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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
shocking recklessness. Smiler thinks he can accomplish anything with a positive attitude and some death-defying stunt. Although he admits others might end up getting killed by his actions, he believes he
can bend the multiverse to his whims if he tries hard enough. He’s really quite insane.
One of Smiler’s favorite antics is to use a hallucinatory terrain spell to create a little bit of
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
paraphernalia. On one of her less successful adventures, a werewolf bit off her right leg below the knee, and although she avoided being afflicted with lycanthropy, Ezmerelda was sidelined for months. She
herself.
Tarokka Deck. Ezmerelda keeps a deck of tarokka cards in her wagon (chapter 11, area V1). Although the cards aren’t magical, Ezmerelda can use them to perform a card reading for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wooden desks with comfortable matching chairs, as well as overstuffed reading chairs positioned in the corners. Each desk has a drawer containing blank parchment, quill pens, and jars of ink
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Pneumatic Tubes. Thirteen copper pneumatic tubes are fastened to the north wall, with a shelf of empty copper canisters below them.
Pneumatic Tubes The tubes connect to various other locations in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Reading Niche Desks. In the middle of the room stands a row of desks. Seated behind one of the desks is Spite Harrowdale (NE male Rashemi human archmage who speaks Abyssal, Common, Dwarvish
wand with a light cantrip cast on the end of it and reading a bone-dry biography of Ahghairon, the archwizard who founded Waterdeep. If the characters are being led through Dweomercore by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
8. Student Dormitories Each room contains identical furnishings: Pneumatic Tubes. A row of five pneumatic tubes is attached to one wall. These tubes are labeled with their destinations and connect to
the reading niche (area 6), the headmaster’s office (area 15a), Wormriddle’s workshop (area 23c), the kitchen (area 27a), and the study hall (area 39).
Bed and Footlocker. Against the far wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
can’t be done until every bit of treasure inside it is removed. Only Strahd can open the two means of entry: a sealed adamantine door set into the base of the tower on the north side, and an adamantine
unlocked wooden coffer with four compartments, each one containing a potion of greater healing. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is lying atop the coins on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, enchantments, and physical torments. She intends to try a more powerful form of mind-reading after she can pull together materials. Miresella This young woman from Baldur’s Gate came to Parnast with a caravan
trying the “catch more flies with honey” approach to win his freedom. Talis’s kindness is entirely false, but it might confuse the characters as a red herring. Caemon doesn’t know much, and he is a bit of a kind-hearted fool.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, enchantments, and physical torments. She intends to try a more powerful form of mind-reading after she can pull together materials. Miresella This young woman from Baldur’s Gate came to Parnast with a caravan
ritual and is trying the “catch more flies with honey” approach to win his freedom. Talis’s kindness is entirely false, but it might confuse the characters as a red herring. Caemon doesn’t know much, and he is a bit of a kind-hearted fool.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
system to deliver them to the academy’s students. The assignments involve reading books, completing experiments, and drafting essays on various arcane topics. The headmaster’s chair has an antipathy
the chair. Pneumatic Tubes. The tubes connect to various other locations in Dweomercore and in Muiral’s Gauntlet (level 10). From left to right, the tubes are labeled with their destinations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Plot Points Plot points allow players to change the course of the campaign, introduce plot complications, alter the world, and even assume the role of the DM. If your first reaction to reading this
table with a bit of material prepared or specific encounters in mind. A player who isn’t prepared or who doesn’t feel like DMing can choose to not spend a plot point that session. For this approach to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
adventure as a player, stop reading now! Unless you want to keep going, that is. Because seriously, it’s not like anyone’s going to stop you. After all, information is power — in an Acquisitions Incorporated
campaign, and in life. Maybe you having a bit of an inside track is just what this adventure needs to make it really pop, and to keep the DM from getting all, “Ooh, look at me! I’m the one with the secrets!” I mean, can you believe how smug they are? It’s like they’re just begging you to turn the page …
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
11. Student Dormitories Each room contains identical furnishings: Pneumatic Tubes. A row of five pneumatic tubes is attached to one wall. These tubes connect to the reading niche (area 6), the
comforts, including silk bedsheets, soft furs from exotic beasts, a bowl of fresh fruit, a censer of burning incense, and a cushioned wicker reading chair. Skrianna’s Diary. Skrianna keeps a diary in her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
empathy for all who suffer. 5 I’m oblivious to etiquette and social expectations. 6 I connect everything that happens to me to a grand, cosmic plan. 7 I often get lost in my own thoughts and
