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Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
of spiders. Though spiderdragons were not created in the Abyss or by Lolth’s faithful, worshipers of the Spider Queen claim that spiderdragons are a gift from their deity, as spiderdragons are
most numerous in Underdark areas that Lolth’s faithful claim as their own. Lolth worshipers might employ spiderdragons as guards or treat them as venerated guests. The creatures aren’t as
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
court of vampires and ghosts in her palace of ice. Other tales claim that when anyone dies in Lhazaar, Illmarrow chooses whether to take their soul before it passes on to the Keeper and Dolurrh.
But
Death.
Trapped in Undeath. When Minara restored Erandis as a lich, she hid her daughter’s phylactery, weaving enchantments into it that cause Erandis to be reborn in a random safe haven after she
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
4
Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a
to ask for help getting home.
6
A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that specializes in a type of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
4
Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued
, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
6
A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
3
A fishery that specializes in a type of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
4
Legends claim that a
from the sea, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
6
A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter
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->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
energies to harnessing the astonishing natural resources of their mountain home. The dwarves were then reborn as merchant lords. In the early days of the Last War, Mror miners made an astonishing
, which resolves disputes and issues affecting the entire nation. Each hold includes a number of lesser clans, who owe fealty to the noble line. Those who occupy land above have the right to claim the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Demon Queen of Fungi, who wasted no time building herself a stronghold in a colossal mushroom called Yggmorgus. There, she works on a malevolent scheme to claim all the Underdark as her domain. More and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a temple beneath the waves. Unfortunately, that temple is now the lair of an especially tricky topaz dragon.
5
A topaz dragon is
injured and stranded far from the sea, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
6
A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
T1. Trollskull Manor See appendix C for a handout showing the floor plan of this building. Give a copy of this handout to your players as their characters begin to explore Trollskull Manor. Four
stories tall and boasting balconies, a turret, and five chimneys, the abandoned building is one of the grandest in Trollskull Alley. Characters can refurnish, rebuild, rename, and otherwise personalize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
an end to the schemes of a ghostly necromancer, but if the characters have been talking about building a headquarters, they can drive off the ghosts that haunt Harrowhall and claim it for their own.
adventurers, but it won’t be easy to claim.
Andrea Sipl
Place Harrowhall in a location appealing to the characters but also useful to your ongoing campaign. For example, the keep might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Borca on perfumes, tonics, and dozens of buildings and theaters. Countless families claim ties to the Boritsis. Dilisnya. The family defensively guards its prestige, as its wealth is based in
line. She pours her family’s wealth into supporting art in Levkarest and endlessly building her estate both taller and deeper. Ivliskova. The Ivliskovas run dozens of orphanages and the elite Ivliskova
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, he bought a smaller, less impressive building in the same alley and turned it into a pub, which he calls Frewn’s Brews. If you decide to introduce Emmek as a business rival, choose an unmarked building
claim they’ve done enough for their coin and demand more. Action Emmek pays the wererats another 50 gp to creep around the characters’ tavern at night in hybrid and rat form, carve rat faces into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
spiderdragons were not created in the Abyss or by Lolth’s faithful, worshipers of the Spider Queen claim that spiderdragons are a gift from their deity, as spiderdragons are most numerous in Underdark
areas that Lolth’s faithful claim as their own. Lolth worshipers might employ spiderdragons as guards or treat them as venerated guests. The creatures aren’t as powerful as their black dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
actually an old stone temple built in a rocky vale at the southern edge of the Sumber Hills. It was recently reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, home to reclusive monks dedicated to a mysterious “Way
repairing the old castle, and reroofing is their current major task. They claim their intention is to make Rivergard Keep their base for protecting river-borne trade from monsters and bandits. In truth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to reach it, while the cult fanatics encamp around the base of the tower. Avarice’s goal is simple: conquer Ythryn and claim its treasures for herself. From her refuge, Avarice divides her expedition
building, there is a 20 percent chance that one of Avarice’s hunting parties is already inside or arrives while the party is searching its interior. Old Rivalries Die Hard If she becomes aware of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
business they have at the house on the far side of the village. However the characters respond, Sarusanda says she is also going to the building. “The locals call it Death House,” she says. “Perhaps we
Elisabeth Durst. It’s an open secret that the Dursts use the building to host cultists who venerate the Darklord of Barovia, Strahd von Zarovich. This minor cult occasionally causes trouble, but until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and phase spiders in the keep, using the rules for encounter building in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to create an appropriate challenge. Weaker Construct. The stone golem in area 4 can be replaced with
Gremorly legendary actions and lair actions. Bruce Brenneise The haunted castle of Harrowhall awaits adventurers brave enough to claim it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
culture might have its own array of gods. In most D&D settings, there is no single god that can claim to have created humanity. Thus, the human proclivity for building institutions extends to religion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
who tries to establish or maintain a permanent order to the universe. She aids and inspires forces of change, the rivers that wear down mountains and the tides that claim whole continents. She
for the gods who oversee work she believes best left to mortals: Ephara with her cities, Karametra with her fields, Pharika with her tinctures, Mogis and Iroas with their armies. To Thassa’s mind, her peers are building castles in the sand, unaware or unmindful that the tide will sweep them away.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
ownership. I’ll arrange a meeting with one after you’ve inspected the estate and deemed it satisfactory.” The tube contains a deed to Trollskull Manor, a historic building in the North Ward that the
characters can claim as a home base. The deed has been notarized and appears legitimate (because it is). Volo recently bought the property because it is rumored to be haunted, and he was hoping that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
4 Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a temple beneath the waves. Unfortunately, that
dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
7 A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
be empty rooms. The rest are described below. 20a. Kitchen Odor. The smell of meat stew wafts from this building.
