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Lorwyn: First Light
cold logic and rejected reactionary responses. As a result, the magical flames that engulfed their bodies took on a frigid air, and they became rimekin.
Like flamekin, rimekin possess innate magic
, but the flames they conjure burn icy blue rather than red hot. Further, these “flames” emanate a chilling cold rather than blazing heat. This effect extends, superficially, to the items
Equipment
Mixed omen that has both good and bad results
No omen for a result that isn’t especially good or bad
The omen doesn’t take into account any possible circumstances that might change
and search it for an omen about the results of a specific course of action that you plan to take within the next 30 minutes. The GM chooses from the following possible outcomes:
Good omen
Bad omen
Sphere of Annihilation
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
attempt to control a sphere that is under another creature's control, you make an Intelligence (Arcana) check contested by the other creature's Intelligence (Arcana) check. The winner of the contest
within a portable hole, the GM determines randomly what happens, using the following table.
d100
Result
01-50
The sphere is destroyed.
51-85
The sphere moves through the portal
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Roll initiative for the devil, which has its own turns. It is under the Dungeon Master’s control and acts according to its nature on each of its turns, which might result in its attacking you
verbal command to the devil (no action required by you). It obeys the command if the likely outcome is in accordance with its desires, especially if the result would draw you toward evil. Otherwise
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
failed to amuse Strahd, he delighted Tatyana and Sergei with his jokes and gambols. As a result, Strahd didn't object whenever Pidlwick and the duchess came to visit.
Eager to please and desiring to
Ideal. “I wish I could make people happy.”
Bond. “I would like to find someone—anyone—who isn't afraid of me and who enjoys my company.”
Flaw. “When I'm upset, I do bad things.”Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
can't make attacks with that claw against other targets. The crab folk has two claws, each of which can grapple only one target.The crab folk are the result of a magical ritual used long ago by a mighty
bad luck a gull might happen to land near a crab folk lair and utter the right combination of cries to summon up this ancient compulsion. Driven to action, the crab folk rampage along the coast
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Hourglass Coven. Better known as Granny Nightshade, she offers her assistance to those who are haunted by regret. Her deals often result in cruel twists; for example, a petitioner who asks to be reunited
.
Personality Trait. “When dealing with outsiders, I present myself as a kindly old grandmother.”
Ideal. “Children are better off working for me than picking up lots of bad habits
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
turns her magical gaze toward one creature she can see within 120 feet of her and commands it to burn. The target must succeed on a DC 26 Wisdom saving throw or take 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10
allows her mortal followers to live out their lives provided they continue to hone their talents to increase their value. As a result, Zariel’s servants are universally effective, disciplined, and
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
coin flows. As a result, it’s easy for you to hustle a load of cargo ashore or see such a cargo onto a cooperative ship without attracting suspicion or taxation. You also know the movements of
. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town.
Variant Feature: Bad Reputation
If your character has a sailor
Orc
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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
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
FEATURE: CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS
In Baldur’s Gate, crime is just another business. As a result, you can arrange a meeting with a low-ranking operative of nearly any business, patriar family, crew
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.
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
versa.
The idea of ownership baffles most aarakocra. After all, who owns the sky? Even when explained to them, they initially find the notion of ownership mystifying. As a result, aarakocra who have
changes in the prevailing winds that they regarded as a bad omen.
Unlike the aarakocra of other worlds on the Material Plane, the aarakocra of the Realms rarely travel to the Elemental Plane of Air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
burn.
—Marrake the Incandescent, ruler of efreet
Fire elementals might burn in distinctive ways. Roll on or choose a result from the Fire Elemental Compositions table to inspire a fire elemental’s
typically burn in shades of orange and red, but other colors are possible. Most on the Material Plane are summoned by magical means, or they might appear near rifts amid desert depths, volcanoes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Invidia Darklord: Gabrielle Aderre Hallmarks: Bad parents, possessed children Gabrielle Aderre is convinced that her son, Malocchio, is destined for greatness. From her estate outside the village of
Karina, she employs an endless string of servants to provide Malocchio the best possible upbringing. Inevitably, though, every servant flees or vanishes, either as a result of Gabrielle’s unreasonable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
hotly contested position with the company. (Any deaths incurred in this process were incidental, and not the result of the actions or negligence of Acq Inc.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
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 react to them. As a race, orcs
then bury or burn them. Three ravens is always a good sign. It is good luck to spit where you are about to sleep. Gnome bones can ward off diseases if they are worn. Don’t stand inside a ring of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
over interpretations of ancient prophecies. They might worship supernatural patrons—deities, otherworldly creatures, manipulative alien minds, or stranger forces. Roll on or choose a result from the
Cultist Agendas table to inspire what a cultist seeks to achieve. Cultist Agendas 1d6 The Cultist Strives To... 1 Bring about the end of a dominant order, an age, or the world. 2 Burn away the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
determine the outcome. A Charisma check can’t deceive or persuade most devils into a bad deal because the fiends are too clever and experienced in deal-making to be fooled. If devils do get involved in a
character’s check result is higher than the devil’s, the character sees through the devil’s deception. Devils like to slip extra clauses into the fine print of a contract. When this happens, a character who can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
and add a number to it. This is called a D20 Test, and the number you add indicates how good or bad your character is at what they’re trying to do. The result tells me whether your character succeeds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
has its own turns. It is under the Dungeon Master’s control and acts according to its nature on each of its turns, which might result in its attacking you if it thinks it can prevail, or trying to tempt
you). It obeys the command if the likely outcome is in accordance with its desires, especially if the result would draw you toward evil. Otherwise, you must make a Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
by it, taking 4d10 force damage. If you attempt to control a sphere that is under another creature’s control, you make an Intelligence (Arcana) check contested by the other creature’s Intelligence
extradimensional space, such as that within a portable hole, the DM determines randomly what happens, using the following table. d100 Result 01–50 The sphere is destroyed. 51–85 The sphere moves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
by it, taking 4d10 force damage. If you attempt to control a sphere that is under another creature’s control, you make an Intelligence (Arcana) check contested by the other creature’s Intelligence
extradimensional space, such as that within a portable hole, the DM determines randomly what happens, using the following table. d100 Result 01–50 The sphere is destroyed. 51–85 The sphere moves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
intelligence (Nature) check enables a character to tell the difference. Fire will have little effect on it, because the algae is oozing wet and fire doesn’t burn with much vigor in the presence of the
poisonous gas that fills this level. Attempts to dislodge the slime will result in slippery sections of it dropping on the characters. Caustic Lime. The walls of this room are heavily coated with caustic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
irregular patches throughout the cavern.
