contained recluse groups to have reflections

Variety Series

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

Variety Series Some groups don’t want a long campaign with sweeping plotlines; they prefer short, unconnected adventures. With that style of game, different players might take turns as DM for one to three sessions at a time, with each adventure standing as a self-contained story.

Medusa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Medusa Snake-Haired Recluse with a Petrifying Gaze Habitat: Desert; Treasure: Any With their hair of living snakes and their infamous petrifying gazes, medusas are hubristic creatures that inhabit

sites of fallen glory. They often dwell beyond the fringes of civilization or travel in disguise, leaving trails of petrified victims. Some medusas dominate groups of monsters or criminals, controlling

Constructing Your Deck

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

one of the most powerful monsters, and you can include multiple copies of weaker monsters so they’re more likely to be encountered. Groups. A group is a collection of creatures that might be

encountered together. Identical creatures always form a group, but you can also form groups using other criteria. A group might be based on a shared creature type, such as Undead or Fiend, or might consist of

A Race Divided

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

creatures, they traveled in Corellon’s shadow, sparkling like the reflections from a finely cut gem. When Corellon came to notice these glorious echoes, the god tarried with them in the place that became

example of Corellon’s wild, ever-shifting ways. As these primal reflections of Corellon changed their nature and defined themselves, they came to see Corellon and Lolth in new lights. They now viewed

Gods and Adventures

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

demon cults, I’ve seen the corrosive effect of these groups not just on individual giants, but on whole societies. —Bigby It’s hard to express just how deeply most giants loathe and distrust

stone giant recluse asks adventurers to help stop a hill giant who has gathered a band of other giants and is plundering nearby giant steadings in Grolantor’s name. 4 A fire giant priest of Hiatea

Adventure Synopsis

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

reclusive orders, but these outposts serve Elemental Evil. When the characters infiltrate or defeat these disguised groups of cultists, they discover that each Haunted Keep guards a passage leading to a huge

and warped into strange reflections of the Elemental Planes. At the heart of each elemental node, the characters find a great portal that serves as a conduit from its associated elemental plane. Here

Elemental Magic Items

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

Elemental Magic Items Elemental power has allowed the cults to have more magic items than is normal for groups of their size, yet there still aren’t enough magic items for each cultist to have one

of orb, its effect is contained within a sphere with a 1 mile radius. The orb is the sphere’s point of origin. The orb is destroyed after one use. Air Orb. When this orb detonates, it creates a

Mephistopheles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

dissent, he isolates his minions, allowing them to gather in small groups only when needed to carry on their work. Even then, the law of Mephistopheles prohibits all but the most vital communication

their regrets. Storehouses of Lore Libraries and other places where arcane knowledge is recorded or contained are scattered across Cania, mainly to ensure that a single disastrous experiment at one

Monsters

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

groups of creatures. However, its cloudkill is listed under Innate Spellcasting. Because of that, would a paladin’s Aura of Warding resist it? Yes, because cloudkill is a spell, Aura of Warding would be

magical energy that is contained in a magic item or channeled to create a spell or other focused magical effect In D&D, the first type of magic is part of nature. It is no more dispellable than the wind

Ruinous Citadel Locations

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

on the map’s lowest edge represents the Ruinous Sea. Characters who investigate the map learn the following: Glowing Dots. The glowing dots represent groups of troops, but they aren’t detailed enough

, chitin, and gnashing teeth presses against the stones from the other side. The circle of stones shudders, and you realize the monstrous thing contained on the other side is expanding the circle

Portal Encounters

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

sickly ethereal light. With a horrid slurping sound, writhing tentacles spill forth through the open doorway and lash toward you. This self-contained dimension is fueled by the power of the Far Realm

ability checks, and the zombies have disadvantage on saving throws. Aftermath. If the characters fought more than two groups of zombies but did not help the crew achieve victory, the party gains a

Locations E - H

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

lined with 10-foot-tall dwarven statues. Assume the two groups are 60 feet apart when they see each other. The dark elves are making their way toward a secret door set into the wall behind one of the

statues, beyond which is a 5-foot-wide, 7-foot-high, mile-long tunnel that the drow intend to use as their escape route. The secret door is between the two groups — 20 feet from the drow party and 40 feet

Areas of the Water Temple

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

water weirds are cold and clammy to the touch, and sound half-full if rapped on. A weird can attack only if someone opens the hatch at the top of the vat in which it is contained. Any commotion in

Temple of the Crushing Wave against any incursion from the west. One bugbear always watches at the arrow slit in the northeast part of the room. The bugbear on watch notes groups passing through the

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