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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
little concern to a star seer, who resides mainly on the Astral Plane.
Githyanki
Githyanki descend from an ancient people who were also the progenitors of githzerai. These tall, gaunt folk have
potent psionic powers and dwell, for the most part, on the Astral Plane. Among the best-known githyanki are the followers of the Lich-Queen Vlaakith. They terrorize the Astral Plane, raiding into
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
inhabitants of the world.
Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they
power to defy death.
RadiantChange Shape. The living portent magically transforms into a Humanoid while retaining its game statistics (other than its size and Brilliance trait). The transformation ends if the living portent is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus action to end it.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in a game of dragonchess that has been going on for centuries.
2
An ancient dragon turtle serves as counsel to an empyrean court, tempering the Celestials’ passions with the dragon turtle
, including deep-sea trenches or underwater volcanoes.
Dragon turtles are largely unconcerned with the design of their lairs and seldom work to improve them. A dragon turtle’s primary concern when
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
own laws.
Firbolgs use their magic to keep their presence in a forest secret. This approach allows them to avoid the politics and struggles of elves, humans, and orcs. Such events concern the
an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost. The firbolgs
Orc
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rival orcs first and foremost as competitors for food and victims.
On some occasions, though, tribes that have a common concern band together. The result is an orc horde — a sea of slavering
,” or “go this way.” A orc raiding party might leave such a sign in its wake, as an aid to other warriors that travel through the same area later on. Mountain guides, druids, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
magic items. The options in this chapter relate to many different parts of the game. Some of them are variants of rules, and others are entirely new rules. Each option represents a different genre, style
to your campaign, ask yourself two questions: Will the rule improve the game? Will my players like it? If you’re confident that the answer to both questions is yes, then you have nothing to lose by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Against the Giants Giants have been raiding settled lands in bands, with giants of different sorts in these marauding groups. Death and destruction have been laid heavily upon every place these
Giant Chief. From there, if they succeed, the adventurers can advance to test their mettle against the even more formidable giants of frost and fire, but that is of no concern right now—the steading awaits, and its perils are plentiful.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
assists the mage in investigating unusual crimes in the city. Cromley helps Barnibus relate to the common folk, and he is good at coaxing information out of them. Though Cromley was once a strict
proponent of Watch regulations and dress codes, he has grown a bit lax in both matters now that he’s officially retired. Game Statistics Saeth Cromley is an Illuskan human veteran, with these changes: Saeth is lawful good. He has a Charisma of 14 and Intimidation +4. He speaks Common.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Chapter 2: Dungeon Master's Tools As the Dungeon Master, you oversee the game and weave together the story experienced by your players. You’re the one who keeps it all going, and this chapter is for
. The chapter opens with optional rules meant to help you run certain parts of the game more smoothly. The chapter then goes into greater depth on several topics — encounter building, random encounters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
should be the top draw on the characters’ attention. On most mornings, hunters fan out onto the grassland to hunt for antelope and other large game. They travel on horseback and bring along an extra
horse to pack the field-dressed game back to the camp. Hunters don’t necessarily return to the camp every evening. They stay out until they have a load of meat to bring back. Hunting on the Greenfields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
should be the top draw on the characters’ attention. On most mornings, hunters fan out onto the grassland to hunt for antelope and other large game. They travel on horseback and bring along an extra
horse to pack the field-dressed game back to the camp. Hunters don’t necessarily return to the camp every evening. They stay out until they have a load of meat to bring back. Hunting on the Greenfields is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
content warning for the story you’ll all be creating. If you’re uncertain about aspects of the game, ask about them—before the game, during play, or whenever a concern arises. Everyone’s comfort and enjoyment of spooky adventures are what matter most!
Invitation to Nightmare You’ve been invited to play a scary game. What does a horror adventure or campaign mean? Who’s it supposed to be scary for, you the player or your character? Is it scary like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bring all manner of work to the guildhall, posting messages or seeking out those with specific fields of expertise. Guild members also relate news about opportunities via word of mouth. Such jobs might
“Crime Syndicate”). 2 Dragonmarked Affairs. The job involves some dragonmarked house concern (see “Dragonmarked House”). 3 Espionage. Someone requires some spying or sabotage (see “Espionage Agency
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Animated Staff Light. Wax candles in stone holders light the room.
Furnishings. In the middle of the room, a wooden chair faces a small wooden table upon which rests a game board topped with
Ipses (the lich’s pseudodragon), and hostile toward all other creatures. It has no concern for its own well-being and fights without mercy. Ezzat calls off the staff if its destruction seems likely, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
exhibit skin and hair in a range of shades, including hues suggestive of the earth and mosses near their dwellings. Among hidden valleys, pristine waterfalls, and game-filled slopes, hill giants
lives of raiding or serve other giants in return for protection. Hill Giant Huge Giant, Chaotic Evil
AC 13 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 105 (10d12 + 40)
Speed 40 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
according to its own laws. Firbolgs use their magic to keep their presence in a forest secret. This approach allows them to avoid the politics and struggles of elves, humans, and orcs. Such events concern the
forest an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Preparation Time The following guidelines can help you prepare for a session of play using a published adventure. One-Hour Preparation If you spend one hour each week preparing for your game, follow
player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Preparation Time The following guidelines can help you prepare for a session of play using a published adventure. One-Hour Preparation If you spend one hour each week preparing for your game, follow
each “unlikely” encounter. Step 9. Create a new encounter designed to appeal specifically to one player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
pass unseen make them skillful spies and adept at fleeing danger. Imps sent to surveil other creatures relate what they discover to their masters, but they frequently omit important details or cast
.
