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Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
, mending
1st level (4 slots): charm person, detect magic, expeditious retreat, sleep
2nd level (3 slots): darkness, invisibility,suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, protection from energy
mad. She leaves on rare occasions to hunt for food, returning as soon as possible. Members of the Scaly Eye still live within the Bronze Shrine, as Lhammaruntosz has ordered them to stay on as her
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
clade — a diverse group of individuals combining disparate talents in pursuit of a common goal — or a researcher on a specialized, short-term project focused on addressing an immediate
.)
Simic Guild Spells
Spell Level
Spells
Cantrip
acid splash, druidcraft
1st
detect poison and disease, expeditious retreat, jump
2nd
alter self, enhance
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:At will: expeditious retreat, false life, minor illusion, prestidigitation3/day each: aid, misty step, Tasha's hideous
bound to their fey lord and unable to bargain away their souls. So rather than claim them, Fierna warped and twisted them before returning them to the Feywild, content that the corruption of the satyrs
Yuan-ti Pureblood
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
of purebloods and slaves are thrown at opposing forces in the hope of allowing the malisons and abominations time to escape.
Survival First
Yuan-ti are likely to retreat or flee from conflict if
odds aren’t in their favor. A short retreat might be just the thing to reach a better tactical position, find allies, or to allow the yuan-ti the opportunity to study their opponents and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Retreat! If the adventurers retreat from the sounds of battle, they barely escape from a partial collapse of their local section of Araumycos’s cavern complex. They race ahead of a small horde of
Araumycos’s caverns before returning to Neverlight Grove to root out any remainder of the demon queen’s infestation.
Orc
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warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out on a
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
party must make a group Dexterity (Stealth) check. The DC is 23 to avoid the notice of Akaanvaerd. On a failed check, Akaanvaerd spots the characters, but he doesn’t pursue them immediately. At your
DC of the group Dexterity (Stealth) check is 16. If the characters fail this check, two fire giants break off and attack the party on the crater’s rim. Wrestlers’ Aid. If any Fireside giant wrestlers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Returning to the Silent Roar If the characters free Afsoun, the rebel leader accompanies them to the city to reunite with her sister. Though the Silent Roar has little money to offer, Laleh and
free treats from the Ghorbani Bakery. Afsoun must lie low now that she has defied the Brightguard, but the Silent Roar as a whole is invigorated by their leader’s recovery. The group redoubles its efforts to oppose the Brightguard and Atash.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
cultists. If the group contains six kobolds, one is a winged kobold (urd). Characters can fight these enemies, sneak past them, retreat to avoid them entirely, or try something clever such as bluffing. If
they fight, run the combat normally. When enemies must make a check to notice sneaking or bluffing, make a check with advantage for the group. Each time the characters retreat from an enemy group to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, where they go next is up to them. Shemeshka will avoid them for the rest of the adventure. To continue with this chapter, the group should meet with R04M, either by returning to the walking castle or by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Aftermath After Gragonis and his four guards are defeated, the remaining mercenaries scatter and the battlefield encounter ends. The mercenaries’ retreat is further motivated by the arrival of their
horrified commander, Cudgel Ironsmile, along with Mayor Raven, Becklin, and several burly spectators. The group has already seen some fighting, as treacherous mercenaries tried and failed to kill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
confronted by obviously more numerous or powerful opponents usually try to avoid battle. But brave, desperate, or devoted creatures might never retreat from a battle. If you can’t decide whether a
parley with the enemy (see “Avoiding or Ending a Fight” below). On a successful save, the creature is willing to fight. When dealing with a group of creatures, the leader makes this saving throw on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Scouting A portion of the expanded party can break off in order to travel some distance ahead, scouting for the right path while remaining on the lookout for potential hazards. A smaller group might
adventurers might choose to do so as well. A smaller scouting group can make use of stealth to travel unnoticed. If a random encounter occurs during the journey, characters in the scouting party discover it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Darrett, sharing his steed.
This group of twelve mounted Kalaman soldiers includes several commanders who drew off the Dragon Army forces so their allies could retreat farther to the east. Darrett
Commanders’ Retreat After the Dragon Army soldiers are dealt with, read or paraphrase the following text: A dozen mounted soldiers gallop from the tree line, rushing south toward the crossing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
only 15 feet per round (see “Steel Springs Battlefield Events”), staying in a group and aiding the wounded among them. After all enemy forces are defeated, proceed with the “Commanders’ Retreat
Retreat from Steel Springs When the characters complete the thirty-mile trip to Steel Springs, read the following text: As the brook called the Inkwater comes into view, smoke rises over the tree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
in-game explanation. Monsters don’t attack the character, who returns the favor. On returning, the player resumes playing as if the absence never happened. Narrative Contrivance. Decide the character
same XP that the other characters earned each session, keeping the group at the same level. Some groups like to work out a policy regarding how many missing players is too many to proceed. For example
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. At least two cultists from any group the characters interact with serve as escorts. Driving the Cults into Retreat The cultists learn and adapt as the characters attack their strongholds. The four
infiltrating the temples. Each cult’s monstrous allies rarely challenge a group of cultists that proceeds with confidence. Human members of the cult have a good chance to spot impostors at close range, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
R04M’s story that Shemeshka is up to no good, Zaythir or another ally can suggest the group should be wary on returning to Fortune’s Wheel. When they arrive in Sigil, the characters find it unchanged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Skyriders Nosy heroes asking awkward questions in the towns nearby gain the attention of the Howling Hatred cult. The air cultists send a group of aerial raiders to eliminate the characters, or at
reduced to half its hit points or less, its rider disengages and retreats. If any two riders are killed or retreat, the third flees. Treasure None of the riders carry treasure, but one of them has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. If the group contains six kobolds, one is a winged kobold (urd). Characters can fight these enemies, sneak past them, retreat to avoid them entirely, or try something clever such as bluffing. If they
, so it’s still possible to move through the front gate—but not for long. To reach the keep, the characters must make it past three groups of raiders. A group consists of 1d6 kobolds and 1d4 cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
courtier.
