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It is said that the night thistle came with the Corruption and only grows on the graves of restless spirits. It blooms only on the darkest
night of the new moon, putting forth an eerily skeletal, bioluminescent flower that attracts nocturnal pollinators. Night thistles are only found near and within corrupted regions making it dangerous to collect.
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
go on dangerous excursions so they’ll return with interesting stories to tell the dragon.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling finds ice mephit;ice mephits to be the perfect household servants
quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has claimed it.
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Prismatic shards
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Curse of Strahd
failed to amuse Strahd, he delighted Tatyana and Sergei with his jokes and gambols. As a result, Strahd didn't object whenever Pidlwick and the duchess came to visit.
Eager to please and desiring to
return the courtesy, the duchess commissioned the legendary toymaker Fritz von Weerg to build a clockwork effigy of Pidlwick as a gift for Strahd's family. Although the duchess's heart was in the right
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Myth Drannor, where it was created. If its wielder’s goals run counter to its own, Tearulai attempts to take control of its wielder and escape Undermountain, whereupon it can use its transport via plants spell to return whence it came.
, fine art, and poetry. Vain, the weapon strives to improve its appearance. It craves gemstones and seeks out better ones with which to adorn itself. Most of all, it longs to return to the forests around
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Yet when the time came to honor his part of the compact, Maglubiyet reneged on the deal. In vengeance, the General of Gehenna created the soul-devouring barghests to devour goblinoid souls.
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day when it can complete its mission, return to Gehenna, and serve the General directly in his yugoloth legions, but it doesn’t kill goblinoids indiscriminately. By devouring the souls of
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Prerequisite: Dragonlance Campaign
Your talent for magic came to the attention of the Mages of High Sorcery, an organization of spellcasters that studies magic and prevents its misuse. You&rsquo
;ve trained among the Mages, but whether you’ll face the dangerous test required to become a full member of the group remains to be determined. Your passion for studying magic has likely already
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
makes a radiant spear attack, and then its mount can use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack.
Return to Nyx (Costs 3 Actions). The archon causes a corpse it can see within 30 feet of it to burst
champions of merciless justice, and they ruled with iron fists. But their dominance ultimately came to an end. As the archon overlords toppled, they scattered to the fringes of the world, and their holdings
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
’s Gate. You came here seeking something else, only to learn that the quest that drove you had become impossible to fulfill—its object was destroyed or its purpose was negated by some
superseding event. Suddenly directionless and unable to return to your homeland, you have lingered, adrift, in this wretched city.
Feature: Discovery
The quiet seclusion of your extended
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
lazy, but when Linene came around looking for a missing broach, she was out the door before I could blink an eye.
— Toblen Stonehill, innkeeper
Hailing from a strange and distant land
stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant
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Tomb of Annihilation
, rituals, religious beliefs, languages, and art, you have learned how tribes, empires, and all forms of society in between craft their own destinies and doom. This knowledge came to you not only through
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Cultural Chameleon
Before becoming an adventurer, you spent much of your adult life away from your homeland, living among people different from your kin. You came to understand these foreign cultures
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has claimed it.
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Prismatic shards rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible.
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A crystal dragon invites the greatest bards and philosophers
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
normal vampires, gnoll vampires don’t have coffins where they rest, and they have no such places to return to when their corporeal bodies are destroyed. They are undeterred by running water, and
abate. Auril came upon the starving, half-frozen creature and flung Tekeli-li into an icy tomb deep within the glacier. In doing so, the Frostmaiden sought to preserve what the gnoll had become—the
Triton
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elemental planes, and other dangerous spots far from the eyes of land-bound folk. Long-established guardians of the deep ocean floor, in recent years the noble tritons have become increasingly active in
foes when they found them and drove the rest into hiding.
With their foes banished to the deepest reaches of the sea, tritons settled in to watch for any sign of their return. Over time, the tritons
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
, however, finding a dwarf master who was willing to receive potential apprentices who came with your recommendation.
Skill Proficiencies: History, InsightTool Proficiencies: One type of
for someone worthy.
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I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
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I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
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One day I will return to my guild
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A towering palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has
claimed it.
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Prismatic shards rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible.
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A crystal dragon invites the greatest
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A towering palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other
creature has claimed it.
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Prismatic shards rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible.
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A crystal dragon invites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Hermit The wilds around Saltmarsh might seem like the ideal place to find peace and quiet, though the monsters that lurk in the region can make isolation a dangerous practice. If your character has
this background, the table below gives you some options for the nature of the secret that prompted you to return to civilization. d4 Secret 1 You stumbled across a clandestine meeting outside town
Kobold
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invasion and oppression. Although individually they are timid and shy away from conflict, kobolds are dangerous if cornered, vicious when defending their eggs, and notorious for the dangerous
hidden that the surface-dwelling citizens in the area often don’t know what lies beneath them.
