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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
vegetation that thrive in the bayou. They are living examples of the conflicting forces of life and decay existing in a harmonious cycle. Flowers and other plant life grow on their backs, necks, and heads
sometimes ill-tempered and territorial, brackish trudges are usually content to mind their own business. When trudges are roused to defend themselves or drive off rivals, their punishing tusks laced
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Memories table to inspire its details.
Lost Memories
d6
Memory
1
You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
2
A memory brings
alongside complex designs for clockwork organs.
6
You were released after being petrified for generations. Your memories have faded, though, and your body isn’t what it once was.
7
Your
Tortle
Legacy
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The Tortle Package
Yondalla relate to tortles most of all.
Tortles believe that night and day watch over them and other creatures. The moon is the eye of night that watches over them in darkness, and the sun is the
our homes on our backs.” The shells they carry around provide all the shelter they require. Consequently, tortles don’t feel the need to root themselves in one place for too long. A tortle
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sapphire dragons. Militant and territorial, they defend their lairs fiercely, ambushing intruders and plotting assaults against their rivals. The sonic pulse of their breath weapon sows weakness, leaving
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2
An adult sapphire dragon employs a dao to help shape and defend the dragon’s lair, and the dao maintains a portal to the Elemental Plane of Earth there.
3
An adult sapphire dragon
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
conflict is part of the very nature of sapphire dragons. Militant and territorial, they defend their lairs fiercely, ambushing intruders and plotting assaults against their rivals. The sonic pulse of their
caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
34. Guardroom Four lizardfolk shamans are stationed here as temple guards. If they hear any sign of trouble along the corridor from area 25, they rush through the concealed doors to help defend the
eidolon and the sacred statue there. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the lizardfolk to head into the temple complex to search for Moghadam’s thieves, believing the thieves have just arrived. You determine where the guards might be encountered as a result.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
complex personalities. Powerful archfey such as the Summer Queen and the Queen of Air and Darkness rule vast domains, and their influence is so great that their courts stretch beyond the borders of their
Domains of Delight to the far ends of the Feywild. Other, lesser known archfey rule domains that are minuscule by comparison, but no less wondrous. A unicorn and its rider defend an archfey’s palace
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
against the wall can become a miniature storm of fangs and claws as it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for
moves its tribe to another area, ceding the contested territory to its more successful neighbors.
As demonstrated by their hatred of gnomes, kobolds have a persecution complex and easily take offense
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
hoard, the DM could offer them a physical deck to draw from. Barr also detailed the backs of the cards for the first time. No design on the backs of the cards had ever been mentioned before, but here
, and the doors to the complex were insidiously trapped. Each of the twenty-two doors had one card from the Deck of Many Things built into it, so the door couldn’t be opened without drawing the card
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
harmonious cycle. Flowers and other plant life grow on their backs, necks, and heads. When these plants die, they decay and become the ideal habitat for fungi. The older a trudge is, the wilder and
trudges are roused to defend themselves or drive off rivals, their punishing tusks laced with deadly fungus spores can make short work of the unwary. Trudges are also notoriously difficult to slay; the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the characters embarking on a quest to save Elturel while Ulder Ravengard and Reya Mantlemorn stay behind to organize survivors and defend the city. Lulu guides the characters to Fort Knucklebone
hidden. At any time during their exploration of Avernus, the characters and Lulu might encounter the Wandering Emporium, a marketplace that wanders Avernus on the backs of giant infernal war machines
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Miska’s other spyder-fiends (see appendix A) defend him and implement the demon lord’s complex strategies. Yet Miska’s position is precarious. While he’s a cunning general, he’s unable to command his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Rob or defend a gambling parlor.
2 Destabilize or aid the government of the local polis.
3 Form or foil a heretical cult of Heliod to bring discord to
one of the necropoleis in expanding or dealing with various threats. Plots and schemes are Phenax’s lifeblood, suggesting a complex, shifting campaign full of surprises and twists. For example, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
ignorance is an intentional part of the dungeon’s security structure. If given time, however, she can confirm Doomvault lore that the characters learn. Syranna can relate the following information to
fashioned the vast complex based on his research. The purpose of the dungeon was to lure explorers to their deaths and harvest their souls to fuel Gul’s phylactery. As Thay became more hostile to outsiders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spread.
6 A gold dragon needs agents to infiltrate a magical prison complex and liberate the dragon’s monk companion, who has been unjustly sentenced.
7 A gold dragon demands reparations
flying cloud giant citadel, winning the continued right to dwell there in repeated gambling games.
5 A young gold dragon and an archmage are uneasy companions, bound to defend each other by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
your side, you can use complex terms like ex injuria jus non oritur and cogitationis poenam nemo patitur to frighten people into thinking you know what you’re talking about. With common folks who don’t
Acquisitions Incorporated are my allies. We have each other’s backs.
6 My legal counsel is my best friend. I owe all my forthcoming opportunities to their hard work.
d6 Flaw
1 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
complex north of the village. The chapter concludes with the characters rescuing the villagers and gaining a quest that leads them to one of three locations: Bryn Shander, Goldenfields, or Triboar
, the characters defend Bryn Shander, Goldenfields, or Triboar against a giant attack. Quests gained at the end of the battle prompt them to explore more of the Savage Frontier. The characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
person was alive or were caused by scavengers after death.
