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Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
inside it awakens. Among the mightiest creatures of all giantkind, the scion stands 80 feet tall. It often finds some relief in waking and being freed from its troubling dreams, so it doesn’t
first empires of giants until Annam retreated into seclusion. On other worlds, the scions guard their birthplaces (which are rich in elemental magic) or hold the substance of the world together. (See
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
scion stands 80 feet tall. It often finds some relief in waking and being freed from its troubling dreams, so it doesn’t necessarily lash out in violence when emerging from its cradle. But it
other worlds, the scions guard their birthplaces (which are rich in elemental magic) or hold the substance of the world together. (See “Giants of Myth” in chapter 3 for additional inspiration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Atop each one are two statues of armored knights on horseback with lances, charging toward one another. The wind bites and howls like wolves as it passes through the gorge. The western arch contains
empty guard posts, one on each side of the bridge. These 10-foot-wide chambers provide some protection against the howling wind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Warriors Soldiers and Scrappers Habitat: Any; Treasure: Armaments Bram Sels An aasimar commander leads warriors charging into battle Warriors are professionals who make a living through their
cavalry officer with an unusual steed. 3 A crusader who fights for a divine cause. 4 A duelist who claims to be unbeatable. 5 A gate guard who asks nonsensical questions. 6 A grizzled veteran who trains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
shard per person above the age of ten years, and is collected door-to-door by patrols of the City Guard on the last day of each month. Individuals who so desire can pay a single dragon in tax and
receive a writ exempting them for twelve months, but the writ must be produced every month when the Guard calls, or a new payment is required. If the Guard knocks at a door and receives no answer, a notice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
maintenance costs (by charging fees, collecting tithes or donations, or selling goods), that is taken into account in the table. Skilled and Untrained Hirelings. The Player’s Handbook explains the difference
in “Downtime Activities” in this chapter. Garrisons Castles and keeps employ soldiers (use the veteran and guard statistics in the Monster Manual) to defend them. Roadside inns, outposts and forts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
carved relief shows a column of mounted knights charging through a portal into a fiery hellscape.
Zariel’s warlocks helped build the Crypt of the Hellriders to gain infernal power in their mortal world
feet tall and hewn from solid rock. C1. Sealed Gates When the characters descend into the catacombs, read: A pair of basalt doors block the passage ahead, their surfaces engraved with a relief of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
quaggoths guard this entryway. If any quaggoths fled from area 4a, they are waiting here, along with a male drow mage named Ilnor Telenna, who has come to investigate.
Webs. Thick cobwebs stretch
area 6 is emblazoned with a bronze relief of a mountain with a fist-sized depression in its center. The door is locked.
Bronze Relief Door. A successful DC 13 Intelligence (Religion) check reveals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
–34 Passenger 35–51 Fishing 52–68 Military 69–85 Piracy 86–95 Mercenary 96–00 Ghost Cargo Cargo ships haul mercantile goods, emergency relief supplies, traveling carnivals, and any other materials
with valuable cargo may carry 2d10 guards with a veteran guard captain. Cargo ships that transport livestock may have goats, camels, draft horses, mules, and other beasts, in addition to their crews
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
plan to use the kraken’s blood—or if they did learn his plan, but never told Fhenimore and Whymsee about it. Regardless of the reason, the kraken priests are not alarmed or on guard when Gar
slay and consume the kraken priests.
Rounds 3 and 4. The kraken priests are consumed by the swarms while Gar uses Umberlee’s Wake on the young kraken (who fails its saving throw) before charging to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
been enslaved by an aboleth and forced to guard the creature’s lair.
5 A clan of gnomes pays a young dragon turtle to serve as a mobile refueling platform for their fleet of steamboats.
6 A
back.
