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Monsters
The Book of Many Things
one world, one for each card in a Deck of Many Things. As a group, hierophants are sometimes called Sages, but each hierophant is also identified with a particular card. When a hierophant dies, the
hierophants are present. As the cosmic narrative unfolds, the new hierophant is inducted into the esoteric secrets of the group’s leadership. The rite concludes with a mind-shattering vision of the Void
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
that Strahd would never accept her as his true mother, nor could she bear his rejection. As a result, she has never confronted him. She would rather exist in perpetual denial, whiling away the days
witches, Lysaga recently uncovered a potential threat to Strahd: a secret society of wereravens called the Keepers of the Feather, a group that uses ordinary ravens as their spies.
Strahd doesn’t
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
important to me than my life.
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Dangerous work is best accomplished by an orderly group working with common purpose.
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I treat my weapons, uniform, and insignia with reverence, for they
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I do what I can to help out the spouse of a comrade who died in battle.
Flaws
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Flaw
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I act bravely when I’m in a group, but I’m a coward when I&rsquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating themselves to the
reality, a group of nine mind flayer arcanists used their arcane magic and psionics to weave a new truth. These nine called themselves the Alhoon, and those who follow in their footsteps are referred to by
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
disables all teleportation within a thousand miles of their lair. Governments within that area seek emissaries who can negotiate an end to the restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of
dragon's lair, and its members telepathically commune with the dragon and any visitors in the lair from time to time.
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A young amethyst dragon and a githzerai zerth travel together, learning
races
terms of absolutes and a sense of underlying duality. Day or night. Acceptance or rejection. Friend or foe. Their culture is also entwined along the line between life and death. They commune with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
dance. 2 A character overhears a group of students planning a mean-spirited prank on another student. The character can thwart the prank, but risks having a bucket of ink being spilled on them or
wins. 5 The character finds a distraught student who’s had their costume ruined or suffered a messy rejection. 6 A magically gifted artist is capturing rapid portraits of masquerade attendees. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
party is in the middle of an adventure. The following approaches can help make it easier: The new character is a friend or relative of one of the adventurers who has been searching for the group. The new
New Players When a new player joins the group, allow the new player to create a character of a level equal to the lowest-level member of the party. The only exception to this guideline is when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dispassionate, but such is the price of perspective. Few creatures enjoy confronting the relative smallness of their lives.
4 Disguises allow me to bestow small kindnesses and experience the
, slow, suggestion, zone of truth
Adult 21 bless, commune, cure wounds, geas,* slow, suggestion, zone of truth
Ancient 24 bless, commune,* cure wounds, geas,* plane shift (+16 to hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
exploration of the building. As the party initially surveys the house, it manifests subtle hauntings. The characters are then invited to participate in the first of several séances, allowing them to commune
ultimately wake the collective spirits and sinister forces lurking in the manor, trapping the characters inside the house. Escape requires the party to defeat an ageless evil. If they don’t, they’ll become another group of lost spirits imprisoned within the House of Lament.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Incorporating New Players When introducing a new player to the group, revisit the group’s expectations and limits (see “Ensuring Fun for All” in chapter 1). Then have the new player create a
character who is the same level as the other characters in the adventuring party. If the new player has never played D&D before and the rest of the group is higher than level 4, consider taking a short break
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
called to serve a group, such as the elemental gods Akadi, Grumbar, Kossuth, and Istishia, while others serve deities that are intertwined gods, such as the elves’ Angharradh. Some clerics in Faerûn
path of the cleric become embittered and seek favor with sinister or forbidden gods or forge pacts with other powerful entities. Religious scholars in the Realms debate whether divine rejection led such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
are busy people, though, and if your business isn’t pressing, you might be handled by a functionary of the court. The State Contacts table provides several options for what functionaries your group
are the best path to the head of state’s good graces 3 A wide-eyed bureaucrat who dreams of living a life as exciting and dangerous as yours 4 A scheming relative of the head of state who sees you as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
report. Omin Dran is there to meet with them when they do. If the characters were successful and dealt with Captain Truff in good faith, Omin gives them the promised reward of 400 gp for the group (500 gp
makes the whole company look bad). Either way, read: “I’ve been told about the misunderstanding regarding your identities. I can’t say much for your relative inexperience and lack of skill. But it looks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
wild lands of the North can certainly oblige them. Or you might wish to have the journey pass in relative peace while the players coordinate franchise tasks left over from the previous episode. Luskan
coin. The order of mages known as the Arcane Brotherhood is the other major power group in Luskan. Though its members include ambitious arcanists of any and all genders, the newly restored order
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
are indeterminate and ever-changing. Map 4.1 shows the approximate positions of locations around Mount Ironrot relative to one another. The map doesn’t include a scale due to this effect. Whenever the
Wisdom (Survival) check on behalf of the group each time the characters travel. On a failed check, double the number of hours the party must travel to reach their destination. Dangers There is no safe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giant rockspeaker (both in chapter 6) who needs to commune with his dreams within the crystal sand fortress at night. While he does, creatures from the Fiendish Incursion Encounters and Elemental Earth
Encounters tables (see chapter 3) appear, but the creatures are made of sand. Searching for the Key A lost group of hill giants spotted the Singing Sands and followed them into the desert. The giants know
