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Tortle
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The Tortle Package
test, and make new acquaintances.
Life of a Tortle
A tortle hatches from a thick-shelled egg and spends the first few weeks of its life crawling on all fours. Its parents, old and near death, spend
point, a tortle feels an almost overwhelming urge to venture far away from home and see more of the world. It gathers up its possessions and heads into the wilderness, returning months or years later
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
itself back where it entered the border, returning to the garden.
Eternal Summer. The climate in the garden is a perpetual, lovely summer, but weather conditions reflect the emotional tone of creatures in
back into the ground, freeing all creatures grappled by it, when the Gardener uses this lair action again or when the Gardener dies.
Regional Effects
The Eternal Garden has the following features
Monsters
Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
rating no higher than her own, or back into her true form. She reverts to her true form if she dies. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (Lhammaruntosz's choice
mad. She leaves on rare occasions to hunt for food, returning as soon as possible. Members of the Scaly Eye still live within the Bronze Shrine, as Lhammaruntosz has ordered them to stay on as her
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling
—if only they would stop trying to kill the dragon’s guests.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling is placed in a monastery to learn the teachings of the monks before returning home in three years. The monks don’t appreciate the wyrmling’s pranks.
Cold, Radiant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, read or paraphrase the following. “The mask, fools! The mask is what I’ve come for. Give it to me, and I’ll leave these crawling ants with their miserable lives. The Queen is returning! Who are you to
Exiting Xonthal’s Tower The teleport circle in area 14 can take the characters back to any level of the tower (areas 8 to area 13). The teleport circles in those areas can take them back to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
paraphrase the following. “The mask, fools! The mask is what I’ve come for. Give it to me, and I’ll leave these crawling ants with their miserable lives. The Queen is returning! Who are you to hope to stop
Exiting Xonthal’s Tower The teleport circle in area 14 can take the characters back to any level of the tower (areas 8 to 13). The teleport circles in those areas can take them back to the sundial
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->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
him a message to the Green Doctors. Upon returning through the portal, the characters find themselves back in the field of termite mounds in eastern Atagua. The macaw swiftly departs to deliver his
Back across the Llanos Once the characters are ready to return to Atagua, Yarana escorts them back to the portal they used to reach the tepui. Nene travels with them through the portal, carrying with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Life of a Tortle A tortle hatches from a thick-shelled egg and spends the first few weeks of its life crawling on all fours. Its parents, old and near death, spend what little time they have left
overwhelming urge to venture far away from home and see more of the world. It gathers up its possessions and heads into the wilderness, returning months or years later with stories of its exploits and new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Chapter 8: Audience in Gauntlgrym After their escape from the Underdark in chapter 7, the adventurers have time to rest, recuperate, and reorient themselves back in the surface world from which they
experiences in the Underdark. Representatives of several factions with an interest in what is happening in the Underdark will also be in attendance. Following the audience, Bruenor extends an offer to the characters, who are tasked with returning to the Underdark once more on a perilous mission.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
before returning to the arms of her weeping parents. As the crowd disperses, locals pat you on the back and shoulder and congratulate you on a quest well done.
returning to his grave. His words bring tears as well as cheers.
A local carpenter named Lewth Fulchre (the father of local rabblerouser Ebbin Fulchre) offers to repair Frody’s coffin, which shouldn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
would be mindful of sinkholes or unstable ground after the previous tremor have advantage on this saving throw. Any creature at the bottom of the hole finds they’re not alone. Four crawling claws
sinkhole. Lady Dre decides to stay and figure out a way to get the wagon unstuck—she has rope in the back that might prove helpful. She insists the characters go on ahead. Proclaimer Ward stays to help Lady Dre if they’re both with the party.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Foundling arrives to give you, Saerthe, and Boatswain Tarto a lift back to the academy. Seasoned staff are left behind to take care of the tyrant ship.
After returning to Spelljammer Academy on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Returning to the Brightguard If the characters are working for the Brightguard, Artavazda waits for them in a garden terrace atop the Noble Jewel. The pari is eager to hear how the characters
character a sapphire worth 500 gp before producing a cloak made of flawless white feathers with a single golden feather that would sit high on the wearer’s back. The cloak has the properties of wings of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Adventure Hooks Use one of the following adventure hooks to draw the characters into the story: Back to the Realm. This hook continues the story of the Dungeons & Dragons animated series and assumes
from a powerful being called Dungeon Master, the characters undertook many adventures before finally returning to their own world. Years passed, and these exploits became the gossamer memories of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
tower bridge, adjusting time back toward the past. Combined with her own magical influence, this allows the unicorn to separate the myconids from the trees, returning the woods to their former condition.
the party down to demand a duel by combat. He explains what the characters have really done, and offers to lead the characters back to the woods to right their wrongs if they can be persuaded to. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, she took to the Avernian wastes on one of the rakshasa’s infernal war machines and never looked back. Years later, Mahadi still refers to her as “the one the got away.” The scowl on Feonor’s face
, and its other stations are operated by ghouls. She also commands a force of ten crawling claws. A pair of Tormentors crewed by mezzoloths provide escort.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
group a Heward’s handy haversack they had stashed with tools in a nearby shed. The first character to open it, however, finds that a crawling claw has gotten itself trapped within. It tries to escape as
soon as it is detected. If Proclaimer Ward is with the party, the Proclaimer stays with the farmers to help them either get back on their feet or join Uncle Polder’s community.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
outside the doors. Crawling around their feet are four swarms of rats.
