burn back diffusing clearly received

Orok

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

antagonizes him. Orok's siblings bullied him mercilessly, so he ran away from his tribe. Although he's clearly an Uthgardt child, he carries nothing that identifies him as a member of the Blue Bear tribe, nor does he disclose his tribal affiliation for fear of being delivered back to the tribe.

Mahadi the Rakshasa

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

of his patron. In his role as the master of the Wandering Emporium, Mahadi has received special dispensation from Asmodeus to travel freely between the Material Plane and the Nine Hells to operate

signed on entry clearly stipulates their soul is forfeit. They’re required to pay off their debt through service. All such individuals fall under the effect of a geas cast as a 9th-level spell, which

Dusk Hag

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

to the amount of damage taken.Dusk hags resemble gnarled crones with shriveled orange skin, tangled gray hair, and eyes that burn like hot coals. They see visions of the future in their dreams, and

the golden key.” 6 “Beware the black horse.” 7 “The fish is your friend.” 8 “The stairs downward lead to that which you seek.” 9 “Look for two crossed swords. There your goal lies.” 10 “If you see two crows, turn back. Beyond is death.”

Daoud's Wondrous Lanthorn

Magic Items Quests from the Infinite Staircase

burn 100 gp of fuel after each year passes, keeping the lantern burning for another year. If no fuel is available, the lantern’s flame goes out. You can add more fuel to the lantern as part of a

use a bonus action to dim the lantern, reducing the light to dim light in a 5-foot radius, or brighten the lantern back to its normal bright light radius. Lenses. When found, the lantern’s

Baba Lysaga

Monsters Curse of Strahd

Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or back into her true form. While in swarm form, she has a walking speed of 5 feet and a flying speed of 30

received several disturbing reports, Queen Ravenovia was forced to banish the midwife from the kingdom. Lysaga never saw Strahd again, but she has succeeded in staying alive to witness the triumphs of

Crystal Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly. The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons’ scales. It glows like starlight between

their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling

Wizard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

, muttering a few words of power over them. Closing his eyes to see the visions more clearly, he nods slowly, then opens his eyes and points down the passage to his left. Wizards are supreme magic-users

? What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

. Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant

who study this entity claim that it is clearly evil and destructive. Others call it simply a necessary part of the cycle of death and rebirth. In the end, though, That-Which-Endures shows precious

Bugbear Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

wandering children unless they clearly have something to gain by doing so. From the viewpoint of the rest of the world, their aggression and savagery are thankfully offset by their rarity and lethargy

in the presence of Skiggaret. Talking about such acts might call him back. Blessings of the Bugbear Gods Bugbears have no use for priests or shamans. No one needs to tell them what their gods want

Uthgardt Tribe Member

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

among the people as living embodiments of his power. Perhaps they needed a reminder of who they were and from whence they came. The Chosen of Uthgar led bands back to the old ways, and most of your people

fullest. 3 I remember every insult I’ve received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone who’s ever wronged me. 4 I am slow to trust members of other races, tribes, and

Young Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly. The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons’ scales. It glows like

starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the

haul as much food and booty as possible back to the tribe’s den, every tribe has a sturdy war wagon. Since orcs are poor crafters, most of their wagons are stolen from human or dwarven

Imix

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

for new forests, plains, and kingdoms to burn. Lair Actions Imix is master of heat and flames in his vicinity. He can take lair actions on the Elemental Plane of Fire, or in any elemental fire node

form intermittent portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, allowing elemental creatures into the mortal world to dwell near those points. If Imix is destroyed or banished back to his home plane

5. Catching a Chill

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack

5. Catching a Chill Level 11 - 12 Adventure. Spooky. Confrontation. Castle. Rafa Teruel A supernatural storm of ice abruptly halts all Winterfest preparations. No hearth will burn, no candle

will light. High above the town, wails echo from the spiteful ghosts of Sifter Castle. The townsfolk turn to the party for help, can they bring warmth back and save Winterfest?

Day of Wonders Parade

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

attractions of the Sea Maidens Faire with the bizarre inventions of the temple — a plan that is well received. The evening before the Day of Wonders, workers begin assembling the wagons and floats of the

earnest, marching through Waterdeep’s streets to the cheers of the local folk. Zardoz Zord serves as grand marshal, leading the parade on the back of a rainbow-feathered diatryma summoned using his

3. Blessing of the Drake

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack

Bloody Thicket "This was clearly the site of a desperate and hard-fought battle. Broken trees lie shattered on the floor, and splashes of red streak across the white snow." Lotorrix and his rabble

ambushed Ysilwen here. There are signs of two large creatures fighting, bent weapons, and four slain kobolds. Ysilwen used an illusion spell to confuse Lotorrix and the kobolds before fleeing back to her lair, injured.

