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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
one another in a devastating conflict called the Manshoon Wars. The original Manshoon and all but three of his clones were killed, and today only a single Manshoon is believed to be active in Faer
robes when meeting with others, even with loyal lieutenants and the Zhentarim’s inner circle. Even his allies aren’t sure when they’re meeting with the actual Manshoon, a clone, or
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
maw ringed with teeth. Psurlons adorn themselves in richly colored robes and rarely wear armor or carry weapons.
Psurlons live for thousands of years because they spend most of their time in the
Astral Sea. Every hundred years or so, psurlons leave their astral strongholds, invade Wildspace systems, and indulge in a seven-year-long ceremony called the Feast of Worlds, during which they consume as
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
robes and rarely wear armor or carry weapons.
Psurlons live for thousands of years because they spend most of their time in the Astral Sea. Every hundred years or so, psurlons leave their astral
strongholds, invade Wildspace systems, and indulge in a seven-year-long ceremony called the Feast of Worlds, during which they consume as many sentient life-forms as they can before returning to the Astral
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
richly colored robes and rarely wear armor or carry weapons.
Psurlons live for thousands of years because they spend most of their time in the Astral Sea. Every hundred years or so, psurlons leave
their astral strongholds, invade Wildspace systems, and indulge in a seven-year-long ceremony called the Feast of Worlds, during which they consume as many sentient life-forms as they can before
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned, called kakomanteis, use their magical prowess to control the energy that suffuses the Underworld.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second
.
Returned Masks. Adventurers who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth approximately 100 gp, based on its
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Sometimes called knight tyrants or iron mongers, those who swear this oath gather into grim orders that serve gods or philosophies of war and well-ordered might.
Some of these paladins go so far as
to consort with the powers of the Nine Hells, valuing the rule of law over the balm of mercy. The archdevil Bel, warlord of Avernus, counts many of these paladins — called hell knights &mdash
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Sometimes called knight tyrants or iron mongers, those who swear this oath gather into grim orders that serve gods or philosophies of war and well-ordered might.
Some of these paladins go so far as
to consort with the powers of the Nine Hells, valuing the rule of law over the balm of mercy. The archdevil Bel, warlord of Avernus, counts many of these paladins — called hell knights &mdash
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
fails.Lady Alustriel Silverhand, called the Shining Lady, has been an influential wizard and proponent of good across Toril for centuries. Alustriel is one of the Seven Sisters—immortal daughters
gives no hint of her supernaturally extended life span. She typically wears long robes and wields a unicorn-headed staff, her Staff of Silverymoon.
Personality
Alustriel’s primary concerns
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
can make a stomp attack against that creature.Polukranos, called the World Eater, is the mortal manifestation of the eternal ideal of a hydra. In its first incarnation, it fell from Nyx to the mortal
the minds and lore of a people that, even after a hydra’s defeat, the beast might reappear as a Nyxborn being and begin its legend anew.Acid
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
who defeat Returned foes might marvel at their fortune in claiming such rich spoils after a battle. The mask of a Returned is worth approximately 100 gp, based on its composition and craftsmanship
recall little of their lives, some have an obsession with magic that survives both death and rebirth as a Returned. These Returned, called kakomanteis, use their magical prowess to control the energy
Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
aggression toward creatures that they could defeat in a fight and that can’t be dealt with in some other manner. They are aggressive toward prey they want to eat, creatures that want to harm them, and
hide in a stand of reeds before ambushing an animal might be called Achuak, which means “green” to describe how she blends into the foliage.
Lizardfolk make no distinction between male and
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
called the Chill. Unlike most of their kind, the Chill refrains from raiding the people of the North and maintains relatively good relations so that they can hire themselves out as warriors. Few city
never leave a friend behind.
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My honor is my life.
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I’ll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5
Those who fight beside me are those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
killed the real priest, stole his robes, and threw his body and holy symbol off the train. The slaad works for an evil, multiverse-spanning organization called the Syndicate of Terror, Extortion
altar is a serene priest in sunny robes.
The priest is, in fact, a gray slaad using its Change Shape ability to fool the characters. The slaad was sent here to kill them, plain and simple. It
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
Sequestered in high mountains atop tall trees, the aarakocra, sometimes called birdfolk, evoke fear and wonder. Many aarakocra aren’t even native to the Material Plane. They hail from a world
the Wind Dukes long ago to defeat the Queen of Chaos’s monstrous champion, Miska the Wolf-Spider.
When plunged into Miska’s body, the chaos in his blood sundered the rod and scattered its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Alustriel Silverhand Lily Abdullina Lady Alustriel Silverhand, called the Shining Lady, has been an influential wizard and proponent of good across Toril for centuries. Alustriel is one of the Seven
woman with silver hair gives no hint of her supernaturally extended life span. She typically wears long robes and wields a unicorn-headed staff, her Staff of Silverymoon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Escaping the Fen Once all the wardens escape the temple, each warden transforms into a wolf and flees from the borthak. End the characters’ encounter with the borthak when they defeat it or after
they and all the wardens have escaped, whichever happens first. Svetlin Velinov A terrifying monster called a borthak has trapped several Blue Fire Wardens in Bittergrass Fen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
somewhere near her lair. The characters discover that the rod piece is inside a casino called the Red Belvedere. They must infiltrate a members-only section and either defeat a champion of Tiamat or convince the champion to surrender the rod piece.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
retired from adventuring after their heroic effort to defeat a cult of Orcus that had established a temple in the nearby mountains. The tavern is now run by their heir and decorated with trophies of their
countenance.
