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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
by magic. Rather than being unreasoning automatons, these armored shells possess the guile of soldiers and resilience against destructive magic. While their name suggests sinister intentions, these
any number of assignments. Roll on or choose a result from the Helmed Horror Directives table to inspire what tasks helmed horrors perform. Helmed Horror Directives 1d6 The Helmed Horror Follows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Humanoids, expose them to strange forms of Underdark radiation, and implant new directives into their brains. The process of creating a grimlock rends the creature’s mind such that no semblance of the
individual’s former personality remains. Grimlocks have shallow depressions rather than eyes. A sixth sense allows grimlocks to perceive their surroundings. Psychic energies from their transformations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Returning War Band You can add a complication in the form of a hobgoblin war band returning home, just as the characters are preparing to leave. This war band consists of three hobgoblins led by
heads are trophies from the hobgoblins’ recent victory over an elf hunting party. Clever characters might try to reason with Targor by urging him to think of himself as Grol’s successor rather than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
order of highly skilled assassins and thieves in Sharn. Less well known is the fact that this guild consists primarily of criminals who bear aberrant dragonmarks—hence its choice of namesake, as Lord
secrets, blackmail powerful people, and forge everything from identification papers to coins and works of art. Running Your Own. Rather than join an existing syndicate, you can start your own. You need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
recover and regroup. Encourage tactical thinking. If one of the sides of the battle consists of savage monsters or mindless undead, give clues that they attack the nearest enemy rather than thinking
. Three-sided battles can sometimes take longer because of the number of combatants participating. Use your discretion as the DM to have the excitement of the battle build up rather than fizzle out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Adventure Structure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist consists of an introductory adventure designed to familiarize player characters with the city of Waterdeep and provide them with a base of operations
unconscious rather than killed. Such characters might awaken in an alley, a sewer tunnel, or a prison cell, with or without their gear. Conversely, they might awaken safe and sound with all their gear in a private residence, being cared for by friendly NPCs who took them in.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Transients. The bullywugs are a roving band but they have set up a defensive camp here because they have happened upon a considerable treasure. Rather than risk traveling through the swamp with their
toad’s back, commanding it to move when necessary, but mostly letting it do as it pleases. The remaining bullywugs flee into the marsh if their leader dies. Treasure. The bullywugs’ treasure consists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cattle — grazes in multitudes upon the hillside pastures. The ranch consists of a large two-story house and several low stalls and granaries. In the distance, an unnatural mound of earth rises over the
described later in its own section. Ranch. The ranch consists of a barn, granaries, and a half-story house that rambles up and down a small hill. The house, barn, and granaries are ordinary and contain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
advises the guildmaster, Supreme Judge Isperia, an ancient and wise sphinx. The Sova Column consists of judges and the extensive legal apparatus surrounding them. It is tasked with adjudicating and
surveillance and precognition. Most adventuring characters, by their nature and because of their capabilities, are associated with the active work of the Lyev Column rather than the behind-the-scenes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, well-furnished (albeit upside down) captain’s cabin. The vegepygmy tribe consists of a vegepygmy chief, twelve vegepygmies, and three thornies (see appendix D for the vegepygmies’ and thornies
covertly, out of curiosity rather than bloodlust. He’d like to meet them and find out what they’re after. He’ll even bring them back to the ship and trade gems for wine, if they have any. Unless the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
after death would its consciousness be cast into oblivion. Two divine entities have long been associated with mind flayers by the scholars of other races. These aren’t deities, but rather
knowledge. Different elder brains have different interpretations of what this state consists of and how to achieve it. Elder brains and illithids that devote themselves to Ilsensine sometimes pursue ways
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
significant edge in a fight, it also saddles them with a critical tactical challenge. Sahuagin affected by Blood Frenzy are at best reluctant to disengage from combat. Rather than withdraw in the
proper, 30 feet high over the area at the top of the steps). All walls separating adjacent areas are 3 feet thick. Unless otherwise noted, construction consists of plain dressed stone. Doors All doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
withholding things from him, but rather than demand disclosure, he has waited and observed. He wants agents of his own, and sees the interest of the Keepers in the adventurers as an opportunity. The dragon
Themberchaud’s hoard from where they stand, as the dragon doesn’t allow them to get closer than 60 feet in front of him. The hoard consists of 3,000 pp, 20,000 gp, 45,000 sp, 150,000 cp, six 1,000 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
risk of being eternally pursued by Athreos’s servants. Alternatively, it might be souls rather than riches that tempt adventurers to the Tartyx’s banks. A spirit who died without payment for Athreos
consists of twisting crypt halls that hold no bones, bodies, or other remains—only dust and guardians. These halls give way to a second sanctuary filled with somber funeral music—though there are no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, and other natural swamp and forest compost, shamblers can blend into their environs. Because they move slowly, they rarely attempt to pursue and catch creatures. Rather, they remain in place
shambler consists of the rotting heap that it simultaneously accumulates and feeds on, which protects the root-stem and animates to smash and smother the life from any creature.
