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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Pseudopod. The horror’s limb attack deals an extra 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Corrosive Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage.
Grasping Tentacle
. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a creature with this limb, the creature is also grappled (escape DC 16). The limb can have only one creature grappled at a time
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Corrosive Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage.
Grasping Tentacle. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a creature with
vaporous visions amid the fog, mysterious eddies in the Mists sometimes gather such evils, forcing them into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
.
Corrosive Pseudopod. The horror’s limb attack deals an extra 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Corrosive Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage.
Grasping
Tentacle. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a creature with this limb, the creature is also grappled (escape DC 16). The limb can have only one creature grappled at
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"Corrosive Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage.
Grasping Tentacle. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a creature with this limb, the creature is also grappled
eddies in the Mists sometimes gather such evils, forcing them into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
damage.
Grasping Tentacle. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a creature with this limb, the creature is also grappled (escape DC 16). The limb can have only one creature
, forcing them into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
guildless masses of the city.
Consider why you’re embedded in the secondary guild. Create a story with your DM, inspired by rolling on the following table or choosing a reason that suits you
.
d8
Reason for Infiltration
1
My parents belong to this guild, and I let them think I’m following in their footsteps.
2
I’ve been assigned to track this guild&rsquo
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
animate dead, plant growth
4th
giant insect, grasping vine
5th
cloudkill, insect plague
Golgari magic is often accompanied by a sickly green glow and a rotting
.
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Stoicism. All of us are part of the cyclical march of nature, which will continue with
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.]
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Clan. My clan is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Anarchy. No person or law or custom can tell another what to do. (Chaotic)
3
Nature.
.
2
A Boros soldier gives me gifts in exchange for information about other clans’ movements.
3
I once caught and released a Dimir spy.
4
I consult with a Golgari shaman for
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
want.
4
I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
5
I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to.
6
Sarcasm and
. (Lawful)
3
Charity. I distribute the money I acquire to the people who really need it. (Good)
4
Creativity. I never run the same con twice. (Chaotic)
5
Friendship. Material goods
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
5
I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to.
6
Sarcasm and insults are my
Charity. I distribute the money I acquire to the people who really need it. (Good)
4
Creativity. I never run the same con twice. (Chaotic)
5
Friendship. Material goods come and go. Bonds of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
what needs to be done. Of course, some priests (as well as lay functionaries) are more interested in their own agendas than any supposed divine will. Consult the Order Contact table to determine your
liaison within the religious order. Order Contact d8 Contact 1 A cloistered priest with little worldly experience who doesn’t really understand what you do but seems to approve of it anyway 2 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
all others; see the following sections for some ideas. Rawr! I’m really angry! Funny, I don’t feel any stronger. Maybe because I’m always angry, I’m always in top condition. Stands to reason.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
depends on why the characters are here and how they approach. Peaceful Approach If the characters approach openly and politely ask for admittance for almost any plausible reason, the cultists welcome
the characters to find out who they really are. Aggressive Approach Grimjaw and his cutthroats aren’t expecting an attack. Characters who sneak in are challenged by anyone they meet inside. It’s up to you whether fast-talking characters can stave off conflict at such a meeting.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
percentile dice and consult the table below to determine what the character learns. False rumors are in italics. Also see appendix F for even more potential rumors of the Barrier Peaks. Barrier Peaks
keep a brain alive long after a creature’s death. 46–50 Kwalish never really existed. The inventor who went by that name was really a construct, created by Ioun to walk among mortals and study our
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
for no reason other than their barbaric attitudes, report them to the Watch and this publication immediately. The Sharn Watch is bound by law to arrest these hooligans when they show their criminal
for Coal as her reason for hiring the characters, but a character who succeeds on a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the Germaine’s Charisma (Deception) check can sense that she’s holding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
creatures into thinking they’re breathing? In the Astral Sea, one can never be certain. All that really matters is that a creature can survive indefinitely in the Astral Sea, never aging and never feeling
most of their time on the Astral Plane. For this reason, astral travelers avoid using years as a measurement of time.
Travel by Thought Alone A creature doesn’t need a vessel to travel through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Hoardsperson Disbursement of coin is at my discretion. Be really nice to me. — Hoardsperson joke (not joking) As the name suggests, Acquisitions Incorporated is all about the acquiring, and the
with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. Living the Good Life Also at rank 2, Head Office trusts that as long as your needs are met, you have no reason to skim any profits. You
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
contentment seep into the bones and souls of those who enter Elysium. The longer a visitor remains on the plane, the less reason they find to ever leave. An adventure in Elysium can challenge
-millennium task of forestalling a prophesied disaster, characters might consult with the valorous knight who accomplished the deed a thousand years ago.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Korranberg Chronicle Exposed!
Who really pulls the strings behind the ostensibly unbiased news coverage of the Korranberg Chronicle? The Chronicle’s publisher, a wily Zil gnome named Cassia Lorridan
’ wealth and influence. Whose interest, then, does the Chronicle serve?
All the more reason, loyal readers, to rely on the Voice of Breland for unbiased news you can use.
