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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of existence, such as Carceri, where they are a menace. Each vargouille carries a disease that creates more of its kind; a flock of vargouilles on the wing is a plague of chaos and evil.
Swarms of
’s curse. If the curse is allowed to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back
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An ancient topaz dragon;ancient topaz dragon's lair contains a portal to the Elemental Chaos.
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An ancient bronze dragon and an ancient topaz dragon are locked in an ongoing conflict that
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
laboratories. The Izzet are obsessive, brilliant, inspired, and an unpredictable force of chaos in Ravnica, and you epitomize all of those qualities.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Investigation
Spells
Cantrip
produce flame, shocking grasp
1st
chaos bolt, create or destroy water, unseen servant
2nd
heat metal, rope trick
3rd
call lightning,
Aarakocra
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Species
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
lies on the slopes of the Star Mounts’ southernmost mountains. At the headwaters of the Unicorn Run, the Last Aerie is home to several dozen aarakocra. Recently, aarakocra elders detected
the Wind Dukes long ago to defeat the Queen of Chaos’s monstrous champion, Miska the Wolf-Spider.
When plunged into Miska’s body, the chaos in his blood sundered the rod and scattered its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
A Strixhaven Campaign If you run these adventures as a campaign, one villain is behind the chaos on campus: the bullywug Murgaxor Grenshel, a disgruntled former student who attended Strixhaven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
before the great magical statues can run amok. Alternatively, the grand parade of the Day of Wonders turns to deadly chaos when one of its inventive mechanical floats goes berserk and unleashes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the Underdark. Strange perfumes and scents fill the air. The marching myconids sow chaos as they move through the Underdark, passing around the Darklake. Other intelligent Underdark creatures give the
procession a wide berth. Characters making their way toward Araumycos can avoid much of the risk by following Basidia’s advice and staying away from the myconid march. If not, they run the risk of falling under Zuggtmoy’s sway (see “Random Encounters” in this chapter).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Hardships table to determine what challenges the survivors need help with. After you’ve run as many of these encounters as you like, proceed with the “Darrett’s Armor” section. Survivor Camp Hardships d4
earns a wordless nod of thanks. 4 Two rowdy youths take advantage of the chaos to try to rob a disliked neighbor. A character can stop them with a successful DC 12 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other
Evil Inchoate I will be the last creature when I am done. The cosmos will then be perfect, free of the braying abominations that are all other living things.
— Orcus
As beings of utter chaos and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Chaos in the Kitchen Even as the game of Wizard Gizzard ends and a winner is declared, Bow’s End Tavern erupts into pandemonium. Read or paraphrase the following: Panicked shouting erupts from the
tavern’s kitchen. Chef Curtie, her braided hair flapping wildly, emerges at a run, shouting and waving her arms.
“The steam! It’s too spicy!” she cries. “It’s trying to kill us! Someone, please help
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Adventure Structure This adventure has four parts, each divided into three chapters. Each chapter is designed to be run as a single play experience lasting 2 to 3 hours, with the expectation that a
far. There’s no telling how a session will unfold, since the players have some control over the plot, but the text tries to give you enough information to run the various creatures and encounters. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Crimes and Chaos Harbin describes the crime scenes once the characters accept his quest. The following places can be found on map 2.1 in chapter 2: Barthen’s Well, behind Barthen’s Provisions, where
. The woman (use the commoner stat block) aggressively fights the goblins. 3 Three goblins stole a goat and are attempting to run away with it. The goat, however, refuses to move. 4 A pair of goblin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
figuring out what their character can or should do, you can use the Town in Chaos table to introduce an urgent development for the character to deal with. Before the character moves or acts on its turn
, roll on the table or choose a development you think might spur the character into action. Town in Chaos d20 Development
1–3 Building collapse
4–6 Enlarged duergar
7–9 Invisible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Routine forays and raids onto the surface world have come to a halt, as has the flow of trade and information. Rumors have reached the Lords’ Alliance of demon-worshiping cults and chaos around places such
, you can distribute their stat cards among the players and let them run the NPCs. Eravien knows that the Lords’ Alliance has a deep-cover operative in the Underdark. Khelessa Draga, a high elf from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Carceri, where they are a menace. Each vargouille carries a disease that creates more of its kind; a flock of vargouilles on the wing is a plague of chaos and evil. Swarms of vargouilles flap through the
to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on fiendish aspects, such as fangs, tentacles, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
granting insight, but also in expressing the awesome fury of the storm. Where others see only chaos and destruction in storms, he sees them as shaping the firmament in ways that challenge and engage
constant, makes the ideal counter to the wise yet temperamental Keranos. Another interesting relationship exists with Purphoros. The passions of the divine blacksmith run hot, as does the need to create. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
What Is Avernus? Avernus serves as the front line of the great clash between the evil forces of chaos and law known as the Blood War. Demons from the Abyss use the River Styx to enter Avernus, where
For characters of level 7 and higher
This traveling market visits all corners of Avernus. Adventurers who happen upon the Wandering Emporium can rest, trade goods, and dine at a restaurant run by a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
threat of a full-scale frost giant attack throws the town of Bryn Shander into chaos. Many guards abandon their posts, leaving the defense of the southwest gatehouse to the adventurers. The characters
gate)
Beldora, a Harper spy (starts at area B7)
Sir Baric Nylef, a knight of Tyr (starts at area B8)
Statistics and roleplaying notes for these NPCs appear in appendix D. How the players run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Meetings with Sarusanda The characters occasionally reunite with Sarusanda as they explore Death House. Each time you roll this result on the Death House Encounters table, run one of the following
