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Candlekeep Mysteries
are raised by the community rather than by a single set of parents, and all of a community’s eggs are kept in freshwater pools until they mature. Protecting their eggs is a major concern for
. Grippli religion is based in animism and nature spirits; the frogfolk do not pay reverence to a single deity, but they might beseech a particular nature spirit for aid from time to time.
Staff of Power
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a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take force damage equal to 16 × the number of charges in the
staff. Every other creature in the area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes an amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown
Staff of the Magi
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explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it.
You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid
amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.
Distance from Origin
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Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.
Tabaxi Names
Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology
, prophecy, clan history, and other esoteric factors. Tabaxi names can apply to both males and females, and most use nicknames derived from or inspired by their full names.
Clan names are usually based
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
throw. If it’s not clear who administered the killing blow, you grant this benefit to a random creature involved in the fight. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
. The difference between the index finger and the middle finger. The elasticity of the ear lobe.
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You take a long, careful look, and then decide based on which fellow franchisee has been nice to
Orc
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rival orcs first and foremost as competitors for food and victims.
On some occasions, though, tribes that have a common concern band together. The result is an orc horde — a sea of slavering
everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, characters might find scattered coins and other monetary treasure left behind by the monster’s previous victims. You can use the Random Individual Treasure table to determine how much treasure a single
monster has based on its Challenge Rating (CR). The table includes the average total in parentheses, which you can use instead of rolling. To determine the total amount of treasure for a group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day might be easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
Rarity table as a guide to help you determine how powerful a magic item should be based on its rarity. Magic Item Power by Rarity Rarity Max. Spell Level Max. Bonus Common 1 — Uncommon 3 +1 Rare 5 +2
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Acquisitions Incorporated
stature. But they soon learned that their kind were fated to eventually undergo a dramatic, painful, and random growth spurt that sees them transformed to hobgoblin size over a period of days.
At the
, particularly those based on physical characteristics such as gender, race, or appearance.
Wide-Eyed and Curious
Verdan are hungry to undertake new challenges and absorb new experiences. When they meet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
it has several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day is easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
doling out as one. Use the Magic Item Power by Rarity table as a guide to help you determine how powerful an item should be, based on its rarity. Magic Item Power by Rarity Rarity Max Spell Level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, they might stumble across hungry animals, greedy bandits, or vicious monsters. Check for random wilderness encounters once during the day and once at night by rolling a d20. On a roll of 17–20, an
encounter takes place. Roll a d12 and consult the Triboar Trails Random Encounters table to determine what the party meets. Triboar Trail Random Encounters Day Roll Night Roll Result 1–2 1–3 1d4 + 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. Airship If the characters have an airship (see the “Airship of a Cult” section in chapter 4), they can use it to reach Deadstone Cleft and avoid both the rugged terrain and any land-based random
without horses. They can also take a boat up the Loagrann River. Use the Random Wilderness Encounters table in chapter 3 to generate encounters, as desired. The characters can also reach Deadstone
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Complications d6 Event 1 Three manticores that lair on a nearby coast swoop down to attack. They use the skeletons to help finish off land-based prey by landing in a square infested with them
arise in three random squares. 5 A pirate, Knife-Catcher Skeen (NE male human bandit), has hidden in a clear square in the dunes. Left for dead by his comrades, he begs the characters for help. 6 A
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Random Magic Item Rarity When you decide that a treasure contains magic items, there are two ways to determine the rarity of those items. You can choose an appropriate rarity based on the items
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Random Urban Encounters The Random Urban Encounters table is useful for city- and town-based adventures. Check for a random encounter at least once per day, and once at night if the characters are
out and about. Reroll the result if it doesn’t make sense given the time of day. Random Urban Encounters d12 + d8 Encounter 2 Animals on the loose 3 Announcement 4 Brawl 5 Bullies 6 Companion 7
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
simply jot down a few notes based on a creature’s Monster Manual description. During the battle, you can use these ideas to inform how you portray the monsters and their actions. To keep things simple
1 Has a rival; wants one random ally to suffer 2 Is abused by others; hangs back, betrays at first opportunity 3 Is worshiped; allies will die for it 4 Is outcast by group; its allies ignore it 5 Is
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
...” It’s based on the idea that an actor takes whatever the other actors give and builds on that. A similar principle applies as you run sessions for your players. As often as possible, weave what the
previously planned for one—you have abundant resources to draw on: Lists of NPC names (see “Nonplayer Characters” in chapter 3) Random tables (such as the ones in the “Settlements” section of chapter 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should react to them. As a race, orcs
based in events that the tribe has experienced. Here are a few examples: If a dwarf or a human invokes its god upon dying, you must carry the corpse’s ears for three days to ward off any retribution, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Mysteries A mystery is a form of event-based adventure that usually focuses on the adventurers’ efforts to solve a crime, usually a robbery or murder. Unlike the writer of a mystery novel, a Dungeon
creating any event-based adventure. Then consider three additional elements for the adventure: the victim, the suspects, and the clues. Victim Think about the victim’s relationship to the villain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
symbol, or some other personal keepsake. In addition, people regularly venerate gods based on their needs and circumstances: a farmer whose favored deity is Chauntea would pray to Amaunator for a few
up from time to time. The burgeoning worship of a new deity is rarely a concern to the other gods of the Faerûnian pantheon, and the people who revere those deities, except when the newcomer’s area of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
wandering monsters to inspiring whole adventures. But The Deck of Many Things card set and other card decks provide an alternative way to get random results. How is drawing from a deck of cards
already has iconic random number generators close at hand.
