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Squid ink is highly sought after by calligraphers and fine clothiers as the ink makes for excellent writing ink and a rich, colorful dye for the
finest clothes. Some chefs also prize the ink to add some color and a unique flavor to their soups and dishes. Squid ink can be found in the many different kinds of squid that live in the waters surrounding Obojima.
Lizardfolk
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into the future. This approach allows them to maintain their current level of influence in the world, but it limits their growth. Lizardfolk have no interest in developing writing, making long-term
quirk for a lizardfolk character or to inspire a unique mannerism.
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You hate waste and see no reason not to scavenge fallen enemies. Fingers are tasty and
Kobold
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undetected and don’t give their targets reason to harm them. For example, a group of city kobolds might sneak into a cobbler’s house at night to loot it of knives, leather bits, nails, and
, giving each individual and every generation a reason to feel pride and self-respect. The kobolds prefer to run away than fight, to live off the scraps of others, and they are often dominated by larger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
council room at the center of the Preserve, by unanimous consent they can erect a diamond sphere that envelops the entire city. The diamond sphere resembles the Auroral Diamond in texture and color and
deflects all attacks. Nothing can pass or teleport through it. If the diamond sphere cannot be erected for any reason, the Radiant Citadel is not helpless. Due to its many mysteries and its magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
petrified corpse of a dead god or other chunks of rock drifting forever in the silvery void. Much more commonplace are color pools—magical pools of colored light that flicker like radiant, spinning coins
. Creatures on the Astral Plane don’t age or suffer from hunger or thirst. For this reason, creatures that live on the Astral Plane (such as githyanki) establish outposts on other planes, often the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
council room at the center of the Preserve, by unanimous consent they can erect a diamond sphere that envelops the entire city. The diamond sphere resembles the Auroral Diamond in texture and color and
deflects all attacks. Nothing can pass or teleport through it. If the diamond sphere cannot be erected for any reason, the Radiant Citadel is not helpless. Due to its many mysteries and its magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Asphodel and the Despair Lands The influence of the Underworld leaches life and color from a peninsula south of the Nessian Wood. Here, the necropolis of Asphodel sprawls amid the bleak region called
studying arcane mysteries that could never be unraveled in a single life. Like all Returned, though, they have difficulty remembering what they learn. For this reason, the rooms of their order’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
a colored crystal. No two stones are the same color.
Overhead, a wood-framed hourglass as tall and wide as a dwarf hangs ten feet above the brazier, suspended from the ceiling by thick iron chains
, causing the sand within it to fall to the floor. The magic writing on the base of the hourglass reads as follows: Cast a stone into the fire:
Violet leads to the mountain spire
Orange to the castle’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
stumble upon the petrified corpse of a dead god or other chunks of rock drifting forever in the silvery void. Much more commonplace are color pools — magical pools of colored light that flicker like
radiant, spinning coins. Creatures on the Astral Plane don’t age or suffer from hunger or thirst. For this reason, humanoids that live on the Astral Plane (such as the githyanki) establish outposts on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
a human skull resting on an open rolltop desk.
Skabatha Nightshade spends part of her day here (see Where’s Skabatha? earlier in the chapter); if present, she is seated at the writing desk and
their magic to drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. All the book’s writing is backward. Pity He’s an Elf is a collection of illustrated short stories about an elf adventurer named Aethyn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
reason not to. Impostor At 13th level, you gain the ability to unerringly mimic another person’s speech, writing, and behavior. You must spend at least three hours studying these three components of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
races—a reason for the monstrous races to be used in a campaign with care. Bugbear Traits Your bugbear character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by
discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Long-Limbed. When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal. Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
prides guard their lands implacably, and without a good reason to be there—or a leonin guide to vouch for one’s presence—outsiders are often chased away. Tethmos Tethmos serves as the default capital for
changing color as the sun moves across the sky. Many leonin matriarchs and other wise souls retire to Tethmos to share their wisdom with all the prides. In recent years, a few non-leonin traders have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
players can’t see it. Give the players a copy of Unseen Order Handout 1 or a sheet of grid paper. Ask them to write their guess in the first row of empty boxes, writing the card names or drawing
symbols like those provided in Unseen Order Handout 2, the symbol key. Secretly compare their guess with the solution. In the empty circles next to their guess, color one circle red for each correctly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the room slowly comes to life. The carved river begins to flow, and the flowering plants by the river take on color and start to wave in a gentle breeze. The stone frame looks like a portal to this
gold (500 gp); the scroll is a thin sheet of hammered copper etched with Draconic writing Gold funerary items wrapped into the prince’s shroud (2,500 gp) A platinum death mask (5,000 gp) The sapphire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
that reason, there's a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight creatures can fit in a 5-foot radius around another one
grid often, consider writing your speed in squares on your character sheet.
