capture winning races

Arena

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

, but more modest stadiums can be found throughout the land, serving as proving grounds for athletes and entertainment for the rich and poor. Foot and chariot races, hurling competitions, and combat

arena often feature the characters as contestants in an athletic competition. The reward for winning could be treasure, a favor, or an audience with a person of importance—even Iroas himself, in the case

Chapter 1: Port Nyanzaru

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

traders backed by the Ytepka Society (pronounced yeh-TEP-kah), or risk a bloody conflict that probably would have ended with the city winning its independence anyway. Seven Chultan traders have since

its own right. Other than trade, the biggest attractions are the weekly dinosaur races through the streets. Locals and visitors alike wager princely sums on the races’ outcomes. The city also boasts

Going to Gracklstugh

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

other subterranean and surface-dwelling races. Gracklstugh’s Blade Bazaar might be the ideal place to find traders or explorers heading to the surface world. If Buppido or Hemeth isn’t with the party

of new “merchandise,” and they might deceive or outright capture the characters and bring them to their city’s slave markets. The random encounters in chapters 2 and 3 can easily set up this scenario.

Dinosaur Racing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Dinosaur Racing The city is famous for its weekly dinosaur races through the streets. Dinosaurs are painted in bright designs, and their riders try to steer them along a course that winds around the

harbor and the city’s four hills. Spectators are seldom injured, but it’s a dangerous sport for the dinosaurs and their riders. A typical race day has three races: one for four-legged beasts, one for

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

traps, snares, and nets to catch the unwary, and when their hunting patrols encounter other beings, they always look for ways to capture their foes instead of killing them. Goblins that run up against

patience needed to learn and practice wizardry, and they fare poorly even when given access to the necessary training and knowledge. Sorcerers are less prevalent among them than in many other races, and

Githyanki

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

legendary silver swords with which they cut through their foes. Since winning their freedom from the mind flayers, the githyanki have become ruthless conquerors under the rulership of their dread

lich-queen, Vlaakith. Githyanki Warrior Astral Raiders. The githyanki despise all other races, undertaking devastating raids that take them from their strongholds in the Astral Plane to the far-flung

The Day's Catch

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

show that they are attempting to capture the characters. The kuo-toa leave any fallen opponents unconscious at 0 hit points, intending to bring them back to Sloobludop as live offerings to the Deep

.” If the characters talk with Ploopploopeen, the archpriest explains his intentions as the kuo-toa escort the party to Sloobludop. If the characters refuse, the kuo-toa attempt to capture them, as

The Drow

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

winning the favor of Ilvara and advancing his position within the outpost, which shows in his swagger and the way he lords it over every other male in Velkynvelve, particularly Jorlan. Still insecure

appendix B), which once belonged to Jorlan and is used to capture and restrain prisoners. Jorlan Duskryn Jorlan turned a talent for inflicting pain into skill as a warrior, and a certain roguish charm

Modifying a Class

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

Modifying a Class The classes in the Player’s Handbook capture a wide range of character archetypes, but your campaign world might have need of something more. The following section discusses ways to

, paladins might not swear their oaths to ideals, but instead swear fealty to powerful sorcerers. To capture this story concept, you could build a new paladin spell list with spells meant to protect

Forge Level (X16-X26)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

covered with fungal growths try to capture the floating spores in jugs. Xardorok’s garrison includes several quaggoth thralls. A little over a tenday ago, a quaggoth thonot named Krob helped the

duergar capture a myconid sovereign in the Underdark. The sovereign’s name is Pleurota. With Xardorok’s consent, Krob is harvesting Pleurota’s animating spores and using them to turn dead quaggoths into

Crew Territories

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

Expeditions mocks a party member’s armor. She offers to apply “raptor repellent” at the discounted price of 10 gp. 6 A man with a dreadful fear of rats races down the street and slams into the party, having

Myrkul) trying to capture one or more city residents, in the hopes of torturing or ransoming them 4 Dead Three squad (1 iron consul, 2 fists of Bane, 3 night blades, and 1 skull lasher of Myrkul) on a

Tradegate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

Everything Emporium! Apply just one coat of our award-winning Fixin’ Polish, and your armor will be shinier than a modron’s backside.” –Forbi Figglemendle, Tradegate entrepreneur Manyroads’s Maps

the many sites in the Outlands (see the “Other Realms” section later in this chapter). 4 A local beekeeper wants to sell a special planar honey in the Everything Emporium. To help her get started, the beekeeper asks the characters to capture 1d10 live sunflies (see Morte’s Planar Parade).

