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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
GrowthSwanmays are members of a reclusive order of wilderness defenders. Each bears a primal blessing that allows them to transform into a swan to watch over the lakes and woods they call home. Swanmays get
along well with dryads and other creatures devoted to protecting the wilderness.
Roll or choose a result from the Swanmay’s Charge table as inspiration for what a swanmay protects.
Swanmay
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.Champions of Madarua represent the most skilled warriors in the faction. Hardened by battle, they lead the charge into the fray and inspire their
, death, and the seasons. Each member bears a small tattoo of a sickle on the inside of their left wrist.
Warriors of Madarua recognize and respect the ever-changing complexity of life. In combat
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
This gold ring bears a fluorite stone and is enchanted to sharpen the wearer’s mind.
The ring has 3 charges and regains 1d4 − 1 expended charges daily at dawn. When you make an Intelligence check, you can expend 1 charge to grant yourself advantage on the check.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit while you’re wearing the armor or wielding the shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead.
The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following:
Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s essence and gain 1d10
trapped within it, as does expending all of the coin’s charges. The coin itself rusts from within and is destroyed once the soul is released. A freed soul travels to the realm of the god it
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
telepathically with any creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. Its voice is a deep, hollow whisper.
The shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2
released from the shield, the pit fiend honors the terms of whatever bargain it struck to facilitate its escape.
While trapped in the shield, Gargauth carefully steers the shield’s current owner
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on
successful one. When the staff is destroyed, the life force of the Forgotten One is released to the afterlife. Where it goes is anyone’s guess.
Casting the staff into a sphere of annihilation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
guide spend 1 charge in this area causes all the cage doors to rust with age and weaken, allowing the bears to break free. There is a 50 percent chance that both polar bears also age into undead versions
13. Bear Laboratory Whenever anyone enters this area, a low growling rises from the animals kept here. A number of large, sturdy cages house one pair each of black bears, brown bears, and polar bears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead. The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Soul Coin. A soul coin has 3 charges. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the
soul coin frees the soul trapped within it, as does expending all of the coin’s charges. The coin itself rusts from within and is destroyed once the soul is released. A freed soul travels to the realm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
released it, but all other creatures on the battlefield are fair game. It would sooner eat a goblin than anything else, given how badly the goblins have treated the bears. The goblins run away from a
are two roaring polar bears that don’t look happy.
These goblins were rolling across the tundra when their advance scout, a trained hawk, spotted the abandoned sled. The one-eared goblin boss, Izobai
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Outer Door and Foyer The tower entrance is on the eastern side of the stalagmite and offers the only access to Ezzat’s lair. Outer Door Bas-Relief. The outward-facing side of the door bears a bas
of a tiny black spider etched into each one. Two drow vampires are trapped in the gemstones and are magically released the first time a creature other than Ezzat opens the door or pries either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
multiverse the unreality depicts. Each unreality’s manifested secret is represented by an object that, although not “real” in the characters’ reality, looks real in the demiplane and bears Vecna’s
manifested secret. Meanwhile, the same or a different character must do one of the following: Expend 1 charge of the Rod of Seven Parts Expend a spell slot of 7th level or higher As soon as the charge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d4 + 8) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage. If released, Tarnhem upholds any agreement he made to not harm the characters. He instead
focuses his wrath on Moghadam and Phenex, hunting both down before vanishing into the rift to the Lower Planes in area 16. If the balor is released, the sphere binding him becomes a sphere of annihilation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2 charges to cast wall of fire from the shield (save DC 21 for each). The wall of fire spell lasts for 1 minute (no
suggestions that it is an angel trapped in an unholy prison. If released from the shield, the pit fiend honors the terms of whatever bargain it struck to facilitate its escape. While trapped in the shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Coin. A Soul Coin has 3 charges. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a Soul Coin and do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s
removes a curse on a Soul Coin frees the soul trapped within it, as does expending all of the coin’s charges. The coin rusts from within and is destroyed once the soul is released. A freed soul travels to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Yeenoghu are fighting to claim Avernus for themselves, and Kostchtchie (assuming the characters released him in chapter 3) wants his hammer back. None of them can be trusted. Demon lords are savagery
pit fiend Gargauth would like nothing more than to be released from its prison and replace Zariel as Lord of Avernus. If the characters possess the Shield of the Hidden Lord, they can free Gargauth as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
psychic damage. If the monolith is damaged or if a character openly bears Theodora’s Mark of the Raven, inky tendrils rise from the dark water and attack. These limbs use the statistics for five shadows
and don’t leave area 31. Destroying the monolith causes the limbs and the vestige within to vanish without a trace. Whether the vestige is destroyed or released is for you to decide. Mark of the Raven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
imposing female gray dwarf. She is fully armored and bears an insignia you have not seen on any other duergar. She is flanked by two Stone Guards who remain bythe door.
“I am Captain Errde
when confronted, and should keep them hidden otherwise. They are then released without fanfare. Errde knows about the stone giants’ invitation if the characters spared the two-headed giant’s life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Any creature that fails the saving throw is knocked prone and takes 5 (1d10) bludgeoning damage. Once the water is released, it fills both rooms to a depth of half an inch. Swept into area 10a with
demon lord Juiblex. Though ghastly, the depictions are harmless.)
