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Volo's Guide to Monsters
might make occasional nighttime forays up to the surface. Roughly one quarter of the towns and cities in the world have kobold communities living under them, but the kobolds are so good at staying
magical power than a potion, but they all believe that the tribal sorcerer can figure out how to use any such item they come across. When kobolds sense an opportunity to separate a magic item from its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
D. River Ivlis When the characters come within sight of this river for the first time, read: This river flows as clear as a blue winter sky through the valley. The river is roughly 50 feet wide, with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
lives come to the Well of Dragons to die, and have been doing so for millennia. The caldera of a long-dead volcano rises from an ashen plane ahead. Along the cinder cone’s steeply sloped sides, thousands
battle to come.
The Cult of the Dragon discovered the Well of Dragons long ago. Lava tubes snaking beneath the now-dormant volcano formed natural corridors connecting caverns that the cult enlarged for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
lives come to the Well of Dragons to die, and have been doing so for millennia. The caldera of a long-dead volcano rises from an ashen plane ahead. Along the cinder cone’s steeply sloped sides, thousands
battle to come.
The Cult of the Dragon discovered the Well of Dragons long ago. Lava tubes snaking beneath the now-dormant volcano formed natural corridors connecting caverns that the cult enlarged for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
stone spire stretches from the horizon into the clouds.
The portal from Sigil opens into a nameless ruin in the Outlands that is roughly halfway between the Spire and the gate-town of Torch. The
Outlands and atop which floats Sigil. Characters who follow the trail find a walking castle (see the following section) after an hour of travel. Those who avoid the trail come across the castle in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
unusual for a tortle to shuck off order in favor of chaos. Size. Tortle adults stand 5 to 6 feet tall and average 450 pounds. Their shells account for roughly one-third of their weight. Your size is
underwater for some time before needing to come up for air. Natural Armor. Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your shell provides ample protection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
3. Shrine of the Sea Mother When the characters arrive here, on their own or escorted, read the following to the players: A nine-foot-tall statue stands here. Its body is roughly carved from some
the statue, alert and on guard, while a few others mill about, gazing up at the statue and bowing repeatedly while chanting.
All creatures that come here are expected to make an offering to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, we will also feast when we are dead. If you’ve heard the call, come. Join my pack and feel the strength of Yeenoghu.”
The figure smiles as he speaks, revealing teeth filed to sharp points
.
Filthriddens is contained within a cave roughly 100 feet long and 60 feet wide. The characters enter from a natural tunnel along one of the shorter walls, with another tunnel exiting on the opposite side
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Nightstone have incurred the elves’ wrath on multiple occasions. However, elves are the least of the settlement’s problems, as fledgling heroes who come to Nightstone in search of adventure quickly discover
, marked “Nightstone,” beckons you to follow the trail. If memory serves, Nightstone is roughly ten miles up the trail.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
examines the urn can use an action to pry loose the stopper. If the stopper is removed, an efreeti will come forth. If the urn has been battered, knocked about, shaken, overturned, or otherwise
roughly handled, the creature will be in a fury and will attack. If not, it will grant three wishes for the party and then depart. Sarcophagus. Examining the lid of the sarcophagus reveals that glyphs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
. The broken staff is nothing special. The choker is a braided leather neckband with a silver dragon design chased into the leather. The ends are ragged, as if it was roughly torn off.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
interest. The broken staff is nothing special. The choker is a braided leather neckband with a silver dragon design chased into the leather. The ends are ragged, as if it was roughly torn off.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
chain shirt, helm, and big boots. He carries a shield on his left arm and a battleaxe in his right hand. The statue has clearly been broken into, roughly, the head and upper torso, lower torso, and
encounter is hard for a party that is only 1st level.) When the Bringers of Woe meet the adventurers, the bandits grimly and confidently say, “We are the Bringers of Woe. We have come to reward your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
priestesses come out. If you aren’t a drow in the City of Spiders, you aren’t worth a name. All manner of surface-dwellers — orcs and elves, humans and halflings — are brought here to serve as slaves to the
(“Great Pillar Cavern”), because of Narbondel, the giant rock pillar at the vault’s center that joins floor and ceiling. The cavern is roughly shaped like an arrowhead, with the pool of Donigarten at its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
stone manse overgrown with vines, roughly ten miles from here. Tales say that the manse was built by a scholar who studied the elven ruins scattered throughout these woods.” Woodland Manse Quest If
a quest, stating that he must remain at the lodge in case nobles from Neverwinter come looking for his services. LODGE FEATURES
The map of Falcon’s Hunting Lodge shows the upper levels and main
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
A Town Meeting When the party gets less than a mile from the location where the town is being rebuilt, they come upon an impromptu town meeting. Most of the town is here; they have been evacuated to
: Roughly fifty people stand in a clearing just off the High Road, where the forest to the northeast and the swampland to the southwest give way to grassland for a bit on each side of the road. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
has adopted the Zhentarim credo that power comes to those who deserve it and has come to see the Black Network as a new family of sorts. Agorn has come to Mistshore to visit a member of his actual
danger of sinking to the bottom of the harbor. His two friends are trying to pull him out of the hole, but he’s too heavy. The children are roughly 30 feet away. A character within arm’s reach of Jenks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Star’s opportunity to fire on the Moondancer. It then takes another minute for the two ships to come within boarding distance. Dealing with the Dark Star Once the ships are close enough, the three astral
use the Dark Star’s ballistae to fire on characters they can see. Captain Sartell fights alongside the characters, but Traevus and his thugs, if they are aboard, come to the Moondancer’s defense only if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
of 8 miles per hour and can travel roughly 64 miles per day when flying against the wind. The flight to Svardborg takes five days, with strong, cold headwinds the entire way. Thanks to a stiff
tailwind, the return trip is shorter, with the griffons able to cover roughly 80 miles a day. Dasharra expects characters to provide their own cold weather survival gear, supplies, and rations. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
leading east, called the Eastway, stretches roughly thirteen miles to the town of Easthaven on the shore of Lac Dinneshere. The southwest route, known as the Caravan Trail, is called the Ten Trail where it
stand open, and the guards assigned to the gatehouses say and do nothing as people come and go. When Bryn Shander is threatened, however, the guards close and bar the gates, refusing to open them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
in the camp, they count roughly one hundred kobolds and a mix of bandits, guards, and cultists totaling about eighty — effectively an unlimited supply if characters get the idea of fighting them all
night tied to posts alongside the monk Leosin. Characters have one night to escape this fate. They might wriggle out of their bonds, bribe or charm a cultist to set them free, or come up with a clever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
in the village circle. Assess how many ships the village has and roughly how many villagers they can carry. Instruct the villagers how to get to safety. Keep the villagers calm. Mayor Raven and
stunned silence. Then their questions come in a wave of shouting, anger, and fear.