Purple Flames. Mounted on the back walls of four wide alcoves are rusty iron sconces, each holding a torch coated in black wax
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
flooded, drowning the house in brackish muck. Tales say the house’s residents struggled to escape the pit, but the farm’s owner—desperate to keep her family with her—dragged them back into the sinking
Kianna. Unlike most lost to the lake, Culley eventually emerged—at least, part of him did. A single Undead hand escaped the lake, and it eventually found others of its kind known as crawling claws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
an invading drow force from Menzoberranzan. This alliance, however, would spell Blingdenstone’s doom. The vengeful drow bided their time, rebuilt their forces, and sent their armies out to strike back
hard against the svirfneblin, returning in great force to lay siege to Blingdenstone. The deep gnomes were no match for the drow army. Thousands of svirfneblin were slaughtered, and those survivors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
already know. Returning the Goats When the characters arrive at a goat’s location, they find it grazing outside the structure and can coax it back to the barn. When the characters return a goat to Cornflower, she pays them 1 GP as thanks. Jane Katsubo A Spunky Barn Goat
. Would you track down the missin’ goats and return them to the barn?”
Cornflower offers the characters 1 GP for every goat they bring back. The number of missing goats equals the number of player
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
moved along in the story. Because time passes differently on the demiplane from how it flows on the Material Plane, the returning character appears back with the party in the encounter area that
, particularly the High Forest and the River Rauvin, but the book’s story dates back to the days before the future site of the city was settled. As the story opens, the weather in the demiplane is brisk but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
areas 12c and 12d by crawling along the walls. 12a. Bat Roosts The bare walls and floors of these connected chambers are covered with bat guano, and the 10-foot-high ceiling is made of rough stone. Four
move past the midpoint of this area triggers a magic mouth spell cast on the floor, which says in Common, “Turn back now, or abandon hope!” The spell resets after 1 hour. 12c. Pit of Darkness An open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
have no trouble finding a ship that will carry them back to the library. In the meantime, if the characters prevented one or more eggs in the brood pools from being killed, the returning grippli are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the west.
The hooded figure is a zombie, and five crawling claws hide among the other body parts in the baskets. If intruders do anything other than turn back, the monsters attack. The “Lord of
near the passage serve as tables for human corpses. Severed body parts sit in baskets by the corpses, covered in dry gore. A figure in a dark hood stands by the third table, its back to you. Matted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
5. Kitchen The floor of this filthy kitchen is covered with mud, dirty pots, and leftover food crawling with maggots. In the center of the room, a crackling fire rages in a dome-shaped fireplace. Six
grateful to be rescued, he refuses to leave without taking some sheep for his trouble. He asks his liberators to help him free the sheep in the pens (area 9). If they oblige, Roderik leads the sheep back to his farm thirty miles away.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
city upon its back and wiped out the residents. Since returning to its slumber, Arixmethes drifts where it will, still bearing the ruins of a legendary city upon its back. Cronemouth Cove This tiny
disaster. In truth, generations of hapless humans raised their city, realizing too late that they’d done so upon the back of a titanic kraken. When the kraken Arixmethes awakened, its throes devastated the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
and rakes lie scattered about. Farming Implements. A character who looks around the back of the house sees a pitchfork stuck into the earth near the house’s northeast corner. On further investigation
, they see it’s stuck through the severed hand of a young woman. The characters have no way of knowing this, but the hand was once a crawling claw and was dispatched by a farmer. Sickly Crops. Wheat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Returning to Vizeran When the characters have discovered all they are looking to find out, they can go to Vizeran. If they don’t, he seeks them out, having finished his own research. “That fool
theories, and I know how to banish the demon lords back to the Abyss. We can do this only if we work together, if you are willing and daring enough to directly challenge the demon lords. Or perhaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. No matter how far a creature travels into the mist, the creature finds itself back where it entered the border, returning to the garden. Eternal Summer. The climate in the garden is a perpetual, lovely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of gold, sent up in a bucket in advance. He also readily accepts coin from patrons who want to place grisly bets on adventurers who dare explore Undermountain, and their odds of returning alive
. “Five gold dragons says they’re back before a tenday, minus the fighter, the wizard, and the cleric!” is the flavor of commentary often heard amid gales of drunken laughter. The walls of the well are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Conclusion Once the characters finish exploring, where they go next is up to them. Xoese-Addae is eager to take them back to Janya or can be convinced to escort them to the surface where they left
the Beden-Moon. The journey back to Djaynai is uneventful. How the adventure concludes depends on who the characters return the tomes to. If the characters bring the tomes to Atiba-Pa, he is overjoyed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
in-game explanation. Monsters don’t attack the character, who returns the favor. On returning, the player resumes playing as if the absence never happened. Narrative Contrivance. Decide the character
reporting back to the party’s patron. Substitute Player. With the absent player’s consent, have another player run the missing player’s character, or run the character yourself if you feel you can do so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Mission Gone Wrong? Lacking any evidence to the contrary, the people of Saltmarsh initially hail the returning characters as heroes for weakening or eliminating the (supposed) threat posed by the
lizardfolk. Even though any information the characters might bring back is truly of little value, the council is pleased with whatever report they provide and promises to make good on their reward. In