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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if they cross into the dragon’s territory. But sapphire dragons sometimes forge peaceful relationships with rock gnomes or deep gnomes, relying on these folk
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An ancient sapphire dragon has called a conclave of ancient gem dragons to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
relying on the roll of a die to determine the results of an action.
The DM narrates the results of the adventurers’ actions. Describing the results often leads to another decision point, which brings
the flow of the game right back to step 1.
This pattern holds whether the adventurers are cautiously exploring a ruin, talking to a devious prince, or locked in mortal combat against a mighty dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Forging an Alliance King Bruenor has called representatives of the Harpers, the Order of the Gauntlet, the Emerald Enclave, the Lords’ Alliance, and the Zhentarim to Gauntlgrym to hear about the
factions to help — and in some cases, can’t even openly negotiate with them. As King of Gauntlgrym, he can’t be seen to favor one faction over another. He is therefore relying on the characters to do the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Horncaller Specialized shamans called horncallers use their magic to call wild beasts to fight alongside Selesnya troops. In quieter times, they tend the animals associated with Selesnya enclaves and
community, and she has many non-Selesnya friends aside from the Guildpact. One of the most active advocates of cooperation among the guilds, she is relying on personal connections with members of other guilds to help that effort.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hades The layers of Hades are called the Three Glooms—places without joy, hope, or passion. A gray land with an ashen sky, Hades is the destination of many souls that are unclaimed by gods or Fiends
body, but in spirit. Even the consuming rage of the Abyss and the devious plotting of the Nine Hells are subjugated to hopelessness in the Gray Wastes of Hades. The plane slowly kills dreams and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, often relying on the roll of a die to determine the results of an action.
3. The DM narrates the results of the adventurers’ actions. Describing the results often leads to another decision point
, which brings the flow of the game right back to step 1.
This pattern holds whether the adventurers are cautiously exploring a ruin, talking to a devious prince, or locked in mortal combat against a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
specific radius. Dim light, also called shadows, creates a lightly obscured area. An area of dim light is usually a boundary between a source of bright light, such as a torch, and surrounding
its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius. Creatures without eyes, such as oozes, and creatures with echolocation or heightened senses, such as bats and true dragons, have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
illumination within a specific radius. Dim light, also called shadows, creates a lightly obscured area. An area of dim light is usually a boundary between a source of bright light, such as a torch, and
blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius. Creatures without eyes, such as oozes, and creatures with echolocation or heightened senses, such as bats and true
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, they might build a warren and make a permanent home there, while continuing to expand the town’s sewers as the community grows. These so-called “city kobolds” live underground but
unnoticed by their larger rivals. If it’s lucky, a tribe of kobolds that is discovered by a group of larger humanoids might form a mutually beneficial arrangement, relying on the humanoids for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
particularly tough and devious goblin called Sprika. She has tamed and trained a Giant Centipede to act as bodyguards. She carries a gnarled staff that glows with a sickly green light, which she calls her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
light with a completely transformed perspective. INFERNAL ORDER OF BATTLE
Whereas demons attack in disorganized mobs, relying on shock and overwhelming numbers to carry the day, devils organize into
a basic unit called a legion. Each legion contains one thousand devils organized as follows:
1 legion = 10 cohorts, commanded by a legate 1 cohort = 10 lances, commanded by a signifier 1 lance = 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Emerald Enclave Members of the Emerald Enclave are spread far and wide across the Sword Coast and the North. They usually operate in isolation, relying on their own abilities and instincts to
. Some are charged with defending sacred glades and preserving the natural balance. At times, however, all members of the order are called together to combat foes great enough to disrupt or destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
man named Sephek Kaltro. Here’s what she knows about Sephek and the victims: “Sephek Kaltro works for a small traveling merchant company called Torg’s, owned and operated by a shady dwarf named
and Sephek found out they were cheating, so he killed them. Maybe, just maybe, Sephek is doing the Frostmaiden’s work.
“I followed Torg’s for a tenday as it moved from town to town. Quite the devious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Shadowfell The Shadowfell, also called the Plane of Shadow, is a gloomy dimension whose sky is a black vault with neither sun nor stars. The Shadowfell overlaps the Material Plane in much the same
hauntings. The dead here earn no rest, no finality, no peace—just a passage into a shadow world of wispy phantoms, mournful groaning, and clanking chains. Valachan The devious hunter Chakuna roams the jungles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
published adventure calls for an ability check, a skill or tool proficiency is often called out: for example, “a character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check can puzzle out the magic
guards’ attention, and there’s not much that stealthier characters can do about it, so relying on individual checks makes more sense. Similarly, don’t use a group check when a single successful check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
and visit horror on those who stumble into their midst. Each sorrowsworn personifies a different aspect of despair or distress. Angry Sorrowsworn Relying on violence to sustain their existence, angry
sorrowsworn—sometimes called the Angry—grow more powerful when their foes fight back. If a creature opts not to attack, though, this sorrowsworn becomes confused, and its attacks weaken. It also has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
area B4 at the first sign of intruders, relying on the distraction of the stirges to escape. 2nd-Level Characters. If the characters are 2nd level, add two stirges to this encounter. B4: Circle Chamber
.
