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Out of the Abyss
choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of the cube. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw.
On a failed save, the cube enters the creature's
the Underdark has granted Glabbagool sentience and awareness. The ooze is genuinely curious about other creatures and wants to learn more about the world. It defends itself if attacked, but doesn't
Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves. Some half-elves live among humans, set apart by their emotional and physical differences, watching
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
We had a tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She kept the taproom packed each night with her stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought she was
result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.
Tabaxi Obsessions
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My curiosity is currently fixed on …
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Orc
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fraught with tests of strength, fierce competition and nothing in the way of maternal or paternal love. From the time a child can wield a stick or a crude knife, it asserts itself and defends itself
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
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
within 1 mile of you. Any fiend with a challenge rating of 19 or higher is unaffected. Each banished fiend is sent back to its home plane and can’t return to the plane the Crook of Rao banished it
the years, this curse has spread within the crook, threatening to violently pervert its ancient magic. If this occurs, the Crook of Rao, as it is currently known, is destroyed, its magical matrix
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
40. Empty Room This room is swept clean but is currently not in use. A secret door in the east wall pushes open to reveal an empty closet with another secret door at the back of it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
A Decision At some point, the characters must decide which vessel and captain they prefer. The town covers the cost of passage there and back for the characters, and both captains ask the same fare
are. If for any reason the characters attack Kristoffen because they learn of his affiliation with the Cult of Talos, he defends himself. Kristoffen (use half-red dragon veteran statistics but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Half-Elf Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
truly belonging to neither, half-elves combine what some say are the best qualities of their elf and human parents: human curiosity, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. If the characters confront the dusk elf, he defends himself but won’t cause them any permanent harm. Strahd’s chamberlain would sooner die than allow himself to be captured. Rahadin doesn’t divulge
his reason for visiting the temple, or even who is he or what role he serves. Left to his own devices, he rides back to Castle Ravenloft.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Half-Elf Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
truly belonging to neither, half-elves combine what some say are the best qualities of their elf and human parents: human curiosity, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
building bristles with steaming pipes and whirring devices, and it is currently under siege.
Amid clanging metal contraptions, goblins try to breach the structure, impeded by gadgets that spin, snap
the gnome Tatina Rookledust is under attack by ten goblins and—standing well back from the chaos—their hobgoblin leader. The goblinoids wear dark armor with a spiral symbol—the same colors and symbol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
sands of the desert, steals the eggs, and brings them back to her lair. When the eggs hatch, she confines the wormlings here and feeds them a healthy diet of meat so that they grow up big and strong
. Iymrith has converted a 10-foot-deep, T-shaped pit in the middle of the room into a purple wormling “playpen.” The pit currently holds thirty squirming purple wormlings (see appendix C). Although they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
can’t willingly move out of line of sight of them and defends them to the death. If forcibly moved away from the lights, the creature tries to find its way back to them. The creature can’t take a short
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
halfling pluck and dark devotion make the wicked Nettlebees unlikely to back down easily. In fact, Wiggan tries to bribe the characters into defending Bertram and him “against these savages.” He also uses
only temporary. Wiggan’s Gambit. If the party defends the Nettlebees and Wiggan survives, the characters are still in danger. Wounded foes make tempting targets, especially if the party knows of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
initially correct. The characters must reduce Kas to 50 hit points or fewer before they can banish him to Tovag, his Domain of Dread. If the characters banish Kas back to Tovag, a fissure opens in the air
behind him and pulls him through. Visible within the rift is a smoky, red-tinged skyline full of mountains. Kas’s Secret. As Kas is pulled back to Tovag, the characters’ links to Vecna flare. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
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Fewer than twenty goblins currently dwell in the lair.
Their leader is a bugbear named Klarg. He answers to King Grol, chief of the Cragmaw tribe, who dwells in Cragmaw Castle. (The goblins
messenger told him that someone named the Black Spider was paying the Cragmaws to watch out for the dwarf Gundren Rockseeker, capture him, and send him and anything he was carrying back to King Grol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, guards the cellar. He hides in the northwest storeroom, ready to jump out and scare away anyone who heads for the stairs. Not eager to commit murder, Roscoe allows retreating characters to flee back
into the hostel, which caters to a mostly halfling clientele. With none of the other Shard Shunners currently present, the characters are greeted warmly by staff and patrons, who point them in the direction of the nearest bathhouse.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
1 gp each to watch Noska’s back. The characters can turn them against Noska by offering a larger bribe (at least 5 gp each). If the characters turn the hooligans against Noska or reduce the dwarf to
15 or higher can spot the gazer shortly after the party enters the City of the Dead. The gazer defends itself if attacked. Next Encounter Armed with directions to the Garloth mausoleum, the characters can head for the City of the Dead. The spring chain continues with encounter 4, “Mausoleum.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
fight. The unicorn Banrion defends her home and its inhabitants with her life. If the characters threaten or attack her here, she fights to the finish, refusing to teleport away. But if the characters
manipulate the fallen clock tower back to its standing position. This seals off her plateau defensively, denying it to the hags in case she falls. (If she survives, the unicorn remains able to teleport
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
in his chair and gazes into a mirror. Reflected back at him is a sickly, haggard version of himself (see “Magic Mirrors” below). He is dressed to portray the green dragon in the tragedy titled A
him to Motherhorn, where the hag promised to make Hurly more likable before sending him back to the carnival—but only after he agreed to relinquish his shadow and work in Endelyn’s theater for three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, read or paraphrase the following: Thunderous footsteps shake the ground as you approach a horned, red-furred demon over twenty feet tall. Two winged shapes flank its towering form. On its back is a
palanquin to defeat the demons within while the characters slay the goristro. The goristro defends itself. If the vrocks see that the goristro is losing, they join the fight. The three erinyes easily dispatch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Vellynne has every reason to believe that both items are currently on an island in the Sea of Moving Ice. The Codicil Vellynne describes this book as follows: “Written and guarded by Auril’s followers
private collection of magic items. The professor orb known as Professor Skant was part of that collection, and Vellynne wants it back for both practical and sentimental reasons: “The orb is a family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
About the Students “Sythian has four students currently. They all reside at the conservatory, but their families have grand estates in the nearby city.
