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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
"} poison damage.Grandolpha Muzgardt, the grand dame of the Muzgardt duergar clan, has recently arrived at the fortress after being invited here by Xardorok Sunblight;Xardorok. The Muzgardts are based
Grandolpha Muzgardt for many years. He asked Grandolpha to his fortress to give her a gift—a pseudodragon made of chardalyn (a pseudo-pseudodragon, if you will)—and make her an offer she can't refuse. Once
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great
the goliath concept of fair play.
A permanently injured goliath is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such a goliath dies attempting to keep up, or the goliath slips
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the
whatever name the surrounding folk use, as a matter of tact and hospitality, but among their own kind they simply call it “home.”
Sometimes firbolgs adopt the nicknames or titles outsiders give them under the assumption that those who need names can call them whatever they wish.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
downtime activities that take weeks or even months to complete, you can give your campaign a longer time line — one in which events in the world play out over years. Wars begin and end, tyrants come
they amass on their adventures. The system presented here consists of two elements. First, it introduces the concept of rivals. Second, it details a number of downtime activities that characters can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the ordning in some mythic future. Giants on some worlds (including Eberron) have no concept of the ordning at all. Such giants might think of themselves as a single species, with the differences
among giant kinds reflecting a cultural or geographical distinction rather than an inherent one. They might live in bands composed of multiple giant kinds or family groups of a single kind. Or giants of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
be important: the lord’s keep, significant temples, and the like. For cities, add internal walls and think about the personality of each ward. Give the wards names reflecting their personalities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Firbolg Names Firbolg adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names
to their lands by whatever name the surrounding folk use, as a matter of tact and hospitality, but among their own kind they simply call it “home.” Sometimes firbolgs adopt the nicknames or titles outsiders give them under the assumption that those who need names can call them whatever they wish.
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Your DM might offer additional backgrounds beyond the ones included in chapter 4, and might be willing to work with you to craft a background that’s a more precise fit for your character concept. A
background gives your character a background feature (a general benefit) and proficiency in two skills, and it might also give you additional languages or proficiency with certain kinds of tools. Record this information, along with the personality information you develop, on your character sheet.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
pity for adults who can’t take care of themselves, though a sick or injured individual is treated, as a result of the goliath concept of fair play. A permanently injured goliath is still expected to
have ever meet an elderly goliath, and even those goliaths who have left their people grapple with the urge to give up their lives as their physical skills decay. Because of their risk-taking, goliath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. As the characters approach the Red Belvedere, read or paraphrase the following: Jagged mountains give way to an unexpectedly beautiful sight: a sprawling, palatial complex glittering with silver and
gold. Light dances through the front rotunda’s red stained-glass dome, reflecting off the overcast sky to shower the buildings with a rosy glow. A carved stone sign at the front of the complex reads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. A high-level Barbarian can’t just punch their Paladin friend and roll Initiative to regain expended uses of Rage. In any situation where a character’s actions initiate combat, you can give the acting
spell, everyone rolls Initiative, and the Sorcerer does so with Advantage. If the doppelganger rolls well, it might still act before the Sorcerer’s spell goes off, reflecting the monster’s ability to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
mission. In exchange for information, he offers to give the party a barnacle-covered chest that he found recently. He hasn’t opened it yet, so its contents are unknown to him, but he can smell gold inside
with bronze-colored scales. Slewing to a stop, the creature gives a toothy grin, then raises a claw in a small wave. “Well met!” it chirps. Zelifarn, a young bronze dragon, recently moved into Deepwater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
L. Lake Zarovich At the foot of a mountain, nestled in the misty forest, is a large lake. The water is perfectly still and dark, reflecting the black clouds overhead like a monstrous mirror. If the
are lucky. He intends to sacrifice her to the lake, hoping it will give up some of its fish in return. If the characters watch Bluto from the shore for several minutes, or if they row out into the lake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
vocal in their objections. As the time of the summoning ritual approaches, Severin understands that he can’t risk losing loyal troops to infighting and insurrection. He has thus agreed to give Jorgen
a do-or-die gamble. If he is right, the traditionalists will give their support to Severin’s plans. What Jorgen does not know is that Severin asked his Red Wizard allies to create a false mask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
most vocal in their objections. As the time of the summoning ritual approaches, Severin understands that he can’t risk losing loyal troops to infighting and insurrection. He has thus agreed to give
everything on a do-or-die gamble. If he is right, the traditionalists will give their support to Severin’s plans. What Jorgen does not know is that Severin asked his Red Wizard allies to create a false mask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
element and give details on how to flesh out your world with gods, factions, and so forth. The assumptions sketched out above aren’t carved in stone. They inspire exciting D&D worlds full of adventure
, but they’re not the only set of assumptions that can do so. You can build an interesting campaign concept by altering one or more of those core assumptions, just as well-established D&D worlds have done
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
a ticket taker, a job she’s recently switched to as a result of struggling to give correct change while working at the box office.
