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Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back. Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark

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

Involving the Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Involving the Characters Once you’ve identified what your campaign is about, let the players help tell the story by deciding how their characters are involved. This is their opportunity to tie their

a recent arrival? Where did you come from? Why did you come to this area? Are you tied to any of the organizations or people involved in the events that kick off the campaign? Are they friends or

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

magical power than a potion, but they all believe that the tribal sorcerer can figure out how to use any such item they come across. When kobolds sense an opportunity to separate a magic item from its

waking time is spent working, adversarial kobolds rarely have opportunities to exchange insults, let alone come to blows over their differences. Kobolds choose mates primarily for convenience. Their

Faded Memories

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

with. Their memories of events before this interruption are often vague or absent. Occasionally, the most unexpected experiences might cause sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back

Memory 1 You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to? 2 A memory brings tears to your eyes. Is it a bitter or cheerful memory? Does recalling

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

area is at risk. If orcs come upon a target that is too large to assault directly, they will lurk along supply routes, taking out their frustration on caravans and travelers. Left unchecked, a tribe can

; their loyalty by turning them into slaves. If a tribe is defeated and driven from its lair, the survivors might come under the sway of a strong but dimwitted creature, such as a hill giant or an ogre

Approaching the Tower

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

Approaching the Tower The Svalich Woods have swallowed up the road that once led to the tower. Now only a wide dirt trail remains. You come to a cold mountain lake enclosed by misty woods and rocky

buttresses that support the walls. Parked near the base of the tower, within sight of the entrance, is a barrel-topped wagon spattered with mud. The tower stands 80 feet tall. It has four levels (each 20

Next Steps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Kirina, you’ll come to the Goldwarren with me. Prince Simbon, go find out what could be waiting for us in the mine. These adventurers will go with you. Let’s get this done.” Uzoma tasks Simbon and the

already suspect aurumvoraxes, Kedjou can relate more about their history and how they were once removed from the region. To the Academy Prince Simbon escorts the characters to Anisa Academy, a ten-minute

Hook Horror

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

cavernous mazes of the Underdark, with its miles-deep trenches and stalactite forests suspended over empty darkness, where they barrel through caves and swing across cavern ceilings. Hook horrors feed

opportunistically on plants, fungi, and any creatures that come close enough to hook. To perceive their surroundings, hook horrors echolocate via a range of noises, from banging on rocks and their own

Soldier

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

if you pick up a sword, it will all come back to you soon enough. 3 You’re an officer of the Cyran army. You once held a fairly high rank, but your nation is destroyed and your soldiers

Watch by a group of corrupt officers. You still have friends among the guards, but there’s a lot of bad apples in the barrel. Do you want to clean up the Watch, or are you content to enforce justice on your own?

Ability Checks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

adventurers are undercover agents of the king. If the rogue loses a contest of Charisma (Deception) against the guard’s Wisdom (Insight), the same lie told again won’t work. The characters can come up with a

creature’s efforts. In a contest, the ability checks are compared to each other, rather than to a target number. When you call for a contest, you pick the ability that each side must use, deciding

Mission Gone Wrong?

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

the meantime, while the characters are recuperating, a contingent of merfolk arrives in Saltmarsh and asks for a meeting with the council. During that session, they relate that they have just come from

Preparation Time

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

personalities, goals, and tactics. For exploration encounters, record any clues or other information the characters should learn, and review any special rules that might come into play in the

each “unlikely” encounter. Step 9. Create a new encounter designed to appeal specifically to one player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.

Cataclysmic Fire

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

on one who failed the gods and the world. Lord Soth has come to the catacombs seeking the Cataclysmic fire for its magical properties, which can be harnessed through rituals whispered to him by the

scenes have played out, skeletal visages leer at them from the flames, then vanish. Characters who recalled Lord Soth’s legend in the “Caught in the Act” section recognize that these scenes relate to his

Preparation Time

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

personalities, goals, and tactics. For exploration encounters, record any clues or other information the characters should learn, and review any special rules that might come into play in the

player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.

Oracle

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

through you, and you can decide whether to use your own voice or to allow the god’s voice to come through your mouth to deliver the message, translated into any language you speak. Oracle’s Insight. The

roll the d20 before deciding to add the d10, but you must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long

Deciphering the Mask

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

left to you to choose, depending on the story you want to tell. Consult the Secrets of Phenax table, which presents several options for what divine secret Varyas’s eidolon might relate. The veracity

steal Phenax’s place among the gods for their own. 5 The secret to Phenax’s immortality lies in the Underworld and is accessible only by those who have died, come back, and journeyed to the

Old Tower: Summer

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

involved but has no intention of proceeding with repairs. The arrival of the characters provides her with a welcome distraction. Characters will have a tough time convincing Esvele that they have come for

representatives around) in exchange for an equal share of whatever treasure it might contain. She and the characters have each other over a barrel. She can’t have them arrested for burglary without the authorities

Loose Pantheons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in

Forgotten Realms. From Greyhawk come Kord, Pelor, Tharizdun, and Vecna. From the Greek pantheon come Athena (renamed Erathis) and Tyche (renamed Avandra), though both are altered. Set (renamed Zehir) comes

Bargaining with Endelyn

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

Bargaining with Endelyn When the characters come to Motherhorn, Endelyn has foreseen their arrival and is expecting them. If you used the “Lost Things” adventure hook and the Story Tracker indicates

barrel out of the secret tunnel in area M12 or scale the theater’s walls using ropes made of korred hair, and the brigganocks use their darkness, faerie fire, silence, and sleep spells to confound

