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, you can switch from using its senses to using your own, or back again. While you are using its senses, you are blinded and deafened in regard to your own surroundings.
Physical interaction with the
image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it. A creature that uses its action to examine the image can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence
Ancient Brass Dragon
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damage or someone uses an action to wake it.
Change Shape. The dragon magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It
image from a distance can tell it’s an illusion with a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Any physical interaction with an image reveals it to be an illusion, because objects pass
Magic Items
Candlekeep Mysteries
damage except radiant damage. A detect evil and good spell or similar magic reveals that the figurine has been desecrated. As long as it has at least 1 hit point, the figurine has the following magical
properties:
Undead within 30 feet of the figurine can’t be turned.
Dead creatures within 30 feet of the figurine can’t be brought back to life.
A creature that holds the figurine while
Criminal / Spy
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important was taken from me, and I aim to steal it back.
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I will become the greatest thief that ever lived.
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I’m guilty of a terrible crime. I hope I can redeem myself for it.
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I have a “tell” that reveals when I’m lying.
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I turn tail and run when things look bad.
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An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
to a generous benefactor.
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My ill-gotten gains go to support my family.
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Something important was taken from me, and I aim to steal it back.
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I will become the greatest thief that
If there’s a plan, I’ll forget it. If I don’t forget it, I’ll ignore it.
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I have a “tell” that reveals when I’m lying.
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I turn tail and run when
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
realizing the connection. You got the Guild to back off demands for your death by offering to make amends by working for the criminals, but even so the kingpin still plots a personal revenge.
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The
work, do what needs to be done, and get paid. Anyone who pursues crime for thrill-seeking, to strike back at unjust authorities, or anything else are amateurs, and they’re liable to get you
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the
haul as much food and booty as possible back to the tribe’s den, every tribe has a sturdy war wagon. Since orcs are poor crafters, most of their wagons are stolen from human or dwarven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
stored here. A secret door in the east wall can be pulled open to reveal the back of the pipe organ in area K10. Characters can’t pass through the secret door while the organ is blocking it, and the organ can’t be moved from this side.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
. Read or paraphrase the following: The withered eyeball aims its empty gaze down an alley strewn with rubble. Rats scurry between chunks of old stone and dusty crates. At the back of the alley is a set of
moldering wood boards, propped up just enough to block a dark tunnel leading below the surface.
The boards blocking the entrance to the catacombs can be moved easily, revealing a sloping tunnel (area N1).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
robes, standing in the doorway. A look back toward the door reveals nothing there, and the reflection can’t be seen again. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is under the wreckage of one of the cribs.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
adjacent to the trap. Countermeasures. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals the trap. A successful DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools disables it. Crossbow Trap Simple trap
. Countermeasures. A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals the trip wire. A successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools disables the trip wire, and a check with a total of 5 or lower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
M9. Dead End Leaning against the back wall of this tunnel is a dead human miner with a pickaxe. Inspection of the corpse reveals that the miner was stabbed to death.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
only visible way out is back through the portal. Lighting This area is well lit. The charging Gith Capacitor creates A LOT of light. Creatures/NPCs A star spawn seer and its guardian star spawn hulk are
alive, the adventurers can’t get to the ulitharid or affect it in any way. There is a field of alien energy blocking it off from everything that isn’t the Gith Capacitor. If the adventurers slay the star
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
responsible for blocking tunnels to deter pursuit.
Kobolds feel a cool affinity or something like kinship for other members of their tribe, but they are rarely affectionate with each other. Two kobolds
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->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Examining the Pests Pests don’t normally amalgamate and turn hostile, then transform back into harmless pests. If the characters examine the pests after the amalgamation is defeated, a successful DC
16 Intelligence (Investigation) check reveals little pools of regurgitated bait on the floor near the pests. Mixed in the pools are small, sharp pieces of same chitin found in area W5 near Wiltroot Hall. The pests ingested this chitin, leading to their strange transformation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
correspondence relating to mysteries all across the Domains of Dread. She enlists agents to investigate these cases, and then report back to her. However, she never reveals her own past as a detective
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
(Insight) check reveals that the statues once depicted drow. 29b. Wraith This Way This room is deathly cold and contains the following: Undead. A wraith and three specters haunt the room. They attack all
framed portrait showing the back of Halaster’s head: a mass of gray hair (see “Painting Trap” below).
