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Infernal Machine Rebuild
artificer spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): light, mending, message, shocking grasp
1st level (4 slots): alarm, cure wounds, identify, ray of sickness
2nd level (3 slots): invisibility, Melf's
master alchemist and creator of monsters, whose own blood was said to possess dire magical properties.
He is vainglorious, egotistical, and utterly ruthless in furthering his research. His career began
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, the characters hear a blood-curdling scream as his soul is dragged into the Abyss. All the victims of sereno are immediately freed from the curse, but Doña Rosa falls into despair and refuses to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
muralists to arrive here to collect more blood, for use in either area 3 or 10. Spending 2 charges also restores a measure of health to Nolzur, equivalent to the effect of a cure wounds spell.
solitary prisoner. The artisan Nolzur (a neutral male human master thief, but he is reduced to 1 hit point) has been captured and held here, his alchemical blood continually drained to create the magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
, and the crown and the scepter reappear on the throne. Blood Trap. If the door is attacked by force it will not budge, but if it is scratched or nicked it will turn red in that spot, and if it is cut
by a sharp weapon it will begin to gush forth blood—the blood of all those who have died within the tomb! The red flow will cascade down the steps and fill the area to the top of the southernmost step
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Drow Priestess of Lolth Female drow with blood ties to a noble house are molded and trained from birth to become priestesses of Lolth. The Spider Queen doesn’t allow male drow to hold such positions
, resistance, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): animal friendship, cure wounds, detect poison and disease, ray of sickness
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, protection from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
elation and every death rattle. On occasion, Pharika’s followers might seem to be beneficent when they ease others’ suffering or cure a pandemic. Yet they do so indiscriminately, meaning that these cures
the beasts, Nylea sends dozens of hydras to seek revenge, catching innocents in the fray.
4 A town suffering from a plague seeks a cure from a cult fanatic of Pharika engaged in warlike research
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
have intelligence enough to appreciate their role in it, the Blood War offers an endless source of diversion underscored by resentment of a cosmic order that refuses to admit their superiority. As the
little more than mindless engines of destruction and violence. If that supposition were true, the Blood War should have ended long ago, since the tactical and strategic genius of the archdevils would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
gobbled up much of the fruit. It’s said that this original basilisk and its progeny are still heavy with undigested secrets, and that if basilisk blood is distilled into ink, it can be used to write out
festival in hopes of receiving a miraculous cure, and the truly devout imbibe near-lethal doses of poison, trusting Pharika to oversee their recovery. In some tales, a cobra with rainbow scales appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
antidote for a powerful affliction that resists conventional treatments.
2 Seek out a powerful beast whose blood has unique alchemical value.
3 Infiltrate the Underworld to extract a
slaying the monstrous guardians of a place that holds the medicine needed to cure a plague. Then, before leaving the area, they or the god’s other servants might sow the seeds of a new threat. Despite any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
requests the characters’ aid in solving murders in which the victims have been drained of blood. The murderer is a strigoi (see chapter 5) that haunts a sunken chapel in the swamp known as the Gardens
.
5 Doctor Temator of Mortigny believes she can create a cure for the Gnawing Plague and enlists the characters to find subjects who have never had the disease. Rumors soon spread that the doctor and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
supplies lay destroyed on the floor of this hut near the corpse of an old woman lying face down in a pool of dried blood. Manda Gutterpunch ran this shop that serviced the fishers in the village. A
keeps order, a relatively easy job until the sahuagin arrived. Marciano refuses to answer questions shouted through the door unless a character first succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
shoulder a cosmic burden.