Because the kobolds make sure they stay out of the way of anyone more dangerous than themselves, grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Dark Forces Dragons and demons are just a few of the dangerous forces at work in the world. The daelkyr came to Eberron from the Plane of Madness. They came with armies of aberrations — forces
can’t return to the surface, their minions can. This leads to the Cults of the Dragon Below, mad mortals who work with mind flayers and lesser aberrations. A cult of the Dragon Below can spring up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Return to Phandalin Before the characters travel to any dungeons, they should return to Phandalin from Zorzula’s Rest. If they don’t immediately seek her out, the dwarven sage Gwyn Oresong invites
all gone now. History tells us that mind flayers surged through the Underdark centuries ago like a terrible tide, consuming or oppressing everyone they came across. Gibbet Crossing fell. Talhundereth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
through a sending spell. The message says, “Dangerous orb of fire stolen from Triboar. Hands of Yartar auctioning orb to highest bidder. Please recover orb and return it to Triboar.” The Zhentarim sends
. Characters who keep up with underworld news hear that the Hand of Yartar found an elemental weapon. The thieves are auctioning it off. Characters passing through Yartar hear rumors that the Hand of Yartar stole something dangerous. Now the thieves want to get rid of it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
must break its curse by returning the shard to the ancient tomb it came from. But a dangerous crime syndicate controls the tomb and its riches, and the criminals won’t take kindly to the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Back to Promise If Lady Dre came with the characters, she and the horses have extracted her wagon from the sinkhole and are waiting for the characters. When the characters return to Promise, Aunt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
(chaotic good human scout), a trapper. He was out in the woods checking his traps when he came upon a grisly scene: five members of Good Mead’s militia, their skulls and chests stove in. He came
straight home to alert the town. The characters can’t convince Fef to return to the bodies, but they can follow his tracks through the snow easily enough. The fox (see appendix C) in Fef’s trap is rattled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
for the city’s derro slaves and remains a dark and dangerous ghetto. The East Cleft District was more recently settled after the derro earned their freedom, though it is only slightly less rough than
came together, and not as a product of planning. The derro population is much greater and their tunnels extend much farther than the duergar believe. The derro are close to mounting an insurrection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Zyrian’s Legacy Nintra’s demise frees Zyrian from his pledge to guard against her return, but his ghost lingers in the world long enough to thank the characters before fading away. The characters
. Other groups might become interested in restoring the greatness of the fallen city or searching for other dungeon complexes buried under the ruins—and might inadvertently stumble upon dangerous secrets and magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of this adventure. The Underdark is a dangerous place, and characters might be reluctant to let their newfound friends fend for themselves. Helping some of them return home makes a good incentive to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
business making collapsible cages (their well-crafted hanging cages gave the crossroads its name), and the duergar came to rely on mithral that the svirfneblin supplied. The drow provided the duergar with
through the area, as cave-ins and flooding have made it inconvenient as a thoroughfare. A group of thieves who recently obtained an obelisk fragment came to plunder an abandoned vault in Gibbet Crossing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, but when it came time for him to pay up, Octavian refused to give Bavlorna what she wanted in return: Octavian’s still-beating heart. As punishment, Bavlorna took what she wanted by force, switching out
toadstool, playing a somber tune on a double flute.
The flutist is a wood elf named Octavian Meliamne, who came to Bavlorna seeking magic that would make him forget his lost loves. A deal was struck
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
into thin air for no reason, then return in a fury if the characters try to call her back. If the party manages to converse with Ilda, they might learn that yuan-ti dwell in the innermost parts of the
divination magic, which is how he discovered the mysterious pool in this cavern complex. He excavated these chambers around the pool, and kings and wizards came bearing tribute. When he died after many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
other means. These children have been stuck in Prismeer long enough to forget about the worlds they came from, yet they haven’t aged much at all. Zybilna’s magic protects all children in Prismeer (but
child to return to her. Children sequestered in this fashion are beyond the reach of everyone else and can’t be located or scried upon using magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
intersection is a 9-foot-high pile of scrap iron.
Double Door. A 20-foot-tall double door blocks the hallway to the north. Leering skulls are carved around the door.
The scrap metal came from level 13
. Whenever the characters leave this area and return, there is a 20 percent chance that Hrossk, the fire giant metalsmith in area 11, is here to collect a choice piece of scrap iron and bring it to area 12 to be melted down and recast.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
memories of their captors or the realm they came from. Likewise, adventurers who return from an excursion to the Feywild are often alarmed to discover upon their return that time flows differently on
Optional Rules: Feywild Magic Tales speak of children kidnapped by fey creatures and spirited away to the Feywild, only to return to their parents years later without having aged a day, and with no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, merchants, and priests alike came to Talhundereth seeking wisdom, political alliances, secret martial training, and hints at where to find wealth. Eventually, however, the passages to Talhundereth grew
dangerous and the temple saw fewer visitors. A few centuries ago, Talhundereth was abandoned by all but a few vigilant defenders. Mind flayers took advantage of Talhundereth’s depleted state to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Outlands for details on the Mortuary. Multiversal Glitch The Mortuary is a dangerous place for 3rd-level characters. If a character dies, refer to the “Running Glitch Characters” section in this
book’s introduction. If all the characters die at once, they reappear back in the morgue. Morte heckles them on their return.