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Basic Rules (2014)
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
give their children names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a limited form of telepathy — but at the cost of forgetting their history. The underground homes
— especially those designed to protect the power and wealth of the elite. When living among enlightened folk, verdan are still the first to speak out against cultural restraints on individuals
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
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I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
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I like to impress
, or crumbling ruins designed to disorient intruders. Circuitous routes within the lair provide the dragon with numerous ways to evade pursuit, while strategically designed choke points allow them to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
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I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
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I like to impress visitors by
’s lair is a maze of twisting tunnels, interconnected caverns, or crumbling ruins designed to disorient intruders. Circuitous routes within the lair provide the dragon with numerous ways to evade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Meeting the Mayor After the fire is extinguished and the characters have talked to any survivors, read the following: Relieved murmurs ripple through the crowd as a sturdy orc woman with white, cloud
Hostile. She tells them the Cobblehook Corsairs raided the village with the help of a black dragon, wonders aloud what kind of heroes ignore imperiled innocents, and suggests that the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
inspecting the storeroom, the characters can draw their conclusions. A character who considers the evidence and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check correctly deduces the source of the
smoke and the risk it poses to Ruckus’s shop. A character who gathered one or both clues has Advantage on this check. If the characters explain the situation, Ruckus is relieved to hear his shop isn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
Adventure Synopsis The Forge of Fury is set in the ruined stronghold of Khundrukar. It is designed for four 3rd-level player characters. They can advance to 5th level with good play. The characters
folk. A small band of duergar (gray dwarves) currently hold Durgeddin’s hall, working to uncover the secrets of the smith’s ancient forge. A great crevasse drops to the Black Lake. The Black Lake. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Lower Tavick’s Landing Visitors arrive at Wroann’s Gate or Terminus, but they leave through Black Arch, the gateway to the rest of Sharn. This is a heavily fortified garrison district, designed to
. High Walls is filled past capacity, mostly with Cyrans displaced by the Mourning. Today, the gates are open; but High Walls is designed to serve as a fortress prison if need be, and the Sharn Watch keeps an eye out for any signs of unrest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Cult of the Black Earth sets a trap for the characters by spreading rumors of a fire witch terrorizing the Nettlebee halfling clan. This adventure is designed for 6th-level characters. Vale of
routine task far more challenging. This adventure is designed for 3rd-level characters, although it is equally playable at lower and higher levels. Iceshield Orcs. An orc tribe displaced by the natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Caves are designed for an 11th-level party; the Plunging Torrents and Black Geode are intended for a party of about 12th level; and the Weeping Colossus is designed for a 13th-level party. As a rough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Old Road arrive at Wroann’s Gate. Getting to the better parts of Sharn from here means passing through Black Arch, a heavily fortified garrison district designed to repel enemies and withstand a full
, but High Walls is designed to serve as a fortress prison if the need arises, and the Sharn Watch keeps an eye out for any signs of unrest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
black energy run between the pillars and the cloud.
The cult fanatics are named Abberoch, Belora, Liana, Shanzo, Torfiana, and Uzalyn. They are performing a ritual designed to anchor one of
10. Ritual Chamber Purple Flames. Black wax candles set in niches along the walls of this 20-foot-high room burn with a purple flame, filling the room with dim light.
Cult Ritual. Six cult fanatics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
traps designed by a restless adult black dragon.
4 The appearance of a spirit naga in the domain of an adult black dragon encourages the dragon to study necromancy.
5 An adult black dragon
Black Dragon Adventures The Black Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving black dragons. Black Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
1 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Book Description Kandlekeep Dekonstruktion is bound in sturdy black leather, with the title and Isajar’s name neatly engraved on the front cover and spine. Images of a smiling dwarf and a builder’s
devices. Any character viewing these diagrams who succeeds on a DC 25 Intelligence (Arcana) check can ascertain that the devices are designed to launch the tower into the sky—perhaps all the way to the stars.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the naming traditions of their ancestors. The material culture and
are slender, tawny-skinned folk with brown hair that ranges from almost blond to almost black. Most are tall and have green or brown eyes, but these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Chondathan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the naming traditions of their ancestors. The material culture and
are slender, tawny-skinned folk with brown hair that ranges from almost blond to almost black. Most are tall and have green or brown eyes, but these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Chondathan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Goblins Goblins are small, black-hearted, selfish humanoids that lair in caves, abandoned mines, despoiled dungeons, and other dismal settings. Individually weak, goblins gather in large — sometimes
hobgoblin warlords or bugbear chiefs. “Bree-Yark!”
— Goblin for “We surrender!” (or so they say)
Challenging Lairs. Goblins festoon their lairs with alarms designed to signal the arrival of intruders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
smile. He assumes correctly that the characters’ arrival so soon after Iskander’s appearance is no coincidence, and he uses the missing mage as leverage for negotiating. Taraz’s only concern is escape
, and he will do anything to win his freedom. Taraz’s conversation with the adventurers covers the following points — many of which are utter lies designed to help him gain the characters’ trust: Xonthal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
). Getting the helm to the Command Deck will take a bit of work, given that the tyrant ship’s access shafts are designed for hovering beholders. Characters can use the climbing kits, pitons, and ropes to
technical manual, he’s scribbling mathematical and arcane equations in a battered pocket notebook he always keeps on him. Miken has light-olive skin, dark-brown eyes, and short, disheveled black hair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Arrival in the Outlands When the characters emerge from the portal, read the following: You find yourself standing amid ruins of weathered black marble. The last recognizable remnant of these ruins
another direction. CoupleOfKooks “I am a mimir, a magical device designed to provide information. I can be, be, be–” Cacophonous gibberish and overlapping voices ensue. “Infinite unlikelihood error: data not found.”