— Zariel, Archduchess of Avernus,
former angel of Celestia
Although the basic facts of the Blood War aren’t subject to debate, a host of theories exist that attempt to
explain why the conflict erupted in the first place. The devils fight as a matter of pride mixed with burning resentment for a cosmic order that refuses to acknowledge their role as overseers of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
his quarters His bodyguards sort through the latest haul of stolen and salvaged treasure. Occasionally the drow erupts in a coughing spasm that brings up blood from his lungs. He is worried but tries
not to show it. If combat breaks out here, Sovendahl fights bravely and expertly, but the exertion leads to more coughing. As the fight progresses, describe the drow’s spasms of coughing, and blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Murder in Baldur’s Gate There’s blood on the characters’ hands. They all had a part to play in a murder — justified or not. Shared guilt, coercion, and fear keep the secret between them. Murder
victim was a member of a larger organization, such as the Guild. This organization refuses to let the killing go unanswered.
5 Somehow, your victim is still alive and knows what you did. Now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
recently freed from imprisonment, but he hasn’t left the citadel yet—Vaeve doesn’t know why. Miska’s forces are varied spyder-fiends as well as flying demons that drip deadly blood. Vampire’s
least the characters can do in exchange for the useful information Vaeve shared. She refuses to go with them into the conflict.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
. The rest fell prey to ships under the command of Vael, whom Gargenhale calls the scourge of pirates, raiders, and anyone else who refuses to bow to the might of Xaryxis. Despite these cautionary
the Second Wind, Krux refuses to bend his knee to a vampirate, but a character can convince the giff to swallow his pride and yield to Gargenhale’s authority by succeeding on a DC 16 Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
and his entrails hanging out like frayed ropes. Despite its intimidating presence, the apparition has a cringing light in its eyes. “Why do you invade my home? Begone, I beseech you!” Strahd refuses
poisonous snakes attack characters who venture more than 10 feet inside the garden. Goat Pen Baba Lysaga captures goats and uses their blood in her rituals of longevity. Nine goats are trapped behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Murder in Baldur’s Gate There’s blood on the characters’ hands. They all had a part to play in a murder — justified or not. Shared guilt, coercion, and fear keep the secret between them. Murder
refuses to let the killing go unanswered. 5 Somehow, your victim is still alive and knows what you did. Now you’ve got to figure out how to put them down a second time. 6 Your victim’s death ignited a social spark. Now you’re being sought by mobs seeking to bring new justice to Baldur’s Gate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the south wall requires a blood sacrifice to open (see below).
The altar refuses to budge. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of transmutation magic around and above it. Any object weighing 10
, then re-forms. 17c. Temple of Selvetarm The temple of Selvetarm, drow god of warriors, contains the following features: Blood. Streaks of dry blood form web-like patterns on the walls and floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the many battles of the Blood War, leaving him with terrible scars and a brain injury that has turned his alignment to chaotic good. Krikendolt’s comrades learned that he pities the abyssal chickens
Krikendolt into their care if they offer the right price. Krikendolt knows Avernus well, so he makes a good traveling companion and guide. The characters can cure Krikendolt of his disorder using a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
wounds with their stingers, healing her as cure wounds (cast as a 2nd-level spell). Or she could take a mummified toad from her pocket and throw it into her cauldron, which immediately spews out inky
how to invoke the razor wind, or the runestone containing the three syllables for crystallizing blood, it is better to use such things than to risk death by not doing so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Lord of Waterdeep to secure Fenerus’s release. Mirt has personally lost coin to the Blood Hawk Posse, so helping Fenerus squirm out of jail stings him deeply. A character who has at least 4 renown in
until someone tipped off the City Watch; he suspects that another member of the Blood Hawk Posse gave him up. The timing is unfortunate for him, since he was planning to earn a small fortune by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
reinforced with brass bands, and an iron tub stained with blood. In the middle of the room is a ghastly wooden crib with a small, angelic child sitting in it. All the furnishings except for the crib
spell components in the wicker cabinet. The tub is where she ritually bathes in blood to prevent aging (see “Gifts of Mother Night” in the “Baba Lysaga” section in appendix D). If the characters approach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and spell components, Sladis carries a blood-caked flint knife that he uses to cut up his victims, as well as a Heward’s handy haversack stuffed full of severed limbs and eviscerated organs — the
uncooked remains of his svirfneblin, grimlock, quaggoth, and drow victims. XP Awards. If the characters cure Sladis Vadir’s madness, award each of them 100 XP. If he is safely returned to Morista Malkin in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
repeated mind flayer attacks, a young deep dragon refuses to leave the cave where the dragon’s best friend—an adventurer who won the dragon’s respect and affection—lingers as a ghost.
