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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
connect to preexisting mithral mines and natural caverns of the Underdark. The best-known entrance to Undermountain is through the Yawning Portal tavern in Waterdeep, but other routes also exist. A
reclusive and cantankerous archmage named Halaster Blackcloak claims Undermountain as his domain, although his overlordship isn’t widely acknowledged by the dungeon’s other denizens.
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
internal organs of the usual sort. Their bodies are composed of cells, fibers, plasma-like ooze, and clusters of nerves. These nerves enable a plasmoid to detect light, heat, texture, sound, pain, and
weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
At the highest mountain peaks — far above the slopes where trees grow and where the air is thin and the frigid winds howl — dwell the reclusive goliaths. Few folk can claim to have seen a
. Goliaths see females and males as equal in all things, and they find societies with roles divided by gender to be puzzling or worthy of mockery. To a goliath, the person who is best at a job should be
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in the retelling of stories. Each new teller adds a bit of themself to the spell. (Any)
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Nurture. Rearing a child is our best chance to make sure our own stories are passed on. (Any)
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a constant battle against deep gnome miners, who scour the tunnels of the dragon’s lair in search of emeralds.
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An adult silver dragon tries to befriend and draw out a reclusive adult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Lord Viallis’s Tome The crude sketch composed by Sarah shows the monster on the leather-bound cover of the book Lord Viallis was reading. This creature is a representation of the statue in area B7 of
the temple of the Burnt Tongue Cult. Knowing that Candlekeep is the best possible place to learn about a mysterious book, the characters can spend a day or two in diligent research to turn up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
conditions and live peacefully. The region’s best known inhabitants are a trio of fantastically old, fate-weaving witches who go by many names—the Norns, the Graeae, and the Fates among others. These
seers are said to be able to see any creature’s past, future, and true purpose with perfect clarity. However, since many of the realm’s residents are aged, reclusive fortune tellers, none know who among them are the actual Norns, if indeed they exist.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Dispater The cosmos is a grand game. He who knows its rules the best shall win the prize.
— Dispater
Dispater is the foremost arms dealer of the Nine Hells, and perhaps the greatest weapons
discovery that could tip the scales in his favor might be enough to entice him to act against his fellow Lords of the Nine. Given his reclusive nature, gaining an audience with Dispater is difficult at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
giants, reclusive by nature, did their best to discourage lesser giants from destroying the civilizations of the small folk. The death of Queen Neri and the disappearance of King Hekaton have left
Goblin
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Hunters. The families of goblins that are skilled in the use of weapons but not privy to any other special knowledge have the second highest status in the tribe. Hunters are often the best wolf riders
castes that give goblins their reputation for cowardice.
Pariahs. Some goblin families are the lowest of the low, composed of the most dimwitted, least educated, and weakest goblins. They get the worst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their wisdom and their subtle resistance to evil with those who needed it most. However, the Mists find a way to twist even the best of intentions. In the cities of urbane domains like Borca, Darkon
dilettantes, reclusive scholars, correspondents from other domains, and hucksters. At any time, members of the organization might call upon their contacts to uncover some esoteric secret, engage in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
of elven life that others are most familiar with because it’s the age when elves move outside their reclusive communities and interact with the larger world. They strive to have a permanent effect on
endeavors while pursuing its destiny. It isn’t unusual among elves to meet someone who is expert in disparate disciplines, such as a battle wizard who also is a settlement’s best vintner and famous for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
would-be heroes. The Kargat and the Kargatane Darkon’s secret police, the Kargat, is composed of vampires and others supernaturally disposed toward intrigue. Since Azalin’s disappearance (see “Darkon
struggle to contain. Guardian monasteries are hidden in multiple domains, with the best known being Watchers’ Stronghold in Darkon. Power-hungry groups and unscrupulous lore seekers, such as the Kargat and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
favor clothing composed of lengths of cotton or silk cloth called bastras, which are wrapped around the body in various styles. These include the loose, voluminous drapes of a sedentary noble, the
Every meal in Shankhabhumi includes fish, though each city proclaims its own style of preparing it to be the best. In fact, cooking is a competitive discipline at the Shankha Trials. Sagorpuri fish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
buried in a rock slide, badly injured and unable to recall what happened—or the location of the dragon’s lair.