“Wylie plays strings and has a beautiful
singing voice. She is attending her father’s birthday party and won’t be back for a couple of days. That leaves Embry, a talented composer and horn player; Mazia, who plays the flute; and Mytchyl, who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, Durnan, who shouts, “Troll!” The troll, which currently has 44 hit points, has crawled up from the first level of Undermountain to feed on tasty humanoid flesh, bringing nine stirges with it. Once in the
, having drained copious amounts of the troll’s blood, and fly back down the shaft to digest their meal. As the troll regenerates, the effects of its blood loss become less apparent. Most tavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
cyclops defends itself if attacked, and killing them changes nothing. The characters still need to propel a stone farther than the cyclops did to get back to the sundial. When the characters beat the
challenge, the stone that the cyclops threw splits in half, revealing a topaz gemstone inside. If the topaz is carried out of this area, either path leads the characters back to the sundial. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
cyclops defends itself if attacked, and killing them changes nothing. The characters still need to propel a stone farther than the cyclops did to get back to the sundial. When the characters beat the
challenge, the stone that the cyclops threw splits in half, revealing a topaz gemstone inside. If the topaz is carried out of this area, either path leads the characters back to the sundial. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
. Mystery Monster There used to be twenty-two gnomes living in the caves, but a mimic devoured two gnomes — named Orryn and Warryn — in the past tenday. The creature is currently disguised as a barrel in
to see if they fight back. The gnomes aren’t adventurers, however, and they flee at the first sign of danger (real or imagined). The mimic completely devours and dissolves its victims, leaving no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
path. As the DM, you can decide where the characters encounter each of these groups. These encounters are meant to be run separately, although running two encounters back-to-back with no chance for the
, have some of the foes withdraw or have some NPC survivors assist the characters. Most of the survivors currently in the cathedral are preparing for a last stand in the main crypts (area H16), so that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
whose ideologies have since entered a period of decline. The following are three examples of minor factions currently in Sigil. Free League Who Prize the Individual Foremost Factol: None Headquarters
have and redistribute the hoards of greedy tycoons to the poor and needy. A common superstition in Sigil holds that any gift to the Ring Givers comes back to the donor tenfold.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
adjust the last sentences of the first and second paragraphs so the goblins are ready to fight. These two connected rooms have an open door between them and a makeshift forge in the back of the second
room. The forge is currently stoked to a white-hot state. A silver bowl, about a foot wide, sits in the fire. Four goblins stand around the room admiring the bowl.
One of the goblins wears topaz
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Weretigers grow to enormous size in animal and hybrid form, but they fight in their more refined humanoid form when they can. They don’t like to pass on their curse, because every new weretiger means
into a tiger-humanoid hybrid or into a tiger, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
have ready access to and from these chambers for the young kraken so it can exit and enter at will something it hasn’t been able to do, as the creature has grown much larger than the opening currently
ballistae traps hidden behind the fish in the back of this chamber. Thin tripwires have been strung up throughout the area, with the intent of protecting the stores from the nearby undead creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
’ intrusion, they cooperate to locate and destroy the invaders. The following members of the gang are currently in the house, skulking about in the cellar and the adjoining caverns: Sanbalet (see appendix C
reinforce Sanbalet in area 27 if a fight breaks out there. The remaining members of the gang, two scouts and a bandit, try to ambush intruders. They make Dexterity (Stealth) checks to close in on the party. If two of them are slain, the survivor tries to flee back to area 21.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
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If the characters were working as caravan guards, Leosin offers to match whatever their previous employer was paying them plus 20 percent. If they are currently unemployed, he offers them 150 gp
back to the camp immediately. He doesn’t expect the cultists to make any sudden changes in their plans or mode of operation. Leosin is wrong about this, because he doesn’t realize how much his presence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dealing with Amrik Unless the characters attack him at once, Amrik assumes they’ve come to him for a loan. He is more than happy to provide one, up to a limit of 150 gp (the amount currently carried
paying it back. Characters who plan to rip off Amrik must succeed on a Charisma (Deception) check contested by Amrik’s Wisdom (Insight) check, as described under “Contests” in chapter 7 of the