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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
use its Stomp action, but makes three extra turret attacks when it takes the Multiattack action option.
“Landro” (Colossus WX-33) is partially phased into a mountainside on the border of
; (Colossus WX-12) squats in the Crawling Swamp, in the northwest corner of the Shadow Marches. How it got there, no one knows.
Hollow Structure. Although it can operate without a crew, a warforged colossus
Species
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
need in their shimmering homeland and knowing the treachery of strangers.
Still, some leonin wonder what lies beyond Oreskos’s border mountains and seek to test themselves in a wider world
adversaries—incredibly clever and well-prepared to play a long game but ultimately doomed to lose their games.
4
I’m certain every bad thing that happens can ultimately be blamed on the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of an arcanaloth seeking a powerful Feywild artifact.
5
An adult moonstone dragon attempts to help a beholder worried that its dreams will soon give birth to a rival beholder.
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Members of
things up, insisting that visitors come to the Border Ethereal for a meeting or sleeping in the middle of a heavily trafficked forest on the Material Plane.
Moonstone dragons navigate their
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
conclave has a deeper connection to the Worldsoul than I do.
6
I’m trying to atone for the life of crime I led before I joined the Selesnya, but I find it hard to give up my bad habits
guilds, and often these new guild members maintain friendships with former guild mates.
Roll twice on the Selesnya Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Selesnya Contacts table
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
, and a pouch containing 25 gp
Dust Digger
Prior to becoming an adventurer, you spent most of your young life crawling around in the dust, pilfering relics of questionable value from crypts
disappeared on an expedition some time ago.
3
I have a friendly rival. Only one of us can be the best, and I aim to prove it’s me.
4
I won’t sell an art object or other treasure that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Rival Explorers Morgrave University teems with unscrupulous adventurers and researchers driven by avarice. Additionally, the university itself has academic rivals—the University of Wynarn in Aundair
, the Library of Korranberg, and others—whose scholars might become personal foils to adventurers associated with Morgrave. Goals of Rival Explorers Create a team of rival explorers who oppose the
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
rival orcs first and foremost as competitors for food and victims.
On some occasions, though, tribes that have a common concern band together. The result is an orc horde — a sea of slavering
everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Bad Dreams The characters’ sleep in the slave pen is troubled and fitful, filled with strange dreams and disturbing images. Dark shadows seem to move and reach out toward them as the characters
crawling masses of maggots or insects. At least one or more of the characters should wake in a cold sweat from these nightmares after every rest, feeling as though something is out there in the dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Night Market with the scattered communities of the Outer Edges, which border the mountains. Tradition, trade, and enterprise influence culture in Siabsungkoh. Families spend generations cultivating
reputations as experts in varied trades or fields. The inner workings of the markets where families meet and trade are complicated, rife with competition and alliances. Rival families occasionally clash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
character astray, especially if the object of the research is known to the rival. The rival might plant false information, bribe sages to give bad advice, or steal key tomes needed to find the truth. In
that guards the place. Complications. The greatest risk in research is uncovering false information. Not all lore is accurate or truthful, and a rival with a scholarly bent might try to lead the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Crime Sometimes it pays to be bad. This activity gives a character the chance to make some extra cash, at the risk of arrest. Resources. A character must spend one week and at least 25 gp gathering
) if the character succeeds on only one check. If the character’s rival is involved in crime or law enforcement, a complication ensues if the character succeeds on only two checks. Crime Complications
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
other with their tales of the sea. Fights erupt as rival crews cross paths, and the town guard keeps a high profile in hopes of maintaining the peace. The quantity and quality of the catch in recent