4 A reclusive, eccentric noble who sometimes employs adventurers turns out to be a
tendencies.
2 The head of a local thieves’ guild is a young copper dragon who delights in tales of daring thefts and skims the best stolen art objects as tribute.
3 A young copper dragon needs aid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
moldering condition, and they lend an air of high culture to the undercity court of the Golgari. Fungus Golgari territory is filled with creatures composed of fungus and detritus from the guild’s rot
is the Deadbridge goliath beetle (equivalent to the triceratops in the Monster Manual). Piranha beetles (best represented as a swarm of insects, from the Monster Manual) burrow through the soft earth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Stone Giant Stone giants are reclusive, quiet, and peaceful as long as they are left alone. Their granite-gray skin, gaunt features, and black, sunken eyes endow stone giants with a stern countenance
giants strive to draw shapes out of raw stone, which they believe reveal meaning inspired by their god, Skoraeus Stonebones. The giants appoint the tribe’s best carvers as their leaders, shamans, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
from Fyreen. Many of these creatures were deposited on the nine moons of En (which provide temporary solace at best) or borne safely to other Wildspace systems. Millions more creatures were left to be
vents and inhabited by braxats,* gaj,* megapedes,* remorhazes, ssurran,* and thri-kreen. (Creatures marked with an asterisk are described in Boo’s Astral Menagerie.) Vocath. This moon, composed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
since my last visit. Elf artisans sometimes come out of the Greycloak Hills to sell their goods here, and some of the best-known can sometimes spark impromptu bidding wars over the right to purchase
. Yet should such approach Evereska, its guardians mounted on giant eagles would ensure no ill befell the vale. Unlike cramped and crowded human cities, Evereska is composed of clusters of buildings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
blissfully unaware of the party’s intrusion or show no interest in the characters. A shy or reclusive archfey might not want to be disturbed at all. How and when the archfey crosses paths with the
might feel it’s in their best interest to ally with one or both of them. By swearing allegiance to either queen, an archfey gains the privilege of audiences with the queen and faint assurances that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Stone Giants Stone giants — reclusive, reflective, and inscrutable — take pains to remain apart from the world of sunlight and sky. Only when they’re surrounded by stone do they consider themselves
. Young stone giants practice tirelessly, hoping to prove themselves worthy of assisting the tribe’s best carvers. A stone giant master carver might devote years to finding the best stone before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
reclusive by nature, they are adept at finding out-of-the-way places to settle in. It takes a combination of luck and persistence for an ordinary traveler to find such a place, and often that’s not enough
the traditional sense; they are respected, and their words are heeded, because of the stories they tell. Their best tales deliver practical knowledge within the framework of a mythic saga. An elder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Map a new land. 9 Find a place to establish a colony. 10 Find a natural resource. 11 Hunt a specific monster. 12 Return home from a distant place. 13 Obtain information from a reclusive hermit. 14 Find
the adventurers find out what they must do and why. It can start with a surprise attack, or with the adventurers coming across information by accident. The best introductions arise naturally from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
local militia, or accompanying the town guard on its patrols. Daily rulership is in the hands of the Council of Guilds, composed of the heads of the town’s informal trade groups. These guildmasters
heart, and wishes what is best for Daggerford. She regularly trains with the militia, and is seen in the town wearing armor just as often as she is adorned in the finery befitting her station. She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
as nomads.
