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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
deal.
Endelyn’s obsession with tragedy and hopelessness extends to her own life; she has foreseen her own demise during a solar eclipse. In the depths of her castle, a lightning-powered device
wrest the domain from her clutches. They waited until Iggwilv was lured away on an important matter to imbue Iggwilv's Cauldron with the ability to freeze time. When their sister returned, the hags used
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
you have no memories except for a single name.
4
You were a necromancer’s undead servant for years. One day, your consciousness returned.
5
You awoke in an abandoned laboratory
perfectly preserved remains.
Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments of an amoral scientist. They consider you their finest creation or have a task for you to fulfill.
Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Conclusion When the characters recover the devastation orb, they must decide what to do with it. The Harpers want to see the orb returned to Triboar. Zhentarim agents want to smuggle the orb out in a
Zhentarim-sponsored caravan, intending to study the device. Otherwise, the characters can turn it over to the authorities or detonate it in the countryside away from any populated area.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
characters arrive along the shore north of Vallaki in the daytime, add: Pulled up along the south shore are three small rowboats. A fourth boat can be seen in the middle of the lake, with a lone figure
doesn’t respond to anything or anyone unless attacked. His boat is 400 feet from the nearest shore. Tied up in the boat is a seven-year-old Vistana named Arabelle (LN female human commoner with 2 hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
143 (26d10) force damage. A creature reduced to 0 hit points is disintegrated into fine gray ash and can be returned to life only by a true resurrection or wish spell. A creature that activates this
controls can make a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, the creature can cast the scrying spell (spell save DC 17) from the device. A magical image of the target appears before the controls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
, whom he believes—without evidence—are being abducted and returned every night.
8 The High Master mind flayer of Mount Grysl seeks to claim all the God-Brain knows. To do this, it creates a copy of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
by the monstrous peryton, another boat from Uskarn will set out eventually to investigate the characters’ fate.) At some time during the day, when a character is awake and outside or near a window
returned to its home. It continues to watch the party despite any attempts to shoo it away. Having observed the characters’ actions against the drowned ones, the ex-familiar believes that they might be the sort of heroes who could finish Archais’s work and end the undead menace.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
The Enemy Sighted After Cudgel has returned and the characters have organized Vogler’s evacuation, a local farmer rides into the village circle. The farmer reports seeing hundreds of soldiers on the
, Darrett is reeling from Becklin’s defeat and returns with the characters to Vogler. You can run any encounters from the “Invasion of Vogler” section as the characters escape the village, or you can skip ahead to “The Final Boat” section.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
and dammed the Khystonos River. Now villagers downstream suffer as their fields and herds lack the water they need to survive. (Partially true)
2 The Akroans have invented a new device of war
greatest wish. (False)
5 Groups of gold-masked Returned from Odunos have been harassing travelers, demanding to know if anyone’s seen a Returned wandering alone. (True)
6 An immense hydra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
characters reach the gate, but getting close enough to update their mimir is a damp, miserable experience that attracts the attention of whirlwyrms (see the “Whirlwyrm Attack” section). Hiring a boat to
sail to the portal is less treacherous. If the characters ask locals about hiring a boat or wander the docks, they’ll meet Bkol Steelbane, captain of the Courier. Courier Bkol Steelbane (chaotic good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
and sneak up on them. Taking a boat downriver, landing, and sneaking back is also a viable option. The area atop the cliffs is wooded, but an open field lies below and behind the soldiers’ position
Keep sits the creation of the tinker gnome Than: a people-launching device called a gnomeflinger (described in appendix A). If using the gnomeflinger comes up, Becklin or Darrett suggests consulting with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
have seen the ship, row ashore and pick the characters up (say in the cave below the haunted house), that takes 15 or 20 minutes. The characters then board the fishing boat, which is rowed out toward the
ship. The journey to the ship takes 30 minutes (20 minutes with more than two rowing), but if the boat is to approach the Sea Ghost from the seaward side, another 5 minutes should be added. The ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
dies in Mordent reappears as a ghost, a specter, or another incorporeal Undead near where they died. These spectral dead can be magically returned to life as normal, but those who aren’t restored to
the bizarre device called the Apparatus might allow him to escape his torment and reach a more peaceful afterlife. Godefroy’s servants have spent centuries abducting magical geniuses, possessing them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
captives to ropes and dragging them through the water until they drowned. She never removed the detritus of her victims, even though some returned to life as zombies. The Relentless was ultimately sunk
Sorrows, while others have their own names for these mysterious waters. Those who venture into the Mists by boat might find themselves amid an endless, debris- and sargassum-choked expanse of eerie
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Mordenheim desperately hastened her experiments, employing anyone who would bring her bodies—both newly dead and still living. On her operating table, victims were killed, returned to life, and died again
artificial organ Mordenheim called the Unbreakable Heart. But as she stitched the miraculous device into place, constables burst into the lab and accused the doctor of facilitating numerous murders. As Dr
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Clystran has returned with the dragonnels he sought. From here, the adventure proceeds in one of two ways: With Mass Combat. If you are using the Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn game along with this
device into their strategies. The gnomes are delighted to let the characters use the gnomeflinger. They even provide each character a narycrash (see appendix A)—or two, if a character asks for a backup
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. In addition to functioning as a normal mirror, each security mirror acts as a magical scrying device, allowing guards in the security office
1d3 security guards (use the thug stat block) to the holding cells (area A17). The cheater is released the next dawn, escorted by security to a boat, advised never to return, and sent upriver.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