The ettin’s heads are named Jibber and Jabber, and they get along well — an unusual state of affairs for an ettin. This situation might be the result of the
aboleth and knows nothing about its conflict with the kuo-toa.) The water in the river has started to taste bad. (The ettin has not yet been poisoned by the water, which the aboleth has tainted with its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Random Settlements The following tables allow you to quickly create a settlement. They assume that you’ve already determined its size and its basic form of government. Race Relations d20 Result
powerful monster 12 Mysterious, anonymous cabal 13 Contested leadership, open fighting 14 Cabal seized power openly 15 Doltish lout 16 On deathbed, claimants compete for power 17–18 Iron-willed but
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
can transform an individual into a more powerful type. The cost and time required to perform the ritual is prohibitive, and as a result most yuan-ti never get the opportunity to undergo such a
an anathema. (Evil)
3
Unity. No leader shall put personal goals above those of our race. (Any)
4
Kinship. My allegiance is to my caste and my city. Other settlements can burn for all I care
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
might say words to Tymora before any endeavor in which a little good luck would help, but not when an incidence of bad luck might occur. (On such occasions folk pray to Beshaba to spare them from bad
left with the stranger as payment for Tymora’s favor. If it’s not, the stranger can choose to keep it (and the bad luck) or return it. Those who favor Tymora — as distinct from folk who invoke her name
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
monster of that sort. Multiply that value by the number of creatures encountered, then divide the total equally among the characters. Wilderness Encounters Day
Roll Night Roll Result 1–2 1–3 Stirges
Wyvern Tor. As they roam, they look for travelers to ambush or homesteads to burn. Owlbear. This hungry predator picks up the characters’ scent and pursues them relentlessly.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
gods also exist as the result of war, monster attacks, natural disasters, mass migration, neglect, or the wrath of deities. Every abandoned temple is distinctive, combining aspects of its patron god
with the result or effect of what caused it to be abandoned. You can use the Abandoned Temple Condition table to determine an abandoned temple’s present state. Abandoned Temple Condition d8 Status
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True To those who would seek to conquer beholders or merely understand them, nearly everything about their quarry is unfathomable. These bizarre creatures are possessed of
beholder’s mind remains semiconscious even as it dreams. As a result, on rare occasions when a beholder dreams of another beholder, the dream-reality becomes warped and takes on physical form, becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
(such as that created by a fireball spell) does burn in a vacuum. Magical fire does not cause objects to burst into flame, however, because there is no air to make ignition possible.
Air Quality The
is humid and smells bad. Any creature that breathes foul air becomes poisoned until it breathes fresh air again. The air aboard a ship with a normal crew complement degrades from fresh to foul on day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
it’s not even clear to other residents of Prismeer when a rule has been broken. For example, brigands are able to take what they want from other folk without paying for it, and nothing bad seems to
happen to them as a result, but that fact alone is not enough to encourage most others to likewise break the rules—for all they know, the brigands might be acting in the hags’ interests. If Zybilna were
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. If the characters confront her, the old bat spits at them and begins casting a spell. This encounter happens only once. If this result comes up again, treat it as no encounter. Black Cat The darkness
characters but attacks if cornered. If the characters capture or kill the cat, this encounter doesn’t occur again. If this result comes up again, treat it as no encounter. Blinsky Toy A Blinsky toy is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Contested Caves The drow of House Freth maintain a tenuous hold over these caves. Their defenses are tested daily by troglodytes, trolls, and infiltrators loyal to House Auvryndar. 9a. Hidden
, the result of a series of dull assignments that have left him feeling underappreciated and scornful. If the characters capture or corner him, he offers to lead them to House Freth’s fortress on level