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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Druidcraft, Speak with Animals (swan form only)
1/Day Each: Animal Friendship, Beast Sense, Spike
’s Charge
1d6
The Swanmay Is Devoted to Protecting …
1
A hidden spring.
2
A lakeshore recently ravaged by a forest fire.
3
The conjunction of three rivers
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
"} hit points and is freed from any curse, disease, poison, blindness, or deafness.
Change Shape. The Abbot magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating equal to or less
in reuniting Strahd with his lost love and, in so doing, ending Barovia's curse. The Abbot has recently completed work on a flesh golem bride made from the body parts of dead women. While the Belviews
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Reghed Glacier. The orb was recently stolen by Nass Lantomir, one of Vellynne’s rivals in the Arcane Brotherhood. Vellynne intends to get it back before resuming her quest to find Ythryn
of a beast.
Spellbook. Vellynne’s spellbook has black leather covers around pages of ragged parchment, all wrapped in a crimson sash. The necromancer’s personal sigil is written in goat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Stirge This horrid flying creature looks like a cross between a large bat and an oversized mosquito. Stirges feed on the blood of living creatures, attaching and draining them slowly. Although they
pose little danger in small numbers, packs of stirges can be a formidable threat, reattaching as quickly as their weakening prey can pluck them off. Stirge
Tiny beast, unaligned
Armor Class 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
was forced to move recently, and the beast got lost trying to find its new home. 4 A wandering giant comes to a city looking for people who are knowledgeable about the world and might possess maps of
Recluse Though most giants are social creatures, some live alone by choice or circumstance. They establish lairs in remote places, or they tend ancient ruins or enclaves that were more recently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
place on fire. Nelida The bartender has heard tales of the scarred black dragon that accompanied the Corsairs. The dragon’s name is Sablewing. Travelers told her a rumor that Sablewing recently murdered
foes through shrouds of Darkness. Vatri Whistlebaum Vatri Whistlebaum asks to talk with the characters privately after they’ve conferred with the rescued villagers. She tells the characters that her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
its next meal.
Stirges feed on the blood of living creatures, attaching and draining them slowly. Although they pose little danger in small numbers, packs of stirges can be a formidable threat
its pincer legs to latch on to the victim. Once the stirge has sated itself, it detaches and flies off to digest its meal. Stirge
Tiny beast, unaligned
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
boats. The half-elf is a local researcher who has collected accounts from witnesses of these attacks and concluded that it’s some kind of unusual beast. Characters who search for the lake monster
discover that it’s an awakened plesiosaurus. A frost druid (see appendix C) recently cast an awaken spell on the creature, granting it an Intelligence of 10 and the ability to communicate in the Common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
boar in a stout iron cage, bound for a noble in Waterdeep. They ate the beast, but then captured a black bear. The bandits broke the cage’s lock, so they have it spiked shut with an iron piton. Starved
creature that hurt it most recently. It runs off when reduced to fewer than half its hit points. Treasure Coins in the cave total 99 cp, 74 sp, and 13 gp, divided among several coin purses. The bandits also accumulated other plunder worth 100 gp, including numerous weapons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
terrifying new forms. Such a plot comes with both opportunities and pitfalls. On the one hand, waking up in Mordenheim’s laboratory, either recently changed into reborn (see chapter 1) or about to
. Self-Sacrifice. A massive sea beast attacks the characters’ ship. The characters save the other passengers but fall into the icy water. They awake to discover that Dr. Mordenheim has “saved” them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
grass and barely discernible. Recently, a young displacer beast (or displacer beast kitten from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight) exploring the bell accidentally tipped it over and got caught inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
recently, Arcturia had a mind flayer assistant. She tore off its head to study the psychic energy stored in its brain. Next to the head is a long pair of steel tweezers and a ladle. The 1-foot black cube
is an ebony-framed box fitted with panes of black glass. The box has a hinged lid and radiates an aura of transmutation magic under the scrutiny of a detect magic spell. When a Tiny beast small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
.
