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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or Kezef—usually a warlock or other spellcaster—contacts the comet-borne emissary of an Elder Evil, the emissary can merge with a mortal consciousness to create a larva mage. None of the
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
always straining to peer into another reality that seems to be just beyond my senses.
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I’m uneasy if I can’t see plants growing or feel soil beneath my feet.
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Seeing illness
.
Contacts
The Selesnya Conclave is all about connections, so its members cultivate contacts throughout the guild. The guild also engages in energetic recruitment to draw converts from other
Backgrounds
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stronger than members of other guilds, isolated as they are from the realities of life and death.
RYAN PANCOAST
Contacts
To the extent that the Golgari Swarm acts like a single organism
meaningful connections with others.
Roll twice on the Golgari Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Golgari Contacts table.
Golgari Contacts
d8
Contact
1
One
Backgrounds
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. You can choose your secondary guild or roll to determine it randomly. This secondary guild membership determines a portion of your starting equipment and is also where most of your contacts come from
) into a thought strand that others can potentially read, share, or steal. These thought strands are treated as valuable currency among the Dimir.
Suggested Characteristics
Skilled at infiltration
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
physician. Personas can even be passed down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take advantage of contacts established by the persona’s previous users.
Creating Your Character
At 1st
can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, transforming it into a star spawn seer. Whoever the mortal once was largely vanishes beneath the mass of tumorous skin than builds up in strange whorls all over the seer’s body. The mortal’s
often in the wake of a comet—or perhaps this phenomenon merely signals that star spawn are in the vicinity and available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace
make their way through it.
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Remorhaz;Remorhazes infest the glacier beneath an adult crystal dragon;adult crystal dragon's lair, posing an imminent threat to the dragon’s home and hoard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
questionnaire, “What’s Important to Me?”, in this chapter. Let its questions and your choice of answers direct you to a guild that appeals to you or that sounds like a fun character to play. Read the guild
descriptions in chapter 2 and choose one that appeals to you. Read the descriptions of races and classes in this chapter. Guild membership recommendations are provided for each race and class, should
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sky and tracking the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to
snow structures reminiscent of castles but open to the sky. Glittering crystals scattered about their lairs glow with gathered starlight, and caves or tunnels beneath the ice and snow provide protected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Starting the Adventure Once the players are ready to begin, read or paraphrase the following introductory text: Life in the Tenth District is never dull. A hub of constant activity, it always offers
you’ll need a job that will help you prove your worth.
Today is your lucky day. This afternoon, you received a brief note from one of your contacts: “I heard today from someone who is looking for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
suggested characteristics (personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws). Each guild entry also provides personal contacts; suggestions for your alignment, race, and class; and a list of spells that you can
you. Bonds and Contacts As a benefit of your guild membership, you have contacts both inside and outside the guild. Contacts are useful resources in the urban environment of Ravnica, where a friendly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the characters pass through, read or paraphrase the following text: A majestic vista spreads beneath the dome: the undersea city of Janya. The city’s dark towers are carved with circular windows and
characters take in the beauty of the city, a figure approaches them. The shadows of aquatic residents flit beneath the iridescent magic that protects the undersea city of Janya
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Surprise Audience When the characters emerge from the hatch, read or paraphrase the following: The space beyond is a windowless room with a wooden ceiling only four feet off the floor and a trapdoor
at its center. A smiling mask with peeling paint lies on the floor. From above comes the sound of someone singing an operatic aria.
The characters are in the crawlspace beneath the stage of the Pear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of someone much higher up in the organization. With a lot of ground to cover beneath the City of Towers, Garra kidnapped Caden d’Orien, the only son of Alden d’Orien, forcing Alden to use his position
Boromar Clan crime syndicate, whose members are enemies of Daask. Not wanting to put the Sharn Watch or herself between two criminal organizations at war, Germaine called in a few old contacts to meet with Coal and find out what’s going on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
Varrin’s Proposition Varrin Axebreaker (lawful good, dwarf noble) contacts the characters to enlist their aid in retrieving the key. Varrin’s braided hair and beard are black with streaks of gray. He
wears a loose, comfortable robe over a steel breastplate. Whether Varrin approaches the characters or invites them to a meeting, read the following text: “Thank you for hearing me out. My name is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Varrin’s Proposition Varrin Axebreaker (lawful good, dwarf noble) contacts the characters to enlist their aid in retrieving the key. Varrin’s braided hair and beard are black with streaks of gray. He
wears a loose, comfortable robe over a steel breastplate. Whether Varrin approaches the characters or invites them to a meeting, read the following text: “Thank you for hearing me out. My name is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Event 1: River’s Edge Lulu guides the characters toward Zariel, finding her on the ground of Avernus beneath Elturel. Read or paraphrase the following to set the scene: Elturel hangs above you and
gnats, and a battle rages fiercely beneath it. Thousands of fiends clash in Elturel’s shadow. And at their center stands a being wreathed in flame, striking down demons with tireless fury.
Lulu
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
make camp. When all of them have risen and finished preparing for the day’s travel, read: As you head toward the pyramid temple, you tread across cracked and overgrown flagstones, stepping over
people moving through the woods toward the clearing around the pyramid.
