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. Gnomes average slightly over 3 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad smiles (beneath their prodigious noses), and their bright eyes shine with
quick, if dangerous, path to wealth. Regardless of what spurs them to adventure, gnomes who adopt this way of life eke as much enjoyment out of it as they do out of any other activity they undertake
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
boar spear that is driven shaft-down into the ground, and whose head is adorned with three crowns. One limb of the spear’s crossguard bears a narrow silver circlet. On the other hangs a crown of
adamantine, shaped to be worn over a helm. Around the spearhead is a golden crown adorned with emeralds. You feel the need to seize one of them—and then the dream ends.
The dream, which ends abruptly, is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Starting the Adventure Castle Djaynai monitors the arrival of travelers to the fog-shrouded port of Djaynai The adventure begins with the characters arriving in the city of Djaynai. Whoever arranged
wooden supports and adorned with pilasters dominates the skyline.
A porter cowled in flowing damask-and-linen fabric greets the characters and offers to escort them to their inn: Anadoua’s Rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Starting the Adventure A devastating wave from the Iravati River crashes upon the Riverine Temple in Sagorpur The adventure begins as the characters are in the city of Sagorpur for the end of the
adventure to further detail the city. Read or paraphrase the following when you’re ready to begin: The city of Sagorpur is teeming with onlookers enjoying the Shankha Trials. The final event of this great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K67. Hall of Bones Once a mess hall for the castle guards, this room is now desecrated ground (see “Wilderness Hazards” in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Dark
human bones.
The walls and the twenty-foot-high vaulted ceiling are a sickly yellow color, not because of faded or timeworn plaster but because they are adorned with bones and skulls arranged in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Nyanzaru is an explosion of color. Buildings are painted in bright shades of blue, green, orange, and salmon pink, or their walls are adorned with murals portraying giant reptiles and mythical heroes
. Every building sports baskets and clay urns of colorful flowers or is draped in leafy, flowering vines. Minstrels in bright clothing adorned with feathers and shells perform on street corners
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mangrove that once adorned a temple built in his honor—ever since the Shankha Trials that precipitated the destruction of Manivarsha. Jijibisha trapped him here using her fiendish power and forced
riverine (detailed at the end of this adventure) who looks like a muscular, middle-aged man with white hair and blue skin. He thanks the characters for their service and brings forth treasure to reward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
(see the “Treasure” section). Treasure The scorched chest is unlocked and contains 1,100 cp, 160 sp, 50 ep, three diamonds (100 gp each), and a wooden pipe adorned with platinum filigree (150 gp). A
(Investigation) check. The map shows the location of a dungeon of your own creation. When the characters finish their explorations here, this old map can lead them to their next adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
introduction throughout the course of the adventure (as suggested in each NPC’s description below), with each one able to provide a useful next step to help the expedition along. Ctenmiir the Vampire LE
lineage goes back to Levistus (see Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes), and he keeps his horns adorned with rings, coins and other charms, some of which he claims are powerful magic items ready to be called on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
materials, dot the idyllic landscape. Their origins unknown, the plinths are works of art: marble columns adorned with breathtaking sculptures, intricately carved wooden poles, natural standing stones
Ecstasy The Ecstasy Adventures table offers suggestions for encounters and stories in the gate-town. Ecstasy Adventures d4 Adventure Hook 1 A convincing petitioner (chaotic neutral ghost) pretends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
push their way to the gate chamber: a pressurized obsidian hall adorned with rattling iron hand rings. Entrants must grasp the rings or be sent tumbling backward by the squalls that spew from the gate
gate-town. Bedlam Adventures d4 Adventure Hook 1 The winds puppeteer the contents of an armory in the Bleakheights. A goblin shopkeep pays the characters to defend their shop’s wind chimes from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Thingol, entered the Screaming Gate with a pack of beholders poised to enforce her will. Nicknamed the Maiden of Misery, Thingol floats through Hopeless adorned with an expressionless iron mask and a robe
table offers suggestions for encounters and stories in the gate-town. Hopeless Adventures d4 Adventure Hook 1 The party is caught red-handed after a mean-spirited goblin makeup artist ambushes them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Godstrand’s interior, branching and crossing endlessly, and its walls are adorned with intricate mosaics that shift to disorient trespassers. However, Celestials and those with pure hearts or intentions
for encounters and stories involving the gate-town. Excelsior Adventures d4 Adventure Hook 1 An androsphinx arrives in Excelsior and declares itself the new high chancellor. Forough petitions the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
colorful wicker shields mounted beside trophies of battle. Among them hangs a magic tapestry adorned with a scene of charging warriors. Its image changes after each battle, reflecting any newly fallen
Adventures table offers suggestions for encounters and stories in the gate-town. Glorium Adventures d4 Adventure Hook 1 The town’s deceased warriors rise to fight again as ghosts, but their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
paint or carvings once adorned the sign have been all but worn away. Inside, the place shows the same lack of care. It’s dirty, ill kept, and in need of a thorough cleaning. Or burning. The place is
arbitration, with concrete edicts handed down to make the line between right and wrong — in a civil sense, at least — crystal clear.
In Phandalin (as with many of the other locations in this adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
master dies. This fact suggests that Fistandia and Freyot are still alive. Characters might encounter one or both mages in a future adventure.
M8. Dining Room Large windows form the entirety of one
the table. A seventh chair sits alone in the far corner.
