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Oath of the Ancients
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
principles are simple.
Kindle the Light. Through your acts of mercy, kindness, and forgiveness, kindle the light of hope in the world, beating back despair.
Shelter the Light. Where there is good
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
a deathly ashen hue. When in the Shadowfell, they detest mirrors and avoid keeping things that remind them of their age.
Shadar-kai of the Raven Queen watch over both the Shadowfell and the Material
metaphoric representation of some story—great or small—that was saturated with raw emotion.
Shadar-kai encountered outside the Shadowfell are often on quests to find the most sorrow-touched items they can find to bring back to their queen’s gloomy castle.Necrotic, Psychic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
more youthful while on other planes, but their skin always retains a deathly ashen hue. When in the Shadowfell, they detest mirrors and avoid keeping things that remind them of their age.
Shadar-kai
the Shadowfell are often on quests to find the most sorrow-touched items they can find to bring back to their queen’s gloomy castle.NecroticShadow Jump. The shadar-kai teleports, along with any
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
keeping things that remind them of their age.
Shadar-kai of the Raven Queen watch over both the Shadowfell and the Material Plane, scouting out choice souls and tragedies that might please their
saturated with raw emotion.
Shadar-kai encountered outside the Shadowfell are often on quests to find the most sorrow-touched items they can find to bring back to their queen’s gloomy castle.Necrotic
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in
swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst dragon
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
dozen adopted grandparents inviting you in for a meal.
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Seeing a lost patriar after dark in the Outer City, you guided the wayward noble through back streets to safety. The patriar repaid your
for one last chance to win back the goodwill you’ve drunk away.
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You once defeated a raging bugbear with a hand mirror, a mounted deer’s head, and two kicks to the groin. Later, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Wandering Monsters Monsters roam through all areas of the mine. Random encounters remind players that monsters aren’t necessarily confined to specific areas, and that no part of the dungeon is safe
. Conversely, if the players seem restless, you can decide that an encounter occurs. Roll a d12 and consult the Wandering Monsters table to determine what the party meets. Wandering Monsters d12 Roll
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that
adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
frustration, possibly even their freedom and their lives—by helping them avoid or get around the illogical logic. While visitors are easily vexed by roads that lead nowhere and forest trails that double back
. Conversely, a bad guide can easily get an adventuring party into trouble. Use the Feywild Guide Names, Feywild Guide Identities, and Feywild Guide Quirks tables to create Fey guides on the fly
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and
restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Writing Riddles Writing new riddles for your group can be fun and satisfying—as long as the players don’t guess the right answer in seconds or, conversely, rip their hair out in frustration. Here are
session, allowing your players to ponder guesses before reconvening. (Remind them of the clues at that time.) Hints. For a high-stakes riddle, consider preparing one or two hints for characters who are stumped. To earn a hint, a character might have to succeed on a DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the Sumber Hills, bound for Summit Hall. Earth cultists attacked the group a few miles from Summit Hall. The cultists took prisoners back to the Sacred Stone Monastery, paying water cultists for the
use of their riverboats to cross the Dessarin River, which is how the delegation’s valuables end up in Womford (see “Rumors in Red Larch”). On their way back to their base, the earth cultists skirmished
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
side of his face and neck. Mistress Ilvara likes to impress her will with scourge in hand and remind you that your life now belongs to her. “Accept your fate, learn to obey, and you may survive.” Her
attacks the drow. The drow don’t kill any of the prisoners (leaving them unconscious at 0 hit points) but have no compunction about beating them.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight
before swapping back.
5
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, a beating is the best they can hope for. A smart character submits to this humiliation, because fighting back means that Bog Luck calls everyone else to help him punish the thief, and all the
characters are ostracized from then on. Taking the beating means Bog Luck keeps the incident between the two of them. Characters can arrange to have a room next to the Cult of the Dragon teamsters and listen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Conclusion If Jhaeros’s still-beating heart is delivered to Naevys outside the city, it disappears in her hands. When the heart vanishes, the following things happen: Charmayne Dies. Charmayne
from captivity in area S9 and is restored to his true form at full health. The Hounds Are Restored. The hell hounds Cinnabar and Sol transform back into friendly mastiffs. If Jhaeros’s heart dies or if
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; animosity, gnomes tend to avoid or abandon settlements that have a severe infestation of kobolds, and conversely kobolds are usually driven out of communities that have a large gnome population
some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, a beating is the best they can hope for. A smart character submits to this humiliation, because fighting back means that Bog Luck calls everyone else to help him punish the thief, and all the
characters are ostracized from then on. Taking the beating means Bog Luck keeps the incident between the two of them. Characters can arrange to have a room next to the Cult of the Dragon teamsters and listen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the characters encounter a minion or monster connected to the adventure’s main threat. At the end of the encounter, perhaps the characters find information that gets them back on track. Plan one or
two encounters like this ahead of time. The DM’s Role. If the characters can’t figure out how to solve an encounter or aren’t sure what to do next, you can remind the players of things their characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Using the Story Tracker This adventure uses a Story Tracker, a copy of which is included at the back of this book. The Story Tracker is a note-keeping tool to help you remember important information
Story Tracker might remind you of the effect. Unicorn Horn A lost unicorn horn plays an important part in the adventure. Its location is determined randomly by rolling on the Unicorn Horn’s Location
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, use the following boxed text instead: A great white dragon descends from the sky, beating its wings furiously to slow its descent. A dark, humanoid figure is mounted on the dragon’s back.
