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remains unknown.
Cruel Puppet Masters. An eye of fear and flame often chooses to appear during times of uncertainty, such as after a group's devastating defeat or when an individual contemplates some
to murder an innocent, with the argument that not doing so will result in some greater evil taking place. Ultimately, the success or failure of the task is of less interest to the eye of fear and
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities
.
Returned Masks. Adventurers who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth approximately 100 gp, based on its
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Cling to Life (Recharges after a Long Rest). The first time Zargash would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, he instead drops to 1 hit point.
Special Equipment. Zargash wears a bat
defeat seems inevitable, he casts gaseous form on himself and flees, leaving his allies to fend for themselves.
League of Malevolence
The League of Malevolence is an odious assemblage of villains
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4
shadow plays without weight or substance.
Returned Masks. Adventurers who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
second lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities
.
Returned Masks. Adventurers who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth approximately 100 gp, based on its
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities, which manifest as separate beings
who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth approximately 100 gp, based on its composition and craftsmanship
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
individual skill. They have a compulsion to keep score, counting their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to others. Goliaths love to win, but they see defeat as a prod to improve their
little chance of survival, especially an older or weaker one. Goliaths have little pity for adults who can’t take care of themselves, though a sick or injured individual is treated, as a result of
Aarakocra
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versa.
The idea of ownership baffles most aarakocra. After all, who owns the sky? Even when explained to them, they initially find the notion of ownership mystifying. As a result, aarakocra who have
the Wind Dukes long ago to defeat the Queen of Chaos’s monstrous champion, Miska the Wolf-Spider.
When plunged into Miska’s body, the chaos in his blood sundered the rod and scattered its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Determining Victory At the end of the battle, count the group’s victories to determine the result of the battle. Victory Results Victories Result
0 Crushing Defeat
1-2 Defeat
3
Pyrrhic Victory (1,000 gp reward)
4-5 Victory (2,500 gp reward)
6+ Decisive Victory (5,000 gp reward)
Crushing Defeat Ularan Mortus claims the ruinstone. Leilon is sacked and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Quest Goals To succeed in this quest, the characters must survive the battle. If they achieve any result other than “Crushing Defeat,” they’ll earn a reward from the town council (see “Determining Victory” for instructions on calculating victory results).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
closest translation of their name in Common. They are often found poring over ancient texts detailing battles, seeking to better understand the tactical decisions that result in victory and defeat. Rampart
Bond Boon: Rampart’s commanding presence rubs off, and when you’re trying to avoid campus security, your fellow students always help you lie low.
Bond Bane: Library books you need inexplicably go missing at key times, especially those about history. As a result, you can’t pull all-nighters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
direct confrontation with the Cassalanters will likely result in defeat for the characters, or — if the characters and the Cassalanters both escape with their lives — their arrest for assaulting nobility
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
jaws. Rather than chasing prey, they use their supernatural gaze to turn creatures to stone and then consume these victims at their leisure. While basilisks are most comfortable in subterranean lairs
more unusual beings that had dire encounters with a basilisk. Roll on or choose a result from the Petrified Basilisk Victims table to inspire the statues that might appear in a basilisk’s hunting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the face of increased Daask attacks against the clan, and some of Ilyra’s influence has eroded as a result. Halak Boromar is the family’s chief enforcer. A recent immigrant from the Talenta Plains
gnome, is the lone non-halfling in the Boromars’ inner circle. He serves as Saidan’s chief advisor and the organization’s intelligence expert. The family looks to Castar to come up with a plan to defeat Daask, but so far none of his ideas have worked.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
adventure hooks and affect the characters’ lives directly. In the middle, they make great turning points as the characters’ fortunes reverse — rising after a defeat or falling after a victory. Near the end
of a campaign, such events serve as excellent climactic episodes with far-reaching effects. They might even occur after the story has ended, as a result of the characters’ actions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
+ 2d10; generate a separate DC for each one. Consult the Pit Fighting Results table to see how the character did. Pit Fighting Results Result Value 0 successes Lose your bouts, earning nothing. 1
An opponent swears to take revenge on you.* 2 A crime boss approaches you and offers to pay you to intentionally lose a few matches.* 3 You defeat a popular local champion, drawing the crowd’s ire. 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
achieve such a summoning, though I am sure he didn’t intend this result. Imbecile!
“I can save you months of research — time we clearly don’t have. The information I found here has confirmed my
, saying, “The walls here literally have ears, and echoes linger forever.” Only his home is secure enough to serve as the place from which to plan the demon lords’ defeat.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
-take of the players describing what they want their characters to do, and the Dungeon Master telling the players what happens as a result. On a large scale, that might involve the characters spending a
characters and other creatures swinging weapons, casting spells, maneuvering for position, and so on—all in an effort to defeat their opponents, whether that means killing every enemy, taking captives, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
objects or creatures to smash. Gruesome Gluttons. Ogres eat almost anything, but they especially enjoy the taste of dwarves, halflings, and elves. When they can, they combine dinner with pleasure, chasing
freely with goblinoids, orcs, and trolls, and practically worship giants. In the giants’ complex social structure (known as the ordning), ogres rank beneath the lowest giants in status. As a result, an ogre will do nearly anything a giant asks. “Worst. Dancers. Ever.”
