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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Light A tale that is perpetually dark in tone becomes tiresome very quickly. It needs to feature the occasional ray of light for contrast and to create a sense of hope. Monsters and other terrors
must be offset with creatures that are kind and lovable, giving the characters even more reasons to stand against the darkness. Here are a couple of ways to add glimmers of light to a tragic tale: In a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
The Dark Fate of Lord Vanrak Moonstar Adherents of Shar have been active in the shadow of Mount Waterdeep ever since a disastrous expedition to the Black Jungles mounted in the Year of the Dark Dawn
moon), which he blamed for his father’s untimely death. Consumed with bitterness, the Dark Ranger, as Vanrak came to be known, secretly embraced Selûne’s sister: Shar, the Lady of Loss. By the Year of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
have sprung up, separated by dozens if not hundreds of miles of untamed wilderness haunted by bandits, barbarians, and monsters. Evil dragons stirred into action by their dark queen, Tiamat, threatened
giants are known to scrounge for food in the untamed hills. But now, in the past couple of months, giants of every kind have emerged from their strongholds in force to threaten civilization as never before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Beliard is real. The cultists wait a couple of miles outside of town, staying out of sight until the specified time of the attack. If the characters search the outskirts of town, they can engage the
hippogriffs, one skyweaver, one hurricane, and five bugbears One Dark Tide knight mounted on a giant crocodile, one fathomer, one Crushing Wave priest, and six bandits One burrowshark mounted on a bulette
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
That tiefling who’s looking to buy crocodile skulls can’t be up to anything good. 6 A couple of fishing boats have gone missing. If the sea devils aren’t behind it, I’m a merman. 7 A big critter’s
one to their home, and you’ll get a wish. Fail, and they’ll strangle you. 9 If you see someone at the docks wearing a red cloak after dark, slip them a copper piece and they’ll connect you with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
than a month ago. There were no graves present on his previous visit. He found them just a couple of days ago and has no idea who might be buried here — none of the folk of Red Larch are missing, and
make out the tiny outline of Red Larch, and the thin dark line marking the Long Road. Several miles to the north, you see a slender old tower circled by large birds. Nothing else is around here.
If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Dark Bargains and Cursed Paintings The process of creating the cursed paintings that are the hallmark of the Fetid Gaze was first attributed to a night hag grandmother whose name other hags fear to
. After that, the beneficiary suddenly experiences the opposite of the intended effect of the ritual, which transforms the creature into the dark reflection of its initial desire. For example, those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The characters might have a couple NPC companions around to help them defeat the drow (see “Bidding Farewell”), but if they need more assistance, consider the following options: Having pushed themselves
by the drow, and the dark elves follow them into daylight. Under the light of the sun, the drow have disadvantage on their attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight. The drow can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
couple of mugs and plates sit on a small circular table in the center of the space. A tattered and faded rug decorates the wooden floor.
The jackalweres like to relax and chat with each other in this
, including Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, The Dark Hunger, and Fallen Tethyamar. Development. If she is in the room and the characters are willing to hear her out, Korvala explains the Amberdune Pack’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
audience. 19–20 A destitute bard plays the harp with mediocre skill while asking for donations. 21–22 A deaf couple communicate with each other by sign language, but suddenly stop when they notice they are
questions about possible escape procedures. 57–58 A one-eyed human (actually an Inspired agent of the Dreaming Dark) watches everyone carefully. 59–60 A disheveled human magewright offers meager magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
N7. Blinsky Toys This cramped shop has a dark entrance portico, above which hangs a wooden sign shaped like a rocking horse, with a “B” engraved on both sides. Flanking the entrance are two arched
locals to avoid him. The burgomaster enables Blinsky to stay in business by giving him a couple of gold pieces a month to make festival decorations. Gadof Blinsky and Piccolo Blinsky is a heavyset man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Baldur’s Gate! But now I fear I have misplaced a friend amid this odious malevolence.