Servants and Guards. Inside, a manacled bugbear and three goblins shackled together
Quarters Two male drow guards named Krivven and Yazdriirn stand outside the door. They deny entry to all but T’rissa and immediately attack intruders. The building holds the following features: Stuffed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
curled into a fist — and it is a claim I can’t disregard. The Order of the Gilded Eye can be brutal in their pursuit of evil. Did Helm’s symbol weep as Javen Tarmikos and others have said? If it did
building where the Speakers of Helm’s Hold meet. The Speakers are the duly elected representatives of the hold, numbering eight in all, plus the Chief Speaker. The current Chief Speaker is Amarandine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thoughtful leader of his people, devoted to the vision that he and his wife share of a Blingdenstone rebuilt and reborn. Quartermaster Senni takes the count and measure of everything, ensuring her
granted the Pudding King the power to summon and command oozes, then ordered him to return to Blingdenstone and claim it as part of the Faceless Lord’s new domain. The Pudding King slipped back into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Tashlutans claim to have some amount of skill with personal prognostication. One of the most notable sights in Tashluta, the House of the All-Seeing Orb is an immense compound dedicated to the study of
carrying tomes or mysterious-looking magic devices, bustle about the immense compound. The largest building is patterned with inscribed eyes. A larger, more detailed eye is carved above the building’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
fascinated — some say obsessed — with building mechanical wonders. Though they employed magic from time to time, the whole island smelled like sawdust, grease, and freshly scraped metal, as shop after shop
disappear? That is, supposedly, what happened to Nimbral at about the time Lantan drowned, or so they say. Four ship captains of my acquaintance claim to have seen it one moment, and then not seen it the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
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
, its residents having retreated to the woods or sailed to Targos. The dragon takes 2 hours to lay waste to the empty town, leveling every building and destroying every dock. Casualties. None as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
building. A forge sits dormant in the far corner, a blacksmith’s anvil and an empty quenching trough beside it. On the opposite side of the room are two workbenches with stools.
Tormun and Blenyss left
space on one of the last merchant carts out. They took what they could fit on their backs, and they left their other possessions behind and hid their valuables in order to return and claim them later
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
carved wooden scimitar emblazoned with the inn’s name in red paint on both sides. An inn yard with stables and outbuildings lies behind the building. The Swinging Sword is welcoming and luxurious by the
transient laborers. However, there are usually four or five rooms that can provide an overflow for the inn if the need arises. All of the residents have seen (or claim to have seen, at any rate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
blue dragon’s family was killed, and the dragon is building a whole realm as a base for exterminating those responsible.
2 A young blue dragon claims the rule of a fast-growing city to impress
as the dragon does.
4 Under the pretense of helping an ancient blue dragon become a dracolich, an archmage is actually hoping to claim the dragon’s vast hoard.
Iymrith, “Doom of the Desert,” flies above her lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
surface. A dragon dropped great stones on many of the buildings above, and a good portion of the city’s outer wall was destroyed. Most of Sundabar’s military leadership was wiped out when the building they
Forgemaster has rejected the idea. Let the dwarves tend to themselves, surely, but there should be no king in Sundabar. I don’t know whether Flamestoker’s reticence is false modesty or true wisdom, or if he is waiting for a warrior-king to claim Sundabar as part of a larger realm.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Patriars Patriars are the elite upper class of the city, a rank defined largely by money and lines of vague, increasingly inconsequential heritage. Many nobles claim generations of lineage, dating to
patriars and was instrumental in building the city’s original walls.
Tillerturn owns and leases out many buildings in the city.
Vammas controls the majority of trade from Chult.
Vannath fled the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
developed a taste for deep dragon blood.
5 An adult deep dragon craves the knowledge stored in an aboleth’s nearby lair.
6 A spirit naga desperately wants to claim the key to a mysterious
has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule in the center of a vast underground salt lake.