Then, suddenly, the earth shudders and gapes open beneath your feet and you are falling amid the roar of collapsing masonry. Dust
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Mind Flayers? When the characters are hours away from arriving at the Rock of Bral, read: The ship slows unexpectedly. Around you, on all sides, colossal chunks of rock float in the void. Some of
places for pirates to hide.”
As if on cue, a vessel lurking behind a nearby asteroid comes into view. Its enormous spiral shell merges with an open bow, beneath which long tentacles wave as if caught
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the villagers. After learning the scout’s news, Mayor Raven orders the evacuation to begin. Read the following description: The villagers remain eerily quiet as they begin lowering themselves into the
boats. Panic washes over the crowd as cloaked figures emerge at the edge of the cliff above Vogler. The figures linger for a moment, then step off the edge. Wings sweep from beneath their cloaks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
glass pane through which a slight breeze passes, causing the curtain to move. When the characters look behind the curtain, read: A black cloth covers something atop a white marble pedestal. Beneath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
animate and attack them. If this happens, read: The giant roots beneath the hut come to life and pull themselves up out of the mire. The hut and the roots lurch and groan, becoming a lumbering mass that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Skalanthas Strikes! The voyage to Najkir is uneventful until the ship comes within a mile of the island. When that happens, read or paraphrase the following aloud: The sea is calm; the sky is clear
is Skalanthas. He was scouring old shipwrecks when he saw the Wavemount from beneath the sea. Skalanthas no longer permits strange ships to venture this close to his island, and he is Hostile, uncommunicative, and unwilling to accept bribes.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Preface
If you’re reading this, good. That’s really good. Because I’m about to write a bunch more stuff, and if you can actually read it, I won’t be wasting my time. That’s really the optimal
scenario.
However you come by this document — nailed to your door in the night, stomped into the mud beneath a horse’s hooves, or at one of our inviting recruitment drives – I’m glad. In fact, we’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Threshold Evacuation After Belephaion is defeated, read the following: The shaking underfoot continues. Outside the windows, boulder-sized chunks of the city tear free, rising into the air. Beneath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
figure out what magic she used to bewitch her way into a role.
2 A Phlegethan Hospital patient contacts the party, claiming to be the rightful Duke d’Honaire. He has a preternatural ability to bend
replaced by lifelike constructs, while the originals are held captive in the cellar beneath Alexandre du Cire’s House of Wax. A party member is the next target.
5 A crusader hunting the Red Death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Arrival When the characters can see the outside of the shrine, read the following boxed text aloud: The sea splashes on the bottom of a rocky cliff carved to look like a 60-foot-tall dragon with a
entering her lair through the windows, she assumes they are thieves and attacks. The final entrance to the shrine is hidden beneath the waves. A character with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
behind this strange sensation. Then you feel the ground beneath you shift as something moves — a number of a thick, spiky tendrils bursting from the ground.
Two fungal creatures resembling otyughs
, whereupon each bursts into a cloud of sweet-smelling spores as its body dissolves back into the larger mass of fungi filling the cavern. Read the following to the players when the final creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
passengers are safely aboard the Moondancer, read: The crystalline vine coils upward, scraping the sky. From the harbor, you can see similar vines miles from the settlement, having burst out of the world and
the water and into the air! The world falls away beneath you as the Moondancer flies through the clouds and into the starry abyss of night.
Here ends chapter 1. Emergency Airlift If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Ruz Bazaar The main entrance to Ruz Bazaar is near Three Sun Square. When the characters enter the bazaar, read or paraphrase the following text: The covered stone halls of the Ruz Bazaar echo with
-aged merchant (neutral, halfling noble) and the proprietor of a sizable black-market business. If the characters enter his shop, read the following text: The cramped, musty shop is filled with ornate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, the tiefling paladin occultant of the Fellowship of the Golden Mongoose. On the way, Omin Dran contacts them with a request. He wants them to stop in Neverwinter to check on a cache of Acquisitions
whose creations they’ve previously faced has wrought havoc there. That spellcaster, Hoobur Gran’Shoop, is found working in a grisly laboratory beneath the tower, to which the adventurers gain entrance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Meeting Captain Zodge Captain Zodge is expecting the characters. If they choose not to speak with him, he tracks them down eventually. The Flaming Fist has contacts throughout the city, so hiding
in return. When the characters are ready to hear what he has to say, read the following boxed text aloud to the players: “The refugee crisis,” says Captain Zodge, “has stoked fears that Baldur’s Gate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
, read this text: Waves lap against a derelict ship lodged against a ridge of rocks and enormous dragon bones. A faint odor of rot wafts on the sea air, along with the sound of screeching seagulls and
hole in the hull beneath the water line.
If the characters pull the rowboat up to the south (starboard) side of the ship, they can easily tie up the little boat to the derelict’s rigging and climb onto
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
5. Ravenous Rabble When the characters can see this area, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: The coral here glows with a light of its own. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
massive ship that split in two when it was pulled beneath the waves.
The chamber is twice as long in the opposite direction, and the walls of both sides are split by holes that lead into adjoining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the Nether Scroll. When the adventurers arrive at the outer edge of the sandstorm, read: You see a dome-shaped sandstorm, four hundred feet wide, before you. Flashes of purple lightning course through
the roiling storm, and the sound of the sand is nearly deafening. Scoured bones litter the ground beneath it, and the stone of the nearby ruins has been gouged by its ceaseless winds.
The dome of