by Zariel’s spies. Once all nine rods are returned to him, Bel is willing to divulge the location of the Bleeding Citadel. Bel suggests that the characters speak to a sibriex that was recently
built in his forge, nor does he reveal that it has a planetar trapped inside it. Bel also fails to mention that the nine adamantine rods are the keys to unlocking the device and freeing the planetar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
), Caerhan returned from a research trip to Candlekeep to find his fellow party members all dead. Recognizing too late that the orrery housing channeled dark power, the grieving Caerhan decided that the
sidewalks across the city. In the end, the orrery housing was too strong even for the destructive power of the shrine, and Caerhan died during his heroic attempt to rid the world of the dangerous device. Now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
and fears the Second Wind might accidentally smash it to flinders or rip it off its moorings. For this reason, he orders Flinch to deploy a jolly boat while the Second Wind remains 100 feet away, its
the Second Wind. Characters can use the six oars aboard the jolly boat to propel it to the docks while Krux stands proudly in the bow, pointing to the dock as if the destination were not obvious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Areas of the Water Temple C1. Lake Landing If the characters arrive by boat from the stream, read the following text: Firelight shines from a large cavern ahead. The stream opens into a large
on the edge of the quay or on a boat, reavers attempt to use the “Shoving a Creature” special attack to push a character into the water. (The water is 15 feet deep near the quay.) Eyon prefers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Sea Characters can row a boat for 8 hours per day, or can row longer at the risk of exhaustion (as per the rules for a forced march in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook). A fully crewed sailing
A shipwreck is a plot device that can be used sparingly to great effect, particularly if you want the characters to be washed ashore on some monster-infested island or (in the case of an airship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
boat, returned to the world, and warned never to try anything so foolish again — on pain of death. And I don’t think I will — at least not until I’m getting up there in years. Then I’ll keep my eyes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, after which time it must be charged at one of the plug-in terminals located throughout this level. If removed from the ship, the device ceases to function until returned. S64: Stasis Chamber (Green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
ounces of oil of slipperiness, three ounces of sovereign glue, three potions of water breathing, an immovable rod, a folding boat, a bag of holding containing several fishing nets and 500 feet of
hermit, Aaron Kelderman, also survived the initial undead attack, but he was recently slain by Rasp in the belfry (see area 24). Since Aaron has not returned after leaving to scout the island, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
will grow off the knobby oak in short order. A creature petrified by the barkburrs can be returned to its true form by dunking its roots in the Fountain All Heal (area G9). It takes 1 minute for the
returned. Treasure. A character can carefully harvest a single dose of magical honey from the hive without upsetting the bees with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check. The honey collected functions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here.
The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom
medusa’s shackles were once set here, but were removed and used in the clockwork kraken’s engine at area O5.) Monitor. The window-like device hangs against the wall where the medusa’s shackles were once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
regularly put him in danger, Gorkoh abandons them. If that happens, another goblin named Splugoth the Returned approaches Gorkoh with alternative employment. Gorkoh can show up later in the adventure
device resembling an orrery housing. The device is battered and falling apart, revealing exposed gears and spokes, and with its exterior pieces and plating scattered across the floor. Splayed on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
–30: Fleetswake This festival celebrates the sea, maritime trade, and the gods of the sea, navigation, and weather. It spans the last tenday of Ches, and includes a series of boat races, the
. Failure is the paramour of invention, though, meaning it is a rare year when there isn’t some notable disruption of the celebration. The flying chair of Marchell was one such recent oddity — a device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Xendros, he sends two glabrezus to attack the characters while they rest. Wizards. When the characters approach the wreck, they notice a keelboat, the Bat Guano, anchored in the distance. The boat
days ago. The creature is certain a thief from Saltmarsh took the staff, and it intends to make the fishers of the town pay until the item is returned. A character who succeeds on a DC 13 Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
contains a bed, a desk with matching chair, a claw-footed chest, and wall hooks for hanging clothes. The continual flame spell that illuminates each room can be suppressed or returned to its normal light
the walls. Hanging on the walls between the arrow slits are fifty sets of iron manacles guards use to bind prisoners’ wrists and ankles. Console. The console is a magical device that resembles a desk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
contains a bed, a desk with matching chair, a claw-footed chest, and wall hooks for hanging clothes. The continual flame spell that illuminates each room can be suppressed or returned to its normal light
the walls. Hanging on the walls between the arrow slits are fifty sets of iron manacles guards use to bind prisoners’ wrists and ankles. Console. The console is a magical device that resembles a desk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and titled “The Patriars.”
10 A group of obviously drunk Flaming Fist officers stumble away from a Wyrm’s Crossing bar
entering by a pattern of magical lights he couldn’t identify, the knight raced back to the city to gather additional scholars — yet when he returned, the structure was gone. Since then, the forested
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
are coming.” 9 Several cackling, half-dressed gnomes are covered in body paint and drive a wheeled contraption down the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and
returned, the structure was gone. Since then, the forested structure — which popular stories now refer to as Balduran’s Tomb — has been discovered three more times in the same fashion, each time in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
general and both of her aides have returned from the dead as ghosts. If the characters have put the crypt’s haunts to rest (see the “Purifying the Crypt” section), the ghosts don’t manifest when the
Michele Giorgi Finding the obelisk shard hidden in the Crypt of the Talhund requires
opening a tricky device to access a hidden room This round room has three alcoves with exits, each supported by stone