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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Arrival at the Bakery When the characters enter the bakery, read or paraphrase the following text: A brass bell rings as you enter this charming bakery. Sunlight filters through small windows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Returning to Kalaman As the characters near the gates of Kalaman, read the following text: A crowd mills at the gate ahead, dozens of commoners murmuring and excitedly looking past the closed
was Knight Caradoc. He was a charming man with a message for the governor. Knight Caradoc entered with at least a dozen heavily armored knights, like something out of a story. While learning about the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the first round of each combat), reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) Bludgeoning damage.
Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the
is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Meeting yourself is the surest way to realize you’re not as charming as you think you are.
—Someone claiming to be
Lorhirin of Fearchor Keep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Walls alone holds more Cyran refugees than Karrnath has allowed across its borders. If you read the Sharn Inquisitive or the Korranberg Chronicle, you’ve heard the endless litany of how difficult life
survived the Mourning did so because they were beyond the borders of their nation. And why is that? Because they were soldiers.
The Sharn Inquisitive talks about starving children and ailing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Forest Heart Pushing through the Forest of Hands eventually brings the characters to a clearing at the forest’s heart. This area is depicted on map 9.1. Read the following description when the
Shankha Trials. Known as Nisha to her friends and fans, she is a charming young woman whose Manivarshi ancestors settled in Tippurika after their home disappeared. Nisha uses the last name “Manivarshi” out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Meeting Darrett As the characters head across town toward Thornwall Keep, they meet Becklin’s squire, Darrett Highwater, along the way. Read or paraphrase the following: The town is abuzz with
. He always has their best interests in mind. Portray him as reliable and with whatever quirks your players are likely to find charming. Establish Darrett’s trustworthiness now so the characters know
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
D14. Toadstool Patch Your heart suddenly feels cold, filling you with a sense of loneliness that borders on despair. A haunting, melancholy tune played on a flute reaches out to you from somewhere
within a field of oversized toadstools.
If the characters follow the music to its source, read: A slender elf with pale blue skin and black hair sits curled in the shadow of a gray, six-foot-tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Centaur “I hear centaurs make excellent mounts!”
— Batley Summerfoot, a halfling adventurer who never read HOOVES OF FURY,
by Irvil Grayborn of Sundown
Reclusive wanderers and omen-readers of
the wild, centaurs avoid conflict but fight fiercely when pressed. They roam the vast wilderness, keeping far from borders, laws, and the company of other creatures. Wilderness Nomads. Centaur tribes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Council Massacre When the characters approach the council chamber, read the following text: As you near the chamber where the governor and city council are meeting with the Knights of Solamnia, the
possessing a Knight of Solamnia (use the knight stat block) for over a week. Charming but utterly amoral, Caradoc is Lord Loren Soth’s seneschal. He served as the mouthpiece of Lord Soth and his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
the players to introduce their characters and describe them to the group. Once they have completed their introductions, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: After swimming for half the day, you
see the “darkening” up ahead. It’s difficult to see anything clearly within its borders, though you can vaguely make out the outline of a mountain of sunken ships resting on the sea floor, grown over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Life in Akharin Sangar Despite the rumors outside its borders, Akharin Sangar is markedly hospitable. By long-standing custom, every Sangarian is a potential host and must be prepared to entertain
for knowledge permeates Akharin Sangar. Its many independent schools are free to teach broad curricula that beget a well-read populace, although the long list of censored works constrains opportunities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Satyrs in Distress Once the characters have entered the book, read: You’re on the fringe of a meadow that borders a forest. Tall trees of several varieties stretch before you as far as the eye can
within 20 feet of the forest’s edge, three satyrs come into view. When this happens, read: Three bipedal creatures that combine the features of men and goats laugh drunkenly as they stumble from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, actors walk through their scenes and read their lines to a mostly empty theater. Watching the rehearsal from the front row while smoking a pipe is Jarlaxle Baenre (see appendix B), disguised as
who runs a thieves’ guild out of a festhall. When a charming sea captain arrives with a hold full of booty from a faraway land, Sapphiria decides to steal it. Zaniness ensues when she falls in love
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Getting the Quest To begin this quest, read the following boxed text to the players: Just another gruesome day in Ten-Towns: howling wind, bitter cold, foul tempers, and snowdrifts big enough to bury
Torrga Icevein. In other words, Sephek gets around. He’s charming. Makes friends easily. He’s also Torrga’s bodyguard, so I’m guessing he’s good with a blade.
