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Curse of Strahd
visible on the Material Plane while it is in the Border Ethereal, and vice versa, yet it can't affect or be affected by anything on the other plane.A phantom warrior is the spectral remnant of a willful
master or because it believes it must perform a task to satisfy its honor or sense of duty. For example, a guard who dies defending a wall might return as a phantom warrior and continue guarding the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
carries is invisible with it.Xarrorn are specialists who construct weapons using a mixture of alchemy and psionics.
Duergar
Duergar are dwarves of the deep reaches of the Underdark and other sunless
emotional intensity to their lives, whether they’re exploring neighboring tunnels, defending their homes, engaging with their families, or crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Rivergard Keep A small but strongly built castle on the banks of the Dessarin River, Rivergard Keep is one of the Haunted Keeps of the Sumber Hills. A taciturn mercenary lord named Jolliver Grimjaw
and his band of sellswords occupy the keep. They are repairing the old castle and protecting trade along the river from the depredations of monsters and bandits, or so they claim. In fact, Rivergard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
replaced by the eastern portion of the Kron Hills and the western border of the Gnarley Forest. Instead of Red Larch, the starting town of the adventure is Hommlet. The adventure content described in
introduce the player characters to the region and its people. Combine the settlements of Womford and nearby Bargewright Inn into the corrupt town of Nulb. The small river known as Imeryds Run serves as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Aundair, the wilderness around the town of Wyr is a good choice; the Eldeen Reaches function as the High Forest does in this adventure. In Breland, the small city of Xandrar on the northern border can
tracts of frontier — plenty of room for a region the size and scope of the Dessarin Valley. Halfling barbarians from the Talenta Plains can replace the Uthgardt barbarians in the adventure. The border
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Athreos’s Influence Most mortals focus on the River Guide’s role in their own deaths. Countless mortal superstitions prescribe ways to garner Athreos’s favor, but all Athreos demands of those he
transports is payment: a single coin of any minting or value. The River Guide has an expansive definition of what constitutes a coin, from actual stamped currency and jewelry to shiny beads or opalescent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
along a fertile river in the desert are attacked by purple worms made of crystalline sand. Tales told by the locals lead to the Singing Sands, where hostile creatures from the Megafauna World
) defending the sand. The giant hopes to use the sand to create a compass to locate Gale’s Eye Tower (in this chapter).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
carved with frescoes depicting dwarves defending their mountain homes against ankhegs, purple worms, umber hulks, and other burrowing monsters. (Hidden behind a fresco of a dwarf battling a bulette is a
Small or Medium humanoid sits atop a wooden donkey, it moves and attacks as directed by its rider. Each donkey has the statistics of a mule, with these changes: The wooden donkey is a construct with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Tlin’orzza, and two males named K’yorl Tanor’thal and Rross Hylarn) mounted on giant lizards, five giant flying spiders (see below), and eight troglodytes split into two groups of four.
River. Water
pours in from the south, feeding a swift river that winds northwest for several hundred yards before plunging into the Underdark. The river is 5 feet deep but deepens to 10 feet as it exits the cavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Mournland, but if tensions rise with Droaam or Darguun, the fortress can be deployed to reinforce a threatened border. As a Brelish soldier or spy, you might have served aboard Argonth for a time
of the Howling River at a point where the river widens, the ancestral seat of the rulers of Breland seduces visitors with its tree-lined avenues, elegant drawbridges, cleanliness, and laid-back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
or more upgrades to help it excel at its intended functions, but all androids are capable of defending themselves with concentrated bolts of force up close or from a distance. Despite an android’s
android’s critical faculties, causing it to behave erratically. Android Medium Construct, Typically Lawful Neutral
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 91 (14d8 + 28)
Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
defending a wall might return as a phantom warrior and continue guarding the wall, then disappear forever once a new guard assumes its post or the wall is destroyed. The period between the time it died and
visible on the Material Plane while it is in the Border Ethereal, and vice versa, yet it can’t affect or be affected by anything on the other plane.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, where the Lukos finish off any stragglers.
