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Human
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Lair
Ogrémoch is normally found in the depths of elemental earth, choosing caverns with black crystals and jagged rock spikes to serve as his throne room. He can enter the Material Plane
his dominion over the rock and stone around him to take lair actions on the Elemental Plane of Earth, or in any elemental earth node (including the Black Geode, described in chapter 5). On initiative
Sage
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
master in your fields of study.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead
, sometimes as a means toward other ideals.
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Personality Trait
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I use polysyllabic words that convey the impression of great erudition.
2
I’ve read every book in the
Symbol
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
stepping on the glyph, removing another object covering it, approaching within a certain distance of it, or manipulating the object that holds it. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the most
Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speaks only in
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
shell, shiny black and opaque. When an egg is close to hatching, the shell becomes translucent, allowing the light from the unborn wyrmling’s wings to shine through.A Solar Dragon’s Lair
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
Blackrazor
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian.
You gain a +3 bonus to
feet.
The weapon can speak, read, and understand Common, and can communicate with its wielder telepathically. Its voice is deep and echoing. While you are attuned to it, Blackrazor also understands
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
shell, shiny black and opaque. When an egg is close to hatching, the shell becomes translucent, allowing the light from the unborn wyrmling’s wings to shine through.A Solar Dragon’s Lair
A
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
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Shroud Tattoo. Prisoner 13 can’t be targeted by divination spells or any feature that would read her thoughts, and she can’t be perceived through magical scrying sensors. She can&rsquo
. Black and gray smoke and shadows coil down her left arm, ending in runes on the fingers of her left hand.
Knotwork. Purple and blue knotwork and runes run down her right arm, across the back of her right
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague posing a question you have not yet been able to
convey the impression of great erudition.
2
I’ve read every book in the world’s greatest libraries—or I like to boast that I have.
3
I’m used to helping out those who
Species
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonborn with chromatic ancestry claim the raw elemental power of chromatic dragons. The vibrant colors of black, blue, green, red, and white dragons gleam in those dragonborn’s scaled skin
. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
W15. Brown Mold If the characters open the secret door, read: It takes some effort to push open the secret door, and you are greeted by a blast of cold air. A dark tunnel stretches for fifteen feet
, ending at an archway beyond which lies a shallow cave. Characters who have a light source can see brown mold covering the walls, floor, and ceiling around the archway and the cave beyond. Growing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
shoulder
Bronze, held waist high Pink held high overhead
Gray, held at shoulder Black, at feet3
(None) Pale violet, held at shoulder
Bright blue, at feet (None)
White, held
high overhead Red, held waist high4
Turquoise, held at shoulder Buff, at feet
Scarlet, held waist high (None)
Pale green, at feet Indigo, held high overhead
1 An illusion covering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
31. Northeast Guest Room Odor. This room smells faintly of charcoal smoke.
Furnishings. A canopied bed stands against the south wall, its black curtains drawn down. Other furnishings include a coat
as one approaches the bed. If the characters draw back the shroud covering it, they find the charred skeleton of a human lying on the bed, clad in burned robes and clutching the blackened stub of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X1. Temple Facade A snow-swept gravel road climbs the mountainside as it travels north from Tsolenka Pass toward the temple. When the characters reach the end of this road, read: The road fades away
under a covering of snow, but it takes you far enough to see the facade of some kind of temple carved into the sheer mountainside ahead. The front of the structure is fifty feet high and has six
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X30. Preserved Library This stone library has twenty-foot-high walls and a thirty-foot-high vaulted ceiling. Covering the ceiling is a fresco that depicts angels being set ablaze in a hell. A black
marble railing encloses a gold marble staircase that spirals gently down a thirty-foot-wide, thirty-foot-deep shaft to the north. Against the gray walls stand six ten-foot-tall, black marble bookcases
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
pool, read: The black marble sinks into the ooze, which rises up suddenly to form a four-foot-tall black obelisk — a miniature version of the obelisk that stood outside the tomb entrance.
Any creature
81. Ebon Pool A pool of jet-black ooze glistens inside this silent chamber, whose walls are decorated with relief carvings depicting black stars.
The pool radiates an aura of conjuration magic to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K4. Carriage House Read the following text if the characters open the carriage house doors: The double doors swing open to reveal a sleek, black carriage fitted with glass windows and brass lanterns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Approaching the Winery If the characters continue toward the winery, read: Situated in the midst of the vineyard, the winery is an old, two-story stone building with multiple entrances, thick ivy
covering every wall, and iron fencing along its roofline. The trail ends at an open loading dock on the ground floor.