Shape-Shift. The imp shape-shifts to resemble a rat (Speed 20 ft.), a raven (20 ft., Fly 60 ft.), or a spider (20 ft., Climb 20 ft.), or it returns to its true form. Its game statistics are the same in each form, except for its Speed. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the qualities giants admire — the “giantness,” if you will — in themselves and their clans. A storm giant, for example, might see the raiding practices of hill giants as distasteful but not maug
, because brutal raiding is an inborn trait of the hill giants. If those same hill giants worshiped Yeenoghu, however, that act would represent a flagrant turning away from the traditions of the ordning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
unsettling forms to frighten foes. A doppelganger’s agenda might relate to its mysterious magical origins or to more mercenary goals. Roll on or choose a result from the Doppelganger Deceptions table
Actions
Shape-Shift. The doppelganger shape-shifts into a Medium or Small Humanoid, or it returns to its true form. Its game statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
that prison city. When a Sembian raiding force was sent to take the outpost and gain access to Wheloon, the garrison’s Northlander cleric called on Valkur for aid. The Sembian boats were sent to the
Karameikos saw a need to establish an outpost on an island near Rugalov. As tensions faded and concern waned, Duke von Hendricks of the Black Eagle Barony saw an opportunity, and dispatched agents of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
can be discerned from their garb and markings, this barbarian raiding band is led by a female berserker named Fennor. Other members include ten tribal warriors and a male berserker named Padraich
he sees them. The returned chief shows no concern for the other Nettlebees. Fennor plans to “aid” the chief’s justice, destroying and looting the ranch in the process. The strong implication is that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
by raiders (roll a d6 to determine the raiding group) 8 1d6 townsfolk hiding * Acolytes have command prepared instead of sanctuary. Most of the cultists, guards, and acolytes are human. You can
include a few dwarves, half-elves, half-orcs, or halflings without altering any game statistics. STOLEN TREASURE
The cultists and their kobold lackeys are in the midst of looting Greenest and collecting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
by raiders (roll a d6 to determine the raiding group) 8 1d6 townsfolk hiding * Acolytes have command prepared instead of sanctuary. Most of the cultists, guards, and acolytes are human. You can include a few dwarves, half-elves, half-orcs, or halflings without altering any game statistics.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dungeon with no armor or at school with no clothes. Narratively, these dreams can provide a moment of comic relief or heighten the players own concern about what’s happening in the game.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
black dragon recently took control of a band of pirates and their backwater hideout. Emboldened, the pirates have started raiding nearby shipping lanes.
2 A conflict-averse black dragon is secretly
epicurean tastes is poaching game in a noble’s hunting preserve at a frightening pace.
Connected Creatures Black dragons prefer the company of creatures that are easy to control and present little
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
world. Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they encounter. Variant
its game statistics (other than its size and Brilliance trait). The transformation ends if the living portent is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus action to end it.
Reactions
Price of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
they act (and interact) when mortals aren’t their primary concern. The mysteries of life and the afterlife are widely known to these creatures. Everywhere at Once. Planescape adventures span worlds
. Use these insights to inform your understanding of the planes or as quotes to share via mimirs in your game.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
tribe has sent raiding parties out anywhere but against the orcs of the Spine Mountains.
Black Raven. As forbidding as the Spine of the World Mountains they roam, the Black Ravens are fanatical in
their adherence to the old Uthgardt ways. Ranging out from Raven Rock, their ancestral mound deep inside the mountains, they have been known to send raiding parties as far south as Silverymoon, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
2 1 young silver dragon (attitude: 1d10 + 3) tracking a frost giant raiding party
3 1 frost giant hunting with 1d4 winter wolves (attitude for all: 1d6)
4 2 frost giants (attitude: 1d6
Multiverse. Roll a d10 if you don’t have that book. *See chapter 6. Storm Giant Encounters The Storm Giant Encounters table includes storm giants as well as creatures that relate to or resonate with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
of the D&D game.
Schick related in the 2013 compilation Dungeons of Dread that he wrote the adventure as a way of persuading Gary Gygax to hire him as a game designer.
THE LEGEND OF KERAPTIS
began to increase as raiding parties of humanoids assaulted villages, and evil and fantastic monsters appeared from nowhere to prey upon the harried peasants. At the height of this unrest, Keraptis's
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
has been raiding distant farmlands, procuring gifts of food for a mate with a taste for unusual cuisine.
7 A white dragon has been exacting vengeance on a rival silver dragon by killing off the
dragon into eliminating its enemies by inventing ways in which these foes have supposedly offended the dragon.
6 A storm giant and an adult white dragon are engaged in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
together, the exact relationship of different planes to one another is largely a theoretical concern. No being in the multiverse can look down and see the planes in their arrangement the same way as we
three most common are the Great Wheel, the World Tree, and the World Axis, but you can create or adapt whatever model works best for the planes you want to use in your game. The Great Wheel The default
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Mountain Encounters While the characters are exploring or camping in the Yatil Mountains, roll a d20 three times per day of game time, checking for encounters each morning, afternoon, and night. An
between two low peaks. The dragon has been raiding the surrounding lands in ever-widening sweeps, expanding her territory. Berythrach soars overhead, scouring the mountains for prey. The characters can