“His victims come from the only three towns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bait. At the end of each 30-minute contest, participants are given charming but valueless trophies; bragging rights are the real prize at stake. Should characters choose to participate, they find one
of Vogler’s best fishers, Mayor Raven, is in their group, along with a dozen other locals. Read the following description when the characters have their fishing gear prepared and are ready to start
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
(Intimidation or Persuasion) check convinces the guards to let them see Young-Gi. When the guards admit the characters, they escort the characters to the estate’s gardens. Read the following when the
-Mi, and brother of the previous queen, Young-Soo, Young-Gi (neutral, dragonborn noble) is accustomed to wealth and privilege. A life spent enjoying his status has made him charming and personable but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
focus has largely been within the grasslands’ borders, he cautiously explores engaging in trade with the human poleis Ironmanes One collection of leonin prides, the Ironmanes, doesn’t recognize the
the grasslands for countless generations. They know the way of Oreskos’s beasts and seasons better than any. Both mystical and knowledgeable, the Sun Guides read the messages in plant growth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
was once easy to doubt their veracity, for what nation didn’t patrol its borders or establish communication (amicable or otherwise) with other nations? The stories of naga and yuan-ti were easy enough
Serpent Hills, where we were taken prisoner by yuan-ti patrolling the borders of their domain. The half-elf was hauled away in slaver’s chains, but for some reason I was taken to the court of Jarant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
is a plane of endless fire populated by Celestials and Fiends, who both embody the raw power and versatility of flame. The borders between the Material Plane and Fernia are thin in a manifest zone; the
Ashen Spire, and to put an end to Kreffik’s blasphemous trade. Read or paraphrase: Without warning, the clouds surrounding the airship swirl and boil. A terrible claw with talons half the size of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
(levels 1 to 4), the ambitious assassin is a Humanoid who might be a charming manipulator or a ruthless killer. Ambitious Assassin Small or Medium Humanoid, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 16 (studded
choose to succeed instead.
Veiled Presence. The infiltrator’s AC includes its Wisdom modifier, and the infiltrator can’t be targeted by divination magic or features that would read its mind or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, to serve as guards on the tribe’s most distant borders or as hunters that wander beyond those borders. As such, the stone giants that are first encountered by outsiders are almost always the least
balance it upright, the writing can be read as the cylinder goes around. The message wraps around the pillar like the threads of a screw, but in two alternating spirals. The first is read from top to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
are keyed to map 15.1. Mike Schley Map 15.1: Harrowhall View Player Version 1: Moat and Walls A 30-foot-high wall borders Harrowhall, surrounded by a 20-foot-wide, 15-foot-deep, dry moat. The
drawbridge is down, and the portcullis is up. Read or paraphrase the following if the characters get close enough to see into the moat: The bottom of the dry moat is littered with bones as well as complete
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
, which are posted on placards near the docks. The placards read as follows: RULES IN THE AFTERLIFE:
Stay out of the River Styx.
Don’t cheat. (Cheaters never prosper.)
Don’t accost or threaten other
charming rake and a sore loser.
Wumpus Thistledown (lawful evil halfling) dislikes playing high bets and is condescending.
Barring character intervention, the tournament participants are eliminated in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
cave, read: A deep sigh issues from the darkness. A voice steeped in malevolence and hatred whispers to you in a language reminiscent of Elvish.
The wraith speaks Loross (see the “Loross: The Netherese
dead mage’s hands is a staff of charming fashioned out of chardalyn suffused with evil Netherese magic. Anyone who attunes to Drakareth’s staff gains the following flaw, which supersedes any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
5,000 gp, but damaging any part of it draws the immediate ire of two mezzoloth bouncers in the crowd nearby. F4: Slot Machines The first time a character approaches a slot machine, read or paraphrase
: Beyond Reality with Bimdom Baffletrick. A charming illusionist in glittery, purple robes, Bimdom Baffletrick (chaotic neutral, gnome mage) performs arcane feats. His assistant is a friendly, white-furred
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
a natural cavern under Oztocan. Torches light the tunnel at 10-foot intervals. When the characters reach the cavern, read the following: Dampness hangs in the air, and fungus clings to the walls of
the head of the table. Aminta is a human in her late thirties. She has brown skin and long dark hair streaked with gray. She is charming, confident, intelligent, and ruthless. In her pocket is a key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
through Undermountain and Skullport, which is described in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. When the characters find the staircase, read: The walls of this narrow, spiraling staircase are carved with
levitates into the air, revealing the contents of the sarcophagus: a shriveled, inanimate mummy wearing eyes of charming. After 1 minute, the eyes on the lid close as it slowly sinks back down