With a successful DC 12 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check, the characters can help the mayor regain control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
them to a rocky alcove where both parties can enjoy a reprieve from the wind. Mjenir proceeds to explain his vision and warns of grave danger ahead: “Tigers with ice in their veins come to spill your
two dozen figures burst out of the snow sixty feet away from you. They are spaced roughly ten feet apart and begin advancing in a line.
Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
When you wash or bathe, anything less than uncomfortably hot water feels cold to you.
6 You have to slap some creature roughly before you can get a good night’s sleep.
7 You’re just not
the flayed skin of fiends is totally up to you. Marketing Is Everything There’s an old Luskan saying: “They could sell water to a sahuagin and it would come back for a refill.” And that’s you in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
otherwise nondescript warehouse.
If the characters slide open the doors, read: The interior of the warehouse is an open space roughly twenty feet wide and thirty feet long. Parked in the middle of
oil” mentioned above. The gray ooze and the mimics recently crept into the warehouse and are waiting for food to come to them. Contraption. The vehicle in the warehouse is a Large, magical drilling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, they count roughly one hundred kobolds and a mix of bandits, guards, and cultists totaling about eighty—effectively an unlimited supply if characters get the idea of fighting them all. Captured! If
posts alongside the monk Leosin. Characters have one night to escape this fate. They might wriggle out of their bonds, bribe or charm a cultist to set them free, or come up with a clever use for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
the route used by the orcs in Great Ulfe’s tribe to come and go from their lair. If someone checks the path for tracks, a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check reveals that four booted humanoids
. The going is very hard, with steep slopes and heavy undergrowth, reducing the characters’ travel pace to roughly 100 feet per minute. Thoroughly exploring the hillside could easily take hours. Heavy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
giant riding a mammoth, as the earth rumbles and trembles with every one of the mammoth’s heavy footfalls. Running the Encounter. The frost giant has come down from the Spine of the World mountains
they move in for the kill. These gnolls come from the Cackling Chasm (see "Cackling Chasm"), which provides them with shelter. Gnolls that are captured can lead the characters back to their lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
massive pair of cathedral doors open onto a long nave. Rows of balconies line the walls, occupied by a couple of dozen hooded monks seemingly come to watch the audience about to take place.
At the far
can see that the devil’s horrid leather cloak is crafted from the faces of flayed monks and prisoners, the flesh cured to leather and roughly stitched together. The scepter and crown it bears appear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
flooded bowl. Here, a roughly triangular temple rises from the water, its north side largely crumbled and its belfry leaning. The temple’s doors, half covered with water, have begun succumbing to rot
high, and tall windows admit any light from outside. Hidden Pits. The nave’s floor has buckled, creating pits leading to the shattered crypts below. Only creatures that come within 5 feet of a pit and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, prompting the other yakfolk to come running. Yakfolk are vile in their pragmatism. Before setting out to confront invaders, they murder their prisoners to prevent them from being freed or turned against
. While the wheel is turning, the buckets move at a speed of 10 feet per round; it takes a bucket roughly 15 minutes to complete one circuit. Although the adamantine forge (area 29) isn’t lit, the main
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
indicate that at least four humans have come and gone from the cave since the last blizzard. On either side of the causeway is a steep slope that plunges 20 feet into a snowy ravine. Waste Chute
dragon wyrmlings named Gelym and Tyzar curl up together in the eastern part of the cave. They attack any creature that enters their den. The stone chute is 25 feet long, roughly hewn, and steeply
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
characteristics to a group leader can make for a fun play experience. Adventuring. Characters can adventure with up to one skilled hireling at a time. An NPC with a challenge rating of roughly half the
hireling cost of 2 gp per day). Hiring crew can become a cooperative roleplaying activity. Potential crew might hear of Acquisitions Incorporated or the party’s exploits and come to interview with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
pay. If she spots any party members, she crawls out of the bell’s cold confines and rushes forth to destroy them, thinking they have come to plunder her hoard (area 4H). She prefers to lurk among the
blood. A character who studies the altar and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Religion) check can deduce the significance of the bones and the blood. Before a dangerous hunt or voyage, frost giants come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
characters spot an almiraj (see Tomb of Annihilation) roughly 60 feet away. The almiraj runs from any creature that approaches within 30 feet of it. Any character who successfully traps the almiraj can use an
attack until half of them are slain. If this encounter is rolled at night, treat it as no encounter. Cannibals Human cannibals from the mainland use canoes to reach the island. They come in search of