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Ancient Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

cloak themselves and watch from afar. When an emerald dragon is old enough, the dragon might take on the guise of a creature that can blend in with the local population, or at least get close without

studiously mimic the mannerisms of my guests. 7 I prefer to get others talking, then fade into the background. Sometimes literally. 8 I seek out audiences and like to be the center of attention

Adult Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

abilities to cloak themselves and watch from afar. When an emerald dragon is old enough, the dragon might take on the guise of a creature that can blend in with the local population, or at least get

. 6 I studiously mimic the mannerisms of my guests. 7 I prefer to get others talking, then fade into the background. Sometimes literally. 8 I seek out audiences and like to be the

Gnome Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

beauties of the world in their long years, but gnomes seem to worry that even with all that time, they can’t get in enough of the things they want to do and see. Gnomes speak as if they can’t

get the thoughts out of their heads fast enough. Even as they offer ideas and opinions on a range of subjects, they still manage to listen carefully to others, adding the appropriate exclamations of

Dwarf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

human standing nearly two feet taller. Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk. Dwarven skin ranges from deep brown to a paler hue tinged with red, but the most

field of battle centuries ago. SLOW TO TRUST Dwarves get along passably well with most other races. “The difference between an acquaintance and a friend is about a hundred years,” is

Human Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

Just as readily as they mix with each other, humans mingle with members of other races. They get along with almost everyone, though they might not be close to many. Humans serve as ambassadors, diplomats

; Elves. “It’s best not to wander into elven woods. They don’t like intruders, and you’ll as likely be bewitched as peppered with arrows. Still, if an elf can get past that damned

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

can transform an individual into a more powerful type. The cost and time required to perform the ritual is prohibitive, and as a result most yuan-ti never get the opportunity to undergo such a

— yuan-ti make perfect courtiers. And, worse for the rest of us, rulers. — Elminster The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their

Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds. Halflings’ skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have

communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home. AFFABLE AND POSITIVE Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are

Magic Item Tracker

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Magic Item Tracker You can use the Magic Item Tracker sheet to track how many magic items the characters have acquired. Each time the characters get a magic item, put a check mark in one of the empty

, check off an empty circle from a lower tier. If all lower level ranges also have no circles left, check off an empty circle from a higher level range.

Farewell

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

Farewell The manner in which the Knucklebones bid farewell to the characters depends on how pleased Mad Maggie is with the characters. This attitude ranges from a near-tearful goodbye if they gave

Knucklebone without Mad Maggie’s consent, the night hag organizes a posse to run them down and get back what’s hers, plus “interest.” Mad Maggie chases after them in her Scavenger, with Mickey in the passenger

Bright Burrows

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Bright Burrows Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their

in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious

Bright Burrows

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Bright Burrows Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their

in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious

Yartar

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

Yartar This fortified city commands the most northerly wagon bridge over the Dessarin River. A walled citadel on the west bank of the river connects to a bridge wide enough to accommodate two wagons

). Reason to Visit. The “Dark Dealings in Yartar” side trek (chapter 6) brings the characters here. More broadly, characters affiliated with the Lords’ Alliance can readily receive support in Yartar, and Harpers and Zhentarim can get aid, too, if they’re discreet and know how to contact an agent in town.

Mapping a Wilderness

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

uneven ground. Valleys and ridges channel travel in certain directions. Mountain ranges present forbidding barriers traversed only by remote passes. Even the most trackless desert reveals favored

different scales to help you design your world and the starting area of your campaign. Especially when you get down to province scale (1 hex = 1 mile), think about paths of travel — roads, passes, ridges and valleys, and so on — that can guide character movement across your map.

Torment of Kas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

shattered remains of trees, roads, and whole mountain ranges dot the barren landscape. In the distance, a lone castle is silhouetted against the crimson horizon. Two hulking figures wander around the

distance such that characters who move toward the castle seem to get farther away from it. However, if all the characters move toward the hanging sun, the castle seems to move closer to them. Only by moving

Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

unsavory history. North of Waterdeep, the cult’s contraband is offloaded at a smuggler’s den for shipment to a castle long ago abandoned. A portal beneath the castle connects to the stronghold of one of the

get into a flying citadel that a cloud giant placed at the cult’s disposal and prevent it from reaching its destination at the Well of Dragons.

23. Floating Stream

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4

; they are the ends of a tunnel that connects this room with area 24. The water is lukewarm. Objects can be thrust through the sides of the stream, but no water other than a few drops will escape. It

quickly from west to east. If characters choose to go boating into the unknown tunnel, they will have to figure out how to get in the kayaks once the kayaks are placed in the stream, the surface of

Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

unsavory history. North of Waterdeep, the cult’s contraband is offloaded at a smuggler’s den for shipment to a castle long ago abandoned. A portal beneath the castle connects to the stronghold of one of the

get into a flying citadel that a cloud giant placed at the cult’s disposal and prevent it from reaching its destination at the Well of Dragons.

Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

unsavory history. North of Waterdeep, the cult’s contraband is offloaded at a smuggler’s den for shipment to a castle long ago abandoned. A portal beneath the castle connects to the stronghold of one of the

get into a flying citadel that a cloud giant placed at the cult’s disposal and prevent it from reaching its destination at the Well of Dragons.

