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Ice Troll

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

patch of brown mold (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This effect lasts until the heart is destroyed. A creature proficient with alchemist's supplies can squeeze enough residual fluid out of the

heart to mix with other alchemical ingredients, creating one potion of cold resistance;potion of resistance (cold). It takes 1 hour to create this potion. Cold

Tarandus

races

travelling, observing and creating maps that guide others along safe paths. All tarandus possess antlers that rise roughly a foot above their heads. Their dark-red noses can emit a gentle glow

, often used for reading maps in dim light or signalling danger to their allies. Tarandus fur ranges from deep brown to pure white, shifting with age, climate or diet. They usually wear simple outfits

Zuggtmoy Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence. They are surrounded by a field of acidic puffballs and poisonous vapors. The mushrooms themselves are all

lair, instead of on herself. Regional Effects The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following effects: Molds and fungi grow on surfaces

Zuggtmoy

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence. They are surrounded by a field of acidic puffballs and poisonous vapors. The mushrooms are interconnected by bridges of shelf fungus, and

herself. Regional Effects The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following effects: Corrupted Nature. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Wisdom

Deep Dragon Wyrmling Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

combat. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality

adventurers to investigate. 7 Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true

Young Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to

adventurers to investigate. 7 Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and

. 7 Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and

Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility. 8 A

Aarakocra

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

taper to sharp talons. Feathers cover their bodies—usually red, orange, yellow, brown, or gray. Their heads are also avian, often resembling those of parrots or eagles. Creating Your Character

Githzerai

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

ages passed, githzerai explorers ranged out to other planes and worlds of the multiverse. Githzerai are generally slender, with speckled skin in shades of yellow, green, or brown. Eons of cultivating

their mental powers within the endless chaos of Limbo have imbued githzerai with the ability to shape psionic energy to protect themselves and probe minds. Creating Your Character At 1st level, you

Creating a New Item

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

Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite fulfill the need, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something they couldn’t do before or improve

several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day might be easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a

Creating a New Item

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

Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite do the trick, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something he or she couldn’t do before, or improve

it has several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day is easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a

Creating a Heist Crew

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

Creating a Heist Crew This book’s adventures require the characters to practice teamwork. Encourage your players to think of their characters as longtime associates or perhaps relatives so they feel

tight-knit from the start. Similarly, ask your players to consider creating characters suited to undertaking heists. Combat prowess is less important when sneaking through a guarded complex, for

What Does a DM Do?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

session and for creating situations that facilitate fun. Improviser. A big part of being the DM is deciding how to apply the rules as you go and imagining the consequences of the characters’ actions in a

Chapter 6: The Final Enemy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide), the characters gain a level for completing this adventure. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL Dave J. Brown and Don Turnbull bring the Saltmarsh trilogy to a conclusion in this

1983 adventure. As befits TSR UK’s talent for creating unique scenarios, The Final Enemy challenges players to plan and carry out reconnaissance on a dangerous sahuagin lair. We’ve added an epic

What Does a DM Do?

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

session and for creating situations that facilitate fun. Improviser. A big part of being the DM is deciding how to apply the rules as you go and imagining the consequences of the characters’ actions in a

Dark Fantasy

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

, consider the following genre tropes when creating your dark fantasy domain: Good does not always win. Evil individuals with great power and unopposed schemes might be the norm. The lines between good

and evil are blurred. Choices involve deciding which outcome is least bad. Corruption and suspicion flourish among organizations and individuals. Magic and magic items might be rarer or require a

Experience Points

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

Experience Points Experience points (XP) fuel level advancement for player characters and are most often the reward for completing combat encounters. Each monster has an XP value based on its

received substantial assistance from one or more NPCs, count those NPCs as party members when dividing up the XP. (Because the NPCs made the fight easier, individual characters receive fewer XP.) Chapter 3, "Creating Adventures" provides guidelines for designing combat encounters using experience points.

Chapter 1: This Is Your Life

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

experience before deciding to become an adventurer? What were the circumstances of your birth? How large is your family, and what sorts of relationships do you have with your relatives? Which people

backstory for your character — an autobiography of sorts — that you can use to inform how you roleplay the character. Your DM can draw from this material as the campaign proceeds, creating situations and scenarios that build off your previous life experiences.