In addition to the furnishings described above, this room is adorned with unremarkable tapestries that depict grapevines and the process of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
are adorned with crossed swords and shields. Furnishings include a bed, a wardrobe, and a glass statuette on a nightstand.
The wardrobe holds spare uniforms and outfits. Treasure. The statuette on
their Whirlwind action to hurl characters through the castle’s weakened walls (see “General Features” earlier in the adventure). It’s a 20-foot drop to the ground from there. The Match Thief. Resting on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
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Books. One or more of the other books described in this adventure anthology might be found here at your discretion, having been purloined by Stonky. The remaining books are mostly dull treatises with
adorned with glowing numerals at its copper-plated center.
Three larger chairs along one wall have likewise been bolted to the floor, all facing the telescope. Two lengths of rope are fastened to each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Staircase by Nafas (see chapter 1), who could ask them to repay him by completing another adventure in this book. Expanded Ziggurat Features Unless otherwise noted, this tier has the following features
the chapel’s north wall. An eye-shaped gong stands in the southeast corner.
Six cultists sit in the pews. Before them is a priest in a horned mask adorned with eight chin tentacles.
Cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Eight chairs, their backs adorned with sculpted elk horns, surround the table. Arched windows made of a latticework of iron and glass look out onto the small, fog-swept estate. If the characters aim to
“Sample Traps” in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). A creature that triggers the trap and fails the saving throw against the needle’s poison falls unconscious for 1 hour
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
drops another 100 feet to an underground stream. What lies beyond the stream is outside the scope of this adventure. G8: Cavern of Stalagmites Four thick stalagmites, twenty feet high and with tops
themselves, they can easily help the centaurs do the same. Treasure. Shaydun wears a magic necklace adorned with a small silver horseshoe. The necklace allows the creature wearing it to cast the Plane Shift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
crown jewels (see the “Rewards” section at the end of the adventure). Cinderhide
The succubus known as Cinderhide has hated Queen Yolande and her court ever since a knight unmasked the succubus’s true
: Elemental Throne Curved steps ascend from a circular dais to a looming throne adorned with grinning skulls. A woman dressed in a long, fur-trimmed pirate’s coat kneels in prayer before the throne. Four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
-stained wooden coffer containing three teeth from a red dragon wyrmling, a dead tomato plant in a ceramic pot adorned with images of dancing cherubs, and nine gnoll skulls. S9. Digging Demons At this
died earlier in the adventure, she’s waiting for them inside the citadel, just beyond the doors. When the doors open, a bright white light pours out, filling area S14. Any fiend or undead that enters or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
.” Ogrorlo’s Coffin. The seastone coffin of Ogrorlo, a cube 10 feet on a side, lies 12 feet beneath the floor of the reef. It is adorned with large clamshell carvings and weighs 2,000 pounds. A character
or use the information in the Cove Reef Encounters table to create an adventure. You can roll randomly or choose an encounter appropriate for the average level of the characters. Each encounter is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
them toward new adventure opportunities. He’s also quite familiar with the nature of Elemental Evil.
Place to Stay. The Black Dragon is close to the city’s central marketplace. A traveler can sleep
-roofed temple has a gold-inlaid symbol of the sun above its double-door entrance. During the day, sunlight shines through high windows to illuminate the temple’s interior, which is adorned with golden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
another corner. Five closed doors lead from the room.
Dress Dummies. Seven humanoid-shaped dressing dummies stand in the corner—four of Medium size and three of Small size. Six of them are adorned with
Yon. If the darklings escape, the characters might encounter them again in chapter 4. If you used the “Lost Things” adventure hook and the Story Tracker indicates that Bavlorna has one or more things in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
it to double in size), they decided to avoid the place. The brown mold (see chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide) fills the 20-foot-square section in the southeast
the alcove. Flanking the dais are two smoking braziers and two flickering torches in sconces. Rich tapestries decorate the walls. The tapestry behind the dais is adorned with a stylized cauldron symbol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
smaller fishbowl, 3 feet in diameter, rests on a pedestal next to the larger bowl. A dwarf wearing a skullcap adorned with eyestalks feeds a trout-sized fish that swims in circles in this smaller bowl. A 10
THE MIND FLAYER
Nihiloor the mind flayer has carved out its own lair within Xanathar’s lair (areas X23 through X26). If Nihiloor is killed earlier in the adventure, replace it with a mind flayer named
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
you are using the “Lost Things” adventure hook and the character hasn’t yet found what they’re looking for, the mirror might show the character its location and a route the character can take to get
debris. The knight wears a helm adorned with feathery wings, and he is holding a longsword and a shield.
Nothing of value remains in the study. Any hags of the Hourglass Coven who retreated to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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Overcoming the jabberwock in area P22 is one of the main challenges of this chapter and, indeed, the whole adventure. The characters are unlikely to survive a head-on fight with the creature, but there
helmet adorned with a black feather (125 gp) P26. Changing Room The door to the adjoining hallway is sealed with a hart crown lock (see “Crown Locks” earlier in the chapter). One wall of this chamber is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
is opened. If the characters look inside, read: In the coffin is a troll! It’s dressed in rotted finery, but its jewelry and rings adorned with tiny silver dragons still sparkle. The creature’s body
Underdark. The tunnel leads beyond the scope of this adventure, but it could be a route to a site you have designed. Creatures. If they have not come forth as reinforcements, three kobolds camp here, serving