2 Shuaran warriors seek help in slaying a massive saber-toothed tiger killing their people. They don’t mention that they recently lost the Cat of Felkovic, a sentient magic item similar to a
.
5 The lizardfolk of the lakes surrounding the Anquara Plateau discover a submerged ruin and unleash an aboleth that now holds them in thrall.
6 Beast-shaped treants animate and lay siege
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
recently came to Candlekeep to inquire into the nature of portals to other dimensions. In fact, this representative of the Six was studying the very tomes the characters are now investigating! To dial up
appeared recently in Neverwinter and were rumored to have been researching the magic of the Chasm. Tracking down any agents who remain might allow the characters to gain hints regarding the ritual’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Spires. The river splits as it runs through the hilly lands, eventually draining into a series of lakes along the southern edge of the vale. Two small woods also grow in the vale, one along its northern
young ranger who has recently returned from a three-year journey to explore the North. He came back with a wife, the sorceress Ylienna of Silverymoon, and has begun to take on more of his father’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
cults, one of which has an ancient dragon in its employ. The gnomes of Gnomengarde have offered to supply a magical weapon to drive off this beast should it trouble the town. Meet the gnomes at
quest, see “Icingdeath and Twinkle.” Thalivar’s Beacon Quest “Leilon’s wizard, Gallio Elibro, has recently rebuilt the planar beacon atop his tower and is using it to trap and study creatures from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Mount Hotenow. Lava from the volcano flowed toward the coast, laying waste to Neverwinter. The city is still rebuilding in the wake of that catastrophe. The fire giant duke Zalto recently sent a team of
the fire giant’s plans. Maegera looks like a 50-foot-tall, multi-limbed beast made of flame, with smoldering black pits for eyes. Maegera the Dawn Titan
Gargantuan Elemental, Chaotic Neutral
Armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
not be related.
7 In Good Mead, the town speaker was recently killed by a nine-foot-tall giant. Rumor has it the giant stole a shipment of honey mead, without which a handful of taverns in Ten
-Towns might go dry!
8 In Lonelywood, beware the dreaded white moose! It attacks loggers and trappers on sight, and the town’s best hunters can’t seem to catch or kill the beast. They could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet.)
Corpses. The banshees recently finished off a pair of adventurers, leaving their corpses to rot in the squares marked X on
-draining wails as follows: Charinidia wails on her first turn in combat. Grazthrae wails after taking damage for the first time in combat. T’riizlin wails after one of the other banshees is destroyed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. Characters who spend 5 minutes or more reading the notebooks and who succeed on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check piece together that Murgaxor is conducting his life-draining ritual in the
her sleeping area. Both use the ghast stat block and start combat with 5 temporary hit points, having recently bathed in area U1. The creatures attack without mercy. Combat here alerts Y’demi in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
pudding has eaten the remnants of creatures slain in this region recently, so it’s Huge. Its game statistics are otherwise the same. The black pudding tries to flee when reduced to 10 hit points or
from them in tandem. Rising to stand is a fungal, mossy beast that groans, “Disturbed! I am disturbed!” before it attacks the characters. This momentarily animated fungal mass is a Plant but otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
avoiding the traps set for them by their rivals. Tribe of the Bear One of the Bear tribe’s two remaining chieftains, Wolvig Barrundson, recently fell under the sway of evil and formed an alliance with a
Wolf was without a king or queen for three winters. Its most powerful chieftain, Isarr Kronenstrom, is a bloodthirsty tyrant who worships Malar the Beast-Lord. He hunts Ten-Towners for sport and strikes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
diamond, domed obsidian taverns, and magnesium enclosures that shelter inhabitants from roiling storms of matter and energy. The Cube Recently, a unit of modrons from the far end of the Outlands set out to
belly of a massive, mechanical beast. Githzerai Embassy The githzerai embassy is an island of order amid a sea of chaos. The adamantine citadel floats above Xaos, held aloft by collective thought and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
furnishings include an unmade bed, a drafting table, and an iron safe (see “Iron Safe” below).
