bar being diffusing constant reading

Kenku Adventurers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

you’re playing a kenku, constant attempts to mimic noises can come across as confusing or irritating rather than entertaining. You can just as easily describe the sounds your character makes and what

tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords’ Alliance agent sitting at the bar.” Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game.

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

kenku, constant attempts to mimic noises can come across as confusing or irritating rather than entertaining. You can just as easily describe the sounds your character makes and what they mean. Be clear

tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords’ Alliance agent sitting at the bar.” Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode

Activities and Rumors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

from this table to determine the characters’ interactions. Reception Activities d6 Activity 1 Catching Up. The student wants to talk about their recent break, which they spent reading everything by

character. 3 Bar Games. The student asks the character to play a friendly bar game, such as darts or cards. This is more an opportunity to chat than about winning. 4 Eating Everything. The student wants

Morgrave University

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

halls, study halls, small libraries (mostly focused on books assigned for student reading), dining halls, and faculty offices. Morgrave is a constant bustle of activity while classes remain in session

Interesting Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

students. Honors. The counterbalance to Detention, Honors is both bar, bookstore, and reading room. Many of the more respectable faculty members take their meals in Honors, and it’s a good place to find a debate on the cosmology of Eberron or the morality of the Last War.

Robust Patronage

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

warlock. Standard Dark Spellcaster Franchise Rules No summoning circles in the bathroom. No “tentacle talk” during mealtimes. You must wear a gag at bedtime. That constant screaming makes it hard for

franchise needs to get down and dirty to succeed. The Great Old One Everybody’s met that one mind-addled poet at the end of the bar spouting all kinds of nonsense. But only you can really appreciate the

10. Noble Quarters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

(Melissara Shadowdusk) sits in an easy chair in the northeast corner, reading and muttering to herself. Other Furnishings. A canopied bed and an armoire stand against the south wall, and a silk curtain

whenever she leaves their suite, fearing that she will come to harm without his protection. He lives in constant fear that adventurers might invade Shadowdusk Hold and lay waste to it. Prolonged exposure

Court of Air

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

extradimensional magic created by worshipers of Gond (god of craft). An intricate clockwork device is suspended in a two-foot-diameter, faintly glowing crystal orb embedded in the ceiling over the bar. The Avowed

call this device a geometric amplifier. It is the source of the magic required to maintain the integrity of the enlarged space. The bar seats up to twenty customers, and patrons can also be seated

N2. Blue Water Inn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

otherwise help them. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is hidden at the inn, the Keepers of the Feather don’t reveal where the treasure is until they know the characters

cloaks hang from pegs in the entrance portico. The tavern is packed with tables and chairs, with narrow paths meandering between them. A bar stretches along one wall, under a balcony that can be reached

The Cellar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

leads to the caverns. When the party approaches the doors in the east end of the room, read: The door to your left appears normal, but the one ahead has a wooden bar across it, held in brackets on the

frame and the door itself. The word “DANGER” is scrawled on that door in the Common tongue using chalk. The left door, leading to area 22, is unlocked. Barred Door. Characters who examine the bar

Afterlife Casino Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

tables and copper slot machines. Just south of the game tables are two cashier booths. Just north of the games area is a secluded lounge that holds a small bar as well as chairs and couches. Security

southwest corner. Another security mirror hangs in the northwest corner of this area, overlooking the track. A5: Bar Malbolge Bar Malbolge features two bars and plenty of plush, comfortable chairs and

Hopeless

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

of rattling chains. The unfeeling tyrant’s laws change by the day, but her disdain for color and emotion are constant. This joyless executioner compounds the sorrow of her subjects. Some doubt the High

platters of bland food and chalky mugs of watered-down booze. But beneath the bar lies a Sensate speakeasy: a vibrant, elegant chamber filled with a cornucopia of pleasures banned in Hopeless. Far from

Areas of the Villa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

character can notice a slight gap beneath the secret door with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check. C4. Reading Room This reading nook has the following features: Light pours into this room

the northern wall has a butterfly-shaped, stained-glass peephole. If Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix B) is here, he’s reading a historical text titled The Rise and Fall of Hellgate Keep and taking

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and titled “The Patriars.” 10 A group of obviously drunk Flaming Fist officers stumble away from a Wyrm’s Crossing bar

Tumbledown — from threats. With so much death concentrated in one spot, undead are a constant problem. Skeletons and revenants regularly claw spontaneously out of their graves, while ghouls and ghasts burrow

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

titled “The Patriars.” 10 A group of obviously drunk Flaming Fist officers stumble away from a Wyrm’s Crossing bar. They ineffectually try to start a fight with the party, then apologize and wander off

and laborers, the Gravemakers guard the dead — and Tumbledown — from threats. With so much death concentrated in one spot, undead are a constant problem. Skeletons and revenants regularly claw