Escape from Vogler

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

who come within 5 feet of the boilerdrak recognize it isn’t a dragon, but a mechanical device. After the baaz draconians are defeated, proceed with the “Fewmaster Gholcag” encounter. Vogler

otherwise tries to leave the battlefield. Vogler Battlefield Events d6 Events 1 Two Vogler fishers (guards) come to assist the characters. They appear in unoccupied spaces adjacent to the Fray

Camp Alertness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

posts alongside the monk Leosin. Characters have one night to escape this fate. They might wriggle out of their bonds, bribe or charm a cultist to set them free, or come up with a clever use for a

as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath—claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding whether to join

Mysterious Visitors

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

to suit your campaign. Duchess Morwen of Daggerford is having guests for dinner—and you are invited. No strangers to Daggerford, you have come to the town’s defense on more than one occasion, and you

harmless at first, but Morwen has received reports that they have begun harassing townsfolk and other visitors as they come and go, demanding money and wine, and threatening to put hexes on anyone who

Camp Alertness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

night tied to posts alongside the monk Leosin. Characters have one night to escape this fate. They might wriggle out of their bonds, bribe or charm a cultist to set them free, or come up with a clever

effect is the same as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath — claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding

Into the Doomvault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

Into the Doomvault The characters arrive in the Doomvault through the Bloodgate Nexus or a similar magic portal. How and why they come is up to you. Perhaps the Thayan rebels call for help, alerting

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

Lyn Armaal, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

others hanging from the ceiling above the table) and a large wooden waste barrel (currently empty). Next to the door, hanging from a stone hook mounted to the wall 20 feet above the floor, is a 2-foot

at the back of the room has some giant-sized cloaks and sleeping garments hanging from bronze hooks on the wall, as well as a giant barrel of wine. Treasure Atop the wooden table are a 5-foot-tall

Citadel Felbarr

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

abandoned the citadel after nearly two millennia, whereupon a force out of Silverymoon occupied the fortress shortly thereafter. Within half a century, the orcs had come to realize the weakness of the

listen to what both have to say before deciding how to act on royal edicts. Most humans know Citadel Felbarr from a distance. They see only a great raised road winding through a vale of broken rock

Semuanya's Bog

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

. Read or paraphrase the following text when a character investigates: A group of a dozen lizardfolk cheer as one among them strains, then hefts a barrel-sized boulder over her head. She holds it for a

Semuanya’s Bog, read the following text: The domain of the deity Semuanya is a pleasant-smelling swamp full of bright flowers and colorful bugs. Through trees draped in vibrant moss come the cheers of

1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc (Chee-koh-MOZ-tok, the place of seven caves) The poisonous gas is present here, affecting fire and breathing. Relate the following information to the characters gradually

amounts of rubble and dirt come spilling into the room. Several large stones appear to have wedged themselves tightly, closing the collapse. The figures of people and animals in all of the dioramas

Warforged Colossus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

all, and establish Cyre’s martial supremacy for centuries to come. With Cyre’s immense wealth fueling its effort, House Cannith called upon the ingenuity of its best artificers and magewrights

unusually large size, cut into a specific pattern that allows the dragonshard to contain raw magical energy without exploding. A single power core is about the size of a wine barrel, hooked up to an elaborate

Locations on the Upper Level

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

and a gem worth 100 gp. 8. South Cavern Ogre mercenaries that serve Jarl Grugnur dwell here. There are currently six ogres here. All fight fiercely when ordered to do so, or when they come upon

jewelry (worth 50 gp each) and eight pieces of gold jewelry (worth 100 gp each). The first barrel opened contains a collection of skulls. Hidden under the tenth pile of skins are two potions of healing

Giantkind Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Multiverse. Roll a d10 if you don’t have that book. *See chapter 6. Storm Giant Encounters The Storm Giant Encounters table includes storm giants as well as creatures that relate to or resonate with

storm giant themes. Storm giants usually remain solitary, but they can get tangled in events that relate to prophecies and omens. These encounters might happen anywhere, at any time, and can be a sign on

Lower Level Locations

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

fishing poles, and a silver-tipped spear. Three doors lead to other locations, while a narrow hallway stretches westward. Each barrel contains 2d20 gallons of fresh water, and each crate holds 3d10 flasks

: Brewer’s Supplies Thirty Candles One hundred Rations Ten loaves of Bread Ten wedges of Cheese M29: Wine Cellar Seven wooden barrels line the south wall of this cellar. Each barrel contains forty

Climbing Kelvin's Cairn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

. The goats turn hostile if the characters attack them. Avalanche Hundreds of feet up the mountain, you come to a glistening white expanse of packed snow. As you get about halfway across it, you hear a

the characters if they also refrain from combat and get it across to her that they’ve come to rescue the halfling. Perilou thanks her rescuers but is sad to have witnessed the death of her goliath

Skytower Shelter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

griffons circle above you, shrieking at your approach. They descend until they’re a few hundred feet away but come no closer. At the end of the entranceway is a ten-foot-tall barricade made of wood and

until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the runestone die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the runestone die is rolled, it is lost, and the

Kianna's Farmhouse Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

. When it reveals itself, the soul shaker targets a character with its telepathy, whispering things like “Come play with us!”, “Are you lonely?”, and “Be with us forever!” as it attacks. It might also

relate snippets from the “Fractured Soul” section of the adventure’s background. As soon as the soul shaker awakens, if the farmers the soul shaker controls are still in area F6, it summons them to aid

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