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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bear or boar: stoic, stubborn, and thick-skinned.
Longtooth shifters typically have lupine traits and prefer to run with a pack.
Swiftstride are often predatory and feline, but a swiftstride could
names” with strangers. These are usually tied to a physical or personality trait.
Shifter Names: Badger, Bear, Cat, Fang, Grace, Grim, Moon, Rain, Red, Scar, Stripe, Swift, Talon, Wolf
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
great deeds and win it back.
d6
Flaw
1
I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2
Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
and rivers that run dry most of the year. Magic radiating from Xeluan’s tomb protects the town and the surrounding region from monster attacks and destructive natural occurrences, but the wards have
weakened since Xeluan’s heart cracked. Earthquakes that would normally be suppressed by the magic are now being felt, raising concerns that Oztocan is no longer safe.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Adventure Background A deadly heat wave bakes an unprepared pastoral land. Crops have failed, rivers have run dry, and prospects are grim. While the reason for the unprecedented heat is unclear, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Creating Domains of Dread Ravenloft is a place where your nightmares can run wild, where anything you can imagine in moments of dread or despair can come to frightful life among the Mists. The
monstrosities, and grim settings into a tailor-made whole, bound together by mysterious mists and buried alive inside your favorite horror genres. This chapter explores how to create such domains, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
at shrines for protection against misfortune, and attendants keep a watchful eye for grim portents in the rains. Set amid glittering turquoise waters, Umizu has long enjoyed prosperity that masks ever
-simmering tension. Daimyo Hogishi Takemi does his best to rein in crime, but the city’s lackluster bureaucracy is run by complacent samurai administrators and riddled with corruption. Crime syndicates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
conspiracy, either by having the players craft their own or by rolling on the Conspiracy Details table. Conspiracy Details d4 Conspiracy Details
1 Working amid the High Hall’s records, you came
that awaits you.
Conspiracy Consequences Determine the challenge currently facing the characters by rolling on the Conspiracy Consequences table below or by having the players devise other grim
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Approaching Death House As the characters come within sight of Death House, read or paraphrase the following: A boy and a girl stand in the middle of the dirt road outside a grim house. The boy is
the party explore the house separately. This way, you can focus on the characters without having to run Sarusanda alongside them. The characters will have several opportunities to run into Sarusanda
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
conspiracy, either by having the players craft their own or by rolling on the Conspiracy Details table. Conspiracy Details d4 Conspiracy Details 1 Working amid the High Hall’s records, you came to
currently facing the characters by rolling on the Conspiracy Consequences table below or by having the players devise other grim consequences of their conspiracy. Conspiracy Consequences d6 Conspiracy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
...” It’s based on the idea that an actor takes whatever the other actors give and builds on that. A similar principle applies as you run sessions for your players. As often as possible, weave what the
alternative. For example, imagine the characters are searching for a lich’s lair. A player asks you if there’s a mages’ guild operating in a nearby city, hoping to find records that mention the lich. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
than one piece
8 Floating in an unstable parallel reality
(SAM BURLEY) Abandoned Temple Adventures An abandoned temple might contain records, special items, and humanoid remains, any
place.
Abandoned Temple Adventures d12 Adventure Goal
1 Retrieve records or a magic item left in the temple.
2 Demolish what’s left of the temple to prevent anyone from retrieving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
creatures of unknown realms far removed from mortal concerns. As heroes confront this evil, they must face the selfish, cold tendencies of their own kind as well. A campaign featuring troubled heroes who
an abandoned building or tower. If you run horror adventures week after week, try using a villain who turns out to be ordinary, perhaps even silly. Comic relief is a great variation on almost any D&D campaign, though players usually provide it themselves.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
behave when tensions run high and they can trust no one—perhaps not even each other. (See “Environmental Effects” in chapter 3 for one way this atmosphere can manifest.) Characters might encounter
the Tower Arcane in search of some great secret from yugoloths’ ancient history. The tower, a sinister structure adorned with blades and spikes and guarded by arcanaloths, stands somewhere on Chamada. It is rumored to hold yugoloths’ history and the records of their contracts.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Carceri The grim inspiration for all other prisons in existence, Carceri is a plane of desolation and despair. Its six layers hold vast bogs, fetid jungles, windswept deserts, jagged mountains
passions and poisons, and of realm-shattering betrayals. Hatreds run like a deep, slow-moving river, and there’s no telling what the flood of treachery will consume next. It is said that prisoners can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
one is the ancient. He is one of us!”
She kneels before Javor, and her fellows follow her lead. “We come to see you avenged, ancient one,” she says.
Javor nods with grim approval. He says, “You
are in time for blood. The desecrater dwells there.”
He points to the Nettlebee ranch in the valley below the barrow. Then, he begins to run in that direction.