Maintaining Order

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

within their own ranks, members of any faction might bristle at having to work alongside (much less take orders from) members of other factions. Chain of Command In addition to deciding how the

, and decisions might not get made quickly enough — or at all. Adding to the challenge of maintaining discipline is the ever-present threat of demonic madness growing among the ranks, creating problems

Appendix: Player Species

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack

their lives are best spent travelling, observing and creating maps that guide others along safe paths. All tarandus possess antlers that rise roughly a foot above their heads. Their dark-red noses can

emit a gentle glow, often used for reading maps in dim light or signalling danger to their allies. Tarandus fur ranges from deep brown to pure white, shifting with age, climate or diet. They usually wear

Zuggtmoy's Lair

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

Zuggtmoy’s Lair Zuggtmoy’s principal lair is her palace on Shedaklah. It consists of two dozen mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence

, centered on a mushroom or other fungus within her lair, instead of on herself. Regional Effects The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

their savagery. Green dragons, for instance, sometimes use orcs as sentinels or shock troops. Orcs are sometimes attracted to the service of frost giants or fire giants, who then “reward&rdquo

everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should

Boromar Clan Campaign Themes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Hook 1 Daask forces capture Boromar family members who are visiting Sharn from the Talenta Plains. The Boromars offer a reward for the safe return of their family and a larger reward for the

all over Sharn to find it, and clan leaders consider going to war with the Tyrants. 4 The Boromars stage a festival in Callestan for Saidan’s birthday. All of the family’s allies will be there, creating opportunities for espionage and assassination.

Inspiration

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

your entire DMing career, or you might change it with each campaign. Offering inspiration as a reward encourages certain types of behavior in your players. Think of your style as a DM and your

inspiration. Roleplaying. Using inspiration to reward roleplaying is a good place to start for most groups. Reward a player with inspiration when that player causes his or her character to do something that

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.) Like the Deck of Many Things, the Deck of Many More Things manifests differently on

nature of this deal is up to the DM, but usually the Fiend offers some material reward in exchange for you and your allies completing a task for the Fiend. The Fiend is indifferent to you and can be

Force Grey (Gray Hands)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Mission Requirements and Reward 2nd “Seek out Hlam, a monk who lives in a cave on the side of Mount Waterdeep. Ask him what he’s heard about threats to the city, but try not to annoy him or overstay

oblique reference to Manshoon.) The characters can descend the mountain safely. Reward: Each Gray Hand character gains 1 renown. 3rd “A young bronze dragon has taken up residence in Deepwater Harbor

Nylea's Villains

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

uses magic on fields near the border of the forest, creating animated plants to drive off farmers. 5 A scout has taken to hunting and eating sapient beings. What could have caused this gruesome

1 Dryad MM 1 Nyxborn brown bear* MM 2 Nyxborn saber-toothed tiger* MM 2 Satyr thornbearer MOoT 3 Archer VGtM 5 Shambling mound MM 5 Unicorn* MM 9

Ice Troll

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

heart into a magical talisman that acts like a patch of brown mold (see "Brown Mold" in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This effect lasts until the heart is destroyed. A creature proficient with

alchemist’s supplies can squeeze enough residual fluid out of the heart to mix with other alchemical ingredients, creating one potion of resistance (cold). It takes 1 hour to create this potion. Ice Troll

Finding the Book

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

, one of Candlekeep’s sages and the foremost expert on Xanthoria—both the book and its mysterious author: Your guide does not return. Instead, you are greeted by a robed wood elf with brown hair and a

point, Xanthoria’s research became more geared toward creating a ward against death itself, then finally toward achieving lichdom. According to the book, Xanthoria never discovered the source of the

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

creatures wouldn’t feel safe. Kobolds take advantage of their size by creating small-diameter tunnels that they can easily pass through, but that require larger creatures to hunch over or even

owner, they are often willing to take the chance of revealing themselves because the potential reward is worth the risk. Dragon Servitors Kobolds believe that they were created by Tiamat from the blood

Forest Encounters (Levels 1–4)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

, weeping child. If the characters take the child home, the parents reward them with 1d3 potions of healing. 26 1d8 + 1 giant frogs 27 4d4 kobolds 28 1d3 black bears 29 3d6 stirges 30 1 satyr 31 2d4

pixies 49 1 brown bear 50 1d4 + 3 goblins 51 1d3 dryads 52 1 awakened tree 53 1 phase spider 54 1d6 harpies 55 1 ettercap or 1d8 + 1 orcs 56 1 goblin boss with 2d6 + 1 goblins 57 1 ankheg 58 1 giant

Ghoul

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

. Doresain, the first of their kind, was an elf worshiper of Orcus. Turning against his own people, he feasted on humanoid flesh to honor the Demon Prince of Undeath. As a reward for his service, Orcus

transformed Doresain into the first ghoul. Doresain served Orcus faithfully in the Abyss, creating ghouls from the demon lord’s other servants until an incursion by Yeenoghu, the demonic Gnoll Lord, robbed

Mapping a Dungeon

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

to enter a dungeon. Add secret doors and secret rooms to reward players who take the time to search for them. If you need help creating a dungeon map from scratch, see Appendices.

Heart of the Matter

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

that reflect her braided red-brown hair, and her skin is freckled. She is friendly toward the characters and asks to speak with them privately: “My city is in trouble,” Naevys says. “It deteriorates

characters press her for a reward, she promises to “drown them in gold coins” if they are successful. (In fact, the possible rewards are much greater than that, as discussed in the adventure’s conclusion.)

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