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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Corrupt Beyond Redemption Darklords aren’t misunderstood souls condemned through no fault of their own. If a person’s potential for evil is particularly great, the Dark Powers might indirectly
Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
knights serving in Cormyr, the Silver Marches, Damara, Chessenta, or other lands across Faerûn. They wander the realms as knights errant, taking the fight against evil beyond their kingdom’s
borders.
A Banneret relies on judgment, bravery, and fidelity to the code of chivalry to guide them in defeating evildoers. A lone Banneret is a skilled warrior, but when leading a band of allies one of these warriors can transform even a poorly equipped militia into a ferocious war band.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
dracoliches, magically bound dragons to his service, and learned how to drive dragons across Faerûn into a berserk rage. He considered his intellect beyond morality and became paranoid, resentful, and
for his demise. He drew on the warped resurrection of dracoliches to become a lich himself. He continues to lead the Cult of the Dragon from the shadows, developing new ways to control and corrupt
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
bound dragons to his service, and learned how to drive dragons across Faerûn into a berserk rage. He considered his intellect beyond morality and became paranoid, resentful, and megalomaniacal
. He drew on the warped resurrection of dracoliches to become a lich himself. He continues to lead the Cult of the Dragon from the shadows, developing new ways to control and corrupt dragonkind
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
(see the Monster Manual), Bael has proven to be a tactical genius, earning esteem for himself and his master as a result of victory after victory over the abyssal host. Mammon relies on Bael to safeguard
stratagems. Bael gladly spares the lives of those he defeats—if they pledge their souls and service to him. Demons are an exception; although he is willing to corrupt almost any other foes, he always
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
that’s both its fiefdom and its prison. It lairs within a grotesque hive dangling from a mountain-size tree of tar and flame called Gorewood.
Aurnozci relies on demonic proxies and mortal
worshipers to enact its will beyond the Abyss. The exact nature of the curse that binds Aurnozci to Xulregg is its cult’s most closely guarded secret, fully known only to the faith’s enigmatic
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
special ritual in the throne room of an elven regent or in a temple dedicated to the elven gods.
A moonblade won’t serve anyone it regards as craven, erratic, corrupt, or at odds with
first rune always grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Each rune beyond the first grants the moonblade an additional property. The DM chooses each property or
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
circumstance, Nafas relies on adventurers—whom he considers the living manifestations of a wish granted—to respond to these calls.
To friendly adventurers and weary travelers along the
this role, Nafas sends adventurers to distant worlds to fulfill the wishes of creatures beyond his reach. Adventurers who return to Nafas successful receive gifts as rewards. As a noble genie, Nafas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
bank sports a teller’s window with a drop-down counter. A bespectacled halfling woman in a silk tabard sits behind the glass. Outside, a bored human guard stands watch.
The banker, Quink, relies on the
meet its wrath.” (True)
Jane Katsubo Yvette
Human Bank Guard
Stat Block: Guard
This corrupt guard exploits her station for selfish ends.
Bitter. Yvette thinks the world owes her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Ephara’s Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Ephara’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Oust the corrupt leader of a town or a city.
