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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hunting dogs. They race in pursuit of their prey, running it down until it’s too exhausted to fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding.
A pack of yeth hounds can be
. Its head has a human-like face and glowing red eyes. The creature gives off a smoky odor.
Yeth hounds make a ghastly baying sound that causes most creatures to flee in terror. They chase those who
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
these visitors enter into an agreement with Bavlorna, she’ll use her powers to resolve their pressing problem in exchange for something of use to her.
Alignment. Neutral evil.
Personality
.
Bavlorna’s Weakness
Bavlorna is allergic to the sight of creatures running counterclockwise in circles, a motion known as “running widdershins.” Creatures that run widdershins
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black
of an adult deep dragon.
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An adult deep dragon has ended up rearing a young brass dragon and is running out of patience for the young dragon’s mischief.
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An adult deep dragon takes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. The characters might knock out enemies, intimidate them into running away, bribe them for information, or otherwise find creative ways to resolve conflicts. Use your discretion, and if the characters attempt to resolve encounters without violence, go with it if the story allows.
Nondeadly Resolutions This adventure sets up a number of encounters for the characters to fight their foes. However, other nondeadly resolutions are equally valid ways to resolve enemy encounters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
many enemy encounters. The characters might knock out enemies, intimidate them into running away, bribe them for information, or otherwise find creative ways to resolve conflicts. Use your discretion
Nondeadly Resolutions This adventure is full of encounters in which the characters may wish to fight their foes. However, noncombat or another nondeadly resolution is an equally valid way to resolve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Running the Battle This quest is an epic battle involving hundreds of rival combatants. Use the following rules to resolve the conflict.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Running Social Interaction During a social interaction, the adventurers usually have a goal. They want to extract information, secure aid, win someone’s trust, escape punishment, avoid combat
rarely come into play. Other DMs resolve interactions by having characters make Charisma checks. Most games fall somewhere in between, balancing roleplaying with the occasional ability check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
.
Whether you’re running a published adventure or one of your own creation, your initial description of a room or situation should focus on what the characters can perceive. You don’t have to reveal every
situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you need it. Sometimes the players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Skytower Shelter Skytower Shelter is one of two goliath settlements described in this chapter, the other being Wyrmdoom Crag (see "Wyrmdoom Crag"). Read both entries before running encounters in
might visit Skytower Shelter to resolve a long-standing dispute between the two goliath clans (see “Tall Tales in Ten-Towns” and “A Goliath Problem”). Or a goliath player character who hails from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Cultist Doomsayer and Fanatic Cultists devote themselves to their faith’s leaders and otherworldly masters. While this zeal grants cultists no magical powers, it gives them remarkable resolve in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
usually describes locations so the players know what’s happening and have a sense of what their characters’ options are.
Whether you’re running a published adventure or one of your own creation, your
Once you’re done describing the situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Using This Book Most of the Astral Adventurer’s Guide is designed to be shared with players. Think of this book’s chapters as a primer for creating characters and running adventures in the uncharted
void that surrounds each of the worlds of the Material Plane: Chapter 1 contains new material for players, including two backgrounds and six race options. Chapter 2 gives players and DMs rules for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
friends and foes. Chapter 1 gives an overview of life and study at Strixhaven. It introduces the main features of the central campus and each of the five colleges. Chapter 2 is your guide to creating a
. Whether student adventurers get caught up in a duel with their rivals or face a dreaded mage hunter, the stat blocks in this chapter give you the information you need to resolve the situation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Running the Adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver is an adventure for four to five characters of 1st level. During the course of the adventure, the characters will advance to 5th level. The adventure is
running a D&D adventure, read “The Dungeon Master” section; it will help you better understand your role and responsibilities. The “Background” section tells you everything you need to know to set up the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Wrath of the Elements The elemental prophets sense that they are running out of time, and they redouble their efforts to expand Elemental Evil’s power across the Dessarin Valley. If they can’t subdue
themselves in the area. Haayon the Punisher threatens Beliard, while Westbridge gives in to the Counsel of Despair. The adventurers might receive word of these situations, or the party might stumble across them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
in action.) In such situations, have the characters take turns, though it’s usually not necessary to roll Initiative as you would in a combat encounter. Resolve one character’s actions before moving
attributes to provide direction. A character who succeeds on an Intelligence (Investigation) check might notice a clue that gives the players a hint to the puzzle’s solution.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
you. It gives you new rules options, as well as some refined tools for creating and running adventures and campaigns. It is a supplement to the tools and advice offered in the Dungeon Master’s Guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
here for ease of reference, as the séances occur at multiple points throughout the adventure. Prior to running a séance, choose or randomly determine which spirit the party will contact. The key
spirits, the tone of their communication, and what they fixate upon include: Dalk Dranzorg. This manipulative murderer wants the party to trust him so they’ll free his corpse from area 5a. He gives his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Information. If you tell the players what the Armor Class of their opponents is, you reduce the steps of interaction needed to resolve an attack. Instead of telling you a number and asking if it hits
order to your players so they each know when their character’s turn is coming up and can think ahead about what their character will do on their next turn. Using Initiative scores (see “Running
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Running the Encounter Have Skalanthas, the characters, and Captain Orso roll Initiative. The crew acts immediately after Captain Orso in the Initiative order. These sailors take the Hide action while
surviving or sinking, as described below. The Ship Is Saved. If Skalanthas fails to sink the Wavemount, Captain Orso gives the characters a Rowboat they can use to reach the island. Meanwhile, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
practice. In this example, the Dungeon Master is running an adventure (“The Fouled Stream”) from chapter 4. The four players are Amy (playing Auro, a Halfling Rogue), Maeve (playing Mirabella, an Elf Wizard
: the withered shrubs are actually monsters. It’s important to establish which characters are closest to the hidden monsters.