The wraith is all that remains of an evil adventurer who was disintegrated by Halaster in this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Clue 5: Amphitheater This clue refers to the amphitheater in area B13. When the characters reach the amphitheater, they see an impressively lavish stage, with the curtains drawn back as if to reveal
the stage’s perimeter—a number of lights equal to the number of characters in the group. Approaching any of the lights reveals a recess in which lies a hooded lantern filled with oil.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
by 15 inches wide, contained in a corked glass bottle 5 feet long and 1½ feet wide. The bottle rests on its side in a wooden stand and is portable. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of
transmutation magic around the ship. An identify spell or similar magic cast on the model reveals that it’s an actual longship magically reduced to one-twelfth its normal size. The spell also reveals that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
contingency. If the rules tried to do so, the game would become unplayable. An alternative would be for the rules to severely limit what characters can do, which would be counter to the open-endedness of
but not with another. When I write about the RAI interpretation of a rule, I’ll be pulling back the curtain and letting you know what the D&D team meant when we wrote a certain rule. RAF. Regardless of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
ten thugs blocking her path work for him. Traevus and his thugs are indifferent toward the party but turn hostile if the characters try to force their way onto the Moondancer with Captain Sartell in
of his thugs while the others continue to hold back the mob that has gathered at the docks. If Traevus is defeated, any remaining thugs in his employ lose their will to fight. Some are overrun by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
breaks out, one shriek from above snaps the kobolds back in line. The griffon also protects the kobolds if they come under attack. Treasure A thorough search of the kitchen reveals small chests of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creature that reveals themself to be lying about who they are. In her guise as duchess, Saidra dons a bird-like mask and fashionable scarlet gowns. As the Red Death, she is nothing more than a
Chateaufaux. Stately houses stand atop gently rolling hills amid lush farmlands and vineyards, but the houses never get any closer, no matter how long one travels. And sooner or later, travelers always find themselves back on the outskirts of Port-a-Lucine.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
44. Dweomercore’s Back Door Yugoloths. Two mezzoloths (marked M on map 9) and a nycaloth (marked N on map 9) are hidden behind illusory walls to the west and east.
Secret Door. A secret door set
into the west wall pushes open to reveal a corridor. Characters who follow this corridor come to a stone staircase that descends 40 feet to area 1 on level 10.
A detect magic spell reveals an illusory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
breaks out, one shriek from above snaps the kobolds back in line. The griffon also protects the kobolds if they come under attack. Treasure A thorough search of the kitchen reveals small chests of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
10. Where’s Halaster? This room is empty except for an enormous red velvet curtain that covers the northwest wall. A pull-rope on one side of the curtain allows it to be drawn back. Hanging on the
the older paintings show the students as skeletons — signifying which graduating students have died. Careful examination reveals that Halaster appears in every class picture except the center portrait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
two exits, including an adamantine portcullis blocking a passage to the north. Set into a metal plate above the portcullis is a row of five red crystals shaped like drops of blood.
The adamantine
. Once this duration ends, the portcullis lowers back into place, the crystals go dark, and the wardrobes reappear with their doors closed. Each wardrobe contains a one-way gate to another plane, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
27. Hidden Demiplane Bas-Relief. Carved into the back wall of this alcove is a shallow niche containing a bas-relief sculpture of a nude, heavyset man playing a harp (see below).
Half a Pole. Lying
on the floor of the alcove is a broken half of a 10-foot pole.
Close inspection of the bas-relief reveals the following inscription carved into the harp, in Common: Gaze upon me with bronzed visage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
him back to his palace for punishment. Hook. Astarion (Medium Vampire Spawn) invites the characters to Rat’s Run to socialize. Astarion then notices several disguised members of Cazador’s “family
) with the characters, Astarion recognizes two Vampire Wardens from Cazador’s palace. The wardens are blocking the public exit to Rat’s Run. Certain that someone from the palace wants to kidnap him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
hornlike protrusion on its head. An armored figure rides on its back. The rider says, “Hail to you. I’ve come to retrieve something that is of interest to my employer. Please produce the human named Miken
hit points remaining, Qitru orders the star lancer to retreat. On its next turn, the star lancer uses Invisibility Cloak and flies back toward the asteroid. If the star lancer dies before it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
table’s cabinet inside the hut reveals a pest mascot (see chapter 7) gnawing on a cracked, strange-looking stone. The pest is one of the mascots the characters must catalog for Professor Sharpbeak, as
(Perception) check reveals movement in the western part of the surrounding brush. If the characters linger here for a round, they catch the attention of two ankhegs. The aggressive creatures attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
reveals that Korvala isn’t being entirely truthful. To avoid making a scene, she invites characters who see through her lies back to the Amberdune Pack's hideout as long as they are willing to talk
humanoid form. At sunrise, those on the first shift set up the stall with Korvala, and at sundown the workers bring their unsold wares back to the pack’s hideout in the Blackgate neighborhood. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
soul by swearing to hunt down his own kind. Later, he volunteered to join Zariel on her crusade into the Nine Hells. Stirges now swarm back and forth from Jander’s body, preserving his existence by
injecting him with the blood of his traitorous companions. Jander pleads for the characters to cut him down so that his soul can move on from this accursed place. He reveals the following information
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, as well as the location of Kostchtchie’s Maw, on the characters’ map. Once Kostchtchie is released, the characters can report back to Olanthius at the Crypt of the Hellriders, whereupon he reveals the Bleeding Citadel’s location.
. If freed, the demon lord is sure to want its weapon back, which should create the diversion that Olanthius needs. The Arches of Ulloch can transport the characters to Kostchtchie’s Maw, where the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
-looking path, road, or trails occasionally become sharp for 100-foot intervals. Walking on these areas is like walking on caltrops. Small avalanches of rock intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying
creates one or more of the following additional regional effects within 1 mile of her lair: Small avalanches of snow intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying intruders. A buried creature is