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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
destroy the would-be memento.
Death Dragons
Death dragons are the Undead skeletal remains of metallic or chromatic dragons, infused with the lingering fires of the Cataclysm by foul magic. Rarely, death
unleash in a horrific mockery of the breath weapon it possessed in life. The breath snuffs out life force and infuses undeath into corpses it touches. These zombie;zombies burn with Cataclysmic fire
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
on a success.Meenlocks are Fey that invoke terror and seek to destroy all that is good, innocent, and beautiful. These bipeds have the heads and claws of crustaceans, and they primarily live in
its prey or run away when outmatched. Meenlocks also project a supernatural aura that instills terror in those nearby.
Telepathic Torment
Up to four meenlocks can telepathically torment one
Monsters
Locathah Rising
(at will): frostbite, mending, resistance, shape water, thunderclap*
1st level (4 slots): create or destroy water, charm person, cure wounds, thunderwave2nd level (3 slots): darkvision, hold person
), and doesn’t require Gar to maintain concentration. Gar Shatterkeel and any creatures he designates are immune to this effect.
Up to five corpses that Gar can see within 60 feet rise up as drowned blade;drowned blades and attack anyone Gar directs them to on his turn.
Cold
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Cataclysmic fire, which it can unleash in a horrific mockery of the breath weapon it possessed in life. The breath snuffs out life force and infuses undeath into corpses it touches. These zombie;zombies burn
with Cataclysmic fire and serve the death dragon’s will, typically going on rampages to destroy all living creatures in sight.Necrotic, PoisonPiercing
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, including the ability to summon demons and demonic spirits. But in her quest for absolute power, she made too many enemies and underestimated their determination to destroy her, so she fled to other worlds
emotions to run rampant and is more likely to find herself in the grip of happiness, anger, or melancholy. This is the price she pays to exert control over the Feywild and impose her will on the domain
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Spells
Cantrip
produce flame, shocking grasp
1st
chaos bolt, create or destroy water, unseen servant
2nd
heat metal, rope trick
3rd
call lightning,
suspension.
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Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
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If you can guess what I’m about to do, that means I’ve run out of imagination.
Ideals
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Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
other useful items, but if they are at risk of discovery, they run away rather than attack anyone in the house. By fleeing before they can be seen or identified, they avoid getting into a situation
, giving each individual and every generation a reason to feel pride and self-respect. The kobolds prefer to run away than fight, to live off the scraps of others, and they are often dominated by larger
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
1/day each: bane, create or destroy waterDecay and despair are bound up in the nature of topaz dragons, thanks to
spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
4. Abandoned Camp The Xanathar Guild had a base camp here, but it was forced to abandon the place after a run-in with the Fine Fellows of Daggerford. This room is strewn with rotten supplies and the
remains of a fire pit. Three bugbear corpses and an intellect devourer’s body are heaped in the northeast corner. Searching the corpses reveals a scrap of parchment with the following phrase written
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
demon lord Yeenoghu enters the Material Plane and goes on a rampage, he leaves a great trail of corpses in his wake. As the Lord of Savagery despoils the land, packs of hyenas trail him and feast on
the victims until the dead flesh of Yeenoghu’s prey leave them bloated and unable to move. Then, in a shower of blood and gristle, the hyenas transform into gnolls, which take up Yeenoghu’s awful mission to kill and destroy anything in their path.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Cult Reprisals The cults of Elemental Evil don’t wait passively for a band of heroes to systematically eliminate each cult’s surface outpost. Even if the characters destroy one of the Haunted Keep
which reprisal to use. If a character has the Dangerous Information adventure hook (see chapter 1), run “Reaver Ambush” when the character resolves to travel to the attack site and stop it. Choose one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
paralyzed. She waits here until her Regeneration trait returns her to full hit points, then gathers her forces (including Umbraxakar) and sets out to destroy any enemies still in Vanrakdoom. Treasure
Mural The mural depicts Lord Vanrak Moonstar as a skeletal death knight, riding on the back of Umbraxakar, the shadow dragon. Lying at the dragon’s feet are piles of withered corpses with hideous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Daask Villains If Daask villains want something, they take it, and they destroy anything that gets in their way. Though some members of the organization are brutes, many are more cunning than they
1 Several harpies travel to the upper wards and use their luring songs to make rich people fall to their deaths. The harpies pick the corpses for valuables. 2 A pack of gnolls rampages through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
clothing, Dzaan and Krintaas must travel to Bryn Shander to obtain a blank spellbook, as well as writing supplies and provisions. In the meantime, Dzaan urges the characters to seek out and destroy his
others by reading their thoughts. Her weakness is that she’s always looking ahead, never behind her.” “Vellynne Harpell is a human necromancer, as cold and uncaring as the corpses she animates. She’s a withered old fool whose greatest asset—her family name—does her no good in Icewind Dale.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
retired from adventuring after their heroic effort to defeat a cult of Orcus that had established a temple in the nearby mountains. The tavern is now run by their heir and decorated with trophies of their
countenance.
“Evil has returned to the temple,” they tell you.
“Shambling corpses rove the area at night and dig up old graves, accompanied by ominous figures wearing crimson robes and goat masks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
performing chores for the statue of Orcus, her followers busily search for hidden secrets. Xia’s Goals While the refurbishment is underway, Xia steals corpses from nearby graveyards to fill her larder
latent power. Orcus’s Orders The cultists are perplexed by the orders issuing from the demon lord’s statue, which include the following: Topple and destroy all the ghoul statues in the temple, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Sweeping the Dead. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are
impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor. Conjured Berserkers. Corpses that accumulate on the construct’s shell aren’t just grisly battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
temple complexes. A temple is overcome when its prophet is defeated or the monsters in its shrine are eliminated.