“My friend’s name is Floon Blagmaar. He’s got more beauty than brains, and I worry he took a bad way home a couple
and Volo were drinking and merrymaking at the Skewered Dragon, a dark, bawdy tavern in the Dock Ward. Volo recommends that the characters start their search there. What Happened That Night? Volo is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
gets them to open up. Floon’s Fate. Several of the regulars remember seeing Volo and Floon drinking together a couple of nights ago. After Volo left, Floon stuck around long enough to meet with another
dark as a dungeon — and as odorous as one, too. Nearly all the streetlamps have been smashed. The only light that pierces the darkness is a faint flickering from down the lane, like a distant candle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
with the second wave of villagers. With their livelihood drying up before their eyes and the hidden danger lurking in the village, the couple made the regretful decision to abandon their shop, buying
better shape than the smaller houses. Heavy wooden double doors are flanked by dark windows, and chimneys anchor the building at each corner, their masonry crumbling. In front of the house looms a wide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Chondathan human archmage). Having quaffed a few potions of longevity in his lifetime, he has the appearance and vigor of a thirty-year-old despite his being a couple decades older than that. A shield
are searching for a dwarf fugitive known as the Weevil, who is wanted for banditry. Sorelisa shows the characters a crude sketch of the Weevil (a dark-haired dwarf with a wicked gleam in his eyes) and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Stream To the north along the frozen stream, the tunnel splits, with one way continuing north and the other veering east. The stream follows the dark northward tunnel. Light from a distant fire is
-foot-deep frozen pool at the back of a dark cave. Trapped beneath the pool’s ice is a stone statue of a smiling young man, naked except for a well-placed oak leaf, with his face turned toward the sky
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to find that most of the equipment he needed to do his work (minus the victims) was already set up for him in the lab. The place was even dark and dreary, just the way he liked it. Not wanting to
sits next to the first, but this one is most lively and chipper. He wears dark robes and a red fez bearing the Dran Enterprises logo — apparently scrawled in white chalk.
“See Wizzy?” the chipper gnome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
they met their doom. U2. Dire Wolf Den A hungry dire wolf haunts this dark cave, the uneven floor of which is strewn with animal and humanoid bones. Unless the characters offer it fresh meat, the dire
musings about the cave complex. Characters who examine the pages find a couple of noteworthy passages: “These caves are sacred to the frost giants. The carvings on the wall suggest that the giants came
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
elementals guard the gatehouse at all times, attacking creatures that attempt to move unescorted across the bridge. The elementals are visible as swirling masses of air with dark areas resembling
plainly furnished side room. A closet contains an empty crate and a couple of moth-eaten cloaks sized for ogres. 13. Kitchen The kitchen smells of pumpkin. Three ogres named Drat, Drek, and Krob work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
origin.
Something scrapes and hisses in the dark, and you hear the soft padding of scaly feet on rock.
Characters who are being stealthy might catch the troglodytes unawares. If the characters are
around its neck tethers it in place. The agitated creature twists in frustration, its tail lashing.
Behind the lizard lie a couple of iron chests.
Creature. The cavern holds the troglodytes’ secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
characters search the jumbled mess, they find a couple of kegs of corned beef and pork; bags of beans, rice, and flour; and two boxes of fresh vegetables from the abbey’s garden. They also find gardening
spell scroll of command, a spell scroll of hold person, a gilded tome of dark ritual incantations written in Aquan and Infernal (25 gp), and a large silver holy symbol (50 gp). 10. Disciples’ Quarters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
instead: The passage opens into a large, dark cavern filled by a subterranean lake. At the east end of the lake, a torch illuminates a stone quay with a ten-foot skiff tied up alongside it. The west end
darkness. The landing at the east end of the cavern is guarded by four Crushing Wave reavers and one fathomer commanded by a Dark Tide knight named Eyon (see chapter 7 for the cultists’ statistics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
punchline. Baron Vallakovich has convinced himself that if he can make everyone in Vallaki happy, the town will slip free of Strahd’s dark grasp. The baron has a brittle ego, and he lashes out at
ghost: Magic mirror on the wall,
Summon forth your shade;
Night’s dark vengeance, heed my call
And wield your murderous blade.
