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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
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1/day each: dimension door, enlarge/reduce, mage armor, plant growthThe students of Quandrix College—first as Quandrix apprentice;apprentices and then as pledgemages—immerse themselves
natural reality.
Quandrix Scholars
The scholars of Quandrix College focus on the mathematical principles that govern reality. Through these formulas, they can manipulate properties of matter and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
lair of a legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
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An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college
and must be convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Character Creation The Mists of Ravenloft drift across worlds, sowing fear and abducting unsuspecting souls. These forces don’t claim individuals at random, though. The fear of innocents, the turmoil
whether the Dark Powers of Ravenloft have exerted their influence upon you, granting you a double-edged supernatural gift. Subclass Options. Consider choosing the College of Spirits bard or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Studies and Philosophy Lorehold College is devoted to the study of history, broadly understood to include the various aspects of culture, behavior, and social relationships that shape historical
with Prismari College in the field of art history, with some students splitting their studies between the two colleges. Lorehold mages use their magic to unearth secrets and share illumination. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Choosing a College At Strixhaven, students choose their colleges at the start of their second year. But even during a character’s first year, you make college-related decisions for your character
, such as a background choice. From the start, your character is making decisions that will lead to their eventual college choice. Chapter 1 describes each of the colleges. How do you decide which of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Studies and Philosophy The curriculum of Witherbloom College focuses on various sciences, revolving around the life sciences. Biology, ecology, botany, chemistry, and related sciences combine with
of framing the core division in the college’s philosophy: is growth or decay the driving force in nature? The philosophy of the root (growth) focuses on life and its irrepressible drive to thrive. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Zuggtmoy’s spores drive him to seek a densely populated area where he can spread his contagion. It’s also possible the party arrives at Gracklstugh involuntarily. Duergar slavers scour the Underdark in search
of new “merchandise,” and they might deceive or outright capture the characters and bring them to their city’s slave markets. The random encounters in chapters 2 and 3 can easily set up this scenario.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
6 An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be
convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
7 An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
remaining citizens of Elturel. Even so, random demons, devils, and other creatures have infiltrated the city. The characters have time to learn about Elturel’s situation and enact a way to save the city
River Styx, to be met by the ordered forces of Avernus attempting to drive them back. This battle continues for the entirety of the characters’ stay in Elturel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the marauders, who consist of at least an ogre and some bugbears. Harbin is offering a 100 gp contract to any group that can drive the marauders and any goblin companions away. If the party pursues
encourages the characters to keep up the pressure on the Cragmaw goblins. He offers the party a 500 gp reward if they can locate Cragmaw Castle and defeat or drive off the band’s leader. Sildar suggests
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
to drive the action of a campaign: Evil Cult. Wicked cultists infiltrate a peaceful realm to free an ancient evil entity trapped in a dungeon. Releasing the entity would surely spell the realm’s doom
symbolize the decadence and corruption of civilization, and mages are the classic villains of these settings. Magic items are therefore rare and often dangerous. Consider conflicts like these to drive the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
affected location. The descriptions of the following supernatural regions summarize the region, present a table of potential effects within the affected area, and note triggers for a random effect. Feel
-radius sphere centered on one random creature in the region. Each creature in the sphere that isn’t undead regains 3d6 hit points. Each undead creature in the sphere takes 3d6 radiant damage. 13–18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
can also help you create connections among the characters in your party. Those tables describe family relationships, current and former romantic connections, random acquaintances, past rivals, and many
other ties that form among people in different guilds. Let these tables inspire you as you think about the circumstances that bring your party together. Although conflicts among the guilds drive much
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Quandrix Scholars The scholars of Quandrix College focus on the mathematical principles that govern reality. Through these formulas, they can manipulate properties of matter and space, as well as
abstract and conceptual space such as the mind, probability, and the flow of magic itself. Quandrix Students The students of Quandrix College—first as apprentices and then as pledgemages—immerse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
third séance (see the following “Séances” section). Use ambient haunts and the atmosphere-building tips from earlier in this chapter to drive the adventure toward a dramatic scene where it feels
following tables offer glimpses of specific spirits haunting the house. To generate a random ambient haunt, roll on the Spirits of the House table to determine what spirit manifests, then the Spectral
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
characters leave and take a long rest before confronting Sparkrender, or if they flee from combat with Sparkrender and return after they’ve rested. Another possibility is that the characters drive
of combat (on initiative count 0, after everyone else has acted), a random magical effect occurs, caused by the magical lights that swirl around the rotunda. These lights are manifestations of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
was planning to take her boys to find safety. High Overseer Thavius Kreeg is the leader of the city, and Harkina hopes that he is working on a plan to rescue survivors and drive away the devils. If
own.