Alcoves. Alcoves to the south contain a poorly draining privy and a modest kitchenette where food molders in
12), but the “scary red metal wearers” recently set the forest on fire. The combination to Zox’s iron safe is “prairie dog, wombat, badger, armadillo, wombat.” Arch Gate to Level 6. The arch embedded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
displacer beast is trapped. 6 A green hag from the coven hidden in the Feygrove is on a mysterious errand. If she detects the adventurers before they spot her, the hag uses Illusory Appearance to
red slaad, dropped here by the comet that recently overflew the site, searches the hill for any way to lift the wards around the watchtower. Minotaur Archaeologist Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
companions Dzaan, a human illusionist and Red Wizard of Thay who perished recently, but whose simulacrum lives on Nass Lantomir, a human diviner who died and now exists as a spellcasting ghost Vellynne
. Familiar. Avarice’s familiar throughout the adventure is a squawking raven named Skelm. It uses the raven stat block in the Monster Manual but is a fiend instead of a beast. Spellbook. Avarice’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
, the Spirit Sump has recently malfunctioned. To get it up and running again, the characters must perform a multistep process to empty its reservoir manually. During the process, they’re harassed by
the reservoir is drained. Draining the Reservoir. To drain the reservoir and flush the apparitions from Sigil, the characters must manually activate three of the machine’s pumps—convoluted-looking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant. The hag must finish a Long Rest before using this trait to cast that spell again.
Vile Appearance. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 11, any Beast or
inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the shadow has Disadvantage on D20 Tests.
Actions
Draining Swipe. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. Ardeep Forest This forest east of Waterdeep and the Dessarin River was once part of the long-lost elven kingdom of Illefarn. Now it’s home to a small clan of wood elves recently arrived from Evermeet
-eyed “Senior Sword” and master of the militia. The largest inn, the Old Bargewright, was recently rebuilt as a substantial stone structure with thick walls and private chambers hidden behind secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
(450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Fear Aura. Any beast or humanoid that starts its turn within 10 feet of the meenlock must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the start of
spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon its completion, free-willed undeath is conferred on the mind flayers, turning them into alhoons.
Initially, an alhoon can be difficult to distinguish from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
constantly keeps his ears open for rumors and opportunities, which he happily passes along to paying customers. At the moment, he’s obsessed with reports of a group of smugglers who recently went missing
omnipresent smell of blood makes their animals nervous. Yet it’s the citizens themselves who should be nervous, for the slaughterhouse recently came under new management. Seeking to spread fear and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, which he happily passes along to paying customers. At the moment, he’s obsessed with reports of a group of smugglers who recently went missing in the Riverveins tunnels along with a chest full of
it’s the citizens themselves who should be nervous, for the slaughterhouse recently came under new management. Seeking to spread fear and chaos, cultists of the Dead Three have infiltrated the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
my destiny to be king.”
Argantle the Korred Queen
CHAPTER 4: YON
Queen Argantle sports a generous beard and whiskers. Her hair is shorn on one side, from where Endelyn Moongrave recently
.”
Dirlagraun the Displacer Beast
CHAPTER 1: WITCHLIGHT CARNIVAL
Dirlagraun was raised by a noble high elf family of the Summer Court and blessed with the ability to speak and understand Common and Sylvan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
my destiny to be king.”
Argantle the Korred Queen
CHAPTER 4: YON
Queen Argantle sports a generous beard and whiskers. Her hair is shorn on one side, from where Endelyn Moongrave recently
.”
Dirlagraun the Displacer Beast
CHAPTER 1: WITCHLIGHT CARNIVAL
Dirlagraun was raised by a noble high elf family of the Summer Court and blessed with the ability to speak and understand Common and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
from snowdrifts outside the cavern entrance.
The bones are from recently killed animals and human travelers. The bones show gouge marks from teeth the size of daggers. As a Search action, a
block of ice. Although the beast is positioned within the icy block as though rearing up to strike, severe wounds indicate that it died before being frozen.
This dead remorhaz is one of Challidax’s