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stare, then appeared to go back to sleep.
— Richard Lee Byers, The Black Bouquet
A constant hum of busy activity pervades the warrens and neighborhoods where gnomes form their close-knit
over time. Gnome names are typically variants on the names of ancestors or distant relatives, though some are purely new inventions. When dealing with humans and others who are “stuffy” about
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
to your relatives or have you had a falling out—or potentially lost your kin in the Last War? Likewise, consider what you did in the war and how that reflects on your current actions. Were you a
soldier, and if so, how did that service end? If not, did you serve your nation in another way, or did you turn your back on it?
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- 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
around this area are damp with moisture from the nearby stream. Read or paraphrase the following text as the characters near the curving passage, but before they reach the steps leading into the cavern
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
32. Far and Gone The curving west wall of this room is a seething mass of color and sickly light — a partially breached portal to the Far Realm. Creatures can’t physically pass through the portal
creature that comes into contact with the back wall must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by the wall for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the creature is stunned and stares at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
up, it dissipates to mist. When a character picks up the diamond, a pathway opens up in the middle of each of the four sides of this area, any of which lead the characters back to the sundial. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
up, it dissipates to mist. When a character picks up the diamond, a pathway opens up in the middle of each of the four sides of this area, any of which lead the characters back to the sundial. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
halfling pluck and dark devotion make the wicked Nettlebees unlikely to back down easily. In fact, Wiggan tries to bribe the characters into defending Bertram and him “against these savages.” He also uses
Wiggan’s guilt. Wiggan is even braver if Bertram is there to help him. Watson might try to stop an open battle, but he is unwilling to fight his relatives. If defeated but left alive, Wiggan can be coerced into telling the truth. The party has to promise to let him live to get him to talk.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
her subjects. She and her soldiers kill anyone who she considers a traitor, a status extended not only to those who back Arijani and Reeva, but even to those who don’t support her vociferously enough
night of the next new moon and rejoins the maharani’s army. Ramya’s living followers consider this deathless state an honor and the ultimate mark of loyalty. Blood Relatives. Ramya never compromises
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
other areas of the maze (your choice). There is no turning back from a wrong path. Once the last character has gone out of sight of the sundial (15 feet along the curving path), reversing direction
or leave items in this area, the marks and items are gone the next time they arrive here. The adventurers shouldn’t know whether they’re coming back to the same spot each time or whether more than one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
the other areas of the maze (your choice). There is no turning back from a wrong path. Once the last character has gone out of sight of the sundial (15 feet along the curving path), reversing direction
ground or leave items in this area, the marks and items are gone the next time they arrive here. The adventurers shouldn’t know whether they’re coming back to the same spot each time or whether more than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, passages lead to the left and right, sloping upward and curving back toward each other. Where they meet, a tough membrane holds back the Nematode’s rudimentary liquid brain matter. Read or paraphrase
floating nodule resembles an open maw. A structure akin to a small tent but made of bone or pale stone stands in the back of the cave.
The tent is an aperture made of bone as dense as solid rock. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
furniture are visible through the open doorway. Blank headstones stand in front of the house, and one beside the doorway is engraved with the words “Tiris Frosthair, Stonemason. Inquire at Back.” At the
back of the house, a covered work area holds more blank headstones and slabs of granite and marble. Rusted carving tools hang from the wall. A hammer and chisel lie on the ground beside a half
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-goat creature in robes sprawls ten feet to the north. It grips a staff tipped with a bronze goat’s head.
The curving corridor forms a perfect circle, imbued with magical gravity that keeps creatures
parallel reality. Characters who walk the length of the circular corridor notice that Devlin’s body is no longer present — nor are any companions who waited behind for them. If they step back through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the Margaster family, whom they see as foes who will one day attack their home to regain it or destroy it if they can’t take it back. To most humans, Thornhold is merely the fortress above the surface
, a castle of gray stone with a thick, curving wall and a two-towered central keep. They don’t know of the caverns below that lead to the Stoneshaft clanhold. The cliff facing the sea is so sheer that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
parties to the surface to capture humanoids under cover of darkness, bringing them back to their cities to be tortured into submission. Beyond those occasional excursions, the drow are content to remain
of the house are blood relatives, while the middling ranks are flush with drow from weaker families that have sworn fealty to the greater house. Clinging precariously to the bottom rung of a house’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
to make room for mismatched and gouged dining tables. On the north side of the room, a curving stairwell rises between the back door and a hallway. On the south side, one door leads to the south and
guard outside the mansion: one at the carriage house’s east door, two at the front door, and one at the back patio door. If attacked, the draconians shout to alert the other draconians outside the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Factions of Gracklstugh The Deepkingdom is a feudal state with the Deepking as the absolute monarch, who passes the crown to descendants or relatives in his Steelshadow clan. Each clan is led by a
Uniting War against the Deepkingdom, but were swiftly crushed, and the survivors brought back to Gracklstugh in chains. Though their status as slaves was eventually set aside, the derro have always been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
to fight back against the enemies of nature. 2 I found a place among a group of druids after I fled a catastrophe. 3 I have always had an affinity for animals, so I explored my talent to see how I
could best use it. 4 I befriended a druid and was moved by druidic teachings. I decided to follow my friend’s guidance and give something back to the world. 5 While I was growing up, I saw spirits all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
are apparent, and the smell of death is fainter than one would expect. At the back of the cave, within ten feet of the drow, a breeze whistles through three tiny fissures in the rock.