Advantages of Using Cards Whether you’re using The Deck of Many Things card set, oracle cards like tarokka cards or tarot cards, or a deck of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the opposition that the character runs into. A big part of the challenge in pit fighting lies in the unknown nature of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, and the placement of locations is based on the memories of an intrepid yet insane cartographer. Distances and travel times between locations cannot be determined by studying the map and can change with
character must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the character contracts a random form of madness determined by rolling on the Short-Term Madness table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid
amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage. Distance from Origin Damage 10 ft
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random
Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes an amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful save, a creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Random Treasure
The following pages contain tables that you can use to randomly generate treasures carried by monsters, stashed in their lairs, or otherwise hidden away. The placement of
can be randomly allocated based on a monster’s challenge rating. There are tables for challenge rating 0–4, challenge rating 5–10, challenge rating 11–16, and challenge rating 17 and higher. Use these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
1,000 gp or more, as you see fit. Resolution. The character must make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the competition that the character runs into. Part of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Adventure Types An adventure can be location-based or event-based, as discussed in the sections that follow.
Location-Based Adventures Adventures set in crumbling dungeons and remote wilderness
locations are the cornerstone of countless campaigns. Many of the greatest D&D adventures of all time are location-based.
Creating a location-based adventure can be broken down into a number of steps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
together, the exact relationship of different planes to one another is largely a theoretical concern. No being in the multiverse can look down and see the planes in their arrangement the same way as we
look at a diagram in a book. No mortal can verify whether Mount Celestia is sandwiched between Bytopia and Arcadia, but it’s a convenient theoretical construct based on the philosophical shading among
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
.”
If the characters chase him, use the Random Path table to generate the hallways (reroll results of 1 and 2). Every time they round a corner, they see him escape at the other end of the hall. The
Song of Sixpence.” Clues: 1. It’s based on a nursery rhyme. 2. There are “four-and-twenty” statues of “black birds.” 3. Tell them the name of the nursery rhyme and let them look up the words. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take force damage equal to 16 × the number of charges in the staff. Every other creature in the area
must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes an amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take force damage equal to 16 × the number of charges in the staff. Every other creature in the area
must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes an amount of damage based on how far away it is from the point of origin, as shown in the following table. On a successful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
, concerned about the phenomenon and anyone caught in it, asks the party to investigate. If the characters undertake this quest, see “Foul Weather at Wayside.” House of Thalivar Quest On a random evening, the
.” Thunder Cliffs Quest The final quest in this adventure takes place at Thunder Cliffs, where the local anchorite threat is based. There is no trigger or giver for this quest, since the location and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
claws. They also maintain rough maps of the Sea of Moving Ice based on reports from the Ice Hunter villagers. At regular intervals, their temporary records are transferred to more permanent form. See
“Random Encounters” (above) for guidelines on how the giant ice toads respond to intruders. The characters’ best chance to avoid a fight in this area — and to keep the toads from alerting the ice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
claws. They also maintain rough maps of the Sea of Moving Ice based on reports from the Ice Hunter villagers. At regular intervals, their temporary records are transferred to more permanent form. See
“Random Encounters” (earlier in this chapter) for guidelines on how the giant ice toads respond to intruders. The characters’ best chance to avoid a fight in this area—and to keep the toads from