Keep Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

door of thick timbers reinforced by iron bands. The gate is barred from the inside. It can’t be forced open by any means short of a siege engine. The bar can be raised from inside the gatehouse passage

defensive post. Holger, a thug, commands the gatehouse. Three more bandits have bunks here. The chain mechanisms are easy to operate. A character has to use three actions to bar or unbar the gate, or to

Upper Level Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

to jump the gap falls 10 feet into area S7. S18: Security Station This is a complex location, so review it carefully before reading the following text to the players to set the scene: This area is

thief he’s looking for. Treasure. Bobsin’s collection of treasure consists of the following: Dagger Glyph Card (see “Starglass Waypoint Features”) 5-pound silver trade bar (worth 25 GP) 22-pound ball of gold inlay (worth 1,100 GP) Ring of Jumping

A Detour to Neverwinter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

bar. The barkeep is Squid (N male half-elf commoner), so-called by the locals because of a squid-shaped birthmark on his face. If the characters ask Squid about Oppal by name, or about any

, while the basement includes storage rooms, private shrines for generous donors, and the Vault of Tomes. Two veterans in the employ of the Neverwinter city guard bar passage to the other floors at all

Talhundereth Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

, first eliminating water and then conjuring clean water to replace it. The oven maintains a constant temperature suitable for cooking. These furnishings are too heavy to be moved. The only people who

have used this kitchen recently are the drow explorers camped in the reading room (area T14). Treasure. One drow explorer left a backpack here. It contains 100 feet of silk rope, three daggers, a blank

Gibbet Crossing Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

from area G10 is difficult, as the door is barred. A character can remove the bar from the other side by succeeding on a DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools, or by succeeding on a DC 21 Strength

(Athletics) check to shove the door hard enough to break the bar. Qunbraxel rightly believes a passage to Talhundereth is behind the door, so the mind flayer sent grimlocks to investigate. The door

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can

Gate for those looking to get their teeth kicked in, or to kick in someone else’s. Always one spilled drink away from a brawl, the bar is the sort of place most don’t visit unless they’re well-armed

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can

Gate for those looking to get their teeth kicked in, or to kick in someone else’s. Always one spilled drink away from a brawl, the bar is the sort of place most don’t visit unless they’re well-armed

Thundertree Areas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

(see the “Ash Zombies” sidebar) lurk in the shadows in this building, slumped against the walls or under the bar. When living creatures enter, the zombies groan and stir, slowly climbing to their

over with a successful DC 20 Strength check. 11. Old Garrison For the residents of Thundertree, living so close to Neverwinter Wood demanded constant vigilance. The barracks appears to have weathered

Appendix: Roleplaying Cards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry. Alignment. Neutral good. Personality Trait. “I treat my

stubborn and slippery as a toad. I won’t and I shan’t, but I will if I can’t!” Vansel the Satyr CHAPTER 2: HITHER The satyr Vansel is a vagabond who travels the Feywild in a constant state of

Appendix D: Roleplaying Cards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry. Alignment. Neutral good. Personality Trait. “I treat my

stubborn and slippery as a toad. I won’t and I shan’t, but I will if I can’t!” Vansel the Satyr CHAPTER 2: HITHER The satyr Vansel is a vagabond who travels the Feywild in a constant state of

Kir Sabal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

fledgling warlock. She detests physical labor and puts her mage hand and unseen servant spells to constant use. Through her pact, she has also gained telepathy, which she enjoys using. If Asharra suspects

themselves in this antechamber by washing with scented oils, reading from inspirational scrolls, and painting labyrinthine patterns onto their beaks, hands, and feet. 1E. Shrine. A life-size wooden

Locations on the Entrance Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

hounds, the king’s constant companions. Treasure. Snurre’s crown is set with six rubies (worth 500 gp each), six diamonds (500 gp each), and a huge jacinth (1,000 gp). His necklace has a value of 1,000

item, heaps of hard bread, is everywhere. 17. Guest Chamber The doors to this room are closed on the outside by a great bar, because King Snurre does not fully trust his guest, a rakshasa, that

Neverdeath Catacomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

sentence when reading aloud: Stone stairs descend from Hallix Mausoleum to a large subterranean chamber with stone coffins sitting on sturdy shelves. Part of the west wall has collapsed, creating an opening

labeled “Healing Use Only.” C7: Fountain Room If the characters minimized the water pressure in area C8, omit the first sentence when reading aloud: Rusted pipes run along the walls and ceiling, and

Locations in Saltmarsh

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

makes a spirit from lobster meat and potatoes called claw wine; it is, to put it mildly, an acquired taste. Hanna employs several former dockhands to keep peace in her bar. 14. Council Hall This large

evidence lying about. His eidetic memory allows him to burn any notices and reports he receives after reading them, though at times he can be careless and leave partially burned scraps of paper in his

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