A wooden stable of more recent construction is attached to the east side of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, read: The stench of sweat fills the humid air. You are chained to the wall of a dank, partially flooded pit. Other prisoners whimper nearby, lit by faint torchlight from the hole above.
If characters
peer into this room through the portcullis, use this description instead: Muffled sobs and moans rise from four pits with circular iron grates covering them. A chain hooked to each grate stretches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
floor are several stone statues of baboon-like creatures, chipped and tipped over. The remains of a few once-living baboons, partially eaten, lie nearby, with fungus covering their corpses.
As the area
about a dozen tentacles growing out of its top. Each appendage has a white sphere with a black pupil at its tip.
Creature. The spherical creature is a gas spore that represents Nanahuatcin, the “sun
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X22. Northwest Annex When one of the doors to this room is opened, read: Torches in sconces illuminate a dining table in the center of the room. Covering the table is a magnificent feast that fills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
characters gazing into the pool is wearing an amulet of the black skull (see appendix C and area 28), the tomb guardian becomes aware of the party’s scrying after 1 minute. When that happens, read
similar effect reveals an aura of divination over the water. When any character gazes into the font, read: As the water begins to swirl, eerie light emanates from within the basin. Slowly, an image resolves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
in chapter 5, read: The Wildspace orrery shows the black vortex with two planets slowly spiraling around it. The system also has twelve moons—one close to the vortex, one orbiting each planet, and
Arrival in Doomspace As the characters leave the Astral Sea and enter Doomspace, read the following boxed text: The silvery haze thins as the ship enters a system that appears to have no sun. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Preparation Before running the adventure, prepare as follows: Step 1. Read the “Adventure Background” and the “Village of Respite” sections. Optionally, read about the Elemental Plane of Air in the
following stat blocks in the Monster Manual or on D&D Beyond: Assassin Black Dragon, Adult Cloaker Commoner Darkmantle Fungus, Violet Fungus Necrohulk Grick Ancient Knight Mage Noble Piercer Pirate Pirate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Getting Started This cave is connected to cave G via the stairs east of area K5 (see map K). If the characters approach from outside the cave, read the following boxed text aloud to begin: A foul
draft issues from this cave. Red strata intertwine with bulging black veins running through the hewn rock. A sinister crimson light dances deep in the cave.
The stench issues from the rotting ogre in area K2.
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
the black cloth is the severed head of a randomly determined character — an illusion created by Strahd’s consciousness. In actuality, it’s an exquisite alabaster bust of a handsome, middle-aged human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
and other races. The sun elves of Faerûn (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blond. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also
called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-white, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
to know each other before this scene, but it’s fine if they do. Once the players are ready, read or paraphrase the following text: The sun sinks low in the west, stretching shadows across the well
mask. The rider barely manages to stay in the saddle, his body bristling with cruel black arrows.
Blind with panic, the horse plows on, threatening to trample travelers in its path. Before it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Rahadin’s Revenge If Strahd dies but Rahadin yet lives, the dusk elf chamberlain appears moments after Strahd’s demise. When that occurs, read: “Master!” says a voice from behind you. An elf with
dusky brown skin and long black hair, his face a mask of terror, looks on what you have wrought and screams. Rahadin has served Strahd’s family for hundreds of years and doesn’t take his master’s defeat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Meeting the Mayor After the fire is extinguished and the characters have talked to any survivors, read the following: Relieved murmurs ripple through the crowd as a sturdy orc woman with white, cloud
Hostile. She tells them the Cobblehook Corsairs raided the village with the help of a black dragon, wonders aloud what kind of heroes ignore imperiled innocents, and suggests that the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
thri-kreen. Read the following as the characters approach: Numerous thri-kreen dash through the tall grass, attempting to avoid the steps of a massive figure. A gigantic, ancient woman dressed in thick
dreams. If asked for the Hammock of Worlds, she rummages amid the vines covering her and produces it. If the characters explain why they need it, she’s eager to help them and not only gives them the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Castle Djaynai The next morning, guards wearing long black tunics wait to escort the characters to their meeting at Castle Djaynai. The guards are members of Djaynai’s elite reconnaissance patrol
, called the Lightsea Lancers. They are formal and encourage the characters not to dawdle. As the characters near Castle Djaynai, read or paraphrase the following description: The onyx-colored Castle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
and other races. The sun elves of Faerûn (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blond. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also
called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-white, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K82. Marble Slide If one or more characters fall through the trapdoor in area K81, read: You fall into a chute of polished black marble and slide into the darkness. The chute plunges from the