— Riddlefiddle the Satyr, on ogres
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
what they are. A bulette loves halfling meat the most, and it is never happier than when chasing plump halflings across an open field. A bulette has no lair, but roams a hunting territory up to thirty
come together only to mate, resulting in a bloody act of claws and teeth that usually ends with the male’s death and consumption.
Arcane Creation. Some sages believe the bulette is the result of a mad
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
sown with too many traps, and if the characters are victimized over and over again as a result, they are likely to take steps to prevent further bad things from happening. Because of their recent
for you to describe what happens next, the players should be specific about how they want to defeat the trap. Simply stating the desire to make a check isn’t helpful for you. Ask the players where their characters are positioned and what they intend to do to defeat the trap.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the goblins are searching for pieces of the titular shattered obelisk. Chasing down the goblins reveals their connection to a sobering plot against Phandalin. The characters learn that mind flayers who
behest of their leader, a psionic goblin who calls himself Ruxithid the Chosen. To keep the town safe, the characters must travel to Zorzula’s Rest, defeat Ruxithid, and rescue the kidnap victims. Once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
defeat became inevitable, the two unleashed their full might. Tarkanan’s power reduced the early towers to rubble, and the Lady of the Plague called forth a horde of disease-infested vermin.
For
driven mad by the ghosts of those who died when the tower fell. Others claim that House Vadalis has been trying to magebreed super-soldiers, and the Ravers are the result of failed experiments. Only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Wilderness Encounters table to determine what the party meets. When an encounter occurs, the adventurers gain XP if they defeat the monsters. Each creature’s stat block has the XP value for one
monster of that sort. Multiply that value by the number of creatures encountered, then divide the total equally among the characters. Wilderness Encounters Day
Roll Night Roll Result 1–2 1–3 Stirges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Darklords are deadly or possess foul gifts from the Dark Powers, many pose little threat in battle. Their menace is the result of capabilities beyond physical prowess. Darklords Are Active. Darklords might
concept of how long they’ve lived, how many times they’ve died, or why they returned to life. Should a Darklord fall, the temporary defeat lasts until they’re restored by the Dark Powers. In their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
wears a rusty chain shirt under his robe and likes to thwart enemy spellcasters by enveloping them in the area of a silence spell. If defeat seems inevitable, he casts gaseous form on himself and flees
Languages Common
Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Cling to Life (Recharges after a Long Rest). The first time Zargash would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, he instead drops
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
is stolen (see “Stolen Goods” below). Roleplaying Nezzarum. Nezzarum has been waiting here in the hope that adventurers would come and defeat Xia and her cult, knowing that he isn’t strong enough to
defeat them on his own. If combat breaks out in T12 and Nezzarum is aware of it (either because Xia comes and implores the statue of Orcus for aid or because he notices the battle unfolding from his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
detected, a combat encounter or social interaction might result. Stop a Ritual The plots of evil cult leaders, malevolent spellcasters, and Fiends often involve rituals that must be foiled. In a
to completion when the characters arrive, imposing a time limit. The ritual’s completion might have immediate consequences, too. Take Out a Single Target A villain the characters seek to defeat is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
typically cooperate with one another only to defeat more powerful prey. Most demonstrate no interest in creating things or in communicating with other creatures, including their own kind. Many grells
pursue methods of traveling between worlds and planes of existence. They sometimes slip onto star-faring vessels or enter portals heedless of their destination. Roll on or choose a result from the Grell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
avenge the defeat of Captain Azmadian and the Dark Star by killing the characters in the streets. Gadaric Main, the proconsul to Prince Andru of Bral, has given these emissaries diplomatic immunity. As a
result, there’s no one to stand in the elves’ way. If he is present, Krux fights alongside the characters but is poisoned for the duration of the fight, due to his drunkenness. If the characters are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
three rounds to flee or attempt to disarm the device.
8 A skycoach crashes through the wall. Is this an attack, or the result of sabotage?
The Villain 1d12 Villain
1 A dragonmarked
magical weapon.
4 Defeat a rival.
5 Open a planar portal.
6 Summon fiends or undead.
7 Overthrow a peer or superior.
8 Cause a riot in the Cogs.
9 Start a war
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
point, the opponent accepts blame for summoning the oni and helps the characters defeat it. Aftermath Once the danger is dealt with, the characters must decide what to do about the unconscious students
so would mean openly admitting that they snuck into the Furygale Repository. Should Strixhaven faculty members find out about the characters sneaking into the repository, the characters are warned that further rule-breaking will result in disciplinary consequences.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Crushing End. If damage reduces Shemshime to 0 hit points, Shemshime instead drops to 1 hit point unless the damage is the result of Shemshime being crushed by an object
the Book Destroying the book does nothing to defeat or otherwise impede Shemshime. Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme is a Tiny object with AC 14, 15 hit points, a damage threshold of 15 (see “Damage Threshold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
significant amount of time, the area starts to warp in response to the abyssal energy that churns within it. If a demonic infestation is left unchecked, a portal to the Abyss is the result, and more and
be long delayed as a result, but the portal’s opening on the other plane remains a lurking threat until it is closed. As more demons find and use the portal, the Abyss becomes strongly linked to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
tables below to randomly generate an event to inspire your imagination. The attempt to justify a random result can reveal unforeseen possibilities. To get started, select a world-shaking event category
becomes the prevailing trait that defines the era, the characteristic for which it is remembered. Name the person (or people) whose death, defeat, or loss opened the door for this leader to take power