The dense mass of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
properly sail or row the vessel and might carry extra passengers or soldiers. If the characters are guests on a galley, the crew consists of the following creatures, all of which have proficiency with
10)
The galley has advantage on all saving throws relating to crashing when it crashes into a creature or an object. Any damage it takes from the crash is applied to the naval ram rather than to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
toward intruders, but it’s also naive. Rather than alerting the other kobolds when it spots the characters, it marches toward them and asks what they want.
Attitudes. Every creature has a starting
consists of Gold Pieces (GP), magic items, or both.
Whenever a player character finds gold, give that player Gold Pieces equal to the listed value, which is tracked on their character sheet. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
contempt, their first thought is to enslave them or use them rather than kill them.
The duergar of Gracklstugh are beginning to suffer the effects of the arrival of the demon lords — and specifically
emotion they have when interacting with others is seething hatred, and they make no effort to hide it. Their eyes are shifty, their teeth grind, and they look as though they would rather be somewhere else
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
wherever else they wish, sometimes building them in the shadow of the outer wall but most often scattering them about, seemingly at random. A den typically consists of a hole and a crawlspace big enough
maintain their own battle gear, but ammunition and replacement gear are kept on hand, as well as other nonperishable supplies. Rather than being contained in a building, these items are on wagons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
referred to as the Chandelier, this district mainly consists of picket keeps—strongholds governed by pious champions of justice and mercy. The Chandelier includes the following locations: Nimbron
such as altruism, agency, or the gods and their portfolios. The forum is deliberately located on the surface district rather than the Chandelier—a reminder that the venue is more for Excelsior’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
domains, locals measure time by “moons” rather than months. As a measurement of time, each moon begins on the first night of a full moon and lasts a full lunar cycle. A year consists of twelve moons, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
there and are about to attack. Unless the characters have previously convinced Paolo to hold back, the dragon hunters immediately attack. Rather than rolling for the dragon hunters’ attacks, assume any of
giant roots. Pangil ng Buwan’s treasure consists of 320 gp, 5,800 sp, three opal figurines of dugongs worth 150 gp a piece, an arrow of dragon slaying, a necklace of adaptation, and a staff of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
crew of the Emerald Eye consists of a first mate named Voltan (CE male Calishite human berserker), twelve Calishite bandits, two Calishite thugs, and five Chultan tribal warriors.