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
The Great Wheel The default D&D cosmology includes more than two dozen planes, detailed in this chapter. The most common understanding of these planes visualizes them as a group of concentric wheels
between Bytopia and Arcadia; rather, this theoretical positioning is based on the philosophical shading among the three planes and the relative importance they give to law and good. Other
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
Hells upon his demise. Captive Cultist A group of dwarf miners has captured a high-ranking member of the Cult of the Dragon—a Wearer of Purple named Cheela Flegsteel who got a little too greedy while
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
Hells upon his demise. Captive Cultist A group of dwarf miners has captured a high-ranking member of the Cult of the Dragon—a Wearer of Purple named Cheela Flegsteel who got a little too greedy while
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
Hells upon his demise. Captive Cultist A group of dwarf miners has captured a high-ranking member of the Cult of the Dragon—a Wearer of Purple named Cheela Flegsteel who got a little too greedy while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, the characters must succeed on a DC 15 group Wisdom (Survival) check. On a success, the characters locate Red Ruth’s lair at the heart of the woodland (area B3). If they fail, they blunder into one
of the dead ends listed below (area B2) and must make the check again when they move on. Once all four dead ends have been explored, the group automatically locates Red Ruth’s lair. B2. Dead Ends If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
“Nonplayer Characters” section of chapter 3 to flesh out the details of that individual’s personality and aims. For a group of nameless monsters, you can decide on a personality based on the monsters
’ entries in the Monster Manual, or you can use the Monster Personality table to inform how you portray the monsters and their actions. It’s simplest to assign the same personality traits to an entire group
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
All for One: The Clan So the barman isn’t a relative, and you don’t even know the names of any of the folk here? How can you possibly sleep peacefully in this inn, surrounded by strangers? We’ll be
clan, bringing security and stability to its members and greater glory to the group. The most important clan members to any dwarf are the members of one’s immediate family, because the instinctive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
lich Lottie. As such, Lottie broke the orrery into parts and scattered those parts far and wide, hoping that no one would discover their secret. But the enigmatic group known as the Six has collected
surrender their orrery components — and then releases Onyx, the giant (relative to the characters) inn’s cat, upon them. Successfully fleeing from Onyx transforms the inn once more. In the final stage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. In the filth-ridden depths of her heart, Lysaga knows that Strahd would never accept her as his true mother, nor could she bear his rejection. As a result, she has never confronted him. She would
witches. Through the aid of these witches, Lysaga recently uncovered a potential threat to Strahd: a secret society of wereravens called the Keepers of the Feather, a group that uses ordinary ravens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Rejecting the Ordning Some giants reject the ordning, in part or entirely. This rejection most commonly takes one of three forms. First are giants who hold themselves to a different standard than the
giant serving a demon lord attacks a town. The town’s leaders ask the characters to retaliate against the giant’s kin—which is exactly what the demon cultist was hoping for. 8 A group of giants seeks adventurers to deal with a surge of demon cult activity within the giants’ community.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
acquaintance, or someone I loved into religious service. 6 After encountering a true servant of the gods, I was so inspired that I immediately entered the service of a religious group. Charlatan d6 I became a
. 3 I fell in with a gang of reprobates and ne’er-do-wells, and I learned my specialty from them. 4 A parent or relative taught me my criminal specialty to prepare me for the family business. 5 I left
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
any one world, one for each card in a Deck of Many Things. As a group, hierophants are sometimes called Sages, but each hierophant is also identified with a particular card. When a hierophant dies
powerful warlocks with mighty spells at their disposal. They can commune with the alien mind of the All-Consuming Star, blast enemies with beams of eldritch energy, and conjure manifestations of this entity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
receive relatively cordial treatment from those other hags instead. Every hag has a particular status relative to others of her kind and to hags of all sorts, based on age, abilities, influence
than herself, and she loves being alone (except for the company of minions and other creatures under her sway). That’s the ordinary state of affairs. But when a group of hags have a common goal or they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
try to enter clandestinely, the place is immense enough that a small group can sneak in with relative ease. If uninvited visitors arrive openly, they can expect a sharp reception from githyanki patrol
.
The hardiest and most elusive of these folk make their way to the District of Discards, where they can take refuge from the threats that face them in other parts of the city and live in relative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
traditions. Temples in Faerûn don’t have regular services as such. Group observances in a temple occur only at specific festival times, and priests also go out into the community to perform rites such as
for oneself. Let each worshiper commune in their own way, as the saying goes. Divine magic also provides a means of communing with the gods and can be used to call upon their guidance. Divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Maira ir’Talan, a distant relative of the Lord Commander, leads the Blackened Book. A gifted diviner, Maira is a highly effective leader. What none know is that she’s also an agent of the Dreaming
force if she believes a group or an individual threatens the city. Captain Khandan Dol is a male dwarf who leads the Redcloak Battalion. Khandan is a local legend who served in the Brelish army
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
restriction.
4 An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
5 A
dwells in tunnels near a young amethyst dragon’s lair, and its members telepathically commune with the dragon and any visitors in the lair from time to time.
2 A young amethyst dragon and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
). False Ending. If this outcome doesn’t make the players suspicious enough to take another run through to check things out, put the adventure away for use when you have a different group (or the same ones
) inquiring about one of the references in the “Legend of the Tomb.” Note that something so simple as a commune spell will reveal that the demilich has not been destroyed.