–The Mosaic Mimir
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
smile. He assumes correctly that the characters’ arrival so soon after Iskander’s appearance is no coincidence, and he uses the missing mage as leverage for negotiating. Taraz’s only concern is escape
, and he will do anything to win his freedom. Taraz’s conversation with the adventurers covers the following points—many of which are utter lies designed to help him gain the characters’ trust: Xonthal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
good faith of the Black Network by lending a helping hand. Nonfaction Start. Characters who aren’t attached to the five factions can search for the missing delegation on their own initiative or might be
designed for a 3rd-level party, Rivergard Keep works best for a 4th-level party, Sacred Stone is designed for a 5th-level party, and Scarlet Moon Hall should challenge a 6th-level party. Each outpost the characters overcome should advance them at least one level.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
shrine almost resembles a lantern, designed to be easily transportable. Contained inside is a black basalt statuette of Lolth in her drow form, strung with cobwebs. A detect magic spell reveals an
Strength (Athletics) check.
Desk. A beautiful rolltop desk contains quill pens, jars of ink, blank scrolls, notes, notebooks, and 1d6 empty copper scroll canisters designed to fit inside the pneumatic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
tasked with holding these caves until reinforcements arrive. Using the resources at his disposal, Orl has created illusions designed to discourage the troglodytes from entering this area. As part of
this tactic, he has the hallucinatory terrain spell prepared instead of Evard’s black tentacles, seeming instead of cloudkill, and rope trick instead of alter self. 8a. False Impasse Thanks to Orl’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
(including tiny black pearls for its eyes), and worth 1,500 gp. It weighs 5 pounds and contains two items: a small jade key shaped like a crocodile (designed to fit in the keyhole in area 62B) and a
carrying spears and ornate jugs. The ceiling is painted to look like a clear blue sky. A small bejeweled cockroach rests atop a sarcophagus of black basalt in the middle of the room. A two-foot-diameter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
spells. Acererak’s magic and the magic of the amulet of the black skull (see appendix C) are unaffected. Spells that would normally allow creatures to transport into and out of the tomb either fail or
deposit their recipients in area 57. Spells that normally allow one to pass through stone fail, and divination spells cast within the tomb provide false readings. Spells designed to communicate over long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
designed to fit inside the pneumatic tubes. Hanging on the wall above the desk is a framed portrait of Halaster. (The portraits in different rooms have different expressions.)
8a. Turbulence’s Room A
the two are in their quarters. Violence has drawn a large, sweeping black mustache on the portrait of Halaster above her desk. Treasure. Violence’s footlocker contains a set of traveler’s clothes, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
) dress in common clothing when outside the tower. Inside the structure, they wear fur-lined robes to stay warm. They refer to the tower as the House of Tyranny, and black prints of their right hands
first arrive, all five have gathered in prayer on the upper floor of the tower (area O3). Three black flying snakes nest in the rafters and join any battle here. During this ceremony, Amath and her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
18. Berlain’s Suite A horribly disfigured mage named Berlain Shadowdusk claims these chambers. 18a. Study Furnishings. A black stone desk stands to the south. Next to the desk is a slender stone
lectern with an open book resting on it.
Tapestry. A tapestry covering the east wall shows a tentacled creature from nightmare stuffing a number of naked, terrified humanoids into its black maw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Lost Mine of Phandelver Lost Mine of Phandelver is an adventure in the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set, designed to take characters from 1st to 5th level. Characters who complete it are at the right
that they contact Urlam Stockspool in Triboar. Urlam is always looking for adventurers to help further the Black Network’s cause, and Halia vouches that “his rewards for good service are lavish.” She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Maze of Mists The second floor of the pyramid is the Maze of Mists: a vast, confounding maze designed to defeat clever intruders who bypass the false tomb by way of the offering bowl in area P4. Amun
knocked on the door before entering, the bandits have their weapons at the ready. Otherwise, they are arguing loudly. Parleying with the Bandits. If the characters don’t attack, the bandits are relieved to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Red Robes are expected to wield their power responsibly, represent their order faithfully, and uphold the balance between good and evil in their own actions and the world at large. Order of the Black
Robes Often reviled and feared in equal measure, the Black Robes follow the example of the evil god Nuitari, the black moon of Krynn. A mage of the Black Robes is expected to first further their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
benefits that came with both roles. Jorlan thought that Lolth favored him, or at least that his charms had deflected her malice, until he had the misfortune of a run-in with a black pudding on an
missing two fingers, Jorlan was no longer the warrior he once was. Ilvara relieved Jorlan of duty during his recuperation, replacing him with the young bravo Shoor Vandree. When she then took Shoor to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-foot-tall pillar of ice with a horned, pale-skinned, humanoid figure trapped inside it. The pillar is wrapped in black chains, and the wall behind it is covered with brown fungus.
The figure in the
to the brown mold to be harmed by it. Any character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (Religion) check can guess, correctly, that the cultists use this frozen, chain-wrapped effigy as an altar. C21
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
hulk they recently freed from magical stasis. The mezzoloths are darkening the sand-colored umber hulk’s hide with charcoal so it more closely resembles their mottled black color. Against Nellik’s wishes
to have survived its interminable stasis. If the characters realize what’s going on and share that they killed Nellik, the mezzoloths scatter, visibly relieved. Otherwise, the mezzoloths attack. The