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Divine Contention
underground city known as Southkrypt. For centuries, Kryptgarden Forest has been the home and hunting ground of the ancient female green dragon Claugiyliamatar, better known to many as Old Gnawbone. She
foot a creature travels through the wall, it must spend 4 feet of movement. Furthermore, a creature in the wall’s space must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw once each round it’s in
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
reactions per round but only one per turn.
Dread Counterspell. Vecna utters a dread word to interrupt a creature he can see that is casting a spell. If the spell is 4th level or lower, it fails and
scribe. He spent the better part of his childhood secretly educating himself in his masters’ arts. Once Vecna learned all he could, he massacred the wizards. He then recorded his every foul thought
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
home and hunting ground of the ancient female green dragon Claugiyliamatar, better known to many as Old Gnawbone. She earned her nickname from her habit of gnawing on old kills, and is often seen
wall, it must spend 4 feet of movement. Furthermore, a creature in the wall’s space must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw once each round it’s in contact with the wall, taking 18 (4d8
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to
their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the folk
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your
avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the folk of the world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Involving the Characters Once you’ve identified what your campaign is about, let the players help tell the story by deciding how their characters are involved. This is their opportunity to tie their
story is convincing enough. Suggest alterations to a character’s story so it better fits your world, or weave the first threads of your campaign into that story.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
experience before deciding to become an adventurer? What were the circumstances of your birth? How large is your family, and what sorts of relationships do you have with your relatives? Which people
were the greatest influences on you during your formative years, for better or worse? To answer these questions and more, you can use the tables and the advice in this section to compose a well-developed
Adult Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours. (Any)
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Kindred. All dragons are kin to one another
.
Mossy Sludge. The dragon conjures sludge-like moss that briefly covers surfaces in the lair. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the lair become difficult terrain until initiative count 20 on the next round
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours. (Any)
2
Kindred. All dragons are kin to one another, and
conjures sludge-like moss that briefly covers surfaces in the lair. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the lair become difficult terrain until initiative count 20 on the next round.
Toxic Spores. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
spread fear, suspicion, and deceit better than doppelgangers. Found in every land and culture, they can take on the guise of any individual of any race. Doppelganger
Medium monstrosity
. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Ambusher. In the first round of a combat, the doppelganger has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it surprised.
Surprise Attack. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
room are closed but unlocked. This dormitory nestles in the tree boughs and has round windows overlooking a wooden balcony. Lining the walls are ten child-sized bunks outfitted with patchwork quilts
fact, he’s deciding whether to betray the characters to the hag.) If one or more characters are mean to him, Pud slips off at the first opportunity to alert Skabatha, hoping that his loyalty to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
) at a time. Getting the gold from the Vault of Dragons to Cassalanter Villa takes ten round trips (five per carriage) and the better part of a day. Three invisible imps accompany each carriage, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
each round. Retainers can use their signature attack to make opportunity attacks, even if their signature attack isn’t a melee weapon attack. A retainer gains new features at 3rd, 5th, and 7th level
attack at 7th level (as noted in their stat block), allowing them to make two signature attacks per round instead of one. Gear When a retainer joins the party, they typically carry clothes appropriate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
tie is broken. When it’s a side’s turn, the members of that side can act in any order they choose. Once everyone on the side has taken a turn, the other side goes. A round ends when both sides have
initiative that introduces more uncertainty into combat, at the cost of speed of play. Under this variant, the participants in a battle roll initiative each round. Before rolling, each character or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spread fear, suspicion, and deceit better than doppelgangers. Found in every land and culture, they can take on the guise of any individual of any race. Stealing Secrets. A doppelganger’s adopted
reverts to its true form if it dies.
Ambusher. In the first round of a combat, the doppelganger has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it surprised.
Surprise Attack. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
(commoner) believes she can care for the city’s children better than their parents and works to have the other adults arrested.
2 A priest begins imposing restrictive lifestyle rules on a
(druid) forces marriages between widows and widowers to increase the population.