2 Reclaim a
new city, or perhaps reviving a dead one. One focused on development could go beyond the basics of what a city needs to survive and get into what a city requires to thrive—which could easily lead to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
at the end of the hall, and a good ten minutes to search the chamber beyond for anything interesting or valuable. In a city or wilderness, a scale of hours is often more appropriate. Adventurers eager
Gate to Waterdeep, the adventurers spend four uneventful days before a goblin ambush interrupts their journey. In combat and other fast-paced situations, the game relies on rounds, a 6-second span of time.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and its prison. It lairs within a grotesque hive dangling from a mountain-size tree of tar and flame called Gorewood. Aurnozci relies on demonic proxies and mortal worshipers to enact its will beyond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
at the end of the hall, and a good ten minutes to search the chamber beyond for anything interesting or valuable. In a city or wilderness, a scale of hours is often more appropriate. Adventurers eager
Gate to Waterdeep, the adventurers spend four uneventful days before a goblin ambush interrupts their journey. In combat and other fast-paced situations, the game relies on rounds, a 6-second span of time described in chapter 9, “Combat.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
him from freely conferring such gifts to deserving recipients outside the staircase. Moved by the whims of yearning creatures on other planes but trapped within the Infinite Staircase, Nafas relies
on adventurers to fulfill the wishes of those beyond the staircase’s infinite thresholds. The djinni knows every door on the staircase and its destination, along with the origin of any wish that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
tactical genius, earning esteem for himself and his master as a result of victory after victory over the abyssal host. Mammon relies on Bael to safeguard his holdings because of Bael’s battle acumen. During
pledge their souls and service to him. Demons are an exception; although he is willing to corrupt almost any other foes, he always destroys demons he defeats. Bael also welcomes mortals into his service if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
himself and his master as a result of victory after victory over the abyssal host. Mammon relies on Bael, because of his battle acumen, to safeguard his holdings. Mammon has never been ousted during a
only if they pledge their souls and service to him. Although he is willing to corrupt almost any being in this way, he always destroys any demons he defeats. Bael also welcomes mortals into his service
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ankhtepot’s Powers and Dominion A fantastically ancient Undead, Ankhtepot has statistics similar to a mummy lord. Beyond this, he rules as pharaoh, national leader, and voice of the gods. None in
obsession with order and knows the living might be useful in finding his lost ka. To that end, he relies on his priests to maintain peace in Har’Akir and provide for the people. Should the populace
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
dark lord of Nessus, strives to subjugate the cosmos to satisfy his thirst for power. To do so, he must continually expand his infernal armies, sending his servants to the mortal realm to corrupt the
ever sample true power, which they crave like the sweetest ambrosia. Dark Dealers and Soul Mongers. Devils are confined to the Lower Planes, but they can travel beyond those planes by way of portals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
relies on 6-second rounds. Minutes. In a dungeon or settlement, movement happens on a scale of minutes. In the Free City of Greyhawk, getting from the Silver Dragon Inn to the wharf takes about 10 minutes
, whereas it takes about 1 minute to creep down a 200-foot-long hallway, another minute to check for traps on the door at the end of the hall, and 10 minutes to search the chamber beyond for anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
a methodology that relies on unexpected outcomes: all results are informative, even if they completely defy expectations. For example, an experiment that begins as the creation of a “hypermana
, remains its guildmaster, just as the guild continues to fulfill its original mission (even as its experiments go far beyond the guild’s original mandate).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
makes good people bad and bad people worse. In its mean streets, gritty detectives contend with corrupt law officers while trying to foil the efforts of merciless gangs and monstrous thugs. In the highest
, seemingly a victim of some sort of ritual slaying. Outside help is needed to solve this delicate matter. 6 A radiant idol (see chapter 6) has formed a cult that attracts professors and staff of Morgrave University, promising them knowledge beyond imagining in exchange for their worship.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
creature to flesh, he uses a telekinesis spell to transport it to area 25a, then relies on the magic of the pillars there. Area 25h. This room is hidden behind a secret door and contains a lifelike statue
. If you expand the dungeon to the south, an illusory wall behind the petrified mind flayer conceals a tunnel beyond. The illusory wall has no substance, allowing creatures to pass right through it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
stave off otherworldly invasions, to protect the powerless from oppression, or to spread the teachings of your religion in a hostile land. Or perhaps you serve a corrupt hierarchy by making its
to further your god’s reach. That obligation ranges from proselytizing or performing religious services to meting out divine punishments or recovering lost relics. Beyond that, the needs of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
covers the salaries of a majordomo, a skilled hireling, and two untrained hirelings. Franchisees must pay any hirelings employed beyond this number. The franchise is licensed to operate in Phandalin
become a point of ongoing conflict between the characters and the corrupt banker. Company Positions At the signing of the franchise agreement, each character picks one of the positions detailed in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
form and seeks to attack, deface, or corrupt it so it has the opposite effect on its viewers. One is more likely to defile the inspiring statue in a town square, making it into a symbol of fear and
sorrow, than to destroy it outright. HAG METAMORPHOSIS
It’s commonly believed that five kinds of hags exist in the world (and beyond it). What’s not so widely known is that some hags can change from one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Beyond the City Walls Mike Schley City of Greyhawk and Environs View Player Version The City of Greyhawk and Environs map shows the lands around the Free City of Greyhawk. Locations on the map are
cavalry commander. Its stable is the most famous source of fast, durable warhorses across the breadth of the Flanaess, drawing shrewd shoppers from Greyhawk and beyond. The manor house is surrounded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Zariel in all matters and for all time. I will place Her above all creatures, living and dead. I will obey Her all my days and beyond with fear and servility.