Though the Red Tigers are less than comfortable with the present situation, they consider Beorunna’s Well their holy site, so they make the best of things. Bands of Red Tiger tribespeople
World Mountains just north of the Evermoors, is the site of Great Worm Cavern, the ancestral mound of the Great Worm tribe. These Uthgardt are notoriously reclusive; it has been twenty years since the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the best thirty-six savants are admitted into the council, and succession almost always includes an incumbent member’s demise. The savants control members of some duergar clans through magic and
Clan Cairngorm lead quiet lives of art and contemplation in Gracklstugh. Although reclusive and averse to conflict, the giants have sworn an ancient oath of loyalty to the Deepking, and have been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
chamber on the lowest level. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet. The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its
way is under the DM’s control and uses whichever stat block best matches its form. When it ceases to be real, it winks out of existence.
91–00 The object or creature ceases to be an illusion and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
of crystal with silver lids, or a scene in the sky depicted in a tapestry composed entirely of pearls. Another way for a family to demonstrate its wealth is by bestowing lavish gifts on other families
eye toward how the giving can elevate its status. Memnor and his trickery play a role in this “game.” The very best gift (from the giver’s perspective) is one that everyone believes to be far more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Whiskey (both N male human guards). The two are complete opposites: Sigil composed and pleasant, Whiskey uncouth and short-tempered. They have been in the inn’s restaurant for a long time. The outside
were inclined to train them. Also sitting at the table is the elderly Tanas (NG female human scout), who has been watching over the youngsters and doing her best to keep them out of trouble. All three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
often the best wolf riders and know the most about the territory farthest from the tribe’s lair. These individuals hunt game in peaceful times, and in combat they serve as scouts, foot soldiers, and
lower castes that give goblins their reputation for cowardice. Pariahs. Some goblin families are the lowest of the low, composed of the most dimwitted, least educated, and weakest goblins. They get the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
can respond by standing before his sphere and speaking. When he does, his helmeted face manifests, but it’s composed of the sphere’s silvery goo. (For more about Lord Soth, see appendix B.) Unknown to
Passphrase. Casivus tells the characters the passphrase to open the locked door inside the chamber northeast of here (area V16). The passphrase is “buried is best.” Casivus has no wish to leave this shrine or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
or magic items.” If released, Falaster helps the characters as best he can while staying out of harm’s way. Expecting that he might be caught, he obtained and memorized a floor plan of the dungeon
a 10-foot-square barrier composed of vertical iron bars with 6-inch gaps between them — enough room for a rat to saunter through, but too narrow for normal-sized characters to squeeze through. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
willing to trade information for her freedom. She’s willing to guide the characters to Marlos Urnrayle (area B21). Treasure Hedorm keeps the best pickings from the prisoners in a locked wooden chest
holds a ten-foot-tall statue depicting a crude humanoid form composed of earth, boulders, and sharp crystals. One massive, rocky fist is raised above its blunt head. Shattered rubble from an older
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
mound a haunted place best avoided. In truth, the Blue Bears prowl the High Forest and the eastern Delimbiyr Vale, doing their best to remain hidden. Their members visit Stone Stand infrequently, and
reclusive and secretive, yet they are interested to hear what’s afoot in Waterdeep, for they suspect the Margaster family is plotting to attack the fortress and reclaim its ancestral holding. Travelers are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Marches. The section between Triboar and Yartar is an ancient road, relatively flat and composed of tight-fitting stones. East of Yartar, the road becomes a gravel and dirt wagon trail that passes a
belligerently protective treants. Thus, it is best “forgotten.” An immortal druid named Pheszeltan dwells deep in the woods and is willing to offer advice to those with the skill to reach him. Fork
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
more ravens watch from the rafters.
The man is an oni named Gwish. Guildmaster Dusk is the only other guild member who knows Gwish’s true nature. Gwish is reclusive and rarely interacts with the
Dusk has his best interests at heart and pleads for release. G35: Storage Room Lining two walls of this room are four wooden crates and four wooden chests.
The crates contain stolen weapons and