If the
Arveiaturace Arrives Arveiaturace, an ancient white dragon whose vision is hampered by cataracts, carries the body of her former master, the wizard Meltharond, in a saddle on her back (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
(in fact, that’s a good phrase to search for) both real and fantastical. As striking as real-world scenery can be, wilderness travel can be used to remind the players that their characters are in a
spend the next three days trudging through knee-deep mud — the first two days and nights in the pouring rain, and then another day under the beating sun, with swarms of hungry insects feasting on your blood.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
unnecessarily. If hatchlings are among the characters’ victims, the queen is close to outrage and makes no secret of it. Conversely, if the characters arrive with hatchlings in tow, her estimation of them
characters give it back. If the mission isn’t ruined by how they conduct themselves prior to this first audience, the queen allows the characters to circulate through the lair for a brief time to give
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
Bowl Bandits The passage continues onwards, taking the characters north for a while, and then switching back to the south. The caves here are empty, save for some old cobwebs on the ceiling
human woman), are in the cavern ahead. The pair sold the bowl to the goblins, then stealthily followed them back to this lair. They hope to steal the bowl back and return it to the keep for a reward so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
particular, they have tracked this corruption back to Zuggtmoy and Juiblex, with the demon lords both infecting different parts of the subterranean realm. The Emerald Enclave fights tirelessly against the
and their cause. Stern and stubborn, Morista sees it as her duty to protect the people of Gauntlgrym from the often savage nature of the Underdark and to remind them of its natural beauty. She serves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. See appendix D for these creatures’ statistics. The grungs on the roof unleash arrows to ward off intruders. If the intruders fight back, more green-skinned grungs close in from nearby buildings
the floor in front of another double door is a mosaic depicting a frog-like humanoid beating a leopard that has snakes emerging from its shoulders. Cuneiform inscriptions are woven above and below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
characters are sure to find him. The first time the characters arrive at the foretold location, Strahd is there, provided he hasn’t been forced back into his coffin. Artifact (Joker 1) He lurks in the
snuffed out too soon.
Strahd faces the characters in Sergei’s tomb (area K85). Marionette (Jack of Hearts) Look to great heights. Find the beating heart of the castle. He waits nearby.
Strahd faces the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
from their pores that burns and blinds creatures caught in it. A horrible and wonderful truth of our world is that anything has the potential to be an enemy. Conversely, anything can be a friend
takes half as much damage and isn’t blinded.
Shapechanger. The mimic transforms into a hoard or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
fingertips and winds around one arm to the shoulder, chest, and back. The lettering in the Elvish script is tiny but precise and legible. Each character also gains the level 1 benefit and drawback of
Charisma saving throw or call for the save at longer intervals. Conversely, if the characters have access to enough magic that they’re likely to finish the adventure quickly, the effects of the mark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
a great many sacrifices to function. Tabaxi thieves might try to steal the jewel and bear it safely back to Maztica, perhaps trading it for the release of enslaved loved ones. Conversely, a villain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
most likely spots for encountering sword wraiths are scenes of ancient ambushes, battlefields where soldiers were felled by magic with no chance to fight back, and sites where enemies were hemmed in
and slaughtered without quarter. Honor Above All. Sword wraiths fly into a rage if anyone questions their valor. Conversely, they are easily appeased by praise. Little pleases them more than hearing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
back favorites from earlier in the campaign for the occasional cameo. Player Favorites It’s often easier to describe people and places that are hostile or frightening than it is to detail a feature
you want characters to love. How can you know what rustic scene will make a character associate a place with home or what personality quirk will remind a character of their favorite mentor? You can ask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
feet away, you see two thugs in cold weather clothing beating up an old woman and stealing her food.
The two thugs are neutral evil humans, and the old woman is a commoner with 1 hit point remaining
-Towner in torn cold weather clothing stumbles into view, falls in the snow, and gets back up. From twenty feet away, you can see that the person is leaving a trail of blood in the snow.
On a roll of