Extracurriculars: Intramural Water-Dancing Club
Job: Strixhaven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to the land several years ago and flourished, now growing exclusively around Zinda. The March of Vice festival originally honored the city’s entire wine trade, but jeli wine has recently become the
used her magic to create the jeli flower, a crop with fantastic commercial value. In exchange, the six Kings of Coin were to give her their firstborn children to serve as apprentices. At the suggestion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
hometown heroes. They are immigrants who’ve made good, common people who’ve risen to rival the barons and kings. They give the people what they want, whether it’s untaxed gambling, cheap spirits, or
thus feels justified, since it’s not the citizens of Sharn that are victimized. Boromar’s longstanding status at the head of Sharn’s criminal enterprises has recently come under challenge. After nearly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
air. Rows of benches face an altar at the end of a spacious worship hall. Above the altar is an enormous stained-glass window of a sunrise.
Until recently, the temple’s head priest was a human woman
named Ivlis, but she recently departed the keep on a long-anticipated pilgrimage.
Hazem Ameen Fazzir
Human Priest
Stat Block: Curate
This spiritual leader offers counsel and healing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Night and collects their blood, then bathes in the blood on nights of the new moon in a ritual to stave off the effects of extreme old age. Baba Lysaga recently stole a magic gemstone from the Wizards of
hut a semblance of life. I had nothing left to give but my own life’s blood, but it was hers to take. She would at last be my bride.
— Strahd von Zarovich
in I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
if asked, or he can give them directions to the location. The cave leads to area R8 in the Redbrands’ hideout. Finding Cragmaw Castle Qelline is a longtime friend of a druid named Reidoth. If Qelline
druid doesn’t know.” Qelline tells the characters Reidoth recently set out for the ruins of a town called Thundertree, just west of the Neverwinter Wood. The ruins are about fifty miles northwest of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
professor of expression) is the current Dean of Expression. Nazzari always want to see art that is bigger, more radical in concept, and more emotionally powerful. For their final project as a mage
professor of expression) is a newly hired instructor teaching a few courses in choreography and dance ensembles. He recently graduated from Strixhaven himself, and he bubbles with excitement at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
average of twenty myconids — the Circle of Hunters, the Circle of Explorers, the Circle of Sowers, the Circle of Builders, the Circle of Growers, plus the recently formed Inner Circle and Circle of
with this new and unusual concept, swayed by Phylo’s claims that a higher level of communal harmony will be achieved. Basidia believes that Phylo’s separation of the circles is contrary to the unity and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
you receive a cancer diagnosis or a similar health news, you probably appreciate that concept a little more than other people. Watching someone you love waste away is a terrible thing. You want a
magic button to bring things back to the way they should be, this person you love so much restored to who they really are rather than what cancer is grinding them down into. It’s easy to give in to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
wear complex tattoos reflecting their ambitions and achievements and their favored school of magic. In Thay, the Red Wizards have ultimate power, although they give governance of day-to-day affairs to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
faith, making them proficient with the quarterstaff and nothing else. You could give them a benefit to make up for the loss of proficiencies—something like the monk’s Unarmored Defense class feature, but
, paladins might not swear their oaths to ideals, but instead swear fealty to powerful sorcerers. To capture this story concept, you could build a new paladin spell list with spells meant to protect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
passing down traditions and beliefs through all the generations since. Most people here begin conversations with “give a listen” or “tell me true” before exchanging stories—the more captivating, the
Most folk in Godsbreath go by a single name—often a nickname picked up in their youth instead of their given name—preceded by an honorific reflecting their age, profession, or standing in the community
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
weapons appear in a campaign. Does this versatility extend outside the melee theme of the feature? It sure does, but we’re willing to occasionally bend a design concept if doing so is likely to increase
, but the feature doesn’t give that creature the ability to telepathically reply. In contrast, the telepathy ability that some monsters have (MM , "Telepathy") does make two-way communication possible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
3. Central Basin This depression in the cavern floor is the main part of the myconid colony. The central circle mound was only recently created, and is now a kind of “town square” where all the
” in the Garden of Welcome. Phylo offers to give them a peek the next day if they want. If Sarith is with the characters, he suggests they accept this offer, saying that keeping on the sovereign’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
the earthquakes began.” Tavio. “I recently spoke to the Tavio Solana, the mayor. He grew uncomfortable when I mentioned Rilago. It was Tavio’s father, the previous mayor, who refused to allow the
throughout Oztocan. Leandro is fond of Tavio, the mayor, and doesn’t want him to suffer blame for Oztocan’s troubles or Aminta’s criminal pursuits, so he keeps these facts to himself. Leandro recently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of place, both attracting curious stares and expressing plenty of curiosity of their own about the strange ways of Khorvaire’s cities and towns. As you make a Talenta halfling character, give some
concept of “facts.” To you, everything is a story, and truth is in how you tell it. 7 You are annoyed by buildings and tools designed without consideration for small people. 8 You seek vengeance for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
that both demon lords have recently converged around Elturel. You can add either demon lord to the battle in “Endgame in Elturel” later in this chapter. If the characters freed the demon lord
are empty promises, though Gargauth’s fear is real. If the characters give her the shield, Zariel casts dispel evil and good on it. Her spell causes Gargauth to manifest as a miserable, malformed pit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
rotting away in the prison of Revel’s End. She’s proved uncooperative with my people in the past, but I recently discovered the vault where she hid what she stole from us. I need you to question her and
layout of Revel’s End and a few useful tricks.”
Give the players a copy of map 4.1 (see “The Breaker’s Map” below), and read the following text: Varrin retrieves a faceted sapphire the size of a small