Goblins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

when their hunting patrols encounter other beings, they always look for ways to capture their foes instead of killing them. Goblins that run up against the fringes of a society first test its defenses

prevalent among them than in many other races, and Khurgorbaeyag seems to dislike sharing his divine power with his followers. And although many goblins would readily offer anything to have the abilities of

The Dark Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

cunning — a trait that drow attach more importance to than they do to sanity. Give no quarter to drow, for none shall be given to you. Capture by drow means certain death, either as a sacrifice or after

authority over spiders. She hated almost as much the possibility of Eilistraee’s winning an ally among the drow pantheon. A prime opportunity arose when the spider demon lost much of its power in a

Torrents Locations

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

kuo-toa monitor guards the northeast doors. The kuo-toa try to capture victims for their aboleth god (see area P6). Reinforcements. If a battle occurs here, the creatures from area P7 investigate and

tentacles. This is where the aboleth in area P6 comes to feed on sacrifices. A kuo-toa archpriest armed with a trident of fish command and two kuo-toa attend their god here. They attempt to capture the

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

creatures that fire giants capture are put to work in the giants’ mines or on surface farms the giants claim as part of their domain. Even master crafters of other races are consigned to unskilled labor

will be well when our empire is restored. (Neutral) 5 Tribute. The lesser races owe giants not just respect but payment of tribute, and what they don’t pay willingly, we will take by force. (Chaotic) 6

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

, showing no signs of vegetation or other life, and highlighting the glimmering glass statuary that stands everywhere. Even at a distance, many of the statues appear to be humanoids of different races

races have also been trapped forever in glass. Creature. When any intruder climbs the upper towers or moves along the bridges created where towers have fallen, the vibration of their movement alerts the

Redbrand Hideout Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

turning acrimonious. The dice are loaded, and the bandit to which they belong is winning big. All four are intoxicated. The Redbrands recognize characters wearing scarlet cloaks as impostors. However

tell me that strangers are due to arrive in Phandalin. They could be working for the dwarves. Capture them if you can, kill them if you must, but don’t allow them to upset our plans. See that any

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

from the Garynmor Menagerie 8 1d6 stirges 9 1d4 jackalweres that live in Little Calimshan 10 Dead Three squad (4 fists of Bane, 3 night blades, and 2 necromites of Myrkul) trying to capture one or more

century as an all-gnome artist’s commune. Though only gnomes are invited to rent one of the rambling manor’s thirty-seven studio apartments, Baldurians of all races are welcome to socialize at the

Wedding Itinerary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

can feel like the best path to securing the orrery component and winning, while some players might blurt out their secret goal with the excuse that their character would try to do so. Encourage

chaos dies down. Amara’s Secret. If an item has been stolen, Amara’s secret triggers and she races to get her battleaxe from the gift table. She then begins searching for the culprit and screaming

Locations I - L

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

the valley walls far below the tundra, providing the dwarves with an apparently limitless supply of iron. Ironmaster is populated exclusively by dwarves. Members of other races are forbidden to set

offers 5,000 gold pieces for the capture of the brigand Worvil Forkbeard, known from Luskan to Mirabar as the Weevil. Last seen around the Mines of Mirabar, the Weevil is wanted for theft and murder. He is

Locations M - P

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

Damaran human veteran with 90 hit points), has turned the Troll in Flames — the local inn — into his personal headquarters, with six mercenaries (NE male and female veterans of various races and

, but characters who capture one can attempt an interrogation. Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Intimidation) check convinces a captured cultist to reveal that the individual is a member of

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