braving both diffusing called replaces

Sea Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

transformations. Folklore warns against falling in love with a sea elf or merfolk, braving storms in hopes of a bounteous catch, and promising your heart to a sea god. Such cautionary tales disguise the

any combination of such qualities. Some of these piscine body parts provide them with special abilities. The Sea Spawn of Purple Rocks Visitors to a string of islands called the Purple Rocks (in

Cleric Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

their combat training to let them wade into melee with the power of the gods on their side. Divine Agents Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to

because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers in unsettled lands, smiting evil, or seeking holy relics in ancient tombs. Many clerics are also

Setting the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil

orc Gatekeeper called Rhasshaven seeks the characters’ help. The Dreaming Dark replaces the Elder Elemental Eye. Forgotten Realms. The Sword Coast’s Dessarin Valley is plagued by evil related to

elemental forces. The temple is located in the Sumber Hills. Laeral Silverhand, the Open Lord of Waterdeep, replaces Queen Yolande.

Key Plot Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

of a dying land. The characters must decipher clues hidden in another song’s lyrics with the help of chatty locals. Braving the Rattle. Having learned where the lost verses are, the characters travel

to a copper dragon’s lair in the hills of a region called the Rattle. Navigating Nakari’s Lair. The characters must convince Nakari, the copper dragon, to hand over the verses. Failing that, they can try to take the verses by force or learn them from a source hidden within the dragon’s lair.

Divine Agents

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Divine Agents Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their gods’ will through prayer and sacrifice

. True clerics are rare in most hierarchies. When a cleric takes up an adventuring life, it is usually because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers

Divine Agents

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Divine Agents Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their gods’ will through prayer and sacrifice

. True clerics are rare in most hierarchies. When a cleric takes up an adventuring life, it is usually because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers

Para-elemental Planes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Para-elemental Planes The regions where the Elemental Planes collide and their elemental substances overlap are called Paraelemental Planes. Plane of Ash On the Plane of Ash, also called the Great

few dozen feet, and the battering winds make travel difficult. Here and there, ash clusters into floating realms where outlaws and fugitives take shelter. Plane of Ice The Plane of Ice, also called

Plane of Water

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

glittering array of stars and auroras bedecks the sky. The Plane of Water is an endless sea, called the Sea of Worlds, dotted here and there with atolls and islands that rise up from enormous coral reefs that

, called the Sea of Light because of the sunlight filtering down into the water. Aquatic humanoids craft castles and fortresses in the coral reefs. The marids are the distant stewards of this region

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

strike an enemy who is fleeing or passing by. Such a strike is called an opportunity attack. You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To

action to make a special melee attack, a grapple. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. The target of your grapple must be no more than one

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

strike an enemy who is fleeing or passing by. Such a strike is called an opportunity attack. You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To

attack replaces one of them. The target of your grapple must be no more than one size larger than you and must be within your reach. Using at least one free hand, you try to seize the target by

Sea Spawn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

. Tales provide myriad reasons for these strange transformations. Folklore warns against falling in love with a sea elf or merfolk, braving storms in hopes of a bounteous catch, and promising your

grapple ends, the sea spawn can’t use this tentacle on another target. The Sea Spawn of Purple Rocks Visitors to a string of islands called the Purple Rocks (in the Forgotten Realms setting) might

Shadowfell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Shadowfell The Shadowfell, also called the Plane of Shadow, is a gloomy dimension whose sky is a black vault with neither sun nor stars. The Shadowfell overlaps the Material Plane in much the same

a character is already suffering a despair effect and fails the saving throw, the new despair effect replaces the old one. After finishing a Long Rest, a character can attempt to overcome the despair

Interloper Gods

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Elemental Planes. The nameless horror called the Elder Elemental Eye perverts natural elements, limiting them to their most destructive aspects in a way that appeals to giants who are disposed toward evil

Elemental Eye directly rather than serving one of the subordinate cults. As described earlier in this chapter (see “Rejecting the Ordning”), membership in the cults of Elemental Evil replaces the ordning with

Meeting the Inhabitants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

as a symbol associated with the Gilded Gallows, a thieves’ guild that operates in a country far to the southeast called Elturgard. A character with the criminal background automatically succeeds on

of which runs across her left eye, which is milky and blind. An elegant prosthetic made from wood and metal replaces her right leg below the knee. Varnoth was a feared general at the head of a

Little Oak

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Little Oak This encounter features a raggedy group of children called the Getaway Gang. Nib can provide directions to the treant that looks after the kids, or the characters can stumble across the

the Story Tracker indicates that the unicorn horn is here, it replaces the wooden horn on the kids’ unicorn costume. The children don’t know that the horn is from a real unicorn. Squirt the Oilcan

Locations I - L

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

protective magic around a wizard’s tower called the House of Thalivar went awry, causing any who looked at it to be paralyzed. The few travelers still taking the High Road and braving the expansion

small forest or stand of trees. A singular mountain called Kelvin’s Cairn rises from the heart of Icewind Dale. During the summer, snow from Kelvin’s Cairn flows into three mineral-rich lakes: Maer

13. The Scavenger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

replaces one of its feet, which it lost in battle years ago. Tucked in the pockets of its overcoat are four fist-sized gray gemstones — the control gems for the gray slaadi that guard the ship’s upper

and the small asteroid cluster orbiting it called the Tears of Selûne; the water worlds Karpri and Chandos; the noxious ringed planet Glyth; the asteroid cluster of Garden, which is held together by

Monastery Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

called “the Fane of the Eye” by powerful visions. There he found “Ironfang, the Holy Implement of Earth Power,” and took it for his own; Marlos established the Temple of Black Earth in the ruins of a

long-abandoned dwarven stronghold that exists below the Sacred Stone Monastery; He nurtures something called the Black Geode, and when all is ready, “the Evergrowing Mountain shall come and remake

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