Pharagax Bridge. On the western border of Akros gapes a massive chasm rumored to descend all the way to the underworld and belch forth foul creatures. The
defending the gates of Akros.
Most people today know of the event from an embellished account laid down in an epic poem, The Akroan War. Although its author has been lost to time, the poem is considered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Battle Smith Command a Construct Guardian Michael Broussard Battle Smith Subclass
A Battle Smith is a combination of protector and medic, an expert at defending others and repairing both
vanishes. Steel Defender Medium Construct, Neutral
AC 12 + your Intelligence modifier
HP 5 + five times your Artificer level (the defender has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your Artificer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Sahuagin Stronghold The fortress and former home to the lizardfolk is a rocky island located at the mouth of the Javan River. When the lizardfolk laired there, the island was almost entirely above
iron hand of domination over all races inhabiting the adjacent waters and coastal region. If this experiment proves successful, the sahuagin plan to construct more bases of this sort until their control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
about its own future has forced Extremiton to hold off on transforming into an elder brain. Instead, it is focused on defending the colony and destroying its githyanki neighbors. With only a dozen mind
ulitharid has built an enormous dynamo that channels the energy of an underground river to power a series of interconnected metal capsules called psipods. The illithids under Extremiton’s command have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Othokent’s gratitude. PLACING THE ADVENTURE
In the Greyhawk campaign setting, where the town of Saltmarsh is located, the lizardfolk lair is a coastal promontory adjacent to the Dunwater River.
Here are
Waterdeep works because it already has a history with the lizardfolk.
Mystara. Lizardfolk have been discovered in the Blight Marsh of Karameikos. Because the marsh sits on the border of the Five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
exemplify the idea that the Outer Planes are realms of thought and spirit. As with the Elemental Planes, one can imagine the perceptible part of the Outer Planes as a border region, while extensive
celestial creatures, including angels, couatls, and pegasi. The Lower Planes are the home of fiends: demons, devils, yugoloths, and their ilk. The planes in between host their own unique denizens: the construct race of modrons inhabit Mechanus, and the aberrations called slaadi thrive in Limbo.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
them.
Tasha
Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and
have smith’s tools with you. If you already have a defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The defender also perishes if you die. Steel Defender
Medium construct
Armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, the city will be pulled down into the River Styx and bound to the Nine Hells forever. Lulu tries her best to serve as the party’s guide in Avernus, but the hollyphant’s memories are fragmented. It
Avernus, the characters encounter the valiant Ulder Ravengard, who has been placed in the most unusual situation of defending a city he has long opposed. The beleaguered Ravengard urges the characters to do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
expert at defending others and repairing both material and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are usually accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many
you have smith’s tools with you. If you already have a defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The defender also perishes if you die. Steel Defender
Medium construct
Armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
family becoming immolated in its home, but most agree the culprit was a dracolich, of all things, residing in the ruin and defending the family’s wealth. The gods only know what led to the creation of
Secomber, on the border between the North and the settlements of the Western Heartlands. Built over the ruins of Hastarl, capital of the ancient kingdom of Athalantar, Secomber is a quiet place where
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
trophies. It crept into the lair via the underground river, but the dragon caught and vanquished it in the foggy cave (area D6). Challidax relished posing the corpse in the lair entry to scare intruders
Giant. They relate the same information as Heldalf, but add that they wish Ralvald would give up his impossible quest to defeat Challidax. D5: Ralvald’s Retreat A wide river crosses this cavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
their city. Nearly half a century ago, Mount Hotenow (the nearby volcano that perpetually heats the river flowing through the city) violently erupted, destroying much of Neverwinter, killing
defending the makeshift Wall from threats out of the Chasm prove themselves capable of becoming a proper military force. Both Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep have offered to help train the new guards of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
prone and can’t use its Stomp action, but makes three extra turret attacks when it takes the Multiattack action option. “Landro” (Colossus WX-33) is partially phased into a mountainside on the border of
colossus might serve as an adventure location. Warforged Colossus
Gargantuan construct, unaligned
Armor Class 23 (natural armor)
Hit Points 410 (20d20 + 200)
Speed 60 ft.