Adult Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

crystal dragons have scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly. The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons&rsquo

; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back

Ancient Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. The oldest crystal dragons have scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly. The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal

anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy. Visions in Starlight Many crystal dragons study the stars, recording their observations of the night

Starting the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

Starting the Adventure The characters start this adventure at the Brine Widow, a local pub near the water, having received directions from the Golden Vault (see above) or a mysterious invitation to

discuss an “advantageous opportunity” with someone named Verity Kye, who waits for them in the Brine Widow’s back room. ROLEPLAYING VERITY KYE Verity Kye is bold, confident, and genuinely kind—though

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

have clearly been lost or thrown away, which is easy to do without attracting attention. At the same time, they don’t automatically shy away from trying to grab items that are the property of

some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in

Adventure Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

Adventure Hooks Use one of the following adventure hooks to draw the characters into the story: Back to the Realm. This hook continues the story of the Dungeons & Dragons animated series and assumes

the players choose the premade characters that accompany this adventure. Long ago, the characters were transported to the Realm, a world filled with magic and monsters. With magic items they received

Developments

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Developments Even if Araumycos survives, its fate is unclear. The entity’s mind has clearly been damaged by both the necessity of cutting away its corruption and the buffeting force of the psychic

wind that followed. Basidia and the myconids offer to meld with Araumycos to try to heal it and guide it back to wholeness. Though not as serious as death, the trauma still causes a significant amount

Inner Glow

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, their scales turn snow white, then slowly fade to transparency. The oldest crystal dragons have scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly

horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy.

Play Style

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

personas for their characters, roleplaying noncombat situations, or discussing anything other than the immediate dangers of the dungeon. In such a game, the adventurers face clearly evil monsters and

opponents and occasionally meet clearly good and helpful NPCs. Don’t expect the adventurers to anguish over what to do with prisoners, or to debate whether it’s right or wrong to invade and wipe out a

24. Collapsed Areas

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

, obeying any command from a drow that isn’t clearly suicidal. 24b. Tunnels These naturally formed tunnels wind through collapsed rooms and hallways. The walls are composed of jagged stones, and the floor

throughout is silty and wet. 24c. Morgue A foul stench wafts through the double door, which stands ajar. Piled near the tunnels at the back of the room are the stripped corpses of eight drow and

Meeting in the Mists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

cryptic message you received, it doesn’t take long before they lead you from familiar roads onto a disused trail overgrown by weeds and the roots of spindly trees. A light drizzle begins to fall as you

, realize that they’ve all just witnessed the same thing, learn that they all received similar messages, and raise questions they have no answers for. The Mists of Ravenloft have subtly claimed them

Story Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

, Castle Laventz, as his own. Months later, the relentless knight Mara Silvra received word of her father’s defeat. Calling in debts and intimidating mercenaries, Mara forged a small army during her grueling

. Shouting her frustrations into the night, Mara was answered by a voice from the shadows. This sinister force would give her the power to take back her home and rule her lands, but she would never

Adventuring Life

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

with charisma to burn and shiny stage props for weapons and armor. After they’ve been rescued from danger, the characters’ former employer, now suitably chastened, is willing to hire the characters back at slightly increased wages.

Knight Sarlamir's Curse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Knight Sarlamir’s Curse Among the dead entombed beneath Castle Kalaman lies the body of Knight Zanas Sarlamir. A respected knight of the Order of the Crown, Sarlamir received a divine quest from the

Knight Sarlamir’s hand. The dragons attacked, slaying Sarlamir and crashing the flying city. A handful of Sarlamir’s loyal knights escaped, and they brought his body and his cursed dragonlance back to Kalaman. Both were interred beneath the city, where they remained.

Awarding Experience Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

can provide basic directions to Cragmaw Castle. It’s about twenty miles northeast of the Cragmaw hideout, in Neverwinter Wood.) Klarg received a messenger goblin from King Grol a few days ago. The

messenger told him that someone named the Black Spider was paying the Cragmaws to watch out for the dwarf Gundren Rockseeker, capture him, and send him and anything he was carrying back to King Grol

Bandit Attack

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

one wagon. The wagon starts to burn, and the attackers flee back toward their camp. Anyone pursuing them is led up over a ridge, straight into an ambush of the massed bandits waiting below the crest

Bowl Bandits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble

Bowl Bandits The passage continues onwards, taking the characters north for a while, and then switching back to the south. The caves here are empty, save for some old cobwebs on the ceiling

to hear clearly and make out the words. But if you get too close without being quiet, they may also hear you. What do you do? Matias Tapia The two Bandits, Vonnet and Dilly (an orc woman and a

4. Gift Getaway

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack

the village on the back of their [Tooltip Not Found] leader, bagged the gifts, then disappeared. The bandits left a ransom note: they want 1000gp in exchange for the gifts, or else the gifts will be

destroyed. They will throw a handful of gifts off the White Falls waterfall every 30 minutes from 8 a.m. until payment is received in full. Gregorus refuses to pay.

Adventuring Life

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

with charisma to burn and shiny stage props for weapons and armor. After they’ve been rescued from danger, the characters’ former employer, now suitably chastened, is willing to hire the characters back at slightly increased wages.

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

’ serpent gods into their religions. These victories sent a constant influx of food, ore, and slaves back to the home cities. The wealth of the empire allowed the ruling elite plenty of time to

an anathema. (Evil) 3 Unity. No leader shall put personal goals above those of our race. (Any) 4 Kinship. My allegiance is to my caste and my city. Other settlements can burn for all I care

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