2 Jared: The cave entrance is ten feet wide, with the stream running
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
fire when an intruder steps on a pressure plate are all simple traps. Elements of a Simple Trap The description of a simple trap begins with a line that gives the trap’s level and the severity of the
moderate, dangerous, or deadly threat, based on its particular details. Trigger. A simple trap activates when an event occurs that triggers it. This entry in a trap’s description gives the location of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, knock on the apartment window, and are let inside by Seffia, whereupon Arn gives one of them the Stone of Golorr. When the characters enter, they see the devils fly off with the stone. The cult
fanatics do everything in their power to enable the devils to escape. Next Encounter If the characters deal with the cult fanatics, they can chase after the fleeing spined devils by running across rooftops. Proceed with encounter 5, “Rooftop Chase.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
group should be able to complete the adventure in twelve sessions of play. Each chapter begins with an overview that gives you a sense of what is ahead for the heroes and recaps what has happened so
the adventure’s third chapter includes horror and gore. Discuss with your players their level of comfort with these elements before running this adventure for them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Running This Chapter Diagram 1.1 is a flowchart that presents the key events of this chapter in sequence. The adventurers begin as 1st-level characters, advancing to 2nd level if they survive the
, she gives them a map of Avernus, a way to reach the Nine Hells, and a hollyphant guide.
Diagram 1.1: Chapter 1 Flowchart
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
same kind of creature are present, since the druid might favor a certain kind of beast or plant.) Running the Encounter. The frost druid aims to kill the characters or send them scurrying back to Ten
giant riding a mammoth, as the earth rumbles and trembles with every one of the mammoth’s heavy footfalls. Running the Encounter. The frost giant has come down from the Spine of the World mountains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
. Bring forth the zodar!”
The crowd gives out a collective gasp as the guards part ranks to make way for a creature clad head to toe in a suit of obsidian armor. As it floats toward you, you realize the
characters must fight the zodar (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie) on their own. See “Running the Zodar” below for more information about this creature. The characters win the trial by combat if they reduce
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Running Allies Allies are an important part of any adventuring party’s career. However, whenever an ally joins the party for a significant amount of time, it’s important the ally doesn’t overshadow
, gather valuable loot or information, or resolve old problems the characters have forgotten about or left behind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
gives them remarkable resolve in the face of threats. Cultists perform much of a cult’s mundane work, which might include evangelism, criminal acts, or serving as sacrifices. Cultist Medium or Small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
stage if the trip is a matter of following a clear path to a well-known destination. A journey consisting of three stages makes for a satisfying trek. For example, the characters might travel along a
something hidden, or a chance of getting lost, as described under “Journey Stage Challenges.” Running the Stages. For each stage of the journey, follow these steps in order: Step 1: Set the Pace. Have the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
to collapse under our weight?
Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories, a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers’ action. Players roll dice to resolve whether
they want their adventurers to do. Will they walk across the dangerously weathered drawbridge? Tie themselves together with rope to minimize the chance that someone will fall if the drawbridge gives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
tragic tale of woe and misery puts her in a bargaining mood. If these visitors enter into an agreement with Bavlorna, she’ll use her powers to resolve their pressing problem in exchange for something of
Bavlorna is allergic to the sight of creatures running counterclockwise in circles, a motion known as “running widdershins.” Creatures that run widdershins within 10 feet of Bavlorna cause her to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Soldier Intelligence Acolyte, Criminal, Sage Wisdom Acolyte, Sage Charisma Acolyte Record Your Feat. A background gives you a feat, which grants your character particular capabilities. Feats are
detailed in “Feats”. Write the feat on your character sheet. Note Proficiencies. Your background gives proficiency in two skills and with one tool. Record this information on your character sheet. Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
to collapse under our weight?
Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories, a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers’ action. Players roll dice to resolve
gives way? Or cast a spell to carry them over the chasm? Then the DM determines the results of the adventurers’ actions and narrates what they experience. Because the DM can improvise to react to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
appears to trigger the duergar’s sudden growth and battle prowess, but they drink only to firm up their resolve. See “Development” below.) The duergar are too inebriated to turn invisible. Because night
(Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check to search around the cavern entrance detects a pressure plate running wall to wall under the dirt floor. If the check is 17 or higher, it also notes a