d20 Result 1–6 Poor Catch. The townsfolk are frustrated and prone to bickering; everyone is in a bad mood. 7–12 Bountiful Catch. Music and merriment echo through town as everyone celebrates. 13–20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, and how the franchise’s enemies — or potential enemies — might get caught up in those complications. When a complication or a rival comes into play during downtime or franchise activities, the DM
.) When a complication occurs during a downtime or franchise activity, the DM determines whether and how that complication connects to a rival. Certain complications might be caused by rivals, as when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
by rival captains, but death couldn’t keep Pietra. She awoke in the Sea of Sorrows, water in her lungs and sea creatures making their homes in her flesh. Her crew stirred with her, now fish-eaten
corpses. When Pietra sought to speak with them, her voice emerged from their mouths. The Relentless sails a domain that can overlap any body of water in any other domain. Some domains border the Sea of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Alluvial Sand Wastes is Tyr, struggling to find its way after the death of King Kalak. The templars of Tyr can’t allow a new threat to grow on their doorstep — or allow the templars of a rival city such
engage in assassination, bribery, or even sponsoring raids against the caravans of rival houses. For the Tsalaxa, the Cult of Elemental Evil represents a threat to the existing order; widespread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, a rival goblin gang that often deals in illicit arms. Rumors swirled that Krenko killed Dargig, the youngest of the three brothers, after a weapons drop went bad. The remaining two brothers, Rikkig
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
in the “Background” section. The characters set out to explore the house, where they meet its crawling and hissing residents. Awaiting them is Ned, a deceptive NPC who tries to prevent the characters
than simply lining their pockets.
Mystara. Saltmarsh stands on the border between the Grand Duchy of Karameikos and the Five Shires, just inside the edge of the Blight Marsh. The smugglers who use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
property. 3 Retrieve assets from a house enclave in the Mournland. 4 Protect a leader of your house from an anticipated assassination attempt. 5 Enforce your house’s territory by preventing a rival from
the family at the expense of the other two 2 Deneith Act as bodyguards for a prominent or wealthy person Serve as mercenaries in a lingering border conflict Enforce the law across national borders as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
rumors, and building a bad reputation around town. As a rule of thumb, a character has a 10 percent chance of triggering a complication for each workweek of carousing. Lower-Class Carousing Complications
the streets seemed like a great idea at the time. 8 Everyone is calling you by some weird, embarrassing nickname, like Puddle Drinker or Bench Slayer, and no one will say why.* *Might involve a rival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
prone and can’t use its Stomp action, but makes three extra turret attacks when it takes the Multiattack action option. “Landro” (Colossus WX-33) is partially phased into a mountainside on the border of
Crawling Swamp, in the northwest corner of the Shadow Marches. How it got there, no one knows. Hollow Structure. Although it can operate without a crew, a warforged colossus is built to carry wizards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
they need in their shimmering homeland and knowing the treachery of strangers. Still, some leonin wonder what lies beyond Oreskos’s border mountains and seek to test themselves in a wider world. Noble
play a long game but ultimately doomed to lose their games.
4 I’m certain every bad thing that happens can ultimately be blamed on the gods, but I roll my eyes at each new twist of fate and try to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
serve the guild’s interests well, it promises to take care of you. Guilds hate to waste valuable assets, after all—that’s just bad business. Types of Guild The guild structure covers a swath of business
for a guild project or for a paying client. Your group must gather the missing components from a dangerous location or a recalcitrant owner while outpacing a rival to the prize. 3 Eliminate a Rival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
hazy border. Next Event. After the characters deal with the guards, proceed with event 4. Event 4. Unsettling Calm This event begins with Yael telepathically contacting the characters: A woman’s voice
enters your mind. “Nice work. Take a break. You’ve got an hour before the really bad stuff happens.”
The characters can spend the next hour interacting with Lulu’s memory of Idyllglen. They can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Collect the materials necessary to create a revolutionary oracular device.
12 Protect an oracle who must deliver bad news to a worshiper who is both influential and unpredictable.
Oracular
issued it.