I recognize the dispensation of the device
at such beauty, one can easily overlook the terrible force bound within it. Gargauth is, I believe, its name, though it calls itself the Hidden Lord. It was a pit fiend sent by Asmodeus to corrupt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. At the chamber’s center, a thick, foul-smelling mist billows from a shallow pool of brackish liquid. Something large and scaly lies within. Beyond it stands a sculpted pillar and a broad stone table
obvious to any creature in the passage beyond. C3: Whistling Hall Two whistlers (detailed at the end of this adventure) lurk in this hall. If creatures make considerable noise in area C2, the whistlers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
elder brain and the rest of the illithids in the colony learn of it immediately. The colony relies on a collective memory, composed from the knowledge, experiences, and skills of all of its members
network of minds only while it is within five miles of the elder brain. Beyond that distance, it is on its own. Mind flayers that venture away from the colony do so only under strict orders from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
residence to adjudicate disputes and collect taxes. Defense: The reeve might have a small force of soldiers. Otherwise, the village relies on a citizen militia. Commerce: Basic supplies are readily
are easily identified by the expansion of the walls beyond the central core. These internal walls naturally divide the city into wards (neighborhoods defined by specific features), which have their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of the entrance.
The ball of violet light floats to a stop beneath the center of the open shaft, beyond the foot of the stairs. It then hovers there as if waiting for you.
The orb of magical
can also cast invisibility to observe silently from hiding, and relies on its true form when it wants to intimidate other creatures. Although cruel by nature, Kleve takes no action to harm anyone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
inheritors of a heroic tradition, and each person owes it to themselves and to society to strive for greatness. Beyond Meletis’s common folk, a few groups that hold noteworthy standing are detailed here
a few are deeply corrupt, serving only their own interests. The most senior member of the council is recognized as its leader, responsible for bringing the assembly to order and moderating its debate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
gods. A moonblade won’t serve anyone it regards as craven, erratic, corrupt, or at odds with preserving and protecting elvenkind. If the blade rejects you, you make ability checks, attack rolls, and
rune beyond the first grants the moonblade an additional property. The DM chooses each property or determines it randomly on the Moon Blade Properties table. Moonblade Properties d100 Property 01
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the decks—and information on them—wherever they can be found. Beyond her knowledge of Decks of Many Things, Asteria is an avid researcher into all things magical, making her an excellent knowledge
their power doesn’t fall into corrupt hands; however, she’s only one person, and things slip her notice. Asteria might task the characters with locating a wayward deck and—if it’s in the hands of someone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
in Sharn. Beyond the permanent population, tens of thousands of people pass through Sharn every day. Refugees from the war still find their way to Sharn, along with tourists, spies, merchants, and
aristocratic, and rough adventurers may be treated with suspicion. Violence is rare; the City Watch is active in these areas, and if they’re corrupt, they’re at least taking bribes from people richer than you