Close examination of the altar reveals that it bears an inscription in Abyssal that reads, “A gift of flesh, willingly given, can feed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
member in charge during detention is a Prismari instructor named Arkin Minexes (lawful good orc Prismari professor of expression, except he casts Tenser’s floating disk instead of fog cloud; see chapter
student’s college (see chapter 7). Students in Detention d10 Student (College) Offense 1 Quentillius A. Melentor III (Prismari) Released pest mascots in Widdershins Hall 2 Rosie Wuzfeddlims (Lorehold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
an update at no charge. Gaspar’s Reclamations Gaspar’s Reclamations specializes in recovering magic items, gems, and works of art on behalf of its clients. The firm makes a living by charging a modest
Juggler’s Folk. Fronted by a modest tavern, the Red Masks Guildhouse is located within a series of linked cellars beneath the streets. The tavern has no sign that bears its name, though a placard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
tools, contraptions, and alchemical tubes and containers. Behind the counter, a door bears a sign that reads “Staff Only.” Breakfast of Champions When the characters arrive, a stocky giff named Petty
the characters’ involvement but don’t know the details.
Petty Officer Winston Ryeback
Giff Galley Cook
Petty Officer Ryeback (RIE-bak) is a muscular giff in charge of the food served at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
nearby forest for signs of trouble. Shortly after the characters arrive, Overseer Hwang Jung-Soon, the official in charge of the site, approaches them. What the Overseer Knows Hwang Jung-Soon (lawful good
” section). Anyone who recognizes the name also knows it’s odd that such a figure would have a shrine dedicated to them—an honor usually awarded only to heroes. Lantern. The lantern bears a magical flame that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
expended charges after 8 hours. Pulling the lever expends 1 charge and causes a line of golden lightning, 10 feet long and 5 feet wide, to flash between the two copper spheres. Any creature in this line
must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be magically transformed into an inanimate wooden mask, along with whatever it is wearing or carrying. The mask bears a striking resemblance to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check recognizes the dangerous buildup of necrotic energy that can be released by carefully manipulating the strips of leather armor covering the corpse’s
determine its original shape. The fuzzy orb hanging from the rune is palm sized and bears a mouth with teeth. If plucked, it animates as a gnawble as described in the “Gnawbles” section earlier in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
short and whose face bears the marks of a life lived outdoors. Eda is keenly interested in expanding Saltmarsh’s fishing industry, her sights set on a wild section of the coast where she hopes to
town, while also distributing fresh tropical fruit free of charge to the townsfolk. 11–12 A fire breaks out in town, and Eda Oweland raises funds to support those who lost their homes. 13–14 A fishing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
weapons to create openings in enemy formations.
Bulwarks. The wild attack of a group of thugs is often followed by the charge of one or more bulwarks. A bugbear bulwark carries a spiked shield
is released by someone remote from the group, and it can be sent out again to look for the individual that released it in order to deliver a response. Most of the army travels on foot, and wolf-riding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
), fog cloud (1 charge), ice storm (4 charges), or wall of ice (4 charges). The staff regains 1d6 + 4 charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a d20; on a 1, the staff turns to water
thunderwave spell. Spellbook. The wooden covers of Nass’s spellbook are bound in nothic hide, and silver clasps hold the book shut. Nass’s personal sigil is inscribed on the spine, which also bears the title
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
new captain has taken charge of a band of pirates or bandits and started raiding more frequently. Levels 5–10: Heroes of the Realm At this tier, characters undertake adventures that might determine the
the Underdark begins to break free, causing terrible earthquakes that are only a hint of the destruction that the titan will cause if it is released. 8 A lich tries to exterminate any spellcasters that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their weakness relative to the dragon or treated fairly because of the dragon’s kindness. Employees who don’t perform up to the dragon’s standards are released from service—whether that means being
these companions, who can become disillusioned when the dragon’s true nature is revealed. Crime Boss A dragon takes charge of a criminal enterprise, accumulating wealth through illegal activities that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
broods of orcs to be vicious and strong. Her symbol is the cave bear, and orc females raise such bears alongside orc whelps. Females particularly attracted to Luthic grow long nails and lacquer them
, learning to use these claws as weapons much as Luthic uses her own. Orc females devoted to Luthic are in charge of fortifying and maintaining an orc stronghold. They help to guarantee the survival of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
common magic item to which anyone can attune. While holding the staff, a creature can use an action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause a flower to sprout from a patch of earth or soil within
charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff turns into black rose petals and is lost forever. 6g. Secret Room This room is hidden behind a locked secret door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. The door can be opened with a successful DC 15 Strength check. If released, the shivering Herald of Dust is friendly toward the characters. However, it’s his first day, and he doesn’t know the way
the characters walk as the living do, they stink of death. A Gulthias tree (see the “Blights” entry in the Monster Manual), surrounded by brambles, rises above the thicket. It bears a single, bone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
haven as its guardians are released. Guardian Battle. Three stone golems (carved to resemble an 8-foot-tall crowned dwarf, a 10-foot-tall crowned elf, and a 12-foot-tall crowned human, respectively
finally released from The Scrivener’s Tale, then attacks at once. (During the fight, you can have Teles use sending to contact the characters in a panic, telling them that The Scrivener’s Tale flared