Civilian. Some groups include
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nobility While you might encounter dwarf diplomats from Gauntlgrym, satraps of Amn, duchesses of Tethyr, or thanes of the Northlanders in Waterdeep, the nobles you really need to know about are the
charitable actions such as burial of the unknown dead. Their motives are manifold, but their actions — no matter the reason — earn them loyalty and high regard from those who benefit from their largesse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they might slink forth into other realms to slake unnameable hungers
, instead of twice.
2 Corrosive Pseudopod. The horror’s limb attack deals an extra 9 (2d8) acid damage.
3 Grasping Tentacle. The horror’s limb is a grasping tentacle. When the horror hits a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
dawn seven days later. I don’t really understand occultants, and to be honest, they scare the Abyss out of me.
— Jim Darkmagic
Why Be an Occultant? d8 Reason
1 You believe in karmic
somehow.
5 You’ve always owned a stuffed cat. You’re not sure where it came from, but it’s given you great career advice so far.
6 You’ve always worn a lot of black.
7 You really
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Planar Portals [Raistlin’s] eyes studied the Portal, studied every detail intently — although it was not really necessary. He had seen it myriad times in dreams both sleeping and waking. The spells
overwhelming number of such item-keyed portals. Learning and meeting a portal’s requirements can draw characters into further adventures as they chase down a key item, scour old libraries for command words, or consult sages to find the right time to visit the portal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
take a Short Rest between every encounter, never really straining their resources. It’s OK to interrupt those rests once in a while to maintain a sense of tension or to heighten the urgency, making it
fixed location. The options are often presented in a table. When a random encounter occurs, you roll a die and consult the table to determine what the party encounters. Sample random encounter tables
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
between the grasping human nobles and the high-minded paladins. Stoneshafts fear the politics of powerful Waterdeep will lead to an assault on Thornhold. They have thus been preparing for siege by
of their defenses. For the same reason, only the Stoneshaft elders know and plan all the details of those defenses, so any single dwarf doesn’t know everything and can’t reveal it. Stoneshafts like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
been shipwrecked and on the brink of drowning when your patron’s grasp offered you a chance at life. Whatever the reason for your pact, the sea and its unknown depths call to you. Entities of the deep
the damage to that creature by 1d8. When you reach 10th level in this class, the damage reduced by the tentacle increases to 2d8. Grasping Tentacles 10th-level Fathomless feature You learn the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
for getting what I want. 4 I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff. 5 I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to. 6 Sarcasm and insults are my
people who really need it. (Good) 4 Creativity. I never run the same con twice. (Chaotic) 5 Friendship. Material goods come and go. Bonds of friendship last forever. (Good) 6 Aspiration. I’m determined to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
this reason, members of this college rarely reveal their true nature. They typically claim to follow some other college, or they keep their actual calling secret in order to infiltrate and exploit royal
courts and other settings of power. Speak up! It’s really hard to hear you over the screaming. Nope. It’s no use. I’ll have to stop the screaming. Disintegrations all around, then.
College of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Obviators are cautious because they know precisely how dangerous any moment can be — and they are dangerous for the same reason. An obviator is like a lethal walking library. And if you were to face
an Obviator? d8 Reason
1 There’s nothing that excites you more than a puzzle you can’t immediately solve.
2 Your favorite saying is, “All according to plan.” Especially when you have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
poison and disease, find traps, identify, or locate animals or plants. This property of the whisper jar can’t be used again until the next dawn. Why Be a Loremonger? d8 Reason
1 Your
never die as long as their stories are still told.
6 You talked about a really cool idea once when you were drunk, and can’t remember a word of it now. That’ll never happen again.
7 A person
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
creature fails a saving throw against the sibriex’s Warp Creature effect, you can roll percentile dice and consult the Flesh Warping table to determine an additional effect, which vanishes when Warp
transformed permanently. No creature embodies the chaotic nature of the Abyss so well as the sibriex. Although the realm of the demons is already a place of infinite horrors, sibriexes for some reason make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
brought them together. The reason for holding the wedding at Horn Enclave is that the caravan also bears valuable gifts provided by both families, which will be placed in a vault until Gwendolyn and Tannus
underline the fact that the two families really don’t trust one another. The Dharguns see the Thunderwinds as uncouth and violent, while the Thunderwinds see the Dharguns as uppity and boring. None of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
potion of healing, 10 gp, and the bones of four of her toes that have fallen off. She used to be really attached to them. The Mystic Continuing on through Dock Ward, the characters catch unexpected sight
when he has no reason to do so. However, when the second sight grips him, all that changes. Kal’s eyes come into focus and he becomes as sober as a priest of Ilmater at sunup. “Their plans are afoot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
disposition. Roll a d4 and consult the Frost Druid Friends table to determine each creature, or just roll once and assume all the creatures are the same kind of beast or plant. (It’s okay if multiples of the
, where they hope to gang up on the characters after luring them there. Running the Encounter. The gnolls are forced to range far and wide in search of food. Their hunger overrides their reason, such that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
and damage values as shown below. Purpose Before diving into the details of your trap, think about its reason for being. Why would someone build such a trap? What is its purpose? Consider the trap’s
creator (in the adventure), the creator’s purpose, and the location the trap protects. Traps have context in the world — they aren’t created for no reason — and that context drives the trap’s nature