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shines from her hands, the man’s wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with amazement.
A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak making him nearly invisible in the night, and watches
your quests? Perhaps you stumbled into a sacred grove or a hidden elven enclave and found yourself called to protect all such refuges of goodness and beauty. Or you might have known from your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Exploring Etizalan The town of Etizalan has seen better days. Although its colorfully painted stone homes and shady, tree-lined streets are welcoming, an air of urgency lingers over the community
. Many of the stalls in the town’s paved central market are closed as locals shore up buildings damaged by the recent earthquake or reinforce the town walls.
Enough local shops are still open that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Bytopia The surfaces of Bytopia’s two layers face each other like the covers of a closed book. Looking up from Dothion, the “top” layer of the plane, a traveler can see Shurrock, its other layer
. While Dothion rewards those who seek a quiet life, Shurrock is the paradise of those who continually challenge and better themselves. The two layers of Bytopia are often referred to as the “Twin Paradises
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
it. We depend on the forest for our survival. I wouldn’t be a very good town speaker if I let a dumb moose get the better of us. Will you help?”
If the characters demand more than tasty treats as an
characters can sell the moose’s carcass to a local butcher for 10 gp. If the characters want the pot sweetened further, Speaker Huddle says she can offer them Ramshackle (the closed inn) as an investment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
sections have small iron hinges built into them so that they can be opened, as well as iron latches to lock them in place when they’re closed. The window looks out onto the parapet (area K46). The figure on
danger to herself and others. Fortunately for her, Strahd has not yet bitten her, though he intends to. (If he can do so while the characters look on helplessly, so much the better.) Next to the bed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
reach the village, read: The gravel road leads to a village, its tall houses dark as tombstones. Nestled among these solemn dwellings are a handful of closed-up shops. Even the tavern is shut tight
boy, the girl turns to you and says, “There’s a monster in our house!” She then points to a tall brick row house that has seen better days. Its windows are dark. It has a gated portico on the ground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
detective fiction is to create a closed circle of suspects — a finite number of individuals whose circumstances make them the only possible suspects. One tip for keeping the players and the
other clues pointing in a different direction, or come across evidence that absolves the suspect. It’s better to populate your adventure with too many clues than too few. If the adventurers solve the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
modify existing classes to better serve your game’s needs. Changing Proficiencies Changing a class’s proficiencies is a safe and simple way to modify a class to better reflect your world. Swapping
different races or cultures. The bardic colleges might be closed to everyone except elves, dragonborn might be the only creatures capable of becoming sorcerers, and all warlocks in your world might be human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
another blue dragon related to them.
7 Rock slides have closed a mountain pass, and the only other road through the area wends through the territory of a blue dragon notorious for playing illusory
the dragon’s family.
3 A young blue dragon running a protection racket has run afoul of an efreeti, who has decided the area would be better off without dragons.
4 A tough but fair young
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to find a crater where the city once stood, then took it upon herself to lead a group of fearful refugees west to Baldur’s Gate. Before the Flaming Fist closed the city gates, Reya and a handful of
wounded the soldier with her longsword, fled down an alley, and stole a cloak to better conceal her armor and weapons. She’s been a wanted fugitive ever since. Reya hasn’t been in Baldur’s Gate long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
L4. Workshop The doors to areas L3 and area L7 are closed but not locked. The door to area L5 is locked, and Granny Nightshade has the only key (see “Skabatha’s Ring of Keys” earlier in the chapter
disappears.
A friendly boggle will create three applications of boggle oil in exchange for a gift of equal perceived value, such as a trinket. An indifferent boggle expects a better gift for the same amount
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
— or even doors that require hands to open — can restrict the movement of some creatures. If all the doors in a dungeon are closed, the players might wonder how the carrion crawlers or stirges they
challenging as the characters gain levels or to ratchet up the tension. However, this approach can turn the dungeon into a grind. A better approach is to include encounters of varying difficulty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
must have closed his eye when he created you.
14 I can see you, but where’s the dragon that pooped you out?
15 You’ve got all the good sense of a mind flayer’s last meal.
16 You
looks that a full-face helmet wouldn’t improve.
19 You’re about as useful as an orc horde at a tea party.
20 I’ve seen better-looking faces on a gibbering mouther.
The Wrong Kind of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
right. A swaying mass of seaweed fills the eastern side of the room. Many coffers are set against the north and west walls, their lids closed.
A large group of sahuagin warriors gather near the
area. At the far end of that open area, perhaps fifty feet away, stands a closed coffer with canvas sacks propped against it.
The threshold of the chamber at the south end of the passage is trapped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
L16. Granny Nightshade’s Bedroom This room has two closed doors, one leading to a 20-foot-high balcony and the other leading to area L17. Neither door is locked. A staircase descends to area L14
dollhouse sitting on the bedside table. This three-foot-tall edifice has seen better days and is now besmirched by peeling paint, mold, and rot.
Behind the dollhouse, by the window, moths flutter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
“People of Phandalin” for more information on Sister Garaele. Sleeping Giant This single-story tavern’s better days have seen better days. Its weathered sign probably depicts a prone giant, but whatever
several anvils, but the rest of the structure is closed off. Maza Fieldsalder (N female human commoner) took over the smithy a year ago, after the death of her master, Alger Frakk. As the master smith’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
two sapphires (worth 50 gp each). 46. Old Shrine The stone door at the end of the corridor is closed and stuck, requiring someone to make a successful DC 15 Strength check to pull it open. Faded mosaic
galleries that lead to the arboretums have the same characteristics. The doors to all connecting areas are closed. Nodules of luminescent fungus hang from the ceiling and walls and grow in clumps on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
those are thankfully all closed in sleep.
