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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
—mortals communicate with a single god, interpreting their intentions for the wider world. Others aren’t aligned with a god and observe the night sky, reading Nyx like a vast, cryptic scroll
divine omens (such as those presented in chapter 4) might seek out an oracle to gain a clearer vision of the god’s intentions. Finding an oracle, though, or one experienced in interpreting certain types of visions, might prove to be an adventure in its own right.
Glyph of Warding
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Spells
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triggers include opening that object, approaching within a certain distance of the object, or seeing or reading the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends.
You can further refine the
another object covering the glyph, approaching within a certain distance of the glyph, or manipulating the object on which the glyph is inscribed. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the most common
Symbol
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common triggers are opening the object, approaching within a certain distance of it, or seeing or reading the glyph.
You can further refine the trigger so the spell is activated only under certain
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
mobility devices, depending on users’ needs.
In certain multistory buildings (including the Biblioplex and Captain Dapplewing’s Manor), magic transport circles also allow characters quick access between different levels.
second- and third-floor ceilings are 30 feet high. Many students employ deep concentration
techniques to help them tackle
their rigorous class schedules Magic Stairs. As in all Strixhaven buildings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Burning Buildings The unlabeled buildings on map 4.2 are homes and
businesses that the gnolls have set ablaze. The buildings’ supplies were taken by fleeing townsfolk or ransacked by Yeenoghu’s horde. Each building is one or two stories tall (DM’s choice) and 10 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
provides. In most other towns and cities, you’ll start with an early-morning stumble on the stairs as you carry your night soil down to deposit it outside. But in Waterdeep, many buildings are connected
. With public fountains and wells all about the city, clean water is plentiful. Many buildings have pumps of their own to draw water from the local supply, and some even possess taps that pour out water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
occluded her memories of the details of the ritual and of her own death.) The book that Sarah observed Viallis reading was the source of the ritual, and a work of evil. The souls of Lady Maria, Malik
. Sarah doesn’t know what happened to them, but she is certain that Lord Viallis has something to do with it. Sarah’s anguished state of mind means that she can share no information other than what is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
at each individual fragment of the Prophecy as a self-contained challenge, and they explore how a certain series of actions might fulfill the Prophecy. The immortal beings who are truly invested in
heart) being turned to creative pursuits after years of violence in the Last War. “When towers rise from rubble.” These words could be a general reference to buildings rebuilt after a disaster, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
languages can add an element of mystery to inscriptions and tomes that characters encounter. You might invent additional secret languages, besides Druidic and thieves’ cant, that allow members of certain
. In a region where one race has subjugated another, the language of the conquerors can become a mark of social status. Similarly, reading and writing might be restricted by law to the upper classes of a society.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Morgrave University Cullen Cole Morgrave University Morgrave University is prominently situated in Sharn, the City of Towers—in the Upper Menthis ward. The institution owns the buildings surrounding
halls, study halls, small libraries (mostly focused on books assigned for student reading), dining halls, and faculty offices. Morgrave is a constant bustle of activity while classes remain in session
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
actions. Please, save Caden and return him to his father. House Orien would owe you a great debt, and you see how broken the man is. There is an enclosed lift five buildings north of this estate. Look
use has been modified in some way to reach Old Sharn. If the characters rescue Caden, Vishtai is certain that he and Alden can help them track down the kidnapper.
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti
royal family could poison a meal and declare it “safe” after taking a bite.
There are legends of certain yuan-ti infiltrating human cities and forming deadly covert societies that sell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
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A settlement doesn’t always require a map. Simply describing the settlement to your players is usually sufficient. But if it’s important for the players to know where certain buildings or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
most common triggers include opening that object, approaching within a certain distance of the object, or seeing or reading the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends. You can further refine
, removing another object covering the glyph, approaching within a certain distance of the glyph, or manipulating the object on which the glyph is inscribed. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
inscribed within an object, the most common triggers are opening the object, approaching within a certain distance of it, or seeing or reading the glyph. You can further refine the trigger so the spell
most typical triggers include touching or 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
most common triggers include opening that object, approaching within a certain distance of the object, or seeing or reading the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends. You can further refine
, removing another object covering the glyph, approaching within a certain distance of the glyph, or manipulating the object on which the glyph is inscribed. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Bargewright Inn Once a hilltop wayside inn, this site has become a walled community of ramshackle, often-rebuilt wooden towers and buildings now entirely cloaking a hill that overlooks the village of
, poisons, and certain magic. Reason to Visit. Thaelond is the local leader among the Zhentarim and a key contact for characters with a connection to that faction. It’s also where two side treks, “The Long Road” and “New Management,” start (see chapter 6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Activating an Item Activating some magic items requires a user to do something in particular, such as holding the item and uttering a command word, reading the item if it is a scroll, or drinking it
if it is a potion. The description of each item category or individual item details how an item is activated. Certain items use one or more of the following rules related to their activation. If an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
buildings in a city usually have four sides and a sloped or staggered pyramid-like exterior. It is customary for stone buildings to have a series of tiles or carvings of snakes encircling the ground level
method uses blocks of special incense to fill a room with poisonous faint smoke that disguises the presence of the poison until it takes effect. There are legends of certain yuan-ti infiltrating human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
single god, interpreting their intentions for the wider world. Others aren’t aligned with a god and observe the night sky, reading Nyx like a vast, cryptic scroll for insights. Divine Influence. Just
chapter 4) might seek out an oracle to gain a clearer vision of the god’s intentions. Finding an oracle, though, or one experienced in interpreting certain types of visions, might prove to be an adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
pulls the characters into the alleys. Hook. The characters find themselves in Conch’s alleyways in the Riverside district and witness a murder. They must contend with certain danger, possibly following
, which shows the alleys where the encounters take place. The buildings surrounding the alleys are locked, and accessing them is outside the scope of this adventure. There’s Been a Murder! An explosion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
“Candlekeep Defenses” sidebar. Once allowed inside, the characters are free to go where they please and stay as long as they wish. The outermost buildings include private dormitories for the monks and public
up, one patron stands out among the rest: a chaotic good ogre wearing a headband of intellect. He sits by himself in a corner, reading a book titled The Sum of Theology by Saint Vetheera, a servant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
— and that it is completely destroyed. Most of its buildings are empty shells and piles of wreckage. Looming beyond the town is a large, dark cavern. A narrow river winds down from the mountain and
voices slowly builds within the wrecked buildings. A stocky humanoid with gray skin and a white beard suddenly stumbles forth, swaying from one side to the other as if intoxicated. It stares at you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the fabric of causality. As a tiefling, she often generates a kind of ambient unease in others, but she is always certain to account for this carefully, lest it bloom into “the unforeseen” that is the
enemy of every enterprise.
