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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
traditionally called patriarchs, though they can be male or female. They are the oldest, wealthiest, and most influential oligarchs of the Orzhov Syndicate. They have been dead for centuries, but they refuse to
his will.
Grandfather Karlov. The head of the council, who gives final approval to its decisions and breaks ties within the group, is Karlov, known as Grandfather. In life, Karlov was the greediest of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
it has a psychic link. The elder brain breaks the creature’s concentration on a spell it has cast. The creature also takes 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Break
are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
later, after the saplings grew tall and mighty, an ancient green dragon dug a lair in the redwoods’ roots, poisoning the grove and surrounding forest. The elves called the dragon Death-at-Sunset, for
twilight was always when the dragon descended on her prey. The dragon adopted this name, reveling in the terror it inspired and bellowing it just before rampaging. One hundred years ago, an elf warrior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
protective guard in response to a recent attack against the family member of another King of Coin. But he slipped past his guardians, intent on reveling amid the March of Vice. Last night, Zenia Ruba
directions to an establishment owned by Zenia’s family, a tavern called the Thornapple, where Zenia is under guard. Zenia’s directions avoid several streets closed by festivities and lead through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
place here, and vice versa. Therefore, as soon as a fight breaks out here, one goblin flees to area 8 to warn Klarg. Rock Dams. The goblins built simple dams to control the flow of water through the
heart of the complex. If the goblin sentry in area 5 has called for the goblins here to release a flood, one or both of the pools are mostly empty and the stream is flowing unimpeded.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Town Gates Three tall gates made of iron bars lead into town: The north gate is sometimes called the Zarovich Gate, or “the gate to the lake,” because it leads to Lake Zarovich (chapter 2, area L
on a DC 20 Charisma (Persuasion) check to convince the guards to unlock the gate and let them enter. If trouble breaks out at one of the gates, the guards there cry out, “To arms!” Their shouts are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
compelled to follow one command contained within it, unless the warforged succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. The affected warforged breaks free of the command after 24 hours.
Spell Sink This
consumes the magical energy around it. Conversely, a spell sink created by a mad artificer might be a massive vessel composed of dragonshards and exotic metals.
A variant device called the spell siphon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
called the Runestone. The crystal radiates bright blue-white light in a 120-foot radius and dim light for an additional 120 feet. Halaster’s red-glowing rune floats inside it. The Runestone is a Large
. Every 12 hours, a pebble-sized fragment of the Runestone breaks off and falls to the cavern floor, though the Runestone shows no signs of ever being diminished by shedding these fragments. A broken-off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
it as a weapon against any who oppose her master. When the worm breaks free of her control, Eleni seeks aid with recapturing it before Hazlik finds out.
2 Castoff magical creations litter the dry
lake bed called Obsession’s End. A sapient war machine or an iron golem escapes the midden and asks the party to help it find a way to live an ordinary life.
3 Innumerable gremishkas (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
middle. 2nd-Level Characters. If the characters are 2nd level, two stirges clinging to the tunnel ceiling are disturbed if fighting breaks out in this area and join the battle. The stirges ignore the spore
.
Six myconid adults are here. Two of them (named Agric and Omphalo) are tending to the other four (Craterel, Pleuro, Subrufus, and Virosa), who are standing stock-still in a dream-like trance called
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
breaks off all contact with the characters for the time being. On the other hand, if the characters try to confront the drow spies, they avoid contact but leave behind a black eye patch as a calling
Rudderbust, the publisher of a local broadsheet called The Waterdeep Wazoo, without his knowing who wrote it or where it came from. You’ll find his office at the corner of Immar Street and Stallion Street, in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
extradimensional space when the bond breaks. Pact of the Tome Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class’s spell list
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
extradimensional space when the bond breaks. Pact of the Tome Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class’s spell list (the three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
window. Choose the one you think is creepier: Strahd smashes the cake and breaks the window to make the characters think something terrible has escaped and is now stalking them. Strahd’s hate assumes
doesn’t appear again. If the characters attack the ghost, it attacks them in turn. Treasure The lute, though old and covered in dust, has survived the passage of time. It is a magic instrument of the bards called a Doss lute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the tent, the zombies shamble from the tower. If a battle breaks out, Hamun Kost, a human mage, emerges from his tent and asks, “What is the meaning of this?” Hamun is a Red Wizard—a spellcaster from
a land called Thay, far to the east. His is a red-robed figure with a shaved scalp and a tattoo on his forehead. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check recognizes Hamun’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
suffer biting, bone-chilling cold for most of the year. In deepest winter, the inlets are choked with ice, and fog lingers late into the day, if it breaks at all. Most wear furs to keep out the cold
legacy, and they consider rule over other Northlanders and the cities of the coast to be their birthright. Merchants can occasionally trade with Rauthym at its capital city, also called Ruathym, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
regarded as a hero who saved his city from an undead scourge, giving rise to the holy nation of Elturgard.
“Hailed as a savior, Thavius made all citizens of Elturel swear an oath called the Creed
mazelike troughs carved into the box’s surface. She then tips the box so that the liquid flows in certain directions through the mazelike patterns — until the box’s horn inlays pop loose and it breaks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
branch gets robbed at least once a week. Bloodied Marsh A sanguine marsh festers at Torch’s lowest point. Sickly yugoloths row along its malodorous waters, reveling in the death and disease they bring
thieves led by an elusive doppelganger called the Mirrored Man. The group holes up in a wax museum in Lower Maygel. The Severed Hands are a procession of grave robbers who collect hands from the corpses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
each other’s company while singing, dancing, and playing games. Argantle is playing a chess-like game called Crowns with her cousin, Jagu, when a howling wind warns her of the party’s approach, giving
, each one emerging from its corresponding megalith. If combat breaks out, these six korreds help Argantle capture the characters for questioning. The other korred clan leaders are Budoc of Flint, Azil of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
since news first arrived that the city has fallen. Everyone is saying Baldur’s Gate is next, but no one truly knows who or what has claimed Elturel.
