temples of Kelemvor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
locate stands of prime timber or abandoned mines still holding valuable ore. Such resources can become part of the franchise’s ongoing revenue stream. Commercial connections forged with NPCs could also
way toward shoring up the party’s reputation. A franchise could work to support the existing charity efforts of either of the local temples, or the characters could create their own fund for out-of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
toward those who outrank her), this old, grizzled hadozee has light-tan skin and ebon-black fur graying at the temples. She’s perpetually shrouded in a thick haze of cigar smoke, the smell of which often
outskirts of Coliar, a sodding big gas giant. There, you’re to salvage the captain’s logbook from the wreckage of an abandoned ship, then return to your starting point with your own ship intact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
elevated to godhood or a deity whose arrival was foretold by prophets and leaders of new religions. In cosmopolitan places such as Waterdeep and Calimshan, small shrines and temples to strange gods spring
are abandoned or taken over by other faiths. To the deity’s worshipers in the world, it is immaterial whether the god is truly dead or merely dormant — the consequences for them are the same either way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
followers, typically criminals and monsters of unspeakable depravity. While many groups of minotaurs still honor their villainous progenitors, others have abandoned their ancestors and moved beyond their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
from the law in an old ruin or abandoned mine. 11 A contagion in a forest is causing spiders to grow massive and become aggressive. 12 To take revenge against a village for an imagined slight, a
necromancer has been animating the corpses in the village cemetery. 13 An evil cult is spreading in a village. Those who oppose the cult are marked for sacrifice. 14 An abandoned house on the edge of town
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Towers. Middle Central Sovereign Towers A district filled with a vast assortment of temples and shrines. It is home to the two most important temples in Sharn: the Pavilion of the Host and the
oldest temple district, Fallen was abandoned after a floating tower crashed into the district during the Last War. Now it’s a collection of wretched ruins. Lower Dura Gate of Gold A squalid slum
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
temples of its many gods, several organizations operate across national borders in pursuit of their goals. Some of these organizations could serve as patrons or allies of adventurers in a Greyhawk
individual gain. In the same way, villainous organizations create an ongoing sense of menace beyond the threat of solitary foes.
Having different characters tied to different factions can create
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
creatures and villainous monsters that seek to tap into the essence of the Shadowfell thrive deep in the forest. Its innermost reaches mingle with that dark realm, forming a warped mirror version of
-foot-diameter clearing. 7 An abandoned carriage is home to a black pudding. A variety of fancy but acid-scorched clothing lies gummed within the cab. 8 An intact sailing ship sits in the branches of a