flameskull stat block) in attacking the party and Sarusanda. Crisis of Faith Run this encounter with Sarusanda after the characters have claimed the rod piece from the cultists (see area D38) but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
effect. The magic also prompts painted squirrels to run up and down the mural’s roots, and painted birds to chirp among the leaves. Up to ten students are typically present here during the day
effects made from sheets, blankets, wooden frames, tin plates, and illusion magic. (This preparation erupts into chaos during “That Trunk Has Teeth!” later in this chapter.) B9. Book Garden In these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, such as Carceri, where they are a menace. Each vargouille carries a disease that creates more of its kind; a flock of vargouilles on the wing is a plague of chaos and evil waiting to happen. Abyssal
kiss. The kiss of a vargouille infects a humanoid with a fiendish curse. If allowed to run its course, the curse brings about a gruesome transformation as an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
lead to the Temple of Chaos and to the Abyssal Gate. 17. Crawling Hall Two enormous pillars on the far side of this chamber emit brilliant white light that holds the attention of dozens of giant vermin
zone. White Gate. A white gate is located in the south branch of the corridor that leads east from this area toward the Swine Run. 18. Barracks Rough cots scattered across the floor contrast with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
family, run a professional guild, or rise to prominence in a temple. Key The Child; Prominent in Late Spring Many artists’ interpretations of this constellation show a child holding a silver Key in one
of Chaos. While those born under other signs find a hint of their future in the stars, the futures of those born to the Jester are unknowable. These people tend to be agents of chaos, and they can be found in any occupation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
ability check is one type of D20 Test. Here’s how to run the ability check in area A2:
Describe the Scene. Paint a mental picture of the kobold either by describing its words and actions or by
the centipedes act on their turns. Use the “Combat” section in the D&D Beyond Basic Rules to run this encounter.
A4: Common Area This common area contains straw beds and a pile of junk. Five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
contribute too; they must be willing to embrace the mood. Whether you want to run a full-fledged horror campaign or a single creepy adventure, discuss your plans with the players ahead of time
greater importance than combat. Make sure your players know ahead of time that you want to run this kind of campaign. Otherwise, a player might create a combat-focused character, only to feel out of place
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
wrest the stone from them during the chaos of the jailbreak. If the characters refuse to play along, the doppelganger cries out in alarm, bringing the full weight of the courthouse garrison (ten guards
won’t pay the fine are sentenced to hard labor for a year in Amendsfarm, a City Guard-run labor camp among the farms of Undercliff. If the characters committed one or more crimes, they are judged guilty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
the Borderlands to the Caves of Chaos and the lands beyond.
Stacey Allan & William Doyle Map: Trail
Trail Features The trail has the following features:
Lighting. The trail is
characters encounter. If this is your first time being the DM, run the encounters in the order presented.
Trail Encounters 1d4 Encounter
1 Looted Wagon
2 Talkative Traveler
3 Game
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
word spoken and casts the ritual, so that the characters’ bodies slip into a state of slumber as they possess the bodies of the wedding party. What approach the possessed dwarves — now run by the
check the vault and report to her if all is not well. This requires borrowing Gorat’s key, which Gorat lends willingly (whether run by a player or not). The mercurial Thunderwind has no concerns that a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
horror known as a chaos quadrapod (see appendix B). It uses its Chaos Cloud at the start of combat, then surges forward to lay into stunned characters. Each round, it focuses its grappling ability on
whichever characters dealt it the most damage in the previous round. If any part of the chaos quadrapod is pushed back through the door, it can be forced to return to its void of origin if the door is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
declare all-out war against each other, and it would take something extreme to have them abandon their relative peace and hurl their courts into violence and chaos. The Summer Court and the Gloaming Court
firelit parties) Shuns the constraints of civilization (instead wearing only unfinished natural materials and sleeping under the stars) Dabbles in mysterious magic and rituals (adventurers can run afoul of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
of him. The corresponding symbols on the tent’s canvas walls glow briefly. After Oddlewin speaks the card’s fortune, the character feels a chill run up their spine as their shadow gains a life of its
from his Deck of Many Things and pull a card from the deck. Oddlewin secretly enjoys seeing the chaos creatures bring about by drawing from the deck. He allows each character to draw one card. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
a redcap, Grubba, grab it and run off. Barnabas is too embarrassed to tell Mad Maggie about it, though she suspects something is amiss because Barnabas has starting whistling when he speaks. He
about redcaps and madcaps. Redcap and Madcap Goals. These creatures don’t have many goals, being mad fey creatures that revel in chaos and slaughter. Their interactions with the characters should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Kythri, the Churning Chaos The plane of chaos and change, Kythri is a realm in constant flux. The elements collide in fantastic explosions of unbridled power, motes of earth careen erratically through
amid the chaos. Several varieties of slaadi dwell here as well, exulting in the endless turmoil. Kythri Manifest Zone Features d4 Feature 1 The earth here is highly changeable and unstable. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
include the following offerings: Annam’s Blood. Barreled on Ysgard, this crimson mead swirls with scenes of battle. A war cry bellows from the tap when a mug of Annam’s Blood is poured. Chaos Frog. This
fortress of rehabilitation and renewal. The tiered, ivory sanctuary rests on a hill at the end of Bedlam Run, a curved road that rises to meet the headquarters above the Hive. Calming fountains cascade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
junction of the corridors that lead to the Temple of Chaos and to the Vermin Halls. Another gate lies in the passage to the east that connects with the Swine Run. 9. Dead End A set of double doors is
the Temple of Chaos. Another white gate stands in the corridor that leads south to the Pools of Devotion. 3. Issem’s Vault Deadly traps, which Issem avoids while in mist form, protect the vampire’s