“Evil has returned to the temple,” they tell you.
“Shambling corpses rove the area at night and dig up old graves, accompanied by ominous figures wearing crimson robes and goat masks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
lack sabotages the Wish spell exactly as the warlord hoped, allowing him to suggest an alternate course of action: reassemble the artifact called the Rod of Seven Parts and use it to defeat Vecna instead
facing the might of one of the multiverse’s most powerful good-aligned spellcasters, so the warlord devised a plot to trick Alustriel into helping him defeat Vecna. With the help of spies, Kas learned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
later, after the saplings grew tall and mighty, an ancient green dragon dug a lair in the redwoods’ roots, poisoning the grove and surrounding forest. The elves called the dragon Death-at-Sunset, for
named Ethvarn and her allies slew Death-at-Sunset. Ethvarn died in the assault. The surviving elves pulled back from Redwood Grove, leaving only a few wardens in an outpost called Redwood Watch. Over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Iroas’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Defeat Returned bandits who are terrorizing the polis.
2 Defend a
contest of strength or dexterity to prove Iroas’s superiority over the other gods.
6 Defeat a champion of another god (most likely Mogis, Phenax, or Pharika).
(JASON CHAN) An Iroas Campaign A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
defeat him. The characters are called on to help track the villain to his lair and stop his wicked ritual before he siphons the life energy from everyone on campus. A Standalone Adventure If you’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horseback is imprisoned and sentenced to death.
4 Help a cult summon a fiend to combat an impending greater evil.
5 Defeat a violent hag who’s protected by everyone in town and called
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Asphodel and the Despair Lands The influence of the Underworld leaches life and color from a peninsula south of the Nessian Wood. Here, the necropolis of Asphodel sprawls amid the bleak region called
tragically ironic home for those who risked so much to escape the land of the dead. Coliseum of the Aphonai Three ancient Returned called the Aphonai rule Asphodel. They wear simple, identical golden masks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
bound within the tome known as The Scrivener’s Tale. When the characters run afoul of the book’s magic, they must find a way to defeat the archfey before they succumb to her power. Candlekeep received
characters must travel to Baldur’s Gate to learn the origin of this potentially deadly mark, then retrace Machil Rillyn’s steps to a ruined library called the Haven of the Red Quill. All the while, the archfey bound to the book assails their minds, begging to be freed from her dark prison.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
adventurers to the golem. The book was found by members of a tribe of nomadic people called the Bedine, who live in the desert of Anauroch. The Bedine are discussing what to do with the golem and how
rests. In the final showdown, the party must defeat a dracolich named Zikzokrishka and then command the golem to open the vault and complete its mission—to deliver the prince’s body to Elysium.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
room is called the Phylactery Vault because it houses the phylacteries of many of Szass Tam’s high-ranking lich servants.
“You must enter the vault, defeat its guardians, and disrupt the magic there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
500 feet underground. Vox excavated the nexus; now, she uses its power to summon evil elemental monsters to do her destructive bidding. By the time the characters confront her, Vox has called forth her
first minions. The characters must defeat Vox and these monsters before the minions become an army. Ulsedra Vox, Para-elemental Queen
Ulsedra Vox leads the Primordial Alliance. Murderous and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
map tucked into his boot. (Whichever villain the characters defeat has the map — the characters should find it.) The map shows a crude sketch of the Dessarin Valley and marks a place called “the Spire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
turn meetings into fraught debates. The security forces of Janya are called the Billowing Patrol, named for their flowing, dark robes. Their headquarters is a looming silvery fortress guarded by
Djaynai is called the People’s Stewards, whose leadership ranks change whenever a significant number of citizens publicly call for new elections. All citizens of Djaynai are simultaneously seen as nobles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Frulam Mondath (see appendix D) in her purple robes, accompanied by a dozen guards. Even the governor cautions characters against attacking such a formidable force, especially when any lower-level officer
the information to the governor doesn’t count. The characters also receive standard XP for any monsters they defeat along the way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
cultists must wear their silver masks and black robes at all times or the temple’s cultists attack them. A character posing as a cultist must make a DC 10 Charisma (Deception) check each time a
devotee of Chlimbia, Prince of Magma. Vox recently developed terrifying elemental abilities, but the cultists know no further details. The cultists helped excavate a chamber called the Primordial Nexus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
called to you from the balcony of the tower. His dark robes are charred and torn, and a blue dragon mask is clutched in his red-stained hands.
In addition to his mastery of spatial magic, Xonthal dabbled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
called to you from the balcony of the tower. His dark robes are charred and torn, and a blue dragon maskis clutched in his red-stained hands.
In addition to his mastery of spatial magic, Xonthal dabbled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
curve up over their heads and—most disconcerting of all—the far side of the city directly overhead. Called the City of Doors, this bustling planar metropolis holds countless portals to other planes
human, although she most definitely isn’t. She wears ornate robes that shroud her body, and a mantle of blades coated in blue-green verdigris surrounds her masklike face. No one is certain who or what