8 An ultroloth works with an adult dragon turtle living in the River Styx, using magic to protect the dragon turtle from the river’s effects and charging travelers for safe passage to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Guard, the Donjon is where those judged too dangerous to serve sentences working the fields on the underside are imprisoned. The Warden of the Donjon is a plasmoid boss (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie
an update at no charge. Gaspar’s Reclamations Gaspar’s Reclamations specializes in recovering magic items, gems, and works of art on behalf of its clients. The firm makes a living by charging a modest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
with a crew of twenty frost giants. Three frost giants remain aboard the ship — two stand guard while the third rests. Two more frost giants watch the sea from the beach. The other fifteen giants have
characters know about Artus Cimber and the artifact. Drufi’s attempts to be cagey about her interest have all the subtlety of a charging mammoth. Any character who succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the unrest along the Sword Coast. The group might besiege a village the characters are staying at, raid and enslave another settlement, or start charging tolls along one of the trade roads of the
a pack of 3 guard drakes. The dragonsoul rides a warhorse, but the other cultists are on foot. See appendix D for the cultists and drakes. Devilish Demands Though the Cult of the Dragon and the Red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the unrest along the Sword Coast. The group might besiege a village the characters are staying at, raid and enslave another settlement, or start charging tolls along one of the trade roads of the
a pack of 3 guard drakes. The dragonsoul rides a warhorse, but the other cultists are on foot. See appendix D for the cultists and drakes. Devilish Demands Though the Cult of the Dragon and the Red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
the unrest along the Sword Coast. The group might besiege a village the characters are staying at, raid and enslave another settlement, or start charging tolls along one of the trade roads of the
a pack of 3 guard drakes. The dragonsoul rides a warhorse, but the other cultists are on foot. See appendix D for the cultists and drakes. Devilish Demands Though the Cult of the Dragon and the Red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
undead but they’re dangerous to Large and Huge beasts. The gatehouse is heavy enough to withstand a charging triceratops, and the gates are never opened without an express command from one of the
in these lower watchtower billets. Theoretically, each watchtower is staffed by two guards day and night, but personnel shortages sometimes reduce that to one guard or force the knights to take turns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
duodrones could provide comic relief by trying futilely to sweep the spiders away while getting in the way of the characters’ attacks. Treasure. Each destroyed duodrone reveals its magically charged disk
replica tridrones and one replica quadrone, whose task is to bring a modron charging station — the two metallic walls — back online. These replica modrons look exactly like their true modron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
characters on their quest to retrieve the giant relics, opting instead to wait for them in Annam’s temple (area 6) and guard the portal. Before the characters leave, he cautions them that defiling the
relic disappears, the oracle says in a booming voice, “You have done a great deed for all giants! A new path lies before you!” For each relic that the characters offer as tribute, a stony bas-relief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
carved in bas-relief on this shrine’s west wall. Scorch marks cover the floors and walls. Doors lead to the north and west.
Two skeletal knights (see appendix B) stand guard in this room. A cleric
Wersten Kern loyally serves Lord Soth and stands guard over the Mourning Sanctum The interior of this mighty temple has been hollowed out, its roof and interior walls reduced to rubble, creating one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the Great Blue Devil A relief of a scowling, fiendish face made of azure mosaic tiles spans the hallway’s back wall. The face’s mouth is open, revealing a black maw, and its eyes are carved from
clouded white crystal. To the right of the mosaic is a closed door.
A character who examines the relief with a Detect Magic spell or similar magic finds that the relief’s mouth radiates conjuration magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Standing next to the display case is a tiefling security guard.
The five tables closest to the entrance are high-stakes tables (50 gp buy-in) open to anyone, while the easternmost two tables are reserved
the following order: Wumpus Thistledown, Anaïs Bellefleur, Whipp Walsh, Jetta Moore, Karn Ironpebble, Nightshade, and Ruthie Swifford. That leaves Lahdia Mizreem as the winner.
Security Guard and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
guard in area X6 watches the icy ledge through the arrow slit, which grants him three-quarters cover against attacks made from outside the fortress. If he sees the characters approaching on the ledge
.
Arrow Slit. A duergar guard in area X3 watches this room through the arrow slit, which grants her three-quarters cover. If she sees or hears intruders inside the fortress, she shouts, “To arms!” in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
the attacks of these fish. 80. Black Gate Pool Beneath walls set with relief carvings of humanoid couples romantically entwined, the bottom of a slimy, dimly luminous pool is shrouded in shadow
. Trenches from the pool flow into one-foot-diameter tubes in the wall. An enormous globe of blue liquid is suspended in the air to the west.