6 A polis leader (soldier) begins doing sweeps of the surrounding countryside to round up non-citizens and put them to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
a sick or weak kobold who is otherwise unable to contribute to the tribe’s needs. Using hit-and-run maneuvers, fleeing between attacks to better or more secure vantage points. Often their goal is to
attacks over the round instead of having them all act on the same initiative count. Doing this gives the kobolds more opportunities to react to what their enemies do, and makes it harder for players to coordinate their characters’ attacks because not all the kobolds take their actions at the same time.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
simply being scooped up and carted away. Treasure-seekers are likely to fare better if they consider a hag’s booty to be trapped, exercising caution rather than giving in to greed or curiosity
-foot-long beard can see through its eyes. 3 A perfectly smooth, round stone the size of a human’s fist. If placed on the ground, it rolls 20 feet per round toward the nearest source of fresh water. 4 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
The Bowl Repair Challenge The Silver Spirit of the Bowl has 4 Hit Points, and it loses 1 HP for each round that it is not in the Bowl of Plenty. The Silver Spirit cannot enter the bowl until it has
been fixed. Keeping the Spirit Alive. Characters can use healing magic to give the Spirit more Hit Points, but its maximum is 10 Hit Points, and it continues to lose 1 HP each round unless the bowl is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and slashing. For such a strange monster, reduce its effective hit points by half. Or even better, eliminate the vulnerabilities and give the brittle monster fewer hit points. Effective Hit Points
amount of damage it deals every round—has a direct bearing on its challenge rating, and vice versa. You can determine a monster’s damage output in one of two ways. Use the Table. You can start with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
automatic. As the day wears on and the commotion winds down, the camp becomes calmer and better organized. Guards resume their normal routines. If characters haven’t entered the camp before sundown of the
as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath—claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding whether to join
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
automatic. As the day wears on and the commotion winds down, the camp becomes calmer and better organized. Guards resume their normal routines. If characters haven’t entered the camp before sundown of the
effect is the same as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath — claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Angels in the Outlands CoupleOfKooks “If you think you’re prepared for the ultimate struggle between good and evil, the deciding contest between all that is righteous and all that is foul, then to
Spireball has three bases corresponding to its three pedestals. Each time a batter returns from second base to home plate, their team scores 1 point. The round ends when three batters are out, either by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Kubazan receive advice when entering this area: Fickle I’jin urges her host to pull the lever. What harm could it do? Fearless Kubazan insists that his host jump to the platforms, even if others are better
radiating from the statue’s clenched fists. The statue weighs 15,000 pounds and is impervious to damage and spells. Casting a knock spell on the statue causes one of its fists to unclench for 1 round
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
listen to what both have to say before deciding how to act on royal edicts. Most humans know Citadel Felbarr from a distance. They see only a great raised road winding through a vale of broken rock
races other than dwarves moved even the slightest to aid Citadel Felbarr, when more assistance and better coordination might have prevented not only that citadel’s fall, but Sundabar’s as well
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Black Dragon Lairs Black dragons prefer to lair in swamps and jungles—the more dismal and fetid, the better. Within those environs, they favor ruins for their defensibility and dreary aesthetic. When
cylinder of watery filth centered on that point erupts from the ground until initiative count 20 on the next round. Each creature in the cylinder when it appears or that ends its turn there must make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
better.
10 When the dragon is agitated, the regional effects that alter the terrain around the lair create visible changes around the dragon each round.
11 Factions and grudges within the
directs at least one attack each round at such a character.
4 The dragon tries to drive the characters off by emotionally hurting or humiliating them—threatening something they obviously care about
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
better served by having the franchise change headquarters at different stages. Characters might start out in a ship, then move to a castle, then take possession of a unique magical headquarters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
prefers to describe his character’s attitude and actions. Neither style is better than the other. Inspiration encourages players to take part and make a good effort, and awarding it fairly makes the game
better for everyone. Heroism. You can use inspiration to encourage player characters to take risks. A fighter might not normally hurl himself over a balcony to land in the midst of a pack of hungry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
sooner or later. Are two heads better than one? In Demogorgon’s case, the two double the horror and the chaos.
—Mordenkainen
Demogorgon
Huge Fiend (Demon), Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 22
with the spell. Demogorgon doesn’t need to concentrate on the spells, which end on initiative count 20 of the next round. Illusory Duplicate. Demogorgon creates an illusory duplicate of himself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
Initiative, I’ll arrange them in order, starting with the character with the highest Initiative roll. From there, you act in descending order. After everyone acts, that’s the end of the round. The
Initiative order remains the same from round to round for the whole combat. If there’s a tie, I’ll decide which character or creature goes before the other.
Attacks. Each character can make attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
part of the camp but don’t join the fray until their turns during the fourth round. Roleplaying Haayon. If the characters approach peacefully and with a plausible story, Haayon is willing to hear them
out. If they ask about the punished cultists, the giant justifies their humiliation by saying they’re weak. If they serve as a warning to others, all the better. Haayon is a patient and perceptive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
warriors from area S9 join the fray on the third round, and the six griffons circling above join the battle on the fifth round. Arn can also whistle to summon these reinforcements at any time
until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the runestone die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the runestone die is rolled, it is lost, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Thundertree Areas 1. Westernmost Cottage This cottage has seen better days. Cowering in the shadow of an old tree is a crumbled stone cottage with no roof. Weeds are rampant here.
Two twig blights
successful Wisdom (Perception) check challenged by the blights’ Dexterity (Stealth) check. These plant monsters are hungry and fight until destroyed. One round after they attack, the twig blights in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bother with these days.” He gestures at the corpses about the room, “Do try to contain yourselves better than this lot did.”
Caradoc delights in mocking the characters and disrespecting the dead. As
. Once his knight form is defeated, Caradoc rises in his true incorporeal form. On the first round after emerging from the knight’s body, he automatically succeeds on the saving throw his Bound