Six myconid adults are here. Two of them (named Agric and Omphalo) are tending to the other four (Craterel, Pleuro, Subrufus, and Virosa), who are standing stock-still in a dream-like trance called
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject it with a special poison. The toxin transforms the old neogi into a bloated, helpless mass of flesh called a great old master. Young neogi
they are as devious as devils when doing so. Neogi buy and sell, but they pose a grave risk to potential patrons that might instead be easily enslaved, so their customers generally consist of desperate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
swaying reeds, There rose a hairy villain, A troll called Snobble Sweed.
He came to gobble children, To line his lair with bones, And pick his teeth with talons, And grind their flesh with stones
closer to their goal. Rangers who have encountered halflings or lived among them know of this effect, and they learn to trust their other senses and their instincts rather than relying on sight. A typical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, boneless mass. Other stories portray Ghaunadaur as an incredibly ancient and ineffable deity, one of the so-called Great Old Ones. Both claims might have merit, because the truth about the time of the
a bitter enemy of Zinzerena, who deceives and uses him as a tool in many of the stories about the Dark Seldarine. Kiaransalee The drow god of vengeance and undeath, called the Revenancer, is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
check, but a crudely made or hastily built trap has a DC of 15. Exceptionally devious traps might have a DC of 25. You must then put some thought into what the characters learn with a successful check
of magical flame can be disabled by shattering one of its glass eyes. Once you know what kind of check is called for, you then determine what happens on a failed attempt to disable the trap
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Gruumsh in between.
— Elminster
Orc Blade of Ilneval Ilneval is Gruumsh’s battle captain, a devious strategist who directs Gruumsh’s soldiers with boldness. Among orcs, warriors that venerate Ilneval
bleached skin of other humanoids (preferably elves), symbolizing their connection with Yurtrus, and are sometimes called “white hands” as a result. Every orc knows that the hands of Yurtrus are the tribe’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, relying on their darkvision to keep watch. 13b. Cargo Hold Ladder. A ladder bolted to a wall climbs to the upper deck (area 13a). Hanging upside down on the ladder is a dead orog in plate armor
and the small asteroid cluster orbiting it called the Tears of Selûne; the water worlds Karpri and Chandos; the noxious ringed planet Glyth; the asteroid cluster of Garden, which is held together by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
goblins drank in a recent game of drink-or-dare. Rift in Reality. The rift leads into the Far Realm to a location called the Feeder Trenches. The Feeder Trenches are described in the “Far Realm Rifts
eventually become slaadi. Rift in Reality. The rift leads to a Far Realm location called Spawn Hollow. Spawn Hollow is described in the “Far Realm Rifts” section at the end of this chapter. X6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. The dread warriors attempt to drag any helpless characters to the pit in the intersection near this room or to area 9, where they throw open the doors. Devious and arrogant, Tarul Var thinks all other
Sword Coast. It also contains historical documents that indicate that Var was searching for the true name of a pit fiend called Baazka. Keys. Tarul Var carries a glyph key attuned to this zone and to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
nation’s borders. The Moonsea. The shores of the Moonsea have long been home to cities that rise swiftly, relying on vigorous trade and gathering powerful mercenaries to their banners, only to
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Unther. Trapped in another world, the people of Unther had succumbed to domination by others. Then among them arose one who called himself Gilgeam, and he reminded them of their former greatness. Under
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Storeroom Shelves and racks in this storeroom hold iron bars of various lengths.
The heavy bars were raw materials for the duergar workshop, left here once the duergar started relying on mithral
discussing the tower in Terran. Toppled Tower. The strange tower is a variant of Daern’s instant fortress called a mudslick tower (see appendix B). Svirfneblin scouts liberated the mudslick tower from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
orders from a heavily armored officer. Another lizardfolk dressed in a robe stands to one side, observing the assembly.
If they have not been called elsewhere, four lizardfolk, one lizardfolk
scaleshield (see appendix C) are in this chamber, awaiting their turn at patrol duty, if they have not been called elsewhere. If the party arrives here accompanied by friendly lizardfolk, the scaleshield