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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
into the River Styx, where it’s reborn instantly as a lemure;lemure devil (described in the Monster Manual).
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth, much as a forest
dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water. Unfortunately
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth, much as a forest fire clears dead wood
, replenishes the soil, and allows the forest to regrow even healthier than before. To this end, topaz dragons use their power to reduce crumbling structures and diseased plants to dust, clearing the way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
this weapon has its soul funneled into the River Styx, where it’s reborn instantly as a lemure devil (described in the Monster Manual).
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new
crumbling structures and diseased plants to dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth
diseased plants to dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Arrival The following description assumes that the characters approach the lodge from the west side of the river: A thin fog surrounds a fortified compound standing in a clearing on the east side of
a narrow river. A ten-foot-high log palisade surrounds the compound, whose main building is a two-story stone-and-wood affair with a high-pitched roof, gables, window shutters, and a stone chimney
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
E A small hut with a thatched roof sits beside the wooden walkway that cuts through this large clearing. Two bulbous masses of fungus and vegetation grow in the southeast corner behind the building
Wiltroot Hall Locations (W8-W14) W8. Western Clearing You arrive at the clearing to find two of your classmates cautiously eying two large, yellow, viscous puddles oozing out from the underbrush near
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Who Is Tatyana? When building your version of Tatyana, use the Tatyana’s Incarnation table to determine the character’s basic description. Once you’re satisfied, consult the following “Connection to
Indirovich of the village of Barovia
2 Ez d’Avenir,* vampire slayer and protégé of Rudolph van Richten
3 Vasilka, a flesh golem or reborn (see chapter 1) who lives in the abbey near the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
overlooks the bog and walkways beyond.
This area is devoid of faculty, staff, or students, leaving the building full of class supplies. Up to three herbalism kits or poisoner’s kits could be crafted
from these materials, as well as up to three vials of antitoxin and two potions of healing. W2. Observation Hut A The small hut in this clearing has a heavily thatched roof and a rickety door that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Infernal Contracts Once the devil and the character agree to the terms of a deal, the agreement must be sealed with a contract, which the devil can produce as an action. The contract often appears in
forfeit when the character dies (that is, the character is reborn in the Nine Hells as a lemure). The character loses all monetary wealth and property, or a powerful magic item (determined by the DM), to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturel. As a sign of favor, she bestows a charm upon each character (see “Archdevil Charms”). Characters who die in Zariel’s service are reborn as lemures from the River Styx. They lose all memories of
devil of your determination. Zariel’s Sword is Destroyed With no one to sway Zariel from her path to absolute damnation, Zariel demands that the characters give her the Sword of Zariel if they possess it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
The Vanthampur Family Thalamra Vanthampur is a cunning, devil-worshiping beast of a woman in her late sixties who can stare down a hell hound without flinching. She is barrel-bodied, with strong
hands and forearms that speak to her beginnings as a manual laborer. Her youth was spent in the cellars and sewers of Baldur’s Gate, repairing pipes and clearing out the city’s filth. Thalamra rose from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
constellations surveys the destruction. She waves in your direction, then approaches. “You arrived at a difficult time. I’d hoped to prevent exactly this,” she says, gesturing at the fallen building. “I am
character who investigates realizes someone’s trapped in the rubble. Clearing the rubble safely requires a character to make a DC 14 Strength (Athletics) check. On a failed check, they find one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
building’s foundation. Standing to one side is Guild Master Halia, her expression tense as she barks orders.
Guild Master Halia Thornton leads the building repair efforts. If a character attempts to talk
with Halia, the guild master says tersely that she’ll be happy to talk after she’s certain the building won’t collapse. Hex Sharpe The destruction of the cornerstone weakened
the foundation of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
masters of their environment. They show the same building talent in their traps and snares. Inside, longhouses are roomy and well ventilated. The ground is covered with reed mats, and the interior is
the longhouses would estimate conservatively that over a hundred lizardfolk live at the castle. They won’t count anywhere near that many lizardfolk in the clearing. Snapjaw can explain the discrepancy, if he’s around.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
masters of their environment. They show the same building talent in their traps and snares. Inside, longhouses are roomy and well ventilated. The ground is covered with reed mats, and the interior is
the longhouses would estimate conservatively that over a hundred lizardfolk live at the castle. They won’t count anywhere near that many lizardfolk in the clearing. Snapjaw can explain the discrepancy, if he’s around.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
stone gargoyles watch you from narrow ledges carved into the cliff side. Each has the face of a bearded devil, its mouth agape in a silent scream.