Ways to Read the Kill d6 Reading
1 Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2 Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
group of adventurers Dzaan hired to help him search the spire removed all the books they considered valuable, including spellbooks. They left behind a few that might interest certain characters: Magical
illusion magic was required reading in many Netherese classrooms. It describes clever ways to use common illusion spells. The Unfettered Mind. This lunatic text discusses how one might exist solely as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
between you and your DM, or perhaps your character learned about these events through omens or a reading from a fortune teller. Your destiny doesn’t determine your story’s outcome. Consider it more
creature takes an interest in you, offering you advice—for a price. Skull You’ve defied certain death so many times that it doesn’t seem like coincidence anymore. Star You overcame a hardship imposed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Dock Ward is unsafe. You can set the mood by reading the following to the players: Tall, densely packed tenements leave most of the neighborhood in shadow at ground level. Most of the streetlamps have
had their glass smashed and their candles stolen, and the smells of salt air and excrement linger as you pass by rows of run-down buildings. On the corner of Zastrow Street and Fillet Lane is a shop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the many buildings and houses of learning in the Conclave of Silverymoon, the great center of knowledge and wisdom that forms much of the city’s southern part. If a map, a book, or a spell exists
the mythal. Should a foe try to traverse the Moonbridge, the span can be willed (by the city’s rulers, and certain others specially attuned to the mythal) out of existence, dropping attackers into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
are told of it at the gates, and turned away kindly if they have no such gift. Heralds; priests of the gods Oghma, Gond, Deneir, and Milil; certain archmages; and others acknowledged as “friends of
courtyard is empty, containing neither tree nor well. Its southern wall is the southern wall of Candlekeep itself, with a number of fieldstone-wrought buildings intended for visitors’ use built along it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
beginnings and ends of fortune and disaster, and find the patterns within seemingly unrelated events. By reading omens and prophesying, storm giants learn of vast secrets previously unknown and
many lifetimes, and they know it is pointless to intervene. Even so, a storm giant might willingly disclose certain secrets to benevolent beings that visit its remote domain with specific purpose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
cove. This time is halved if a character is proficient with water vehicles or is a ranger whose favored terrain is the coast. A few rotten wooden buildings abandoned by smugglers line this cove
of High Sorcery. Personality Trait. “Everybody wants something. I’m certain we can help one another.” Ideal. “Magic is meant to be used.” Bond. “I’ll do anything to recover my home.” Flaw. “I’m
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, a Rilmani Community in the Spire A third rilmani strides from the gate. This figure is leaner than the others, with a copper cast to their skin. They’re reading a scroll intently, but they look up
opens into the Desert of Rust (see the following section). The characters can’t be certain these are R04M’s tracks—particularly if they’re not sure what type of modron R04M is—but it’s the best lead they find.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rambling thicket of twisted roots, thorny vines, and sinuous creepers. This vegetation weaves together to form long tunnels, grand hallways, and enormous domes. Yarnspinner loves reading stories to
certain type of item. A fey crossing can be closed permanently if the land on either side is dramatically altered—for example, if a castle is built over the clearing on the Material Plane. Feywild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
marked with a magical symbol denoting their rank and station. At the DM’s discretion, nonsapient creatures, such as certain Beasts or Plants, might not have a rank. CoupleOfKooks “Congratulations, slate
promotion.”
–Koldrel, gate greeter
Noteworthy Sites Rigus is a fortified hill divided into seven districts, separated by thick iron walls and stratified by height. Tents, military buildings, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. They don’t know it by name, and though they all hum it perfectly, they’re not entirely certain they knew it before today. Unknown to the characters, the cursed tune spread to them when Gailby
Smallstone sang it in the hall outside the characters’ room after she heard it from Crinkle. K’Tulah and Ebder share the table with the characters. Ebder is reading from the same book he had last night. The