need to win arguments overshadow friendships and harmony. 5 I’d risk too much to uncover a lost bit of knowledge. 6 I like keeping secrets and won’t share them with anyone. Other Hermits This hermit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Irritable 10 Ponderous 11 Quiet 12 Suspicious Useful Knowledge In a sentence, describe one bit of knowledge the NPC possesses that might be of use to the player characters. The NPC might know something as
characters who uncover an NPC’s ideal can use what they’ve learned to influence the NPC in a social interaction (as discussed in chapter 8). Ideals can connect to alignment, as shown on the NPC Ideals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
characters. 6 A warm sponge cake cools on a dusty stone ledge. Its sweet, strawberry aroma wafts through the otherwise dingy passage. A note reading “DO NOT EAT” rests below its porcelain serving dish
Drowned Nations, a flooded expanse of rank, lukewarm reservoirs and the swampy tunnels that connect them. An enormous drain linked to the Elemental Plane of Water rests in the turbid depths. It’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
which its districts are named. High walls along the top of each spire separate the rich from the riffraff, and two huge iron bridges connect Maygel to Dohin and Karal. Each district is divided into an
characters to collect the debt and “rough him up a little bit.” She fails to mention the buyer is a cloud giant. 2 A death tyrant claiming to be the deceased founder of the Xanathar’s Guild on Toril hires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
adventures, a werewolf bit off her right leg below the knee, and although she avoided being afflicted with lycanthropy, Ezmerelda was sidelined for months. She commissioned a master artisan to craft a
her wagon (chapter 11, area V1). Although the cards aren’t magical, Ezmerelda can use them to perform a card reading for the characters (see chapter 1), like the one that can be performed by Madam Eva
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
matter spun away into the silvery void. Within some of them, a vein of pearl-like material held a bit of the deity’s rejuvenated supernatural vitality, which spontaneously created a habitable
.
A Morkoth’s Lair A morkoth claims dominion over an entire island, and it also maintains a central sanctum on that isle. This lair is most often a twisted network of narrow tunnels that connect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
(although Quill’s prison is a bit different, as described below). A creature that climbs through the window emerges from the painting without damaging it. If one of the paintings is damaged, the window in
in slime that prevents anyone from exiting through it. Arrant Quill (see the accompanying stat block) is sitting in a chaise longue, protected by his mind blank spell and occupying his time by reading
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
negotiating with a deadly lovesick monster by way of pantomime and crude art scratched on cavern walls. (The books in the nest are evidence that Raah can understand at least a bit of Common, which might also
Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check to quickly assess Raah’s reading material determines that the ancient deep crow is highlighting everything, no matter how good or bad the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
sentence when reading aloud: Stone stairs descend from Hallix Mausoleum to a large subterranean chamber with stone coffins sitting on sturdy shelves. Part of the west wall has collapsed, creating an opening
labeled “Healing Use Only.” C7: Fountain Room If the characters minimized the water pressure in area C8, omit the first sentence when reading aloud: Rusted pipes run along the walls and ceiling, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
god of misfortune floating at a far-flung edge of the Astral Plane. From here, portals connect to locations across the multiverse. Colcook. Colcook (lawful evil, tiefling assassin) is friendly and eager
, Colcook encourages them to play and win at the Platinum Rooms’ games to gain access to Shemeshka’s chambers with minimum disruption. Platinum Room Portals. Three portals here connect to the gaming events
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of dwarf warriors in plate armor. Crumbling Bridges. The bridges connect area V4 to adamantine doors that seal off areas V6, V7, and V8. The eastern half of the northern bridge and the western half of
the dwarf’s age, his eyes are steady and bright. “I wasn’t expecting anyone,” he says plainly. “As you can see, the place is a mess. Perhaps you should come back later, after I’ve tidied up a bit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
and majestic, rising at a slight angle toward the south. Wall torches light four flights of stairs that connect wide landings. Water thunders in torrents past both sides of the stairs and underneath
places a hand into the impression, the water column flows backward for the next 10 minutes. Creatures that enter the column are gently ushered up to area P65. P58: Reading Room The walls, ceiling, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
to jump the gap falls 10 feet into area S7. S18: Security Station This is a complex location, so review it carefully before reading the following text to the players to set the scene: This area is
brightly lit by crystal sconces spaced along the walls. The floor is one large balcony that overhangs a supply room on the lower level, with a glass staircase to connect them. Cables stretch between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
. Bookshelves stand against the walls. Piles of books rest on a reading table in the middle of the room. The air reeks of moldy paper. Doors exit to the north, east, and south.