The fissures
magically pull the air from the cave and the lungs of any creature that comes within 30 feet of the back of the cave. Such a creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be unable to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
simple stone rooms at the back of the temple. They bring their own vestments and holy items and take them away again when their duties end. Key NPCs. Right now, Imdarr Relvaunder (male Damaran human priest
annex at the back of the inn, currently out of commission, was initially built with poorly drawing chimneys. Right now, cooking is rudimentary and done out in the yard, on grills flanking the bread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, curving along the tower’s north wall.
If a character examines the coins or statue, have them make a DC 14 Intelligence (History) check. Silvanesti elves have advantage on this check. On a
in the Shadowfell, and they can see the door behind them shining like a beacon of light. Characters can freely pass back and forth through the portal between area E4 and E5, and they can speak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Though the trap’s trigger is magical, the floor must be lifted and set into place again for the trap to be reset. Before the trap is reset, a character can climb back up into this area from area B11
that opens up through the crumbling wall of the antechamber is illuminated by a single brazier. At the end of the passage, a set of curving stone stairs descends farther down into darkness.
If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
doors and windows, and servants bustle back and forth in cold-weather gear.
Kept magically cold, the Mythomian Warehouse in the Hidden Quarter is Eileanar’s main clearing house for incoming goods and
sides of this grand avenue, each storefront a glimmering treasure box of sensory delight.
Curving along the Outer Platform, the Way of Astonishments is closed to traffic, allowing patrons to freely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
mosaics of tentacles flank a set of black marble doors in the south wall. Reliefs of long, curving fangs line the arc of the door frame.
The double doors push open to reveal an underwater passage to
tentacles, which convene at the top around a circular fanged mouth.
At the southwestern end of the plaza, a set of curving stairs climbs above the water. Four kuo-toa worship at the altar, while a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
insanity. Large, artificial wings unfold from its back. Prince Ariel was a terrible man who longed to fly. He attached artificial wings to a harness and empowered the device with magic, but the
Dilisnya A skeleton draped in rags lies atop a marble slab in the center of the crypt. Hanging on the back wall is a handsome quilt that depicts a royal feast. The quilt is magically preserved but not
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
unit of cloud giant life is the family — a mated pair, their offspring (if any), and perhaps a couple of close relatives. Cloud giants prefer not to congregate in great numbers in any one place, to avoid
between families can go on for generations, with fortunes and estates (and the position in the ordning that goes with them) passing back and forth repeatedly. What a parent loses, a child hopes someday
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
ransom him back, but seemingly his relatives either couldn’t pay or decided not to. (In truth, his rotten in-laws destroyed the ransom notes and told Bepis’s wife and children that he ran away with
escorts the victor back to area X7 while Ahmaergo goads characters into joining the tournament. If the characters aren’t willing to enter the tournament, Ahmaergo has them beaten unconscious and locked up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
opaque rectangular shape darkens the center of the ceiling.
The fountain’s central water jet climbs high above its pool. A metal staircase curves around the atrium’s back wall to a landing forty feet
(greater); and a bag with 10 pp, 20 gp, 15 sp, and a flawed emerald worth 500 gp. P8: Gallery Curving metal stairs ascend to an art gallery that constitutes the palace’s second floor. A low stone rail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
opinions of humanoids based on previous contact with related humanoids. Good dragons can recognize humanoid bloodlines by smell, sniffing out each person they meet and remembering any relatives they have
no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the dragon’s choice).
In a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
along the wall’s length. The fresco on the east wall shows an armored knight on the back of a red dragon flying across the landscape. This pair appears in multiple scenes along the wall, with the dragon’s
DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices that the curving wall just west of the southern entrance is less smooth than the other walls, holding stair-like footholds. They go about four feet up the side
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
creature that touches a globe but isn’t its controller must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be drawn into the globe and unable to pass back through its boundary. As an action, a trapped
the water of a vast pool situated between curving northern and southern staircases that lead up to double doors. Two enormous globes of blue liquid are suspended in the air to the east.
Creatures. One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. Without the steps, climbing the inward-curving wall requires a climbing kit and a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. The message, scrawled in Old Omuan, states, “True love, faithful general
commissioned out of appreciation and affection, but defaced it when she believed the general betrayed her. The face is completely destroyed. Gouged across its back in Old Omuan are the words “Forgive me
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Cinderhild and then ransoming her back to her parents. If ordered to surrender, she tells the characters that she’s willing to pretend to be their prisoner until her father gives them what they want
has wrapped her luxurious orange hair around a black dragon’s horn, giving her a coiffure that looks like a curving pillar of flame. She is a fire giant, with the following changes: Brimskarda’s dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
gang was then going to kill his family, but Mirna promised that wealthy relatives in Neverwinter would pay a substantial sum for her and her children’s safe return. The Redbrands have kept the Dendrars
. He is a member of the Scraptops, a goblin clan known for its scavenging and tinkering. Droop wandered into the hideout looking for parts for a wagon he’s repairing back home. The Cragmaws are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
to the ceiling down to the floor. Tracks have worn smooth paths from ledge to ledge across the curving floor.
The thunderous griding of stone echoes throughout the cave, as three boulders roll along
. Shaydun, the centaurs’ leader, approaches the characters. She doesn’t know how the characters arrived in the canyon, but she’s willing to help them find a way back to the Lost Caverns if they help