After the characters defeat the first prophet, run “Dire Tidings” when they return to
a settlement. After the characters force a second cult to abandon its shrine, run the “Reckless Hate” encounter when the party returns to a settlement. After the characters force the third cult to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
flimsy new huts and longhouses of bamboo and thatch. The Old City is run by “beggar princes” in a mocking parallel to the merchant princes of the city proper. They have no official authority, but each
is run down but it isn’t a slum or a haven for thieves. Most of the residents are lower-class laborers or struggling artisans who can’t afford the higher rents of homes inside the city walls. 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
to run. A Mysterious Stranger Offers a Quest d8 Objective 1 Recover a particular item 2 Find and return with an NPC or monster 3 Slay a terrible monster or NPC 4 Guard a person while they perform
a ritual 5 Create an accurate map of part of the dungeon 6 Discover secret lore hidden in the dungeon 7 Destroy an object 8 Sanctify part of the dungeon to a god of good The Mysterious Stranger’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
aside in favor of the new order. Though his loyalty remains unshakeable, Naergoth fears that Severin will succeed in his plans, and that Tiamat will destroy the cult that freed her. As a wight, Naergoth
ago, its contents now covered in dust and hung with cobwebs and pathos. Intruders skulking through the warrens can run into Naergoth anywhere. Use him as a roleplaying encounter or add him to a battle that is going well for the party at a time of your choosing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
in favor of the new order. Though his loyalty remains unshakable, Naergoth fears that Severin will succeed in his plans, and that Tiamat will destroy the cult that freed her. As a wight, Naergoth has
, its contents now covered in dust and hung with cobwebs and pathos. Intruders skulking through the warrens can run into Naergoth anywhere. Use him as a roleplaying encounter or add him to a battle that is going well for the party at a time of your choosing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
toward you.
The three shambling sailors are zombies, the animated corpses of sailors who died in a recent shipwreck. The characters face a choice: they can turn and fight the zombies, or they can
continue up the path and leave the slow, shambling zombies behind. If the characters turn and fight, this is the first combat encounter in the adventure. Here are the steps you should follow to run it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
or gravity where entropic forces destroy whatever they engulf. Nothing can survive within for long. Only magic items and the corpses of gods and titans can endure inside the blob. Because of that fact
. And then there’s the blob of annihilation. If you see it, run. And if you can’t get away from it, just hope you dissolve fast.
—Vi, Artificer of Eberron
The blob of annihilation is a coagulation
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
1/day each: bane, control water, create or destroy waterThe dragon can take 3
power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
toward you.
The three shambling sailors are zombies, the animated corpses of sailors who died in a recent shipwreck. The characters face a choice: they can turn and fight the zombies, or they can
continue up the path and leave the slow, shambling zombies behind. If the characters turn and fight, this is the first combat encounter in the adventure. Here are the steps you should follow to run it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Odunos The Returned of Odunos despise the living, feeling sparks of pleasure when they destroy whatever the living value, be it property or people. Within their city, armed Returned gangs roam the
the corpses and dust. Occasionally, Returned who’ve grown tired of their half-lives congregate here, waiting for a final death to claim them. Some tales claim that treasures lie amid the crypts, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
and transformed into undead, until Syrgaul has an army of drowned corpses at his command. What terrible atrocities the undead captain might visit upon the nearby settlements are up to you. Even with
more deliberate than before. Above all, the question remains: what is the source of the rift’s evil? Perhaps the characters will return to the pit as more accomplished adventurers, seeking some way to descend the vent, find out what presence is down there, and destroy it once and for all.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
called dracoliches. These deathless dragons bind their spirits to gems and magically animate their rotting corpses. Eventually becoming skeletal horrors, dracoliches continue the centuries-spanning
other undead or cultists seeking to revel in their terrible might. Living dragons of all types loathe and seek to destroy dracoliches, viewing them as distortions of draconic magic. There are untold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
characters. Broken Tiles. Until recently, the floor had a painted tile mosaic set into it. The mosaic depicted Orcus slaying a legion of human knights and reanimating their corpses. Xia ordered her
servants to destroy the mosaic, sweep up the tiles, and place them in the wheelbarrows. Any character who takes the Study action to inspect the broken tiles and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
1/day each: antilife shell, bane, control water, create or destroy
dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
would destroy seafaring vehicles that dared sail into it. Directly east of the spire is the opening to a flooded cave.
Characters who explore the area underwater can search the submerged portions of
deep. A nook in the northeast corner contains two corpses preserved by the seawater. The cave’s back wall is flat, with a large opening in the southeast corner.
The flooded cave is difficult terrain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
demon sees itself as the rightful inheritor of the cosmos. It is driven to destroy all other living creatures, or at least command their absolute loyalty. In due time, the laws of the universe will
status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Battle Begins This section has no set timeline or specific goals beyond involving characters in Kalaman’s desperate defense. Roll on or choose the encounters you want to run from the Defending the
Kalaman. Many are shot down, but four sivak draconians (see appendix B) land on Kalaman’s wall and attempt to destroy three ballistae 30 feet from the characters. On each sivak’s turn, it attacks a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
destroy the fort. Reconnaissance Wheelwatch Outpost lies south of where the streams known as the Gravel Run and the Raiding Rill meet. Read the following description when the characters come within sight