A beautiful, slender
force. The succubus, which calls itself Idalla, claimed the scholar’s library for its own and spends much time here reading through the collected lore. It learned of Khundrukar’s history from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
otherwise help them. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is hidden at the inn, the Keepers of the Feather don’t reveal where the treasure is until they know the characters
incriminating in his room. The footlocker and the wardrobe contain nothing but common clothes and travel wear. Rictavio’s Journal. The journal on the desk is a bit of artifice that Rictavio created to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
secret exists before its details can be sussed out. To that end, Candlekeep’s vast library is something of a defense in and of itself: for every bit of hidden lore of potentially great power that lies
court-facing towers in the north wall, called the “necessariums” by the monks, are the main places in which visitors interact with the treasures of Candlekeep. They are honeycombed with reading rooms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
appendix C for their stat blocks). The hypnos magen telepathically orders intruders to leave the area. Defying this order prompts the magen to attack. The iron door at the base of the observatory is
fairy whispering in its ear), the Haunted (with a demonic shadow terrorizing it), and the Fool (performing a handstand). Each of the five scripts is cursed. Anyone who spends an hour reading a script
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
futile because of the maze’s regenerative capabilities, but every time he pries a little bit more of the floor away, Jitterjaws gnaws at the hole to work it just a bit larger. Given another day or two
unlocking the tome’s secret lore and believed it could be interpreted in this chamber. Alas, the magical nature of this room doesn’t enhance reading comprehension. Undaunted, Klaudel summoned Jomlus to read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bit, he was simply called Screve. However, he had more than a few other names throughout his career as a slinger of magic, including Brutar the Bloody, Murst the Merciless, and That Wizard Who Fried
, pistons, sprockets, screws, bolts, and countless other mechanical bits — all of which twitch and slide across the floor as if drawn together by some unseen force. The pieces connect and entwine to take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Kir Sabal An ancient monastery overlooks the jungle from its perch on the cliff of a tall plateau. Stone steps and rickety walkways connect the various buildings, the lowest of which is 500 feet
themselves in this antechamber by washing with scented oils, reading from inspirational scrolls, and painting labyrinthine patterns onto their beaks, hands, and feet. 1E. Shrine. A life-size wooden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
unarmed and unarmored. Their names and descriptions are as follows:
Anaïs Bellefleur (chaotic good tiefling) smokes foul-smelling cigars, has a bellowing laugh, and enjoys ale a bit too much.
Jetta
who spends 1 minute reading the ledger can verify that the casino’s vault contains roughly 5,000 gp in coinage. A16: Security Office Employee-Only Area Five desks face the west wall, which is covered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the heart of the old house. The stairs connect the servants’ closet (area N4f) with the cellar (area N4s). Lady Wachter uses this staircase to reach her secret cult lair (area N4t). N4h. Servants
key so that Leo can’t be raised from the dead. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is in the iron chest that contains Leo Dilisnya’s bones. N4p. Library The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bears is missing. A successful DC 12 Intelligence (Religion) or Wisdom (Perception) check determines that the holy symbol of Moradin was once on the tabard, but only a bit of the flame remains. She
your vantage point forty feet above the deck, you can see dozens of crew members below. All wear the livery of Dran Enterprises, and most carry swords and crossbows. Rigging and rope ladders connect