If the characters bring NPCs along, it increases the chances of having an encounter as the party moves from one location to another. Whenever you roll the d20 to determine random encounters (see “More Encounters in Elturel”), an encounter takes place on a roll of 9 or higher.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
of 15 or higher notices the spiders readying to attack. As soon as the spiders attack, Rosintar hurls a rock at a random character, then fights viciously to drive the intruders away. If the treant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
their magic to drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. All the book’s writing is backward. Pity He’s an Elf is a collection of illustrated short stories about an elf adventurer named Aethyn
on each of the creature’s turns in a random direction and makes a croaking noise that can be heard out to a range of 30 feet. Any creature that licks the clockwork toad must succeed on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
add even more danger to the fight. After 3 rounds of combat, Mother Stag approaches and pretends to drive the treant away. See “Offer of Help” below. Perilous Exploration. As the party continues on
party. A failed check triggers a random effect. Roll a d4 to determine the effect, which targets the character or characters with the lowest check: Heavy, spiked nuts the size of mace heads fall from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
direction of a relevant work in the collection (if it exists). Treasure. Among the candles in the alcove sits a partially melted candle of invocation of a random alignment that has 1 hour of use remaining
characters, begging them to help him get out of the tower before more Fiends arrive. This is a ploy to drive the characters toward any Fiends surviving on the floors below. If none remain, he either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. If you want your campaign to move at a quick pace, run only these encounters. In doing so, you don’t have to worry about random encounters and setting up details of the journey such as who keeps
watch when the characters camp. If you prefer to emphasize the dangerous nature of the adventuring life for lower-level characters, random encounters can be used to create additional tension along the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
telepathy to politely instruct the intruders to leave the area. If the intruders behave threateningly or ignore its warnings, the magen tries to drive them away using suggestion spells, or failing that
guests or servants learn one random fact from the Ythryn Lore table. Y19c. Council Chambers These chambers served as offices for bureaucrats who ran the citadel’s day-to-day operations. Each room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Each step provides tables from which you can select the basic elements of your adventure. Alternatively, roll on the tables and see how the random results inspire you. You can mix up the order of the
steps.
1. Identify the Party’s Goals
The Dungeon Goals table provides common goals that drive or lure adventurers into dungeons. The Wilderness Goals table provides similar inspiration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
harm. They adapt quickly to almost any natural setting and occasionally offer supernatural gifts to those they glom onto. But a blizzard can drive a chwinga insane, causing it to behave unpredictably
throw or be poisoned for the next hour. If this isn’t the characters’ first random encounter with a chwinga in Icewind Dale, you can substitute another gift for the frozen berry, such as a handful of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
bestows a gift on any paladin or good-aligned fighter in the party: an amulet of health. He also promises to keep more cultists from reoccupying the monastery after the characters drive them out, and he
Jurth in a random encounter in the mine (area M22). M19. Slave Pens At the end of this tunnel, three cell-like rooms have been excavated from the rock. Iron bars wall off each one, with a chain and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
crops withered and wells undrinkable for 1d4 days after its passing. Thrym’s Howl. These bone-chilling blizzards drive a wall of wind and snow like a living glacier. The storm projects extreme cold (see
of hit points. The increase lasts until the creature finishes a long rest, at which time the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or be cursed with a random form of lycanthropy (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
cover debts, and the books that remain aren’t particularly valuable. Use the Random Books table (see chapter 4, area K37) to determine the subject matter of a particular book. A section of the
practices yet did not die (this is a forgery; the actual grimoire would drive a reader mad) A very old letter to Lady Lovina Wachter (an ancestor) from one Lord Vasili von Holtz, thanking Lovina for her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
locations. Outer City Random Encounters d20 Encounter
1–6 No encounter
7–10 Harmless interaction (roll on table G)
11–16 Denizens (roll on table H)
17–20 Threat (roll on
, she points toward the sky and whispers, “The stars aren’t right. The dark times are coming.”
9 Several cackling, half-dressed gnomes are covered in body paint and drive a wheeled contraption down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
locations. Outer City Random Encounters d20 Encounter 1–6 No encounter 7–10 Harmless interaction (roll on table G) 11–16 Denizens (roll on table H) 17–20 Threat (roll on table I) Table G: Outer
are coming.” 9 Several cackling, half-dressed gnomes are covered in body paint and drive a wheeled contraption down the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
hallucinations that inevitably drive them to violence or death. Dreadful Visions. The madness of Belashyrra is tied to sight: images that can’t be unseen, horrific hallucinations, the fear of blindness and
Belashyrra. One random eye ray of Belashyrra’s shoots from that eye at a target of Belashyrra’s choice that it can see. The eye then closes and disappears. Belashyrra creates a wave of madness. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, the Big Foot ignores any creature that gained the blessing of That-Which-Endures by submerging in all four pools in area 2. It targets one random creature each round, which must succeed on a DC 12
to expand the sewer system beyond the prototype. But then creatures native to the plane of filth came through the gate in the wrong direction. After hiring mercenaries to drive the creatures back, the