The entity in the mirror is the spirit of a nameless assassin who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
carries a key to each of the cages in a ring on her belt. White Gates. Area 22 is bordered by three white gates. One connects to the Swine Run, another to the Dark Gardens, and a third to the Temples
of Despair. Dark Gardens Once an area of deadly gardens, these chambers have been altered to support the Blood Pens. 23. Dead Garden Dead and blackened thorny vines cover the walls and floor, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
air in this cavern has a mineral tang. In the southeast corner, a pool of dark water lies behind a low wall of stalagmites.
Three despondent commoners from Phandalin are trapped here: a sawyer named
humans here. All three townsfolk believe—correctly—that the flying monsters are saving them to eat them later because the monsters have gorged themselves on the goblins. The trio has been here for a couple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
human commoner). She is the fortyish matriarch of her family and a pleasant, sturdy woman. She is increasingly worried about “what’s gathering in the dark” in Red Larch and brings up her concerns with
seen his boss Ilmeth Waelvur disappear into a hidden tunnel in the back of the work yard. He’s also seen other people sneak in after dark and follow Ilmeth to wherever they go, although everyone else
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
slaad tadpole. Hiding in the dark corners of the hidden room are two crawling claws. If one or more characters enter the hidden room, the claws start pushing the jars with slaad tadpoles off the shelves
cellar (area D23). D6: Parlor Small circular pedestals dot the room, each one large enough to hold a couple of drinking cups. In the corners of the room stand four suits of armor. The two on the west side
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
unbroken chest and a couple of intact vases. P12: Tomb In the center of this cool, dark room rests an ornate stone sarcophagus. Its lid is ajar and broken, and it contains nothing but dust. Hieroglyphs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
murderer to his lair, for he seems to melt into the city’s fog after each slaying. Distant Shores Tendai and Khennen Shore (chaotic good human commoners) are a married couple that runs a successful
from business prospectors interested in buying the couple out and expanding the business. The Shores have no interest in selling, despite numerous offers from patriar families and anonymous buyers. As a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, a matching pair of wardrobes, and a vanity with a jewelry box. A portrait of a man and woman hangs above a fireplace. A parlor in the southwest corner contains a table and two chairs.
The couple in
). It contains three gold rings (worth 25 gp each) and a thin platinum necklace with a topaz pendant (worth 750 gp). D13: Bathroom This dark room contains a barrel under a spigot in the east wall, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
looms atop a hill. Womforders lock and bar their doors and shutter their windows at night, for fear of the so-called Womford Bat, a nocturnal predator that snatches folk it can catch outside after dark
hear the dwarf and bugbears fighting in the stables with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check, and the Weevil manages to kill a couple of bugbears before he’s dragged off in a sack. Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
couple of benches with buckets beneath them and a wooden trapdoor in the floor. A bathtub sits in the corner.
Below the trapdoor, a shallow trench carries waste away from the monastery. Joshua
. Characters searching the room can combine the supplies to make two sets of Potter’s Tools. M21: Ritual Chamber Darkness envelops this room. If the characters have a way of seeing in the dark, read or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
area S7. S3: Dining Hall Large windows on the west wall of this opulent dining hall look toward the ashen city. Fourteen plush chairs surround a dark walnut table. Three seats at the head of the table
tried to defend Jhaeros and Regine; the sixth was Regine herself. A character who holds a figurine experiences a flash of emotion like that felt by the victim in their final moments and, in a couple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Wind howls as it climbs this dark shaft.
After 80 feet, the pit tapers into a tunnel (area N1 of the Howling Caves, described later in this chapter). Chaotic gusts blow up and down the shaft, too
killed by the Emberhorns a couple months ago. As is their custom, the minotaurs roasted the body and hung the remains as a trophy. Reinforcements. Any loud noise in here causes the minotaurs in area F17
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-sized basin in which a couple of keelboats float. A wide gap in the southeast wall provides access to the river, although it is blocked by a heavy chain. A twenty-foot tall bluff of rock and earth
stolen goods: casks of ale, salted fish, and twelve large bundles of cured pelts (beaver and sable) worth 40 gp each. K13. Dark Stream The north side of the boat basin laps against a steep, rocky