Creatures. Five kuo-toa are on guard. Another four are sleeping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
are set like oversized stepping stones.
Demonic Faces. The mouths of these relief carvings are the source of the magical breeze. Insect Floor. The floor is 2 feet below the level of the doors and
appendix B) guard the apprentices. All the Thayans attack as soon as they notice intruders. Each round of combat, the Thayans direct one giant spider and one giant centipede to join the fight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of Mistshore, and Waterdeep again has its own navy. The city’s Guard (its army), Watch (police force), Navy, and it famous Griffon Cavalry are all being reformed, but all of that might be a matter of
lost all their coin and sold their titles again within a season or two. Open Lord Laeral Silverhand has, to the relief of those leaders, seen the folly of this decision, and gathered enough support
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
into a natural cleft in the stone face. Steps are cut into the 15-foot-wide crevice, and scenes of jungle predators, flying lizards, and erupting volcanoes are carved in shallow relief onto the walls in
(see “Pterafolk Nest” below), and then to become her meals for several months. She’s not likely to attack them openly. She’d rather get them off their guard and pick them off one by one, as she did with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
are rounded up and sent about tasks under guard. It is also used for the revels of the off-duty dungeon crew. A few smoky torches burn along the walls. Several benches and tables are pushed out of the
two pet apes (which have 30 hit points each). One is on guard to the north of the door, the other resting on a platform built above the door. The Keeper wears a thick chain mail shirt (accounting for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
century ago, the city of Elturel was a petty power. It had claimed its neighbors’ territory under various excuses, putting them under “Elturel’s Guard.” Then, the city’s leader, its High Rider, was revealed
change and the struggles for power that result that humans often stray from the righteous path. Perhaps the light of the Companion will show them the way. Elturel’s Guard Sometimes called the Kingdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
relief as desired. Having been thrown out of countless taverns, Noriel knows the general rumors talking of how Dran Enterprises has a secret headquarters somewhere in Luskan. He also knows the even more
bridge, Dalath’s Span. An enormous half-orc thug named One-Tusk stands guard outside the shop. Eriss is inside, polishing bottles containing miniature ships. She claims that these were once real ships
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. The symbol of elemental air is cut into each victim’s forehead. The characters can find an intact head and see the symbol in gory relief. N4. Storm Chasm A chasm divides the subterranean passageway
be sacrificed to Yan-C-Bin in area N19. Two invisible barlguras guard the prisoners. The demons lurk among the columns in the upper reaches of the cave, dropping down to attack intruders who dare free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
of battle and hunting scenes in bas-relief. These carved scenes show giants slaying enemies, hunting dragons and other fearsome monsters, and engaged in similar activities. Torches burn at intervals
bag. 10. Antecavern A frost giant guard is alert inside this oblong cavern at all times. He has a greataxe and one throwing rock. He shouts to alert the guards to the south if intruders enter the area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
) on guard
†Monsters marked with a dagger (†) appear in Monsters of the Multiverse. Roll a d10 if you don’t have that book. *See chapter 6. Fomorian Encounters The Fomorian Encounters table presents
simply seek to indulge their endless hunger. Hill Giant Encounters d12† Encounter
1 2 hill giants charging at each other until their heads collide, while 4 ogres (attitude for all: 1d6 + 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
.
Four hobgoblins and one hobgoblin captain stand guard here, dressed in flame-red tabards with the symbol of elemental fire on the chest. They challenge anyone approaching from the west, but they
within each niche.
The shadowy forms are statues of dwarven warriors, carved long ago as an honor guard for those passing through this area. Tripwire Trap. A tripwire stretches across the floor between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
hammocks in the guard towers. The breeze atop the walls provides some cooling and relief from insects. 10. Inner Bailey This bastion is a fort within a fort. The bailey is 20 feet tall at the peak of
and place outrageous bets on the outcomes of matches. AGENTS OF THE FLAMING FIST
If the adventurers spend a day in Fort Beluarian, Liara Portyr becomes aware of them and dispatches a guard to bring