compared records grasp to her renown

Cloistered Scholar

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

to help those in other places who seek your expertise. You might be one of the few who aid Herald’s Holdfast, helping to catalogue and maintain records of the information that arrives daily from

. . . everyone . . . is . . . compared . . . to me. 7 I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations. 8 I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets

Archives

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

doorway that anyone who knows Dwarvish or Giant can translate: The present is like sand, ever flowing and escaping one’s grasp without mercy or respite. The records in these rooms detail the

Archives Gravenhollow’s records are organized by rooms attuned to the past, the present, or the future. Each level has a random number of rooms, arranged without any apparent system other than the

Ability Checks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

creature’s efforts. In a contest, the ability checks are compared to each other, rather than to a target number. When you call for a contest, you pick the ability that each side must use, deciding

Constitution Stamina and health Endure a marathon, grasp hot metal without flinching, win a drinking contest Intelligence Memory and reason Recall a bit of lore, recognize a clue’s significance

Future Quests

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

’ Alliance gain 3 renown (see “Renown” in chapter 1 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) for returning the Eye of the Spider to Joroth. Both the gemstone and Falkir’s Fist can be found on level 10. Retrieve

from time to time. Lady Wylynd believes it’s her family’s responsibility to free the dragon from Shar’s evil grasp one way or another. She asks Helion to meet with the adventurers and convince them to

Mind Flayer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

so alien in construction that non-illithids must resort to magic to discern its meaning. Though Qualith can be used to keep records, illithids most often use it to mark portals or other surfaces with

Intelligence (save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). The mind flayer has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): blade ward, dancing lights, mage hand, shocking grasp 1st

Greenfast Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

(especially if they have learned of the cult after a fight at the barn at area G5), Old Fargo becomes distraught and begs them to rescue his son from Viallis’s grasp. G3. Lord Viallis’s House Lord Viallis

doubles as an office. The place is filled with business records and correspondence, all of which concern Lord Viallis’s business and none of which appear suspicious or out of the ordinary. If the characters

Giant Patrons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

demonstrating just how superior a giant’s strength is compared to smaller creatures. Such a boss might run a protection racket, a group of highway robbers, or a kidnapping ring. A giant boss might even take to

yugoloth), which hold information pertinent to Annam’s activities. 3 Explore the ruins of an ancient temple to Annam, looking for records of revelations or prophecies. 4 Follow a devastating storm across

Mortuary Basement Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

-white fruit resembling an apple. A creature that eats half or more of the fruit takes 70 necrotic damage. The dryads don’t stop characters from picking the fruit. M9: Records Room A floating feline

throughout the chamber, and dusty scrolls line pigeonholes along the walls. The records room is the lair of Thaeziagnuz, a demilich poet tasked with eulogizing Sigil’s dead. Thaeziagnuz can speak

Guilds and Groups

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

security for lodgers and their possessions than you’d find at an inn. An adventurer’s guild is an excellent source of information. By studying records and working with other guild members, you can

in the guild. Sorcerers must prove their grasp of arcane theory to earn a place, and warlocks are rarely accepted as members. The hall of the Esoteric Order of Aureon is in the district of Clifftop in

Black Earth Cultists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

fickle and insubstantial compared to the power of elemental earth. Black Earth Guard Black Earth guards are the warriors of the earth cult. They are brutal, heavily armored thugs devoted to Ogrémoch

retreat, false life, shield 2nd level (3 slots): Maximilian’s earthen grasp,* shatter 3rd level (3 slots): erupting earth,* meld into stone 4th level (1 slot): stoneskin Actions Black Earth

Upper City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

of the early knights achieved renown for their heroics. Today, the Knights of the Unicorn continue to call the Helm and Cloak their informal headquarters. The establishment is even run by two retired

laws and ordinances, summaries of judicial decisions and trial outcomes, deed records, guild charters, census tallies, and family genealogies for all the noble houses and sufficiently important

Upper City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

of the early knights achieved renown for their heroics. Today, the Knights of the Unicorn continue to call the Helm and Cloak their informal headquarters. The establishment is even run by two retired

laws and ordinances, summaries of judicial decisions and trial outcomes, deed records, guild charters, census tallies, and family genealogies for all the noble houses and sufficiently important

The Foundry

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2

ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). He has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, shocking grasp 1st

, then join the other duergar in area 39. In combat, Snurrevin might cast shocking grasp through his hidden familiar, and he might use silent image to confound enemies with realistic-seeming threats

Lady's Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

, which include current and past Harmonium patrol routes, active members and their ranks, and official arrest records. Recruiting the Harmonium. With an official writ from Factol Sarin, the factol of an

multiversal renown. Rarely spotted in the common areas of the gambling hall, the arcanaloth is the picture of wealth, power, and influence, always dressed to the nines and crowned with a spidery razorvine

Locations on the Grove Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

, apparently in sufficient quantity to nourish several small bushes and pale saplings that grow in the soil. Investigating. In his study, Belak stores seasonal records of growth, precipitation, harvests, and

doing? “I am Belak, called the Outcast. My circle expelled me, the fools. Why? Because I dared to expand nature’s reach in ways they couldn’t grasp. I have found what I sought in the Gulthias Tree

N3. Burgomaster's Mansion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

punchline. Baron Vallakovich has convinced himself that if he can make everyone in Vallaki happy, the town will slip free of Strahd’s dark grasp. The baron has a brittle ego, and he lashes out at

quills. It also holds thick books of tax records dating back to the times of the baron’s father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. The baron wears a signet ring and carries three keys: one that

Villa Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

succeeds on a DC 17 Dexterity check. Treasure. The chest weighs 65 pounds and is trapped (see “Trap” below). It contains three thin, black-covered ledgers with entries written in Infernal (records of Duke

horror that was fashioned on Avernus. The construct understands Infernal but can’t speak, and it is immune to the following spells: fire bolt, sacred flame, and shocking grasp. The only creatures

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

in Calimshan, maybe, or some patriar’s estate in Baldur’s Gate? Let me tell you, you’ve seen nothing. Those places are hovels compared to the palaces of the skyejotuns. — Volo Fire Giants The

Frost giants dominate wild creatures both as evidence of their strength and to use them as hunting companions. They don’t, however, have much grasp of animal husbandry, so their “pets” are bullied and

Monastery Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Maximilian’s earthen grasp, and a scroll of transmute rock (see appendix B for a description of these spells). Qarbo carries the coffer key, as well as the key to the locked doors in area M21. M5. West

member of the Black Earth cult, and he doesn’t care about the other residents of the monastery as long as they don’t interrupt his studies. Hundreds of years ago, Renwick was a hero of some renown and

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