Uthgardt of the fierce Elk tribe, as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Executioner’s Run (see area 2), asks the adventurers to come with her as she collects a debt. The pay is 10 percent of whatever is collected on the 500 gp debt, which is owed by a man named Taban (N male
grim warning. He wishes to atone for his crime and seeks an audience with Kwayothé, the merchant prince who controls the legal sale of fruit. Fearing for his life, Omala asks the adventurers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
square with great haste, disappearing into their hovels. As spear-toting guards with grim faces move with purpose toward the southwest gate, you hear a booming voice from that direction as it calls out
gate)
Beldora, a Harper spy (starts at area B7)
Sir Baric Nylef, a knight of Tyr (starts at area B8)
Statistics and roleplaying notes for these NPCs appear in appendix D. How the players run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
grim fortresses to wage war against their neighbors, ogres and trolls plunder farmsteads for food, and monstrous spiders drop from web-shrouded trees. Adventures can also take place in cities, towns
Yourself
When you’re preparing an adventure to run for your friends, you don’t need to write hundreds of pages describing each location in exhaustive detail. You can run a game with no more written notes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Meetings with Sarusanda The characters occasionally reunite with Sarusanda as they explore Death House. Each time you roll this result on the Death House Encounters table, run one of the following
, Strahd von Zarovich!” Once Sarusanda is done speaking with the skull, it cackles in grim amusement, then floats into the air. Three will-o’-wisps emerge from corners of the room and join the skull (use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the hobgoblins run it accordingly. A war camp might be a permanent settlement that a hobgoblin legion uses as a garrison. The accompanying map depicts one such place, and it can also be used to
library and a rookery, the command center subsumes those functions. Library records are stored in a chamber adjacent to where the war council meets, and posts for ravens are set all around the exterior of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
decide what happens next. Either group might decide to attack, initiate a conversation, run away, or wait to see what the other group does. Surprising Foes. If the adventurers encounter a hostile
a map that records the group’s progress and helps the characters get back on course if they get lost. No ability check is required. Track. A character can follow the tracks of another creature, making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
decide what happens next. Either group might decide to attack, initiate a conversation, run away, or wait to see what the other group does. Surprising Foes. If the adventurers encounter a hostile
that records the group’s progress and helps the characters get back on course if they get lost. No ability check is required. Track. A character can follow the tracks of another creature, making a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
confronted. Her tower contains enough rubble that she won’t run out of rocks to throw anytime soon. Any character who tries to allay Moog’s concerns by speaking to her calmly and soothingly in Giant can make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
containers are suspended over the warehouse floor by chains, which run up and through a winch before descending to a mechanical control console atop the catwalk. Two doors near the console lead to other
business records, and mundane tools. If Itzmin reaches the warehouse, he ascends to the catwalk and hides in one of the offices, emerging and trying to escape only after he hears combat. Facing Serapio
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
scours Thay while the lich lord ignores all concerns other than his quest to become a god. If his mad plans are left to run their course, none will be left alive here to worship him.
“This is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
elements of the game might run up against some players’ limits, list those elements in this box. See the “Hard and Soft Limits” section for examples.
Once the above information is added, give a copy of
limit, indicate any potentially sensitive elements that are problematic. Add any other elements to avoid.
Hopes, Expectations, and Concerns. In the last two boxes, share any hopes and expectations for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. If you know that some elements of the game might run up against some players’ limits, list those elements in this box. See the “Hard and Soft Limits” section for examples.
Once the above information
question mark for a soft limit, indicate any potentially sensitive elements that are problematic. Add any other elements to avoid.
Hopes, Expectations, and Concerns. In the last two boxes, share any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
orange, rests amid a pool of bubbling, hissing water.
This is the crate that concerns Instructor Minexes the most, although the characters are likely unaware of this fact. Several flasks inside the
halved, and Dexterity saving throws made to resist the effect are made with advantage. If the characters find other creative ways of dealing with the problem that make sense, run with it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
gripped by overwhelming concerns about assassination plots, revenge-seekers, and other schemes against it. When these thoughts bubble to the surface, the Xanathar might crack down on its lieutenants
guild is run by a beholder. Most of the guild’s low-ranking members have an idea that the boss isn’t human, especially given how long the Xanathar has been in power (they aren’t aware that several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
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
agreed-upon signal of a window being opened in Faerl’s house, they go there immediately, ready for trouble. Use the guidelines in the “Street Fight” section earlier to run the encounter if the cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
for mining activity in the area, as well as the authority for maintaining public records. A two-story building, the exchange bears a newly painted sign depicting two crossed pickaxes above a lump of
this unhappy lot. The owner and barkeep is Grista Kettlecopp (N female dwarf commoner). Surly to the point of rudeness, she tries to run her business her own way and stay out of the political and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
area’s rustic standards. Each room boasts a hearth, warm draperies and tapestries, and running water (provided by rooftop cisterns). Now run by the Irkell family from Waterdeep, the inn has become a
human commoner). She is the fortyish matriarch of her family and a pleasant, sturdy woman. She is increasingly worried about “what’s gathering in the dark” in Red Larch and brings up her concerns with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
zone. White Gate. A white gate is located in the south branch of the corridor that leads east from this area toward the Swine Run. 18. Barracks Rough cots scattered across the floor contrast with the
takes 4 (1d8) piercing damage and 4 (1d8) poison damage. The insects disappear after 1 minute, and the trap resets. Glyph Keys. One Thayan has a glyph key attuned to this zone and the Swine Run. Another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
characters years ago resurfaces, giving the characters a chance to finally bring the villain to justice. Sword and Sorcery A sword-and-sorcery campaign features a grim world of evil spellcasters and
contribute too; they must be willing to embrace the mood. Whether you want to run a full-fledged horror campaign or a single creepy adventure, discuss your plans with the players ahead of time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, icy wind whistles through South Gate as you enter Luskan. The shops and taverns lining the main thoroughfare of the City of Sails are as battered and weathered as the grim customers entering them. At
female human commoner) works as a wagon driver out of Neverwinter, and her hired help all fled after a failed bandit attack during her most recent run north. She made it safely to Luskan alone, but her