Adult Deep Dragon
developed a taste for deep dragon blood.
5 An adult deep dragon craves the knowledge stored in an aboleth’s nearby lair.
6 A spirit naga desperately wants to claim the key to a mysterious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Directions” section. The three erinyes are hoping to take down a goristro: a minotaur-like demon that carries demonic legions and rare treasures through the battlefields of the Blood War. They need someone to
focus on the goristro while they take out the soldiers on its back. Nykaia knows about the Red Belvedere but refuses to provide any more information until the characters help with the goristro. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
refuses to stop until someone delivers the adventurer responsible.
3 A prosperous-looking city appears among the desert dunes, drawing explorers and treasure hunters aplenty, but it’s an
another in protecting it.
3 Feeling unappreciated and disrespected in one family, an adult blue dragon offers allegiance to a rival dragon family, setting off a blood feud.
4 A pair of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
decided to join it. Anthropologist Appendix A A wizard-merchant named Syndra Silvane is wasting away, and she has hired you to join an expedition to Chult to find a cure. Syndra believes that your
source of a curse. Inheritor Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide A horrible curse threatens to claim the life of Syndra Silvane, a retired adventurer. She has blood ties to your family, and you have an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
takes 5 minutes and exposes the character to the blood’s effects (see “Interior Features”). A cure wounds spell or similar magic cast on the wound closes it, stanching the blood flow. S5. Food Fight
Hag When the characters enter this 30-foot-wide chamber, read the following boxed text to the players: A pool of blood fills the center of this chamber. Five goat-headed demons reeking of rot crouch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
and also children of the world, birthed from the marrow of mountains, the hot blood of volcanoes, and the breath of hurricanes. Annam conceived the giants to be masters of the world. He gave them
rulers of the world. Giants, therefore, don’t pray to Annam, who refuses to hear them. Instead, they revere his divine children, as well as a host of other hero-deities and godly villains that are minor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
assassinated the entire family line. Baron Morrikan d’Kundarak and Lord Tolar Paelion were blood brothers, and Morrikan refuses to believe the accusations made against the Paelions. He has sworn to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
high mountain range. Glorium’s rich, rugged shores are speckled with the blood of a thousand battles, shed by folk who revel in skirmishing and welcome death when it comes for them. In Glorium, every
resurgence creates headaches when the spirit of Flatnose Grim expects to be reinstated as the town’s ruler. 2 After an argument with Tyrza, Jek Thanol refuses to shield Glorium from the armies of Gzemnid. With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
manacles in this room.)
Both prisoners have been strung up to face the wall, their bare backs covered in blood from the cuts inflicted by Erelal Freth’s scourge. One of the prisoners is Hatchrin Alet’taz
to become her new consort. They both wear spider silk togas instead of armor, giving them AC 12. Erelal is a mere thirty days away from giving birth to her eleventh child, but she refuses to let her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Spilling a few drops of Humanoid blood into the brazier causes the brazier’s coals to produce a hissing purple flame and oily, purplish smoke that reeks of offal. When Sythian summons the flame and
(Religion) check realizes that it’s used by worshipers of Graz’zt to commune with the demon lord, who requires a blood sacrifice. As an action, a character can spill some of their own blood into the bowl and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
this way, a creature is also unconscious, and it is unaffected by the passage of time or by other poisons. If magic is used to cure the poisoned condition, the recipient is immune to the poison for 1
wall and then uses it for each of his two attacks per round. He is a blood-drinker and attempts to subdue opponents, if not vastly outnumbered, so as to assure himself a constant supply of blood. To