STR
30 (+10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
in Limbo. As with the Elemental Planes, one can imagine the perceptible part of the Outer Planes as a border region, while extensive spiritual regions lie beyond ordinary sensory experience. Even in
them as layers. For example, Mount Celestia resembles a sacred mountain with seven great plateaus along its ascent, the Nine Hells is like a pit where the River Styx plunges down through nine tiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
roads leading toward farmlands near the Estwilde border. The characters are ordered to follow the road east and see what they find. Twenty miles east of Kalaman, where the road crosses the Raiding Rill
60 days of rations, and a driftglobe. Missing Scouts The characters are sent to track down a pair of scouts keeping tabs on Dragon Army movements north of the Vingaard River, twenty miles northwest of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
the size of the actual man, the statue bears an uncanny likeness to Balduran, squinting west over city and river. While its sudden arrival created something of a stir, most assumed it was simply a
portion of the cemetery’s cliff into the river below, causing the remaining bone-houses and markers to shift and lean, while also exposing numerous crypts and tomb-tunnels to the air, prompting a fresh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
likeness to Balduran, squinting west over city and river. While its sudden arrival created something of a stir, most assumed it was simply a tribute to the great man — until one morning several months
increases the chaos, as bodies get exhumed and reburied wherever it’s convenient. Most significantly, a major landslide decades ago dropped a large portion of the cemetery’s cliff into the river below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. Ardeep Forest This forest east of Waterdeep and the Dessarin River was once part of the long-lost elven kingdom of Illefarn. Now it’s home to a small clan of wood elves recently arrived from Evermeet
ramshackle, frequently rebuilt wooden towers and buildings. Its structures now entirely cloak a hill that overlooks the village of Womford across the Dessarin River. A long wooden bridge, wide enough for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
look at a diagram in a book. No mortal can verify whether Mount Celestia is sandwiched between Bytopia and Arcadia, but it’s a convenient theoretical construct based on the philosophical shading among
linking them all. This arrangement makes sense of the way the River Styx flows among the Lower Planes, connecting Acheron, the Nine Hells, Gehenna, Hades, Carceri, the Abyss, and Pandemonium like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, but that discovery has eluded them so far. Constructed Nature. A hellfire engine doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Hellfire Engine
Huge construct, lawful evil
Armor Class 18 (natural
) bludgeoning damage plus 13 (2d12) thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
If the chosen option kills a creature, the creature’s soul rises from the River Styx
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
river o’er yonder appearing,
Has five bridges of which you’re hearing.
The problem we set,
Is how do you get,
Across each and return to this clearing?
Endless River (area G4) A fountain
leprechauns’ collected gold. If the gold is stolen, the leprechauns stop at nothing to retrieve it. G4: Endless River This babbling river flows through the garden, sometimes defying logic. Here and there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
disrupt their faction’s activities within. Atfez and Pachi are members of the Tears of Athis, a group of historians, priests, and descendants of Bakar who hope to see the River Athis flow once more. When
, defending themselves as necessary. P2: Main Worship Hall The air is cool and still in this vast limestone chamber. Three pillars line each side of the room, and corridors lead to the east and west
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Guardian”). A rune on the back of the amulet matches a similar rune on the construct. 16b. Lake of the Aboleth Monsters. Illuun the aboleth and two chuuls lurk in the water, which is dark, slimy, and
make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw to break free of the aboleth’s control. On a successful save, the kuo-toa flees to the underground river by the shortest route and hides there. Treasure. A thorough