4 A cult fanatic from a rival shrine gets the temple’s animals drunk on fermented fruit, throwing off their predictions.
5 An angry athlete (gladiator) takes the conflux’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
the characters convince Kopoha to leave the Yearning Timbers, they need someplace to take her; otherwise, she returns to arguing with Manalath. Kopoha’s Bad Day Kopoha recently endured a crushing
defeat by her bitterest rival, her sister Alethira. The two are always trying to outdo each other as they vie for their parents’ approval. They are usually well matched, but this time Alethira humiliated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
through a fey crossing by entering a clearing, passing through the surface of a pool, stepping into a circle of mushrooms, or crawling under the trunk of a tree. A few warlocks seek out such places to
allied Red Wizards, but its ambitions in the region remain. Belaphoss is a demon that serves Demogorgon. It considers itself the greatest servitor of the Prince of Demons and thus a rival for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
betting on the outcome—and at least one giant is meddling behind the scenes to increase the likelihood of one side winning. 5 A cloud giant who recently lost a large amount of money on bad bets tries to
underground encounter feuding stone giants who accuse each other of destroying their artwork; the characters can end the feud by finding the actual vandal (perhaps a third giant, a group of duergar, or an unwitting umber hulk). 6 A stone giant tries to manipulate characters into killing a fierce rival.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
spear and an oblong shield lean against the wall. The shield bears the symbol of a humanoid skull with spiders crawling from its eye sockets. Two weathered humanoid skulls hang from wooden pegs on the
time to cast shillelagh on the quarterstaff he wields, barkskin for defense, and produce flame in preparation for a confrontation. The phase spider spends its time in the Border Ethereal. It attempts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the nearby woods. The severed hand is a trickier get but needn’t come from a living humanoid (a dead crawling claw would do). Once the brazier is functioning, the heavy lid can be lifted or pushed
most sensible, although its Intelligence score of 6 means that it can make bad choices. Sahnar speaks Common and Elvish. The mummy knows how the moon dial functions (see area E5) but knows nothing about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Elturgard. The knights can’t afford to be anything but vigilant, and fortunately for the folk of Elturgard, they are just that. I regard crossing the border into Elturgard as a relief, for it usually
-called “First Folk of Berdusk,” have made a great show of their piety since the founding of Elturgard, and a great many of the high-ranking priests hail from their families. Over the years a few bad
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
navigation weren’t bad enough, explorers must bring their own provisions into the Mournland, unless they want to risk the danger of ingesting tainted food and water. Terrain Features The Day of
Mournland, but the worst effects of the mist are confined to the border region. Glowing Chasm. The northern part of the Mournland is dominated by a great crack in the ground that emits a cold purple light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
an advantageous decision from the Magistrates, or having a business rival or undesired suitor arrested, accosted, or roughed up. Given its status as the harbor that feeds the goods of Mirabar to the
located. South of the Run are the slums, the “bad” area of town. Near the slums is the Captain’s Close, where the residences of High Captains Taerl and Suljack stand, but the area is otherwise quite poor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
statue. C4. Bleached Reef This small reef is stark white and covered by twenty crabs crawling over it. This reef marks Ogrorlo’s grave. The aboleth’s loyal slaves buried the remains after Lenth killed
and accomplished slaves to help him rob Favnahva, a rival genie who has a larger treasure hoard than Elkahraal does. The marid knows the history of the cove and believes that his schemes can attract
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
worth by its size. The small folk are beneath my concern. 7 The small folk are vermin. I enjoy torturing and killing them. 8 Good or bad, Annam’s sons represent the ideals that we, as giants, must
against dragons — they’re about brilliant wagers won through boldness or deceit, and rival families brought to disgrace and ruin by the same. TWO FACES OF MEMNOR
The chief deity of cloud giants is Memnor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
(4d6 + 3) necrotic damage.
Etherealness. The ghost enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. It is visible on the Material Plane while it is in the Border Ethereal, and vice
acid arrow spell (cast by Vellynne’s rival, Nass Lantomir), but Vellynne animated their corpses, turning them into zombies. If she is wounded, Vellynne can cast vampiric touch and use the spell to