before being deciding contain rites

Setting the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Setting the Adventure Lost to time and sand, Cynidicea is barely a memory to the lands where it once prospered. When deciding where to place Cynidicea, consider the following suggestions: Dragonlance

. On the world of Ansalon, Southern Ergoth and the Northern Wastesboth contain arid stretches where Cynidicea might have existed. Forgotten Realms. The ruins of Cynidicea might lie among the dunes of

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

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

return from a raid. The gaze of the One Eye brings madness to many an orc. — Elminster Roleplaying an Orc When you’re roleplaying an orc, the following tables contain possible

Graveyard Temple

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

. During the day, the priests lead funeral rites, care for the graveyard, and offer counsel to those praying for acceptance of their fates. Larger graveyard complexes might also have a vault for storing

level of the temple contains a chapel with benches and a raised dais, which holds an altar and a viewing table for bodies of the deceased. The other chambers of the temple’s first floor contain the

Court of Orestes Locations

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

a successful DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check—though the partially buried sarcophagi in crypts C and E need to be dug out before they can be opened, taking 10 minutes for each one. The crypts contain

lid caked in crumbling candle wax and rotted offerings. Whatever rites were performed here were overseen by a larger-than-life statue in the alcove to the south, a sculpture depicting the upper body of

Fortress Level 2

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

small gold locket on a fine chain (50 gp); if the locket is opened, it is seen to contain a miniature portrait of a human girl and a lock of blonde hair, which floats away into the surrounding water A

headbands and silver bracelets are performing a ritual over the eggs. Two sahuagin priestesses are conducting rites to Sekolah over the unhatched eggs. If the priestesses notice the party, they

Ruinous Citadel Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

spider with a woman’s head. The mounds of webbing contain a few corpses of people and driders, savagely torn apart by spyder-fiends and tossed here. If the characters want to disguise themselves to

troops fighting elsewhere, and Jallizanx is deciding how to give directions the dim-witted kakkuus can be reasonably expected to convey. When they see the characters, the kakkuus rush into melee while

Lower Deck and Cargo Hold

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

the fiendish magic coursing through the webs here. Krell and the other cultists spent many hours here sanctifying the webs and offering rites to Lolth, and the goddess has rewarded them with these

scuttle for cover. These areas contain nothing of interest. 10. Unholy Shrine The floor of this chamber is covered with runes written in blood. A circle has been carved into the floor’s wooden planks

Fortune's Wheel Locations

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

Wheel might contain other table games of your own creation. The buy-in for a table game is 1 razorleaf per game unless anyone is feeling lucky and wants to up the ante. The dealers at each table game

Bounty. Named after a god of revelry, this game is played on a long table embroidered with a flat pattern of an unfolded, twenty-sided die. The game’s dealer is also its deciding piece: a spectator

Halls of the Upper Priesthood

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

rites. He was keeper of the tomes of Terbakar, the greatest library in all lands of the golden age. “Nafik searched, too, for life eternal, and some say he sought to rob the pharaohs of their right

This long corridor has a wooden door at each end. Ancient, rotting black drapes hang loosely over the entrances to four small rooms on each side of the hall. The cells contain only dirt and broken cots

Tier 1 Locations

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

their remains. These warnings are empty threats. The sarcophagi contain only the mummified corpses of the githyanki. G3: Passage of Stars The floor of this hall curves upward to become the walls and

gardens for resources the merchant might exploit. But the naga in area G6 captured them and transformed them into their current forms through sinister rites and excruciating torture. The yuan-ti have no

Headquarters Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

players and the DM. Group Design When selecting a feature, the characters must make decisions together — meaning the players must do the same. Deciding on the features of a headquarters should be a team

could contain a portal or teleportation circle, allowing the characters to travel to distant locations while the stronghold remains behind. There are a lot of perks to being an intern that people

Red Larch Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

twenty workers, and he insists on keeping careful records. Key NPC. The Believers have no formal leader, but if they did, Dornen would be it. He is a longstanding member who serves as the deciding

that begin to smell of death are taken out back and opened. If they contain dead bodies (rare, but it happens), Aerego burns them without a word to the constable or anyone else. Key NPCs. Aerego is a

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here. The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom

. Her jellified undead body is slopped around an ornamental helmet and shackles. (These devices were once used to safely contain the medusa. See area O4.) A thin silver wire connects the helmet and

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