Old City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

of them sits atop a web of debts, favors, incriminating information, and loyal muscle that allows them to get things done with an efficiency that the merchant princes sometimes envy. Unlike the

cleaner and less crowded than those near street level. A narrow wooden bridge connects the upper levels above the press and noise of the street. 2. Executioner’s Run The road through the Old City splits

Karkolohk Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Karkolohk Overview The goblins of Karkolohk often haunt the trail that connects Ten-Towns to other settlements farther south, though it sees little traffic nowadays. Prisoners are kept in dangling

construction and repairs. Goblin Mindset Chief Yarb-Gnock has taught the goblins to seize their destiny and stop at nothing to get what they want. Opportunistic creatures that they are, they take any sign of

Nobility

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

of the city, this means not merely the ability to carry a weapon, but the right to retain up to seventy equipped soldiers. These soldiers always wear a house’s colors and the house’s “arms of grace

” — a heraldic device often borne on a shield, worn as a cloak pin, or affixed to a helmet. Others throughout the city, even foreign dignitaries, are permitted to retain only up to sixteen armed

Small and Practical

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

. Halflings’ skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have brown or hazel eyes. Halfling men often sport long sideburns, but beards are

them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity. AFFABLE AND POSITIVE Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are loath to make sweeping generalizations

Creature Size

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

wide. If a Medium hobgoblin stands in a 5‐foot-wide doorway, other creatures can't get through unless the hobgoblin lets them. A creature's space also reflects the area it needs to fight effectively. For

enter a square of difficult terrain. Corners. Diagonal movement can’t cross the corner of a wall, large tree, or other terrain feature that fills its space. Ranges. To determine the range on a grid

Behir

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

eaten alive. A behir’s monstrous form resembles a combination of centipede and crocodile. Its scaled hide ranges from ultramarine to deep blue in color, fading to pale blue on its underside. Cavern

against the dragons, and behirs retain a natural hatred for dragonkind. A behir never makes its lair in an area it knows to be inhabited by a dragon. If a dragon attempts to establish a lair within a few

Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

, you’re not going to break anything in the game system, but you might undermine the story and the world being created in your campaign. Can a bound and gagged druid simply use Wild Shape to get out

only languages that appear in an elemental’s stat block, but the intent (RAI) is that druids retain their knowledge, including of languages, when they transform and can speak the languages they know if

20. Children's Room

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

characters try to leave, the ghost-children attempt to possess them. If one of the ghosts possesses a character, allow the player to retain control of the character, but assign the character one of the

following flaws: A character possessed by Rose gains the following flaw: “I like being in charge and get angry when other people tell me what to do.” A character possessed by Thorn gains the following

Exploring Sigil

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

of the Grease Pit to the posh cuisine of the Gastrognome, Sigil offers a taste of the multiverse. Get Ink at Fell’s Tattoos. A dabus (see Morte’s Planar Parade) named Fell runs a tattoo parlor in the

adventure surrounds the characters’ identities and the nature of their deaths. While the characters retain vague, surface-level details about themselves, they’re likely to seek more information in

Droaam

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

caravan was being protected by gnolls. Not protected from gnolls, protected by gnolls. I thought things couldn’t get any stranger. I couldn’t have been more wrong. … Capital: The Great Crag Hallmarks

grow larger and more organized every day, and the rest of Khorvaire is uneasy with the potential power of a fully realized Droaam. The monsters that inhabit Droaam retain their racial subcultures. Most worship the Dark Six, but other religious traditions flourish as well.

Way of the Kensei

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

samurai cross the road? … Now you say “Why?” … Okay, here’s the joke part: I kensei. Get it? What? Why aren’t you laughing? The joke is solid gold, and my delivery was perfect. Maybe you didn’t get it

target you hit with a ranged attack using a kensei weapon takes an extra 1d4 damage of the weapon’s type. You retain this benefit until the end of the current turn. Way of the Brush. You gain

Forge Level (X16-X26)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Forge Level (X16-X26) The lowest level of the fortress contains, among many other features, Xardorok’s forge, the iron mines, and a tunnel that connects to the Underdark. This level is also the

connects Xardorok’s fortress to vast caverns and subterranean lakes under the Spine of the World. Exploration of the Underdark is beyond the scope of this adventure. X17. Duergar Mines Rich veins of

Moving Around Other Creatures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

5 feet wide, for example, but it does control a space that wide. If a Medium hobgoblin stands in a 5-foot-wide doorway, other creatures can’t get through unless the hobgoblin lets them. A creature’s

that fills its space. Ranges. To determine the range on a grid between two things—whether creatures or objects—start counting squares from a square adjacent to one of them and stop counting in the space of the other one. Count by the shortest route.

Awarding Magic Items

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

28 23 19 11 100 Justyna Gil Downloadable PDF Magic Item Tracker You can use the Magic Item Tracker sheet to track how many magic items the characters have acquired. Each time the characters get a

unchecked circles at the current level range, check off an empty circle from a lower tier. If all lower level ranges also have no circles left, check off an empty circle from a higher level range. Random

The Ordning

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

suggestions for how a cloud, fire, frost, or stone giant’s efforts to retain or achieve a high status within the ordning might drive adventures. (Hill and storm giants aren’t included here because of their

protective of that high status and angling to get even higher 2 High Hoping to improve but not doing much to pursue an increase in status 3 High Unconcerned with maintaining that status 4 Medium On the

Hartsvale

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

upon me the skill of these folk, who brave crumbling paths, avalanche-ridden passes, terrible howling blizzards, and monsters of all sorts to reach Hartsvale and get safely out of the vale again. It

behavior. The Ogres For reasons I can’t fathom, Harstvale and its surrounding mountain ranges host many tribes of ogres — indeed, not mere family groups, but whole tribes of them! Whereas elsewhere ogres

Failed Merchant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

pouch containing 10 gp Feature: Supply Chain From your time as a merchant, you retain connections with wholesalers, suppliers, and other merchants and entrepreneurs. You can call upon these connections

. 5 I was cutting corners and breaking deals to maximize profit. That’s why I failed. 6 When I get an idea, I am single-minded in its execution — even if it’s a terrible idea. 7 If I

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