before both daring creating responses

Curses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

myriad forms, presaging terrifying tales and distinctive dooms. This section provides guidance for creating dramatic curses, either distinct from or as part of curses resulting from magic, monsters

’ actions, or other effects. These curses provide ominously poetic responses to fateful choices and afflictions that last until they’re alleviated by specific remedies. Spells at the characters’ disposal might relieve these curses’ effects temporarily but can’t lift them completely. The price must be paid.

After the Horror

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

emotional responses. At the end of a horror game session, leave time to check in with players and ask them how the game went, how they’re feeling, and what they liked about the session. You might ask the

craft the next session to create a game your players enjoy. If players give short or vague answers or you suspect that trust at the table has been broken, try creating an anonymous space to receive

Ivana's Intrigues

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. The following example combines an inhaled poison and the dream spell, creating a tool Ivana uses to manipulate her agents. Ivana’s Whisper (Inhaled). This poison bears a distinct scent and chemical

her message, predicting her target’s reactions, and chemically encoding in her responses. She wears this poison as a perfume or hides it within gift bouquets, allowing it to convey her message later.

Kenku Adventurers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

daring than their fellows. Others strike out on their own in search of the secrets of flight, to master magic, or to uncover the secret of their curse and find a method to break it. Kenku adventurers

tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords’ Alliance agent sitting at the bar.” Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game.

Travelers in the Mists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Travelers in the Mists Adventures in the Domains of Dread often indulge in a single domain’s distinctly frightful themes. But if you plan to run whole campaigns set in the Land of the Mists, creating

horror stories. While it’s true that most residents of the Domains of Dread never leave their home domains and wisely don’t fixate on what lies beyond the Mists, some daring souls do. Many such

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

adventurers are usually the survivors of a flock that has sustained heavy losses, or a rare kenku who has grown weary of a life of crime. These kenku are more ambitious and daring than their fellows

tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords’ Alliance agent sitting at the bar.” Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

adventurers are in a living world. Strive for responses and actions that introduce twists into the game. For example, an old woman whose family was killed at the hands of an evil wizard might regard

portraying their characters. This makes social interactions an opportunity for everyone to become more immersed in the game, creating a story whose protagonists have depth. To make sure everyone has

Prepare to Be Scared

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

for everyone at the table. If your character laughs in the face of every danger, they undermine the adventure’s threats and its broader atmosphere. When creating and playing your character, consider

character who possesses particular fears and uses them to guide their responses to horrific scenes might earn inspiration for reinforcing the adventure’s frightful atmosphere. The DM might not employ these

Orrery Vault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

created the orrery.) If any character mentions the orrery, the clockwork creatures ask, “Why do you seek the orrery?” (Responses that suggest the franchise is trying to stop some great evil can result in

Anauroch. The town of Fortune was built recently and quickly destroyed by Lottie for daring to challenge her authority. “Lottie would not like our telling you too much about her. She’s very powerful, is a

The Fashion Show

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

designer recorded when creating the outfit and the number the model recorded when modeling the outfit (if any). Look up this total in the Check Total column of the Fashion Auction table to determine the

–35 540 gp Kaleidoscopic agbada shifting with geometric patterns 36–39 720 gp Daring assemblage of hovering ink splotches 40+ 1,000 gp Gloves that grow to cover the wearer in regal draconic scales

After the Fall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

used the last vestiges of her personal power to pull dead memories from the Shadowfell about her, creating a cloak of identities that sustained her. Over centuries, those dark memories accumulated and

are astral travelers who are caught and trapped within the Shadowfell by her magic — but a rare few come of their own volition, seeking knowledge or freedom from a dark past. Many of these daring

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can

forest of green to grow up over the garbage, rusting away debris and creating soft lawns and thickets shot through with small recesses and tunnels where the old refuse had piled high. This revamped

Super-Secret Basement

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

instead has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. It can understand Common but speaks only preprogrammed responses. If the modron has a flying speed, the replica has wings but can’t fly. The modron’s

lion head is disabled, it loses its bite attack. Prisoner. Screve held a pentadrone from Mechanus as his prisoner in this area, using the modron as a model for the constructs he was creating. The

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can

creating soft lawns and thickets shot through with small recesses and tunnels where the old refuse had piled high. This revamped space he dedicated as a public park, arguing that the poor need to feel

Appendix: Roleplaying Cards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

Appendix: Roleplaying Cards Agdon Longscarf the Harengon CHAPTER 2: HITHER This harengon brigand is an insufferable braggart and a daring thief who’s willing to put himself in seemingly

extraordinary voice, creating astounding displays of aquatic magic. Palasha’s distant yet demanding nature has earned her a reputation for being haughty, but really, she’s just slow to trust. Alignment

Appendix D: Roleplaying Cards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Appendix D: Roleplaying Cards Agdon Longscarf the Harengon CHAPTER 2: HITHER This harengon brigand is an insufferable braggart and a daring thief who’s willing to put himself in seemingly

extraordinary voice, creating astounding displays of aquatic magic. Palasha’s distant yet demanding nature has earned her a reputation for being haughty, but really, she’s just slow to trust

Castle Cinis Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

in the adventure). A daring adventurer leaps to a floating tower that has detached from Castle Cinis S15: King’s Armory The first-floor armory is suspended 40 feet in the air, with nothing but the

ground below it. The characters need magic or climbing gear to reach it. The northeast wall of the armory is gone, creating an opening through which the characters may enter. The armor and weapons

Gibbet Crossing Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

decades ago, and it’s now completely submerged. Part of the tunnel has collapsed, creating an opening to the negotiation chamber (area G16). G8: Intersection Stalactites hang from the ceiling of this 30

the rise of a new illithid empire on the surface!” “There is power in the Far Realm for those daring enough to seize it. And I dare!” “The chosen ones are preparing the ritual while you natter about

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