The ancient deep crow in the nest (see appendix B) is only pretending to sleep. Any character studying the creature and succeeding on a DC 18 Intelligence
advice might be — and with no thought given to the fact that relationship advice for humanoids has no bearing on its own needs. Raah needs better guidance. Allow the characters to give Raah any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
scimitar attack but dealing bludgeoning damage. After the fight, or as the characters get a better look at the room during the fight, add the following: Against the far wall, a wooden staircase covered
iron door at the top of the staircase from area B2 leads into the observatory on the third level of the tower. The door is closed but not locked. Read or paraphrase the following boxed text when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
square room, its walls, floor, and ceiling made of glowing crystal set with images of unblinking eyes. A crystal door stands closed, but you can just make out the long corridor beyond it, and a lone
plots, and insists that the characters will know better once they speak with her. If the idea that Valin might be a mummy lord is mentioned, Alessia confirms that she sees the oracle regularly and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
councillors, Thornwell, has her own reasons for wanting Mr. Dory humiliated, bankrupted, or — better yet — killed. She has been keeping an eye on her enemy as a result (see the “Adventure Hooks
“HANDLE WITH CARE.” A closed door offers a way into a walled-in area to the northwest. A mechanical lift stands along the south wall to the east, and two iron spiral staircases rise from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
champions of Dhakaan fought fiercely. But in the end, it was the orc Gatekeeper druids who closed the portals to Xoriat and drove the daelkyr into Khyber. The Gatekeepers crafted seals to hold both
better place? Or is the character a victim of the daelkyr, consumed by the fear of what they might become?
The touch of the daelkyr might be purely mental, or it might be accompanied by a physical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
back into the closed position. The mechanism is in the pit wall under the catwalk. A creature can jam it in the open position with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. If this check
collapsed, filling the southern section with rubble. The western wall is in much better shape than the other walls, and it holds a stone door with a rearing dragon carved in relief on it. The door has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
and gore, each can be folded flat with 2 minutes of work and weighs 500 pounds. Neither cage has a lock because Vakketar would wrap her animated chains around the cage doors to keep them closed. Each
the svirfneblin provided better product. The door at the rear of the mine was installed later as an escape route that let many duergar flee the mind flayers during the attack. G10: Collapsed Tunnel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragon Organizations The only thing better than getting a dragon involved …is getting five dragons involved!
-Fizban
Most dragons are solitary, living alone or keeping company with only a single
A group of cultists is trying to access a magic portal linking the Material Plane to Tiamat’s domain, hoping to break the seal that has kept the portal closed for centuries.
3 A dragon whose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Nevertheless, after all this time, it appears I am, in fact, better than you.—Q.
Desk Drawers. The top drawer of Quentin’s desk holds a red candle, a quill, a jar of ink, a few sheets of parchment, a few
chests must be closed for their magic to function, and the chests become nonmagical if removed from the vault. At any given time, the seven chests contain mixed coinage worth a total of 2d4 × 1,000 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
goblins also shout to alert their comrades in areas C4 and area C6 that the castle is under attack. C2: Trapped Hall Doors stand closed to the north and south, with a crumbling mound of rubble
. Four straw pallets line the east wall. The wall to the south has collapsed, but a boarded-up door in that direction is still standing. A door in better condition leads west, while a curtain hangs in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
alongside its residents. Better yet, if you’re of an adventuresome bent, register in your favored ward and compete! Who knows? Your name or visage might soon have a place in the House of Heroes
some candy on hand or some sweet rolls, and all will be calm where you live. Kythorn 14: Guildhall Day This day is a time of trade fairs. Most shops are closed, and street sales are suspended for all but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
anyone suggested he would make a better monarch than Mwaxanaré. WHEN GARGOYLES ATTACK
The gargoyles of Omu and the aarakocra of Kir Sabal are bitter enemies. Aarakocra scouts watch over the distant
Asharra’s personal chamber. It contains a comfortable bed, a nightstand, a few books of Chultan poetry, and a wardrobe holding everyday and ceremonial clothing. Under the bed is a small, closed box
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
chamber. Dark vapors rise from the cauldron, and a huge, dragon-like monster is coiled around it. The dragon’s body twitches slightly, and its closed eyelids flutter as it dreams.
Two figures are
hunchbacked man carrying an open book. “This library is closed to visitors!” he says, snapping the book closed and making no effort to hide his surprise and his annoyance.
Zybilna keeps her most esoteric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
exquisite. The dresser’s drawers contain enough materials (wigs, cosmetics, and whatnot) to assemble one disguise kit. P14: Guest Bedroom The door to this room is closed and unlocked. This bedroom is
you can see, is highly unstable. I thought I could keep the diamond safe, but I couldn’t resist showing it off from time to time. I let my vanity get the better of me.” The Entity. “Something alien and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Jester cards, and the floor is scattered with soft cushions. The door to the north bears the Fates card. A section of wall-cards shuffles aside, admitting a gnome-like man before shuffling closed
. “Hello!” the newcomer says brightly. “You’re uninvited, but if you answer my riddle, or better yet tell me one of your own, you can make yourself at home!”
The gregarious little man is Bindle, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
in profit than quality. Lacking the carpentry skills of his ancestors, he relies on underpaid apprentices to assemble wagons that are little better than ordinary, yet they cost five times as much. The
the business has been closed ever since. The yard is a riot of weeds, and the buildings have become havens for rats and other vermin. Locals have removed most of the wooden shingles from the rooftops
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
her, so be it, but her tragedy didn’t ennoble Zalkoré or make her a better person; it turned her into a monster. The medusa is not alone in the cursed garden. Eblis serve her as sentinels and spies
dome appears intact: it has no obvious holes in the roof, and the bronze double door hangs squarely in its frame. The doors are closed but not locked. Unless characters have been uncommonly stealthy (or