The statue is, in fact, a stone golem created to defend the bridge against ancient invaders. It attacks anyone who desecrates it (including
terribly complex; the biggest difficulty comes from the lichens and moss growing over them. If these are cleared away with a knife or other tool before tracing the maze, it can be traced properly with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a misty river gorge and has the following features: Waterfall Cave. A rushing river cascades over the cliff in a scintillating waterfall, concealing the entrance to the dragon’s cavern complex. Past
animate to defend the lair. TAMARAND
As the King of Justice, Tamarand is the nominal ruler of gold dragons throughout Faerûn. Other gold dragons seek out his wisdom before embarking on their own quests
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
.
Volcano Temple Adventures d10 Adventure Goal
1 Acquire an item that wasn’t up to Purphoros’s standards before it’s cast into the lava.
2 Defend the temple from fiery zombies
a pair of towering, bronze-bound doors. The interior holds a complex of workshops, forges, barracks, and mines. The physical and spiritual heart of the place is a large cavern where a gigantic statue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
awaiting the chance to plunge their daggers into each other’s backs. They vie against each other to supplant the archlector, a position prized for its access to demon lords and their dark gifts. The
throne’s despotic inheritor is doomed to defend the seat from an unending torrent of assassins and usurpers. Their pattern of betrayal has one exception. Periodically, the townsfolk band together to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, isolated homesteads, and wilderness. Four evil elemental cults have taken refuge there and are building secret temples in the ruins of a dungeon complex beneath the hills. By the time the characters reach
characters from Princes of the Apocalypse to this adventure by having them defend the town of Triboar from a giant attack. In this scenario, Triboar becomes the starting point for this adventure (see chapter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
burial chamber. Four skeletal guards with rusty swords surround the distinguished skeleton.
This burial chamber belongs to King Alendria’s honor guard, who defend his kingdom even in death. If the
skeletons instead kneel, each pledging a silent vow to defend the characters for the next 1d4 hours or until the skeletons earn their second death (whichever comes sooner). After these vows are fulfilled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for resources or territory. Such conflicts aren’t common, because two
more successful neighbors. As demonstrated by their hatred of gnomes, kobolds have a persecution complex and easily take offense at the actions or deeds of other races. They aren’t forgiving of other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
marble, white alabaster, and blue lapis lazuli. Standing at attention with their backs to the hole are four aarakocra simulacra (see the “Aarakocra Simulacra” section earlier in this chapter). The
aarakocra are alert but remain perfectly still; they do nothing other than defend themselves and obey Sansuri’s commands. Any creature that jumps or falls into the hole plummets to the ground far below unless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
The Foundry Durgeddin’s followers lived and worked in a series of carved halls and chambers beyond the Glitterhame. Most of this part of the complex was thoroughly ransacked when the dwarven citadel
of the master smith’s work. If the characters come to this part of the complex from the Black Lake (see the “Dark Mere” subsection of “Scout the Area”), they begin in area 38. Map 2.5: The Foundry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, although she doesn’t know it. If captured, she can relate that a short, cloaked humanoid came to her in Neverwinter Wood two days ago, hiring her to bring her pack of jackals to Phandalin and search
impossible to understand her. Oddly, that something is a complex clockwork device, which Gildha stuck in her mouth to keep out of enemy hands during the attack. If the device is removed, the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
. A character who backs up their words with an offering of food has Advantage on the check. On a successful check, the king and his bullywugs join the characters as allies during the confrontation in
, “Pathetic worms! The horn is mine, and none shall stand in the way of my destiny! Beasts, destroy them!”
The four wolflike creatures are Worgs who defend Kelek, a human Mage, as he reads lines of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
manacles in this room.)
Both prisoners have been strung up to face the wall, their bare backs covered in blood from the cuts inflicted by Erelal Freth’s scourge. One of the prisoners is Hatchrin Alet’taz
frivolous affairs are scolded, threatened, and sent away with a stern warning not to trouble her again. If she is threatened, Erelal tries to summon a yochlol demon to defend her. If the shrine of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
hallway. Loose piles of stone form barricades at the front of each alcove, angled to defend against intrusion from the west. A path between the barricades leads to a wide, descending staircase to the east
. If they do, one of the razerblasts escorts the party. If a fight breaks out, one of the razerblasts shouts, “Imix defend us!” When this happens, read the following text aloud: The obsidian columns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
13–14 Storage for food, as well as tools used by the maze’s guardians to keep the complex in working order 15–18 Trap to confound or kill those sent into the maze 19 Well that provides drinking water
summoning creatures used to investigate or defend the portal 40–41 Crypt where the remains of those that died guarding the portal are kept 42–47 Dining room 48–50 Divination room used to investigate
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
below (area S6) to move up to defend it. For more information about the console, see “Using the Console” below. Using a Glyph Card (see “Starglass Waypoint Features”), the duodrone retreated to this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
is forced open, one of the sahuagin immediately moves toward the west wall to ring the gong, while the remaining guards defend the entrance. If this creature is slain or otherwise prevented from
exit to the north.
The sahuagin here prepare to defend themselves.
Two sahuagin stand guard in this room. They attack intruders attempting to enter the fortress. The pulley mechanism is described in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
. Bugbear Complex Each of the five areas of the bugbear community has a few torches and braziers burning. Hides and skins decorate walls and floors, while mounds of straw and similar litter serve for
The three chambers south of the bugbear complex are occupied by orc captives that are considered docile by their captors. As such, these rooms are not heavily guarded. Each door is barred on the outside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
attack on sight. Lizardfolk The Scaly Death lizardfolk tribe has no leader. Pharblex killed its shaman, Suncaller, and the death left the tribe with an inferiority complex that was ripe for
work camp to the castle on their backs and in their canoes. Second, they tend the giant lizards that are used to drag or carry especially heavy loads through the mere. Third, they do most of the