“Welcome to Feathergale Spire, retreat of the Feathergale Society. I am Thurl Merosska, the lord commander.”
Thurl Merosska offers the hospitality of the tower, inviting the characters
interview Merosska now, they can do so. He might answer questions on the following topics: The Feathergale Society, an “elite” group of aerial-mount enthusiasts from Waterdeep The origins of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check: Many of the beasts’ footprints are deeper on the retreat than they were on the approach march. They were weighed down with loot on the homeward-bound trip
of the plateaus are dotted with caves and tumbled boulder fields. Characters can have two encounters during this trip. The first is with a group of raiders who have straggled behind the main body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
from the lagoon’s depths are tentacles that lash toward the beach at a group of panicked people dressed in hiking gear.
The tentacles belong to a kraken that took damage in an altercation with a
hunting boat earlier and has been reduced to 250 hit points. It was lurking off the lagoon’s coast when a group of archaeologists stopped here to fish. Hungry and irate, the kraken ambushed the people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check: many of the beasts’ footprints are deeper on the retreat than they were on the approach march. They were weighed down with loot on the homeward-bound trip
of the plateaus are dotted with caves and tumbled boulder fields. Characters can have two encounters during this trip. The first is with a group of raiders who have straggled behind the main body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the Watchful Knight inn, spoke with the delegation leaders and learned they planned to head south on the Dessarin Road. They intended to visit Summit Hall next, returning the body of a knight slain
group of five warriors in sky-blue armor and white cloaks, flying on giant vultures. The aerial riders flew overhead and turned south, heading in the same direction as the delegation. Eann, a cattle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
group of these creatures lurks inside a location in the Doomvault (Dead in Thay), where they use their talent for mimicry to call for help — enticing would-be prey to come to their rescue before
. The leucrotta has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Kicking Retreat. If the leucrotta attacks with its hooves, it can take the Disengage action as a bonus action.
Mimicry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
briefly described below: Hruna speaks for the group in a voice made raspy by years of smoking. She has lost her right ear and two fingers to frostbite. Korux stares in silence and doesn’t talk much
. If the characters are interested in hearing what Hruna has to say, she presents the quest: “We’re the survivors of a group of dwarves tasked with delivering a sled of iron ingots to Bryn Shander. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
of a rare metal, willing to travel the world high and low in search of it. Even a deep gnome might be born with an irrepressible urge to leave the Underdark and join a group to pursue a life of shared
of them take readily to life in the outside world and don’t come back on schedule, returning to the burrow only after spending years or decades away as a member of an adventuring party. The Pull of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
permission, they can avoid most trouble with the tower’s inhabitants. Otherwise, stealth and caution will be important. Have the characters make four DC 13 Dexterity (Stealth) group checks from the
moment they enter the tower to when they reach the archmage’s sanctum. Each failed group check results in an encounter from the Sorcere Encounters table. The characters make the same checks while exiting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
toward the southeast, and their trail is easy to spot. A small, stealthy group could follow the trail to the raiders’ camp and gather information.
Governor Nighthill approaches the characters with a
. I fear that he might have tried to infiltrate their group when they retreated, or worse, was captured and carried away as a prisoner. No one understands these bandits better than he does, and his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, with no adult staying longer than a few months and none ever returning for a second stint. The instruction that young githyanki undergo is unrelenting and unforgiving. As a crop of youngsters grows
weakling to die in training than to undertake a mission and imperil a war band. Final Test of Loyalty By the time a group of githyanki come of age, they have heard years of stories of Vlaakith and her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
for more information.) A svirfneblin caravan returning from Whiteshell Mines encountered a parade of dancing myconids. Through their rapport spores, the myconids told the gnomes about a “wedding
Foaming Mug. If they do, they gain advantage on their next group Charisma check made to improve the deep gnomes’ attitude.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
same time as a returning hunting party of 8 troglodytes. They must defeat the hunting party before they can enter the caves. Area 1: Cave Entrance. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) or
five troglodyte leaders sleep. The head trog is a fair and noble ruler (like a trog version of Sir Tristan). He’d rather talk than fight (unlike most trogs, he speaks Common). But if the group angers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
behavior is interfering with everyone else’s enjoyment, everyone has a stake in helping to resolve the issue. Setting Expectations Before you assemble a group around a game table, pitch the
the game, and list any concerns about behavior at the table.
Collect all the sheets, and gather your players’ limits into a separate, anonymous document the whole group can access.
Hard and Soft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
behavior is interfering with everyone else’s enjoyment, everyone has a stake in helping to resolve the issue. Setting Expectations Before you assemble a group around a game table, pitch the
hopes and expectations for the game, and list any concerns about behavior at the table.
Collect all the sheets, and gather your players’ limits into a separate, anonymous document the whole group can