The three gargoyles are perched on the ledges
using Divine Sense can detect a fiendish presence within the obelisk. Clearing the vines and moss from the south face of the obelisk exposes a message carved into it in Common. (Give the players a copy of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
first laboratory, building planar gates of his own design. Testing one such gate as it forged a connection to the Nine Hells attracted the attention of a bone devil. Trailing Kwalish back across the
planes, the devil took over the inventor’s laboratory for itself. Kwalish managed to escape but left much of his lore behind, while the bone devil spent the years that followed converting the place into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Trading Post As the coastal mist clears, you get your first good look at the grippli trading post. Ramshackle shelters are clustered around a large permanent building. The low rumble of many voices
large building. Assuming the characters are cooperative, the grippli guards take the visitors directly to her. If the party seems trustworthy, she speaks to them. She prefers Primordial (it’s easier on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
House of Thalivar, a wizard tower, rises like a beacon, four times the height of every other building. The town lies in ruin, but the settlers from Neverwinter work quickly, clearing and reconstructing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M10. Treasury This solitary building is set atop a small floating islet within an area of open space punched down through the main body of the monastery’s island. It is held aloft on its own
the journal from Kwalish’s original expedition — and a final brain in a jar. Creature. The brain in a jar in this area belongs to the bone devil that founded the monastery. It is in charge of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
every other building. Some lots still lie in ruins, but the settlers work quickly, clearing and reconstructing.
Visitors with coin to spend are welcome in Leilon, and adventurers are the settlers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
of mist and branches suddenly gives way to black clouds boiling far above. There is a clearing here, next to a river that widens to form a small lake several hundred feet across. Five colorful round
Barovia against the devil Strahd. He stirred them with thoughts of revolt and bore them to the castle en masse. “When the vampire appeared, the wizard’s peasant army fled in terror. A few stood their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
House of Thalivar Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of the House of Thalivar. H1. Tower Exterior The tower rests on a rocky plateau. A grand portico once abutted the building to
monsters into the tower. Soapwort’s chamber has long since caved in, and his bed is buried underneath a pile of rubble. Characters who spend at least 30 minutes clearing the wreckage discover humanoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
forms the perimeter of a large hole, while east of the building is a larger wooden structure covered with creeping vines.
As you come a bit closer, the sound of voices suddenly emerges from the shack
). As figments of the demiplane, these potions vanish when the characters leave if they’re not consumed before then. H3. Hag’s Menagerie Tucked in a clearing is a ramshackle structure 15 feet wide and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
and coops so that they don’t freeze. Burgomaster’s Cottage. The building closest to the outer gate is the burgomaster’s cottage—the largest building in town but still a modest dwelling. Dmitri Krezkov
the Morninglord in a gazebo. It’s known as the Shrine of the White Sun. The Abbey of Saint Markovia is named after a priest of the Morninglord who took a stand against the devil Strahd. After a fierce
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
of adventure and intrigue to your campaign. Adventure Site A village harboring a secret cult of devil worshipers. A town controlled by a guild of wererats. A city conquered by a hobgoblin army. These
. For an event-based adventure, note the NPCs who play a part in the adventure. This work is adventure preparation as much as it is world building, and the cast of characters you develop for your adventure — including allies, patrons, enemies, and extras — can become recurring figures in your campaign.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
settlements of the northeast — Yartar might soon grow in size, wealth, and influence. Physical growth would require clearing terrain for further settlement and building another encircling wall to
influence among its fellows in the North. Currently, it is most remarkable for its barge-building operation (and that industry’s importance to the commerce of other settlements) and its annual fairs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
pulled away to reveal a skeletal face, the figure unexpectedly speaks. “Your money or your life!”
The other members of the crew hide in adjacent alleyways or on the rooftop of a nearby building. They
) and her friend who goes by the name Devil Dog (CE female tiefling acolyte). The two are street thieves trying to work their way up to larger scores. Devil Dog uses the acolyte stat block with these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Encounters in Elturel d10 Encounter
1 Collapsed building
2 Cry for help
3 Ghastly meal
4 Ghoul pack
5 Hateful patrol
6 Imp sales pitch
7 Narzugon cavalier
8 Spouts of hellfire
9 Vrock philosophy
10 Zombie horde
Collapsed Building A quake rocks the city, and a building collapses in the distance. The characters hear cries for help
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
importance. Building an event-based adventure is more work than building a location-based one, but the process can be simplified by following a number of straightforward steps. Several steps include tables
steps the villain takes to achieve its goals. Create a timeline showing what the villain does and when, assuming no interference from the adventurers.
Building on the previous example, you might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
by the door of this large building shows the faded image of a workhorse holding a flagon of ale. The building is sagging and dilapidated, but it is more intact than the ruins across the road.
Six
ash zombies (see the “Ash Zombies” sidebar) lurk in the shadows in this building, slumped against the walls or under the bar. When living creatures enter, the zombies groan and stir, slowly climbing to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
succeeds in wounding the creature. The dragon uses its radiant breath weapon to strafe the town from the air, never landing. It starts at the east end and slowly works its way westward, clearing
building unharmed. The Eastside is only partially damaged and remains open for business after the dragon’s attack. The Blue Clam is destroyed, as are most of Termalaine’s docks and boats. Casualties
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, splintering it. As a cloud of dust erupts from the wreckage, a second rock hits the ground, tumbles through a fence, and slams against the wall of a building, startling a pair of mules tethered to a post
frighten most of them away. The magmins run alongside the giants, eager to please. Whenever a fire giant points to a building or other flammable structure, a gang of magmins runs toward the target and tries