The patriars pay a mercenary army called the Flaming
description of Captain Zodge — a tall man with long black hair and a leather eye patch — it takes you a while to find him. A fight breaks out between soldiers and commoners, and you finally spot the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the adventurers to leave, explaining that, “We don’t have any choice. The earth priests are the only ones who can save us now.” Jendon isn’t evil. He just doesn’t see any evidence that so-called
. Some beg the characters not to interfere, while others take the adventurers’ arrival as reason to stand up to the cult. If fighting breaks out here, most of the commoners scatter, but six aid the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
’ base in Ialos (see “Ialos” earlier in this chapter). Mercy and the pilgrims happily travel with the characters, though they hide if violence breaks out, emerging only when it’s safe. If the characters
. Blade Scouting Party As they pass between scorched thickets, the characters are ambushed by violent followers of a bloodthirsty warmonger called the Lord of Blades. These scouts have orders to search
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
with a tape measure, string, rulers, or pipe cleaners cut to specific lengths. Another option is a play surface covered by 1-inch hexagons (often called hexes), which makes movement more flexible
measuring range on a grid of squares: count every square as 5 feet, even if the creature is moving or counting diagonally. While fast in play, this rule breaks the laws of geometry. If you want more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
Overkill Attacks Powerful weapon attacks can kill more than one minion in a single maneuver called an overkill attack. As already discussed, a weapon attack requires only 1 point of damage to reduce
the fiction for minions with low challenge ratings, like goblins and zombies. But the balance of combat and fiction breaks down to near-silliness at higher levels when the same spells easily take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
surrounding forest aflame, while a character called by Paladine might notice the fallen soldier’s eyes turning into pools of silver. Read or paraphrase the following text to describe the vision the
tree visible from outside breaks through the ruin’s marble floor and stretches through the collapsed ceiling. Around it, broken statues line the remaining walls, standing in crumbling alcoves.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Obzedat, the Ghost Council The ghosts who make up the Obzedat are traditionally called patriarchs, though they can be male or female. They are the oldest, wealthiest, and most influential oligarchs
disagreement, the eldest of the council exerts his seniority to bend the council to his will. Grandfather Karlov. The head of the council, who gives final approval to its decisions and breaks ties within the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Juiblex Called the Faceless Lord and the Oozing Hunger in ancient grimoires, Juiblex is demon lord of slime and ooze, a noxious creature that doesn’t care about the plots and schemes of others of its
the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, that creature must make the same save. A restrained creature is stuck as long as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
collects moisture dripping from the ceiling. An ochre jelly lurks here, content to feed on fungus and the remains of the poltergeists’ occasional victims. It slithers into the main cavern if battle breaks
place of beauty where the Material Plane and the Feywild converge. Its walls are carved with a triptych woodland scene depicting forest animals and reveling satyrs, pixies, and sprites. The alcove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Crokek’toeck are destroyed, the monster is able to move its body again and breaks free of the scab. If Crokek’toeck breaks out of the scab, it leaves a 30-foot-radius passage in its wake. The fiend is hungry
feet stands on the floor of this chamber. Three vulture-like demons and six gnolls cackle as they dance around the statue.
Three vrocks and six gnolls dance around the statue, reveling in their evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
called Chrissy’s Clan travels from town to town hoping to cross her path and bask in her music, which is said to soothe all troubles. Dabney Holrow became an apothecary up north. He sells potions and
within reach of the door. If Ignis feels her child is in real danger, she breaks through the wall or the glass roof to retrieve Flauma and destroy the threat. If Ignis breaks the glass roof, each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
hexagons (often called hexes), which combines the easy counting of a grid with the more flexible movement of using no grid. Dungeon corridors with straight walls and right angles don’t map easily onto hexes
this is fast in play, it breaks the laws of geometry and is inaccurate over long distances. This optional rule provides more realism, but it requires more effort during combat. When measuring range or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
blocks) take meals here. They glance up at anyone who enters the room, but they pay no attention to characters dressed as Dragon Army troops. If a fight breaks out here, the soldiers resting in area O8
Sorcery. He’s obsessed with ancient magic and venomous beasts, and his research led the Dragon Army to the City of Lost Names. Belephaion and Lohezet have worked at the tower called the Threshold of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
brain regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Break Concentration. The elder brain targets one creature within 120 feet of it with which it has a psychic link. The elder brain breaks
creature’s next turn.
Tentacle (Costs 2 Actions). The elder brain makes one Tentacle attack.
Hive Mind Elder brains are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
called Onyari and learn all the information from the “History of the City” section. Additionally, they find a spell scroll of arcane gate and a book containing rituals for the divination and phantom
using the scrying spell to monitor the characters and has judged they might be useful in ridding the ruins of the Dragon Army invaders. The gem Demelin breaks is an elemental gem. An instant later, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
water (see area 2) is halved. After 1d10 days, the lake’s water becomes safe to drink. If the runestone breaks, the light of the fallen star beneath the Star Forge shines even more intensely, and more
will soon complete what Brimskarda is sure will be her magnum opus: a titanic war machine called a runic colossus. Theldin fears for his life and therefore does whatever Brimskarda demands. Brimskarda