Stirge
Captain
over lost revenues and spilled blood. He’d rather seek lost treasures and magic items, but not by digging into ruins and tombs; instead, he’ll happily pursue adventurers across jungles and oceans to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
chamber to hold captives that it chooses not to kill. The simplest kind of prison, easy enough for a beholder to create, typically consists of 20-foot-deep holes disintegrated into the floor
the beholder’s favorite pieces of sculpture. Vestibule Beyond the lair entrance lies the vestibule. Rather than being sculpted with tools or eye rays, the entrance and the vestibule are left in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
force. 2 Mercenary Company. Hard-bitten veterans of numerous conflicts, mercenaries serve an employer for coin rather than out of loyalty. 3 Expeditionary Force. This military force is far from home
defending against fiendish incursion. 6 Sky Warriors. This military force consists of winged creatures, employs magical flight, or sails airships as a sky navy. Traditional defenses are ineffective against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
it. Activating this sundial returns the characters to the center of the maze. P3: Corner Bowers Sweet, gentle music without a source fills this bower, which consists of a small, circular alcove with a
elf, picnicking in a woodland glade.
The furniture consists of a large four-poster bed, two chests, two worktables, six comfortable-looking chairs, and two couches. One of the couches hangs from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
great white moon, also called the Mistress) and Celene (a smaller blue moon, also called the Handmaiden). Greyspace’s sun orbits Oerth, rather than the other way around. The sun takes 360 days to
four lunar festivals. Months and Festivals The standard year is 360 days long and consists of twelve twenty-eight-day months (each month divided into four seven-day weeks) and four six-day lunar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
brutal.
— Volo
Stealthy Shock Troops. Bugbears that are subsumed into a host function as a special cadre of spies, assassins, and bodyguards, answering to the senior leadership of the host rather
the battlefront. Auxiliary Units. A host rarely consists of nothing but goblinoids, especially if it has been on the move for a while. In addition to wolf and worg mounts and flocks of squawking ravens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
ready for trouble and investigate any wailing from the shriekers. S16: Northern Vegepygmy Colony (Blue) A colony of vegepygmies occupies this section of the ship, which consists of several rooms that
.”
The main area consists of a reception area and waiting room. It contains three undisturbed desks, two wheeled cots, and several uncomfortable chairs. A skeleton sits patiently in one of the chairs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the castle gatehouse consists of a small courtyard of bare dirt and tufts of wiry grass. A stable stands to the east, the gatehouse to the west, and the main yard of the castle lies to the north. The
’ statistics.) They are enthusiastic converts to the cult, but they would rather be out raiding or fighting instead of stuck in the chapel listening to Drosnin rant about the unstoppable power of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
finest ingredients: it serves roast chicken rather than peacocks or partridges, and the fish never have that distinctive Gray Harbor film. The establishment consists of two buildings joined as a single
Helm’s shrine in Baldur’s Gate consists of a small chapel flanked by wings at its door and a vigilant eye inscribed in silver above the lintel. The chapel’s services are regularly attended by Watch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
leading them in various meditations. At any given time, four Sacred Stone monks (see chapter 7) practice with her. Hellenrae’s instruction consists of beating her followers senseless, so the two monks are
lichdom, but he became a lich only because his brother fed him a lichdom potion on the battlefield rather than let him die. The Black Earth cult naturally tried to make an ally of Renwick, but he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
finest ingredients: it serves roast chicken rather than peacocks or partridges, and the fish never have that distinctive Gray Harbor film. The establishment consists of two buildings joined as a single
Helm’s shrine in Baldur’s Gate consists of a small chapel flanked by wings at its door and a vigilant eye inscribed in silver above the lintel. The chapel’s services are regularly attended by Watch members
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
from the sphere’s silvery metal emerges from the sphere. The death knight inflicts punishment in Soth’s stead, following his directives but requiring no action on Soth’s part. If the death knight is
. Both look out a window at the courtyard to the southeast. Fastened to the throne’s headrest is a mirror that seems to draw light in rather than reflect it.
On the rare occasions when Lord Soth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters make their way through the tunnels, they might encounter these cultists. A typical encounter consists of two lawful evil human cultists dressed in black robes, each carrying a censer and wearing
that isn’t blocked. She either moves to area V36 or attempts to flee via area V27. Proud to a fault, she would rather die than surrender or be taken prisoner — and she happily watches any of her sons