Entering a Square. To enter a square, you must have at least 1 square of movement left, even if the square is diagonally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
assassins kill for a reason, perhaps hiring themselves out to wealthy patrons or slaying for an unscrupulous cause. They use poisons and other deadly tools, and they might carry equipment to help them
poison with a distinctive color or smell. Assassin Medium or Small Humanoid, Neutral
AC 16 Initiative +10 (20)
HP 97 (15d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save Str 11 +0 +0 Dex 18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Spawning Stone for this reason. The slaadi wiped out every last modron enclave in Limbo. As creatures of utter chaos, slaadi loathe modrons and attack them on sight. Nonetheless, Primus stands by his
shape of a human child’s fist. The gem is the same color as the slaad. Another creature can use magic to draw forth a slaad’s gem and use it to subjugate the slaad. The slaad must obey whoever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
kill to survive, never for sport. Sleepless. Thri-kreen don’t require sleep and can rest while remaining alert and performing light tasks. Their inability to sleep is thought to be the reason why
, Survival +3
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Thri-kreen
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Chameleon Carapace. The thri-kreen can change the color of its carapace to match the color and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
work with Head Office. You advance your franchise by using documancy for communication, insisting on recording all deals in writing, retaining records, destroying other records, and recalling vital
you with hints whenever you try to solve a puzzle or decipher clues involving writing. Documancy Satchel At rank 2, your documancy satchel becomes a common magic item, allowing you to magically send and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of color. The helical stripes of the tent’s pointed canopies rotate in spirals, and the whole display seems designed to befuddle onlookers. A clown dressed in muted garb stands at the tent’s entrance
avoid entering the hall. All the color has leached out of his skin, hair, eyes, and apparel, giving him a strangely monochromatic look. And his problems don’t end there. A kenku named Kettlesteam stole
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
that advances his interests at the same time it helps the characters. Kost stays tight-lipped about the reason for his presence in the region. He is, however, willing to provide information the party
banshee’s anger, but the characters could ask the question for him. (Agatha knows the name: Arthindol.) Treasure Hamun Kost’s tent contains a comfortable traveling suite, including a cot, a chair, a writing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
collect something intangible, such as a creature’s singing voice or the color in its eyes, a Fey must tap into the magic of the Feywild. In other words, it’s the magic of the Feywild, not the Fey
creature, that allows a character to claim what would otherwise be impossible to obtain. For this reason, a Fey can’t claim such a thing unless they and the creature with which they made the contract are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
space also reflects the area it needs to fight effectively. For that reason, there’s a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight
of 30 feet translates into a speed of 6 squares.
If you use a grid often, consider writing your speed in squares on your character sheet.
Entering a Square. To enter a square, you must have at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
a creature’s hit points to determine effectiveness—like color spray and sleep—would devastate all minions, even those meant to challenge high-level characters. These spells are still effective against
creatures succeeding on their saving throw. By contrast, under this book’s minion rules, spellcasters still have a good reason to use high-level spells against minions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
sell the elven crafts to others, which has given the Halfway Inn an undeserved reputation as Evereska’s trading post. Permit me to state this in as clear a fashion as writing allows: don’t venture into
folk have taken it upon themselves to speak on such topics rather heatedly. I’m hopeful that the coming decades will smooth over these differences and sooth the contentions. Evereska is a beautiful place, and I see no reason to mar that beauty with an argument among friends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, which is a plane of good, the Feywild leans toward neither good nor evil; both are equally prevalent and powerful there. For that reason, parts of the Feywild where evil holds sway are substantially
to the first generation of elves. Some could pass for high elves, but most are distinctly eladrin in appearance: very slender, with hair and skin color determined by the season with which they feel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
cannot pay for whatever reason, the contract they 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
darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages Common, Infernal; can read all writing
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP)
Limited Magic Immunity. Mahadi can’t be affected or detected by spells of 6th level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
above indecipherable writing. One of these slabs is blank with a piece of paper stuck to it.
The lesser-known Dolindars are interred here, buried in the alcoves behind the slabs. The images of the
continue her duties for as long as she was contracted. Lonely Family. The Dolindars were all lonely, and there weren’t many of them. They didn’t like Evernight but couldn’t leave it for some reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Sports and Games The
Sharn Inquisitive
The Race of Eight Winds Begins!
Banners are flying across Dura today, and the streets are full of color. Walk through Oldkeep wearing brown and red, and
the Stone Trees, part of the Cornerstone district, where the matches serve as both a spectator sport and a reason for gambling. Shifters created temporary hrazhak fields in the slums and warehouse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Harpells. It is likely this spirit of experimentation that caused the Harpells to found their town so far away from other settlements. Young wizards with oddly sized or shaped limbs, strange hair color
illusion, or the odd, galloping horse of lightning speeding by. Several businesses designed to attract travelers stand in Longsaddle, if for no other reason than travel along the well-named Long Road can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
transformed permanently. No creature embodies the chaotic nature of the Abyss so well as the sibriex. Although the realm of the demons is already a place of infinite horrors, sibriexes for some reason make
Squirt Bile.
Warp (Costs 2 Actions). The sibriex uses Warp Creature.
Flesh Warping d100 Effect 01–05 The color of the target’s hair, eyes, and skin becomes blue, red, yellow, or patterned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
furniture of this room are painted deep crimson. Messy stacks of paper sit atop a writing desk, and the bed’s maroon sheets are lazily bunched.
This is Lurg’s private chamber. Its crimson walls match
the color of his robes. Lurg’s desk drawer is locked and magically trapped. Lurg carries its key (see area T4), and only he knows the password to safely unlock the drawer: “Struve.” As an action, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
tale carving, stone giants also employ mundane writing in their stone tableaux. Names, dates, and descriptions appear in their tales, often as part of an image (a character’s arms or armor might
incorporate runic letterforms, for example). Stone giants also make extensive use of the carved word through “speaking stones.” A speaking stone is an upright stone cylinder into which writing is carved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
when the structure is viewed from the outside. Each of these portals leads to a 30-foot-square demiplane that houses either a private meeting chamber or a shrine dedicated to Deneir (god of writing
killed the puny runt for it. When the ogre attuned to it, the headband grew in size, enabling him to wear it. With an improved ability to reason and ponder, the ogre felt compelled to appreciate the